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- Business-friendliest states: Delaware, Nebraska, Maine
- US Chamber of Commerce named Delaware, Nebraska, Maine, Indiana, and Utah among the top US states to incorporate businesses in. At the bottom of rankings were Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Illinois, with West Virginia being the worst US state to do business in. by AM
- Tags: Maine, Nebraska, AM
- Blog posts 2008-06-03
- State of Nebraska Improves Efficiency of Its Projects With IT Governance
- Nebraska, the 37th US State, is home to more than 1.7 million Americans. To help ensure cost-effective services for its citizens, Nebraska's Governor, has made efficiency a key theme of his administration. With two departments alone generating more than 1,300 projects, the State needed a way to not only identify...
- Tags: IT Governance, Information Technology, Nebraska, Computer Associates International Inc., State, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Management
- Case studies 2007-08-01
- BNSF 2005 (exe)
- It is a screensaver with 24 high-resolution images of the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad taken in 2005. The images were taken in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Powder River Basin Colorado and Crawford Hill in Nebraska.
- Tags: Nebraska
- Software downloads 2005-10-29
- Strategic Plan for E-Government
- E-government is a continuous process of using technology to serve citizens and improve agency operations. Technology creates new opportunities for major change, including self-service, integration of information and services, and elimination of time, distance and availability of staff as constraint to providing information and services. An enterprise approach and cooperation...
- Tags: Nebraska, Technology, E-government, Government
- White papers 2005-03-07
- Strategic Plan for Enterprise Architecture for State Government
- The purpose of Enterprise Architecture is to meet business needs, enhance data sharing, insure interoperability, and improve efficiency. EA accomplishes these objectives by establishing a governance process for EA decisions, documenting business drivers affecting the enterprise, identifying the principles that should guide IT investments, developing technical standards and guidelines, establishing...
- Tags: Electronic Arts Inc., Nebraska, Enterprise Architecture, Strategy, Government, Management
- White papers 2005-03-07
- Oracle Case Study: State of Nebraska
- The State of Nebraska's Department of Administrative Services coordinates and administers the wide-range of services required for managing the state's government, including, information management. It was challenging for them to deploy a financial system capable of efficiently managing $8 billion a year of the state's expenditures and centralize HR information...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Agency, Nebraska, Payroll, Operational Accounting, Advertising & Promotion, Government, Finance, Marketing
- Case studies
- Farm Credit Services of America Doubles Its Net Worth and Increases Its Assets by 60%
- Farm Credit Services of America, based in Omaha, Nebraska, is dedicated to serving the agricultural credit and financial needs of farmers and ranchers in Iowa, Nebraska, South Dakota, and Wyoming. In 1998, Farm Credit Services of America began to reinvent itself with a vision of becoming more accessible, customer responsive,...
- Tags: Asset, America, Nebraska, CDC Software, Insurance, Financial Planning, Strategy, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Finance, Management
- Case studies
- Avaya Mobility Solutions Are Raising the Speed Limit of Nebraska's DOR Network
- In a state as large as Nebraska, there are thousands of miles of interstate and state roads and highways that constantly need to be designed, constructed, and maintained. The ability of the Department of Roads DOR to keep up with this full-time job rides on its network. DOR wanted to...
- Tags: Network, Nebraska, Mobility, Avaya Inc., Networking, LANs
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- IT failures roundup: Airports; jail system; angry travellers
- To describe more failures than one lone blogger could possibly investigate himself, here's a new type of post: the IT failures roundup. I'll periodically report on interesting failures using a brief, overview format. JFK airport baggage handling system goes down. American Airlines scored...
- Tags: Software, Information Technology, Failure, Tools & Techniques, Productivity, Networking, Management, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-08-01
- What's good for satellite radio isn't necessarily good for satellite TV - yet.
- Now that the FCC has given its blessing to the merger of the nation's two satellite radio companies, it was only a matter of time before the question of a merger between their satellite TV cousins - DirecTV and DISH Network - popped up. Senior analyst Craig Moffett at Sanford...
- Tags: Merger, Radio, Satellite, Satellite Television, Satellite TV, TVs, Satellite Radio, Tv & Home Theater, Mergers & Acquisitions, Network Technology, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Investment, Finance, Networking, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-07-28
- What do the British really believe about global warming?
