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- UK Archives, Microsoft tackle format obsolescence
- Can your office run Windows 3.1 or open documents written in Word 5? The fact that most people can't is of grave concern to the UK National Archives, the BBC reports.Archives chief Natalie Ceeney said society faced the possibility of "losing years of critical knowledge" because modern PCs could not...
- Tags: Open source, International
- Blog posts 2007-07-03
- Archives intern sells Civil War docs on eBay
- In a shocking violation of the nations historical artifacts, prosecutors charged an intern with the National Archives with stealing about 165 Civil War documents — including the War Departments announcement of President Lincolns death — and selling most of them on eBay, according to the Associated Press. Denning...
- Tags: Civil War, intern, eBay Inc., National Archives
- Blog posts 2007-03-16
- National Archives identifies 25,000 improperly removed docs
- National Archives identifies 25,000 improperly removed docsOpaque Government."National security" seems to be to this administration what "abracadabra" is to stage magicians.I'm almost 70, and I've never seen an administration so jealous of its secrets, and so aggressive when its attempt to classify EVERYTHING fail. Beat Nixon's White House by...
- Tags: Workforce management, administration, National Archives
- Discussion threads 2006-07-06
- National Archives identifies 25,000 improperly removed docs
- Fully a third of documents pulled from the National Archives for supposed national security reasons should not have been removed, the Archives' audit found. The New York Times reports that even of the remaining two-thirds, there was little to recommend removal. [R]emoval of the remaining two-thirds was...
- Tags: audit, National Archives
- Blog posts 2006-04-27
- National Archives puts400,000 State records online
- The National Archives is putting more than 400,00 State Dept. records and telegrams online, covering the years 1973 and 1974, Government Computer News reports. The documents—from State’s Central Foreign Policy Files database—consist of historical telegrams, index references to paper documents created in 1974, and withdrawal notices...
- Tags: National Archives, telegram
- Blog posts 2006-04-07
- For the National Archive, a new e-records system built by Lockheed Martin
- The National Archives has awarded a $308 million contract to Lockheed Martin to build an electronic records system. Computerworld quotes Ken Thibodeau, director of the Electronic Records Archives. The system will do three basic things. It will start modernizing the National Archives...
- Tags: electronic record, National Archives, Lockheed Martin Corp.
- Blog posts 2005-09-12
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- Large Hadron Collider computing grid launched
- The Worldwide Large Hadron Collider Computing Grid, which can draw on the computing power of more than 100,000 processors, was officially launched on Friday. One of the world's largest computing grids, capable of streaming the equivalent of three million DVDs a year, was officially launched on Friday....
- Tags: CERN, Scientist, Grid, Large Hadron Collider, particle accelerator, physics, Nick Heath, silicon.com
- News items 2008-10-06
- The cloud finally comes to education
- Cloud computing is one of those great buzzwords in IT that, so far, has meant very little to the average Ed Tech customer. We all have a pretty good idea what it means: lots of computers somewhere (we don't actually care where) doing lots of processing to deliver services...
- Tags: Education, PC, Thin Client, Computer, Cloud, SIMtone Corp., Desktops, Productivity, Thin Clients, Cloud Computing, Hardware, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- Wind: A sound investment in unsound times?
- The first intra-state public offering associated with the development of community-backed wind farms in Dodge, Olmsted and Mower counties in Minnesota has been completed in just four months. The project managers, National Wind and High Country Energy, reported this week that the offering pulled in 60 Minnesota...
- Tags: Minnesota, Investor, Financial Accounting, Investment, Finance, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-10-04
- Washington Times amongst newspapers putting semantic technologies to work with help from Inform Technologies
- New York-based Inform Technologies issued a press release earlier this week, reporting the success of their recent partnership with the Washington Times on a major website redesign. Having spoken to both Inform's CEO Jim Satloff and the Washington Times' Executive Editor John Solomon, there's an interesting story to tell of...
