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Will Obama administration usher in universal broadband access?

ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das talks to Senior Editor Sam Diaz about President-elect Barack Obama's response to the Information Technology & Innovation Foundation's new report which ranks the U.S. 15th in the world in broadband adoption, below South Korea, Australia, and Norway, to name a few. Diaz discusses why access...

Tags: Administration, Diaz, Broadband Internet, Telecommunications, Network Technology, Networking, President-elect Barack Obama, broadband, U.S., technology, Internet access, Sumi Das, Sam Diaz

Videos 2008-12-09

'60 Minutes': Obama And The Presidency

President-elect Barack Obama speaks with Steve Kroft about his thoughts and goals as our nation's next Commander-in-Chief.

Tags: Nation, Thought, President-elect Barack Obama, News

Videos 2008-11-17

Free the Obama Blackberry

Trying to take the President "off the grid" is becoming more technically difficult and more legally indefensible every day. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Dana Blankenhorn, Grid, President, Obsession, President-elect Barack Obama, Computer Technology, E-mail, Blogging, Open Source, Handhelds, Online Communications, Internet, Hardware

Blog posts 2008-11-16

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Don't cry for me Joe Lieberman

the patriots are rising against the socialist billThe Obamacare is gasping for air while the liberals are preparing to be booted out of the congress in 2010.The real Americans have risen again and upheld the values of the founding fathers against dangerous foreign socialist ideeas.End Socialism Now!Enough with the Commissar's...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Insurance, Obamacare, patriot, socialist, socialism, reconciliation, Joe Lieberman

Discussion threads 2009-11-02

Apple leaves Chamber of Commerce in green dispute

Cap and TAX dramatically increases green house gassesGood for the chamber of commerce to have their eyes open. All this energy tax legislation does is move energy consuming manufacturing off shore to countries where the production of that energy is dramatically more pollution producing. Apple needs to pull it's head...

Tags: Apple Inc., Obama, manufacturing

Discussion threads 2009-10-06

A List: CRM(ish) Reading Worth it.

Sorry to have dropped off the radar for awhile. I was on the road.  First in Chicago having facilitated a customer event with Sword Ciboodle customers at the Union League Club - one that included a presentation by Brian Carey of Sears on what Sears is doing to improve the...

Tags: Sears Roebuck & Co., Social Media, Customer, CRM, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Advertising & Promotion, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-09-28

Brent Leary Expounds: The SMBs Rejoice

Brent Leary, who is not only my bud, but one of the leading, no, the leading, small business consultant and analyst when it comes to small business (duh!), CRM, social CRM and social media,  is someone that I want to highlight on these pages.  Not that you need to come...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Leader, Small Business, Small And Medium Business, CRM, Brent Leary, Maximizer Needs, Price Point, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-09-14

The Dixie Chicks of the health reform debate

On the other hand...While he might have messed with the heads of the Birkenstock set, he also might have more than compensated by drawing in other people. Personally, I've been turned off by stores touting "natural" foods as the answer to every question, but after hearing the boss speak...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Advertising & Promotion, Whole Foods, Mackey, health care, Singer Natalie Maines

Discussion threads 2009-08-14

Key elements of health reform already baked-in

maybe you should read the bill ....before writing about it, it has some serious issues beyond cost.http://edlabor.house.gov/documents/111/pdf/publications/AAHCA-BillText-071409.pdf"giant databases turning your private pain into useful data"While there are certainly many that misunderstand Health IT and how EHRs and HIEs will transform healthcare there will NOT be "giant databases turning your private...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Insurance, reality check, health care, Reality Check

Discussion threads 2009-08-11

Churchill Club podcast: An Evening with Aneesh Chopra, Chief Technology Officer of the United States

In this installment of the Churchill Club podcast series, Aneesh Chopra, CTO of the U.S., talks technology. He was appointed by President Barack Obama as the nation’s first Chief Technology Officer in April 2009, with the mandate to promote technological innovation to help the country meet its most urgent priorities...

