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- Turnaround strategy for Los Angeles school district payroll failure
- Payroll problems on the Los Angeles Unified School District's LAUSD SAP implementation have been ongoing since February and continue to the present. This troubled project vividly illustrates how implementation failures can affect real people, in this case teachers who've suffered for months with incorrect paychecks. The obvious...
- Tags: Deloitte LLP, Finance, LAUSD, Michael Krigsman, Operational Accounting, Payroll, Personnel Assignment, Problem, SAP AG, Strategy, Superintendent, Teacher
- Blog posts 2007-10-13
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- NSA and phone sex: Eavesdroppers listened to intimate conversations
- Military linguists have come forward to say that the intelligence services routinely listened in on Americans overseas calling home and on the communications of non-suspect groups like the Red Cross. And, they say, they listened in and even transcribed couples' phone sex, The New York Times reports. ...
- Tags: Phone, Phone Sex, Telecom & Utilities, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Tempest or Nuclear Winter
- A Hurricane Ike for Tech Start-Ups VentureWire Alert free subscription required today reported that venture capitalists are advising their portfolio firms to prepare for a potential nuclear winter. One venture capitalist featured in today's newsletter was quoted as telling firms "to slow down their burn rate, and...
- Tags: Firm, Venture Capital, Product Development, Investment, Product Marketing, Workforce Management, Finance, Financing Startups, Research & Development, Business Operations, Marketing, Human Resources, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- Oracle + Primavera
- Where are the lucky couple registered? Yesterday, Oracle announced that it would be purchasing Primavera. Details of the transaction have not been made public. Already we see that Oracle has stated that Primavera management and employees will become part of a global business...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Professional Services, Primavera, Project Management, It Operations, It service Management, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- New book details how to break iPhone passcodes and recover data
- New book details how to break iPhone passcodes and recover dataWhat a bunch of Hooey![i]While the books is intended for “lawful forensic examination” by corporate security officers, law enforcement personnel, and private forensic examiners, it will undoubtedly be popular with the hacker set.[/i]Anyone who buys this is either a thief...
- Tags: SECURITY, book detail, Apple iPhone
- Discussion threads 2008-10-08
- Teaching telecommuting
- Teaching telecommutingtelecommuting skills?I'm a fulltime telecommuter, though I do venture out to teach an IRL composition class a couple of days a week. I think the kids already have the skills they need to telecommute, and they value having the connection between the classroom and that new work environment made...
- Tags: telecommuting
- Discussion threads 2008-10-08
- Training Manager 2008 - Standard Edition (exe)
- Track your training records, requirements and compliance with Training Manager 2008. Print personnel transcripts and status reports. Assign training to an individual, group, or job role. Require retraining based on time, version, or one time only. Schedule and manage class sessions, attendance, cancellations, and no-shows. Training Manager 2008 is easy...
- Tags: Training, Kaizen Software Solutions, Training Manager 2008, Workforce Management, Training And Certification, Human Resources
- Software downloads 2008-10-08
- Capital, Capital. Wherefore art thou scarce capital?
- My Kingdom for Capital Expenditure Funding The current meltdown on Wall Street is definitely having an impact on the technology sector. This week's recent earnings forecast from SAP rather convincingly showed us that the capital markets will adversely impact technology sales. Capital for...
- Tags: Wall Street, Firm, Borrower, Pricing Strategy, Banking Relationship, Sales Strategy, Banking, Pricing, Sales Force Management, Roi/Tco, Sales, Financial Services, Marketing, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- New book details how to break iPhone passcodes and recover data
- O'Reilly just released a new book, iPhone Forensics, Recovering Evidence, Personal Data, and Corporate Assets (US$39.99) by Jonathan Zdziarski. Any given iPhone is likely to contain sensitive information belonging to its owner, and some types of information that may belong to others: corporate email, documents, and photos, to...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, 3G, E-mail, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- Windows Vista Woes or helping my Grandson with homework
- Considering my background, it's not at all hard to understand how I've become the tech support helpdesk for family, friends and the neighborhood as a whole. I've done my best to accept my lot in life with grace and courage. This time, my Grandson, Steven, was trying to complete a...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft PowerPoint, Laptop Computer, Steven, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Operating Systems, Microsoft Office, Software, Office Suites, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- Apple releases iTunes 8.0.1; Apple TV 2.2
- Apple releases iTunes 8.0.1; Apple TV 2.2I've lost count how many updates and how much bandwidth this yearI am getting really sick of having to update iTunes every other week.Am I just the only one? And it's not like I have a convenient alternative either.I have a Zune as well...
