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- Training workers on voting machines a key problem
- Electronic voting machines and optical vote-counters are getting all the headlines in the pre-election week but an underreported story is the disconnect between the high-tech equipment and the less than tech-savvy poll workers, or judges, who have to follow the procedures and deal with machine failure. Typically, they are...
- Tags: Samuel Goodman, training, Goodman
- Blog posts 2006-11-02
- Election blues: The many ways for things to awry on Nov. 7
- The Wall Street Journal takes a look at some of the possible problems that may crop up with e-voting machines on November 7 registration required Among the major issues: New equipment, elderly poll workers: Many machines bought under Helping America Vote were only bought this year, which means...
- Tags: Keyboards, Monitors & displays, voter, poll-worker, Brennan Center, touch screen, Diebold Inc.
- Blog posts 2006-10-27
- CO lawyer: Stop electronic voting
- CO lawyer: Stop electronic votingStop Electronic VotingDoing away with electronic voting. Boards of Election can always resort to paper ballots. Paper ballots can be easily controlled by printing a specific number and accounting for the ballots used and those turned back as not used or spoiled. They...
- Tags: Corporate governance, Stop electronic-voting, ballot, e-voting, poll-worker
- Discussion threads 2006-09-18
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- News to know: Apple's $800 laptop; MS and Mac Patch Days; Vista Home for business
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Ryan Naraine: Mac OS X Patch Day: 40 security flaws fixed MS Patch Tuesday heads-up: 11 bulletins, 4 critical Ed Bott: Look who's buying...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Laptop Computer, H-1B, Notebooks, Human Resources, Labor Relations, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, David Grober
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- "People with strong numerical and problem-solving skills seem to be appreciated by employers"
- "People with strong numerical and problem-solving skills seem to be appreciated by employers"They are? They do?If I ever find a company that does outside of their R&D dept, I would be surprised. Most people, from the worker bee to the executive all seem brain dead, with very few (but nonetheless...
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, job, worker bee, K-12, worker
- Discussion threads 2008-10-09
- Apple notebook for $800 - Would you be interested?
- Apple notebook for $800 - Would you be interested?If it's a netbook......then it's suicide at an $800 price point. Only fanboys and fashionistas will buy it.Apple doesn't make a notebookThey make laptops, remember?LOLI actually think that PC doesn't stand for Personal Computer, it stands for Price Conscious.When you decide...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Notebooks, Desktops, Apple Inc., Apple Notebook, Microsoft Windows Vista, notebook
- Discussion threads 2008-10-09
- H-1B visas rife with fraud, worker mistreatment
- H-1B visas rife with fraud, worker mistreatmentWell, Duh.....Anyone working in the tech field can provide many examples of this activity. The financial services company where I work is almost completely outsourced to Indian vendor company workers, over here on H-1B's. Additionally, many of us here have trained the very people...
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Litigation, Outsourcing, H-1B, worker mistreatment, mistreatment, job, worker, fraud
- Discussion threads 2008-10-09
- H-1B visas rife with fraud, worker mistreatment
- Thirteen percent of petitions for H-1B visas filed on behalf of employers are fraudulent. That's the conclusion of a report by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services agency, part of the Department of Homeland Security, BusinessWeek reports. A key part of the fraud is loopholes that allow...
- Tags: Visa, Loophole, Worker, Fraud, H-1B, Human Resources, Labor Relations, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- Mail Goggles: an idea that goes well beyond drunk emails
- There's a new GMail Labs app: Mail Goggles, by GMail engineer Jon Perlow: When you enable Mail Goggles, it will check that you're really sure you want to send that late night Friday email. And what better way to check...
- Tags: Google Gmail, Jon, E-mail Providers, E-mail, Cloud Computing, Internet, Online Communications, Denise Howell
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- Is the BlackBerry Storm touchscreen system better than the iPhone?
- I just got done reading Matthew Miller's preview of the BlackBerry Storm, RIM's first BlackBerry that's replaced the keyboard with a touchscreen system -- one that you must physically depress with your finger to manipulate (resulting in a "satisfying click," as many reviewers have reported). My question...
- Tags: Touch Screen, Apple iPhone, Research In Motion Ltd., RIM BlackBerry, Keyboards, Monitors & Displays, Hardware, Peripherals, Components, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- Webcast: Results Driven: Dispelling the Myth of the 80 Hour Work Week
- Employees that spend all their waking hours in the office don't produce more results. In fact, research shows it is just the opposite. Flexible workers can create more results in less time. But many business leaders and managers continue to believe that employees working long hours at their desks means...
- Tags: Employee, Webcast, Citrix Systems Inc.
- Webcasts 2008-10-08
- Why The Big Fuss Over Microblogs?
- I microblog.Why? The truth is, I learn by doing and by speaking with others who do. So I dabble with Twitter, Plurk, Pownce, Spoink, Rakawa, Tumblr, Utterli, Yammer, FriendFeed, 12seconds, and probably a few others that I signed up for and forgot to use. I have found a nice collection...
- Tags: Mobile, Fuss, Tool, Productivity, Web 2.0, Advertising & Promotion, Internet, Marketing, Gil Yehuda
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- The top five reasons why Windows Vista failed
- On Friday, Microsoft gave computer makers a six-month extension for offering Windows XP on newly-shipped PCs. While this doesn't impact enterprise IT -- because volume licensing agreements will allow IT to keep installing Windows XP for many years to come -- the move is another symbolic nail in Vista's coffin....
- Tags: Information Technology, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., IT Department, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows XP, Operating Systems, Software, Jason Hiner
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- Why bother with desktop virtualization?
- The proponents of making proper use of desktop virtualization technology including access virtualization, application virtualization and VDI the combination of access virtualization and processing virtualization do their best to make it sound like the best things since pockets. Aren't today's laptops, desktops and handheld devices good enough to get the...
- Tags: Desktop, Worker, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Desktop Virtualization, Utility Computing, Storage Management, Hardware, Storage, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- 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
- Election Talking Points: A discussion place
- Looking at posts like this one about Sarah Palin's many email accounts it's become obvious to me that there's a desire to talk about a wide range of election issues and viewpoints, not limited to the technology connection. Especially with the importance of the financial crisis, I think we need...
- Tags: Election, Financial Accounting, E-mail, Finance, Online Communications, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-03
- iPrez: Obama releases app grassroots organizing app
- Get-out-the-vote campaigns have been cellphone-based for some time now. So what makes more sense than leveraging iPhone cool to put a calling app right on people's phones? That's what the Obama campaign did today, News.com reports,with an iPhone app that "organizes and prioritizes your contacts by key battleground states, making...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, App, Obama, Congress+, Corporate Communications, GPS, Telecom & Utilities, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, 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
- Texting? Pull Over ...
- Texting? Pull Over ...re: Texting? Pull Over ...It's scary. I went through line in a grocery store, everytime the cashier had two seconds between ringing up customers her head was down texting. I can't imagine that kind of person on the road.RE: Texting? Pull Over ...TST: None of...
- Tags: Cellular phones, stat, headset, cell phone, phone
- Discussion threads 2008-10-02
- Obama campaign unleashes iPhone app
- The official Obama '08 iPhone application iTunes link was launched this morning and is designed to help people become more directly involved in the Illinois Senator's presidential campaign. The app has a Call Your Friends feature that organizes your contacts by key battleground states and adds a...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Blog Entry, Blogging, Internet, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-10-02
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