- What do the British really believe about global warming?lolu got ot be kidding meRE: What do the British really believe about global warming?You have got to be kidding! I can not remember when it really snowed properly in the UK, we are seeing greater instances or extreme weather such...
- Tags: Now Let, global warming, climate change, British Public
- Discussion threads 2008-06-26
- The battle for the soul of your smartphone
- The battle for the soul of your smartphoneI hope cell phone companies are upset enoughI really hope cell phone companies are getting upset enough to change their slavery, er, subscription plans. Frankly, cell phone "contracts" are some of the worst contracts in the business. I don't know of any other...
- Tags: Smart phones, Cellular phones, INTERNET, Telecom & Utilities, Handhelds, Google Inc., ARM, soul, cell phone, smart phone, cell network, PLEASE MAKE, camera, phone, GPU, mile copper
- Discussion threads 2008-02-12
- That whooshing sound could be the start of something electric
- Wind into electricity. Sounds nifty and clean. There are issues about what the blades do to flying animals. Government agencies here and in other countries are staryting to deal with that. But other serious issues have come from the engineering costs and barriers. Now a...
- Tags: Turbine, Tower, Northstar, Telecom & Utilities, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-02-12
- Why+Microhoo%3A+To+stop+the+Google+machine
- Why+Microhoo%3A+To+stop+the+Google+machineYang will NOT want to work under MS. He WILL take the money and run thoughas Google is eating their lunch, and MS has billions to throw at anything and everything. Time to exit the stage with a suitcase full of cash. My bet is that Yang ends up at...
- Tags: E-mail providers, Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, UNIX, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., MSN Hotmail, Google Inc., GeoCities
- Discussion threads 2008-02-01
- Red shift meets event horizon
- Red shift meets event horizoncentralization risksPhil, Excellent post - much food for thought. I actually agree that there are dangers in too much centralization of the computing grid, though I think that, for economic reasons, we're going to see considerably more centralization for the foreseeable future (though far from total...
- Tags: Data centers, Storage, Strategic planning, Greg, Amazon.com Inc., data center, centralization, event horizon, Subodh
- Discussion threads 2007-12-13
- A cancer-resistant mouse?
- University of Kentucky researchers have created a cancer-resistant mouse by introducing a tumor-suppressor gene called 'Par-4' into an egg. The 'Par-4' gene, discovered in 1993, kills cancer cells, but not normal cells. It was originally found in the prostate, but this gene also can lead to the death of a...
- Tags: Mouse, Gene, Par-4, Cancer Cell, Mice, Hardware, Peripherals, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2007-11-27
- Measuring exercise works
- Measuring exercise worksLOLI have already racked close to 10K on my hybrid commuter bike! So when you post excellent health numbers like thisBP: 116/60Pulse: 59bpmBody Fat: 8% displacement testLDL (Bad...): 127HDL (Good...): 63Triglycerides: 168All at the age of 40... then the real value of the exercise is realized! ]:)So good...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, Fitlinxx, health care
- Discussion threads 2007-11-21
- More oil from old wells and more electricity from the wind
- Crude prices have fallen from their record levels. Apparently the wise folk on Wall Street now think Turkey will not attack ther Kurdish area of Iraq. Still, crude prices are in the $85 range and many renewable energy prodeucers think they can compete as long as oil is...
- Tags: Turbine, Oil, General Electric Co., Telecom & Utilities, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2007-10-23
- Money, money, money says Morgan. Learn to spell trillion.
- Reminds me of an ancient folk song that went, "green, green, it's green they say, on the far side of the hill." Now Morgan Stanley puts the top of the hill about 22 years away, but they also predict a lot of green along the way. S'pose MS...
- Tags: Reuters Ltd., Morgan Stanley, SunPower Corp., FuelTech, Web Site Development, Manufacturing, Internet, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2007-10-18
- One neck to choke
- Do you know about the lawsuit against God filed by Nebraska Democratic State Senator Ernie Chambers? He's not going after the churches, arguing instead "that defendant, being omnipresent, is personally present in Douglas County." The news report I read didn't say who he served the papers on or...
- Tags: Client-server, Microsoft Corp., Consulting, Church, IBM Corp., Outsourcing, Channel Management, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Marketing, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2007-10-04
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