- Tags: Story, Editorial Staff, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Corporate Communications, Operational Accounting, Channel Management, Advertising & Promotion, Internet, Marketing, Finance, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2008-10-03
- Valleywag, Consumerist sites announce layoffs
- A source close to Gawker Media informed me a moment ago that popular sites Consumerist, Valleywag and NSFW Fleshbot will may be shuttered will lose most of their editorial talent. "Nineteen jobs will be cut," my source says, with a formal announcement from Gawker Media coming later...
- Tags: Layoff, Gawker Media, Site, Consumerist, Workforce Management, Team Management, Human Resources, Management, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-10-03
- Election Talking Points: A discussion place
- Election Talking Points: A discussion placeSpoken like a true believer in ...a constitutional republic.RE: Election Talking Points: A discussion placereally this post is for an opinion location,It really becomes a bunch of BSGuess doe to reports about the debate it help McCain,everyone has to put two cents of nonsense,Ok...
- Tags: Mortgages, Palin, Election Talking Points
- Discussion threads 2008-10-03
- Apple wins royalty rate showdown
- Guess Apple won't have to shut down iTunes after all. Apple had warned that if the royalty rate for music downloads increased, iTunes would become unprofitable and they might pull the plug. But the Copyright Royalty Board handed Steve Jobs, as well as...
- Tags: Board, Apple Inc., Royalty, Apple iTunes, Corporate Governance, Digital Music, Digital Media, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-02
- Track the Presidential election polls with your iPhone
- While you may not be able to watch tonight's V.P. debate on your iPhone, you can sure keep up with the polls. Poll Tracker '08 (iTunes link US$0.99) is an iPhone application that's a dream for election junkies and politicos of all stripes. Poll Tracker '08 is...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Election, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-10-02
- Obama releases iPhone campaign tool
- Obama releases iPhone campaign toolSay what you will about his politics but this manis on the ball. His fund raising via the web has been a smashing success. Now this tool for the iPhone. He knows what he's doing. He's not arrogant he's confident.Pagan jimDoes it...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, tool, McCains, Obama, Apple iPhone
- Discussion threads 2008-10-02
- Student Technology Day: "Windows Cloud" revealed
- Student Technology Day: "Windows Cloud" revealedI guess no-one mentioned the "G" word, then?I've heard that the "G" word makes Steve Ballmer angry.Don't make Steve Ballmer angry. You wouldn't like him when he's angry. Allegedly... ;-)http://battellemedia.com/archives/001835.phpRE: Student Technology Day:[i]So, a streamed, web-browser'd version of Office; sounds like a plan.[/i]Sounds very nice![i]I...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Student Technology Day, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-10-02
- The cost of doing business in China: Privacy
- The cost of doing business in China: PrivacySo does the US !The only difference is, in china's case, you know and in US, you don't (or atleast most people don't). They even hijack all the data that flows through pipes of ISPs and make a copy and put analyzers on...
- Tags: SECURITY, Skype Technologies S.A., fundamental human right, big deal, human right, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-10-02
- Could royalty rate hike force Apple to reconsider variable pricing?
- It's the other battle between Hollywood and Silicon Valley and this one, more like a showdown between the record labels and Apple, could determine the future of music on the iTunes Store. The Washington-based Copyright Royalty Board is expected to rule, by today, on a request by...
- Tags: Apple Inc., Pricing Strategy, Apple iTunes, Pricing, Marketing Research, Digital Music, Digital Media, Marketing, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-02
- eRepair ZIP (exe)
- eRepairZip is intended to help users to solve the zip recovery issues. It recovers information from damaged zip files and minimizes data loss during the zip recovery process. One of the peculiarities of this application is the fact that it employs several algorithms and methods to repair zip file or...
- Tags: Recovery, eRepairZip
- Software downloads 2008-10-02
- Anti-LHC lawsuit lands in legal black hole
- A lame-brain lawsuit to stop the Large Hadron Collider is dead. U.S. District Judge Helen Gillmor has dismissed the suit because U.S. courts have no jurisdiction over the world's biggest atom-smasher based in Switzerland and France and built by CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research,...
- Tags: Black Hole, Lawsuit, CERN, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-01
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