Tags: Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-08-05

Nuclear recycling--a thing of the past?

Nature.com is reporting President Barack Obama's administration quietly cancelled plans for a large-scale facility to recycle nuclear fuel. The move may prove a fatal blow to the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership GNEP set up by previous President. You may have to pay to read the entire Nature.com...

Tags: Recycling, Nature.com, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-07-07

Fed employees throw out millions of pages every day

Check it out: The Washington Times reports that a full third of the printing performed by U.S. government employees is instantly tossed out or recycled. Raise your hand if you recall the tale of the $400 hammers, toilet seats, and ashtrays that were pressed into service during...

Tags: Federal Reserve Board, Printing, Document Management, Government, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Doc

Sponsored content 2009-05-29

Who will pay to fix the Internet's Interstates?

Who will pay to fix the Internet's Interstates?Obama will print more money....ntsimple solutionJust make proprietary software vendors pay a percentage of the sales on their products to an Internet fund.It's their software that benefits from the internet and also is hogging the bandwidth. I think I see the problem.They never...

Tags: Document management, Internet, Obama, Bush, printing

Discussion threads 2009-05-15

Where does Obama stand on open source?

Where does Obama stand on open source?doesnt suprise mehes a socialist, of course he doesnt like anything free that he cannot control. Typical democrat bull.I suspect the President knows what open source isHe has long acquaintance of people with in-depth knowledge of the issue. What he may not understand is...

Tags: Biden, open source, Obama

Discussion threads 2009-05-14

French hacker gains access to Twitter's admin panel

UPDATE2: Twitter confirms the unauthorized access. UPDATE: The Twitter admin hack appears to be the result of a successful social engineering attack against one of Twitter's employees -- similar attack took place in January this year. Here's a retrospective of the events that took place. ...

Tags: Hacker, Twitter, Attack, Hacking, Security, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2009-04-30

Hey, Wired President. You Wouldn't Tax the Internet, the Cell Phone or the Tweet. Would You?

Maybe it’s just me and my wife. We still put spare change into a piggy bank (a red pig, actually), as we go. Pays for a nice dinner, every now and then. So it floors me, still, when I see the dimensions of the...

Tags: President, Phone, Barack Obama, Wired Inc., Sales Tax, Cell Phone, E-mail, Internet, Taxes, Sales Strategy, Free Trade, Personal Finance, Online Communications, Financial Planning, Finance, Sales, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2009-04-29

Health IT gets a friend at the top in Aneesh Chopra

Health IT gets a friend at the top in Aneesh ChopraSound of tax dollars being wastedThe future generations will be working for nothing,with the way Obongo and thugs are bankruptingand socializing 'Amerika' we need to learn to speak and write Manderian Chinese.Not Hindi?After all, Chopra and CIO Kundra are Indian....

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Aneesh Chopra, Health IT, health care, His-Name

Discussion threads 2009-04-19

The next plastics health scare is here

The next plastics health scare is here phthalates are poisonIt has been common knowledge for years that phthalates are poisonous.It is only corporate greed that keeps these chemicals on the market.The gangster corporations have control of our government and the regulatory process and will not give up their profits no...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, Strategy, plastics health, health care, common knowledge, plastics, conspiracy theory, phthalate

Discussion threads 2009-04-19

Who is doing the right thing in this economy?

(Hint: It's not banks!) Lunch time learnings Late last week I had lunch with the President and CFO of a mid-market firm. Like many firms in their situation, business is down. They have inventory, expensive inventory, to spare and lots of long-term customers that...

Tags: Bank, Business, Banker, Banking Industry, Financial Services, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-04-12

Obama rolls out help for green tech

President Barack Obama put $1.2 billion where his mouth has been on green technology. At a Monday morning event at the White House Obama announced the availability of $1.2 billion in basic research dollars at Energy Department labs, News.com's Martin LaMonica reported. That money will fund research...

Tags: Green Technology, Barack Obama, Taxes, Free Trade, Personal Finance, Research & Development, Financial Planning, Finance, Business Operations, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-03-23