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- Six steps to an effective data governance program
- As data governance becomes a key benchmark of a company's responsibility to enhance and protect data, here are six simple steps that start to develop a program based on individual needs. In the past few years, dozens of high-profile incidents involving data mismanagement have gained international attention. Caught off...
- Tags: data, organization, corporate governance, tools & techniques, pricing, databases, business operations, corporate law, management, marketing, enterprise software, software, data management, data governance, mismanagement, steve alder, ibm, special to zdnet
- News items 2008-08-06
- Yes, Macs are expensive ... so what?
- Yes, Macs are expensive ... so what?I'm telling you whatBuy a pc twice as fast as a mac in hardware performance terms.RE: Yes, Macs are expensive ... so what?I can agree with him. I wouldn't want to pay out that much money for a desktop or laptop when they will...
- Tags: desktops, microsoft windows vista (longhorn), microsoft windows, low-end pc, apple macintosh, macs are, microsoft windows vista, apple inc., pc, adrian
- Discussion threads 2008-08-06
- News to know: LinuxWorld; Cisco; Microsoft; Yahoo
- Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft sending mixed messages about Windows futures with 'Fiji'? Sam Diaz: LinuxWorld keynotes: Now is the time to invest. Larry Dignan: IBM, Ubuntu, Novell and Red Hat gang up on Vista A new data center?...
- Tags: apple iphone, linuxworld, larry dignan, yahoo! inc., microsoft corp., cisco systems inc., cloud computing, help desk, data centers, corporate communications, it operations, storage, hardware, data management, marketing
- Blog posts 2008-08-06
- Will the $12 computer pwn the $100 laptop?
- Will the $12 computer pwn the $100 laptop?Will it pwn the XO? No, and here's why...the XO and what MIT is cooking up here serve two totally different purposes and audiences. The XO is for teaching children how to collaborate, create content, and learn with a computer. MIT's proposal will...
- Tags: productivity, laptop computer, cherrypal c100, computer, $100 laptop
- Discussion threads 2008-08-05
- What are you using for a helpdesk application?
- One of my first jobs as tech director is to create a helpdesk for users across the district to submit support tickets, check the status of the tickets, and for me to aggregate data on support needs (i.e., what's going wrong generally and what do we need to do to...
- Tags: help desk, call centers, it operations, christopher dawson
- Blog posts 2008-08-05
- A new data center? Expect to sing the blues along the way.
- You could almost hear the singing of the I.T. Blues coming from the audience at the afternoon keynote speech at Moscone Center. These servers run hot. (ba-dum-ba-dum); Power costs a lot. (ba-dum-ba-dum) The boss wants more space. (ba-dum-ba-dum) Finance says no way. (ba-dum-ba-dum) ...
- Tags: data center, information technology, i.t. environment, data centers, storage, hardware, data management, sam diaz
- Blog posts 2008-08-05
- IBM, Ubuntu, Novell and Red Hat gang up on Vista
- The Linux computing crowd smells blood and wants to make a run at Microsoft's Vista operating system. Coinciding with LinuxWorld, IBM, Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, Novell and Red Hat issued a joint statement promising "Microsoft free" desktops across the globe. I doubt it...
- Tags: ubuntu, novell inc., red hat inc., microsoft windows vista, microsoft corp., ibm corp., linux, microsoft windows vista (longhorn), unix, operating systems, open source, software, microsoft windows, larry dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-05
- Should colleges really teach hacking?
- Should colleges really teach hacking?Bartending SchoolIn the mid-70's I took one of those vocational courses you see advertised on late-night TV: "Learn to be a Bartender in One Week". Although I never used it (I went at night, which takes 2 weeks and over the weekend I got my...
- Tags: food & beverage, security, cyberthreats, tools & techniques, beverage, hacking, chemistry
- Discussion threads 2008-08-05
- Best practices for e-archiving
- Best practices for e-archivingindex and accessYou will need a way to index/group all those files and some way to ensure/prohibit access according to your privacy statement at the school.I prefer PDF but you will need to store the application and probably a computer also so you can access the files...