- Tags: Linux, Digital music, Digital media, Operating systems, Patches, Apple Inc., Apple iTunes, Microsoft Zune, Microsoft Windows, security, Apple TV
- Discussion threads 2008-10-03
- To: Circuit City and Best Buy, From: You
- To: Circuit City and Best Buy, From: You"We don't pay you to think."As an ex-employee computer technician from the pilot store, this was told to me verbatim several times. To me it sounded curious because if anyone should be thinking, it should be the guy repairing the computers, right?If you...
- Tags: Sales strategy, Sales force management, Best Buy Co. Inc., Circuit City Stores Inc., LET IT, sales
- Discussion threads 2008-10-01
- Global security: is study restricted?
- With the current state of terrorism threats and attacks, and cyber-crime on the increase, I seriously wonder if academics and students have full passage to "do as we like" in terms of studying, learning and educating ourselves and others. Earlier on this year, two personnel from the...
- Tags: Security, Terrorism, Homeland Security, Government, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-09-26
- MS Project Tool 2007 Add-in (zip)
- Creating project workspace from list of templates from your project professional customfields. Delete projects from server. Inconsistency scan/repair between Project Professional 2007 Actual Work hours/Project Professional 2007 Timescale Actual Work hours/Project Server timesheet. Alert When deleting Task/assignment/resources from your project when Actualwork is pending in Project Web Access Timesheet, (Integrated...
- Tags: Project, Microsoft Corp., Workspace, Adept, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software
- Software downloads 2008-09-26
- Neocleus secure access
- Neocleus secure accessNeocleus is not secureNeocleus security architecture is flawed at its basic level. The architecture uses a software mechanism to provide direct physical device assignment to virtual machines, such as graphics cards and wireless networks. It does not support hardware based direct I/O assignment or hardware based...
- Tags: desktop virtualization, SECURITY, Neocleus, virtual machine, hardware
- Discussion threads 2008-09-25
- Managed Switch Port Mapping Tool (zip)
- The Managed Switch Port Mapping tool is a program that communicates with a managed Internet switch via SNMPv1/v2c and maps the physical port connections to MAC and IP addresses of the attached devices. Shows VLAN assignment, port status, speed, duplex, bytes in/out, connected device interface manufacturer. Spreadsheet format results can...
- Tags: Tool, Northwest Performance Software, Managed Switch Port Mapping Tool, Productivity, LANs, Internet, Networking
- Software downloads 2008-09-25
- Microsoft: Windows and Linux offer same TCO in emerging markets
- Microsoft: Windows and Linux offer same TCO in emerging marketsThis line says it all ...[i]That’s the conclusion of a recent [b]Microsoft-sponsored study[/b] from Vital Wave Consulting, which Microsoft is touting in new posting on the company’s Unlimited Potential UP blog.[/i]Why am I not surprised of the results of this "study"?...
- Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, ROI/TCO, OPEN SOURCE, emerging market, Linux, same TCO, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., TCO
- Discussion threads 2008-09-24
- Americans Hate Flying - Consultants Must Really Loathe It
- Americans Hate Flying - Consultants Must Really Loathe ItDelta doesn't seem all that bad......but maybe it's just in comparison with US Airways which held the franchise at the local airport just before them. They'll even let you bring food on the plane, and they have a real live flight...
- Tags: Benefits, Food & Beverage, Americans Hate Flying
- Discussion threads 2008-09-23
- Ax Falling At EDS - HP
- 24,600 Folks to Get Their Papers When HP acquired EDS, you had to wonder whether they did it for the talented employees, the EDS data centers, the customer base or the outsourcing contracts. Mark Hurd's move this week pretty much says it wasn't for the...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Mark Hurd, Electronic Data Systems Corp., Professional Development, Data Centers, Career, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2008-09-21
- The Disaster Recovery Items Few Consider
- How Too Much of a Disaster Screws Up the Best Plans I spent a lot of time one night this week with the CFO of a coastal Texas organization that's based between Houston and Galveston. That phone interview yielded some surprising observations about disaster recovery and how...
- Tags: Phone, Disaster, Laptop Computer, CFO, Disaster Recovery, Telecom & Utilities, Notebooks, Data Management, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2008-09-21
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