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Motorola Case Study: Miami-Dade County

A concern of Miami-Dade County officials was when residents, visitors or businesses required County services or information, they had to negotiate a maze of over 1,000 different phone numbers for various departments. A major challenge involved getting buy-in from a variety of municipalities, all of which approach service delivery in...

Tags: Miami-Dade County, Motorola Inc., Call Centers, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Telecom & Utilities, Product Marketing, It Operations, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing

Case studies 2006-10-13

Miami-Dade County Strengthens Its Services With Dell Handhelds

The Enterprise Technology Services Department ETSD for Miami-Dade County was facing a difficult challenge. It needed to ensure network availability for critical public services, ranging from the fire and police departments, to the airport, seaport and water and sewer districts. The ETSD needed to equip its technicians with timesaving technology,...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Miami-Dade County, Handhelds, Hardware

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Miami-Dade County Transitions Mainframe for Future With Web Services and Service-Oriented Architecture

Over the years Miami-Dade County developed the vast majority of core enterprise applications on the mainframe, and throughout those years, the mainframe's ability to successfully handle enormous transactional volumes served the county well. Miami-Dade first employed Shadow z/Services to build the new Hurricane Shutter Permitting application. Contractors leverage the online...

Tags: Permit, NEON Systems, Web, Web Service, Miami-Dade County, SOA, Mainframes, Servers, Web Services, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software

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Escapee 'Spam King' dead in apparent murder-suicide

Convicted spammer Eddie Davidson, who escaped from federal prison over the weekend, killed his wife and 3-year-old daughter before killing himself in what is being described as a murder-suicide. Colorado's 9News.com said the tragic end of the man known as the "Spam King" was confirmed by the...

Tags: Prison, Sheriff, Internal Revenue Service, Attorney, Healthcare, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-07-24

Childs rigged crazyquilt private network

The prosecution unveiled more details on the lunacy in San Francisco in court filings that urged the judge to keep rogue network administrator Terry Childs' bail at $5 million. The Chronicle reports that prosecutors say that Childs had over 1,000 modems secreted around the city, forming his own private network...

Tags: Network, Prosecutor, Networking, Productivity, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-07-24

California greenlights two renewable energy development projects

Southern California Edison has received the thumbs-up from the California Public Utilities Commission to contract to buy clean energy from two new alternative energy projects. The first, the Granite Wind development in San Bernardino County, will see the construction of a 41-megawatt wind farm slated to come...

Tags: Renewable Energy, California, Photovoltaics, Manufacturing, Telecom & Utilities, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-07-20

'Rogue admin' thought he was protecting network and city

'Rogue admin' thought he was protecting network and citysome network admins are just crazyI had a temp job at a major firm once, back when Win98 was standard. I decided to change the wallpaper on my computer once, using an image that was located on a network share to which...

Tags: NETWORKING, administrator, network

Discussion threads 2008-07-20

What was that about cutting music?

What was that about cutting music?Make sure your 'guiders' say the right wordsAlas, a formal education can propel anyone in the real world problem stage. And if a sound science approach no longer works you can rely on ancient models, even before we began to speak. For today...

Tags: education, music

Discussion threads 2008-07-10

Reiser leads police to wife's body, gets 15 years

Hans Reiser was sentenced to 15 years to life in jail for strangling his wife to death in 2006.  As part of a deal reached with the Alameda County DA, Reiser received a reduced prison sentence and conviction on a lesser charge -- second degree murder --...

Tags: Project, Linux, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2008-07-09

Anyone bothering to teach 35mm photography classes anymore?

Anyone bothering to teach 35mm photography classes anymore?Overall Cost and ValueIn my experience, digital photography was not vastly less money outlay than 35mm. I paid enough up front to amount to what I would have paid for 35mm including processing in the next 10 years. However, once I had made...

Tags: Digital cameras, Digital photography, PRODUCTIVITY, Photgraphy, photography

Discussion threads 2008-07-08

(Photos: Raising a glass to the science of bourbon)

(Photos: Raising a glass to the science of bourbon)Re Worlds Oldest DistilleryI do not challenge the statements made but I fear that others might. For example the Glenturret Distillery, home of the 'Famous Grouse' brand of Scotch Whisky was established in 1775.RE: (Photos: Raising a glass to the science of...

Tags: photograph

Discussion threads 2008-06-26

Cheat High Tech Cheaters

So Omar Khan wanted to get into college, but he didn't want to do his homework to get there. The Orange County, CA, high school senior decided instead to use spyware, grab credentials off teachers' log-ins, and then change failing grades to top grades. ...

Tags: Student, Teacher, Khan, Food & Beverage, Handhelds, Team Management, Telecom & Utilities, Wireless, Manufacturing, Hardware, Management, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-06-25

Can Silicon Valley's San Jose find its way?

San Jose suffered a massive calamity just a few years ago that cost it 225,000 jobs - nearly one quarter of its entire population - the worst job loss anywhere in the US since the Great Depression. The dotcom dotbomb from 2001 to 2003 was a period...

Tags: San Jose, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2008-06-18

Look Now: Digital TV Transition Already Here

The digital television transition has begun. And it has little to do with Feb. 17, 2009. Yah, that's the date that all local TV broadcasters have to be sending out all their signals in digital form. And there are going to be a handful of clueless TV...

Tags: Advertisement, Digital Television, Digital Television Transition, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-06-15

Cable: Act, Don't React

Cable companies are no longer just TV programming suppliers. They are mega-utilities, for visual, text and spoken communication. And when service goes out, you're not just cut off from entertainment in the living room, you're cut off from work and friends. The question becomes, very quickly, how...

Tags: Cablevision Systems Corp., Network, Outage, Service, Cable, Network Technology, Manufacturing, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Networking, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-06-12

See your potential future salaries

See your potential future salariesHere @ MexicoInteresting post!Here at Mexico an average employed software developer earns between 12K-23K USD.And there is a lot developers out there working in US companies.Become an astronaut ...I haven't checked the website mentioned, but the basic logic shown in the blog article is flawed. ...

Tags: Benefits, payroll solutions, Web site development, future salary, salary

Discussion threads 2008-06-11

CDXZipStream (msi)

CDXZipStream is a complete solution for importing zip code and census data into Microsoft Excel. Using an intuitive, patented interface, you simply specify the data you want and where you want it. CDXZipStream also features reverse zip code look-up, distance and radius calculations. Premium data feeds are optionally available and...

Tags: ZIP Code, Data, Hughes Financial Services, CDXZipStream, Premium Data, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software

Software downloads 2008-06-10

More oil refineries coming right up. Will this stunt cleantech growth?

Saudi Arabia is preparing to add more refineries in the next few years. And they plan to begin refining more of their less desirable, more sulphurous, crude oil. Saudi is aiming for an 80% increase in refining capacity. Most refineries in the world can now only handle...

Tags: Refinery, Canada, Clean Technology, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-06-09

Case Study: 250 Schools Access Apps via Virtualisation Hub

Warwickshire, a county in central England with a population of more than 500,000 people, is bridging the digital divide by providing essential computer programs to primary and secondary school students. In December 2007, Warwickshire County Council ICT Development Service ICTDS installed a solution based on the Windows Server® 2008 Enterprise...

Tags: Microsoft Access, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage

White papers 2008-06-04

NASA IG: Scientists were muzzled

NASA IG: Scientists were muzzledI don't think so!If this administration is writting his pay check, than they can control what the researcher is doing and saying.As for global warming, it seems to be limited to glaciers in the mountains and at the poles. The temperature did not changed much in...

Tags: Workforce management, NASA, administration, NASA IG

Discussion threads 2008-06-03