- Tags: content management, managerial accounting, workforce management, groupware, best practice, training, document management
- Discussion threads 2008-08-05
- Best practices for e-archiving
- Our guidance department has long been crammed into a small space that made it difficult to meet with students, help kids with college searches or scholarship applications, and otherwise, well, guide. Fortunately, this summer the district was able to set aside some money to blow out a wall and...
- Tags: storage, best practice, xml, software/web development, web development, christopher dawson
- Blog posts 2008-08-05
- Photos: Back-to-school shopping list
- A roundup of gadgets and tech accessories to help any student get back to campus prepared and in style. by CNET News.com
- Tags: photograph, cnet news.com
- Image galleries 2008-08-05
- Kyron Force Calculus (exe)
- Kyron Force Calculus helps you calculate the reactions in two props holding a bar when you apply 1 or 2 forces above it. Excellent for Engineering, High School physics students and teachers. You can adjust the forces' values and angles and look at them with a very nice graphic interface,...
- Tags: calculus, kyron software, microsoft windows, microsoft windows vista (longhorn), operating systems, software
- Software downloads 2008-08-05
- DeXtor (zip)
- The DeXtor software is an image processing software. DeXtor is an OCR software which stands for Optical Character Recognition BMP, JPG, and such image files which have textual contents cannot be converted to text files. An OCR however loads an image file scans all the pixels and recognizes the text...
- Tags: alphabet, optical character recognition, abstract algorithms, dextor, dextor software
- Software downloads 2008-08-05
- HP Pavilion dv5-1002nr
- Editors' note: This review is part of our Back-to-School 2008 roundup, covering specific configurations of popular laptops that can be found in retail stores.The HP Pavilion dv5 is a member of the company's new Pavilion lineup, introduced in June. The ID of the product doesn't differ very much from previous...
- Tags: hewlett-packard co., hp pavilion
- Product reviews 2008-08-04
- Thailand halts 'Grand Theft Auto' sales after murder
- A teenager confessed to robbing and murdering a taxi driver while trying to recreate a scene from the controversial game. BANGKOK--A Thai video game distributor halted sales of Grand Theft Auto on Monday after a teenager confessed to robbing and murdering a taxi driver while trying to recreate a...
- Tags: grand theft auto, video game, sales, games, personal technology, reuters, video games, violence, take-two interactive
- News items 2008-08-04
- TeachStreet: Starting something big in lots of little places
- TeachStreet's launch of a Portland, Oregon, version of its teacher-student connection services has a lot to teach us about the evolution of Web services. The service, which lets students search for local teachers and teachers to offer classes to local and national student audiences, is where education is going: Toward...
- Tags: education, advertisement, class, teacher, seattle, teachstreet, mitch ratcliffe
- Blog posts 2008-08-04
- Goodbye, comp-sci -- now it's 'service' as a science
- Goodbye, comp-sci -- now it's 'service' as a scienceI once thought that wayThats until I stop taking what I learned for granted. That happened when I started working with more CIS and MIS people that could whip up a quick VB app for show but brought down servers under load....
- Tags: service-oriented architecture (soa), development tools, service system, goodbye, ide
- Discussion threads 2008-08-04
- No penalties for colleges that don't enforce anti-P2P
- No penalties for colleges that don't enforce anti-P2PSlippery Slope argumentationYep, once they have the monitoring laws in place, next they will want to monitor a whole lot more. It is a trojan horse, but then Joe McCarthy isn't too far away in US history.Of course, Good ol' Joe needed a...
- Tags: anti-p2p, monitoring
- Discussion threads 2008-08-04
- Would you give the Feds your computers?
- The Frederick News Post reported Sunday that FBI agents seized two computers from one of the Frederick County, Maryland, public libraries this weekend. Darrell Batson, director of Frederick County Public Libraries, said two FBI employees came to the downtown Frederick library either Wednesday or Thursday. The agents...
- Tags: agent, fbi, library, computer, federal government, real estate, government, business operations, christopher dawson
- Blog posts 2008-08-04
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