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- Response to financial crisis may mean more IT work ahead
- Governments all across the world are responding to the current financial crisis with a range of nationalization initiatives, and increased support of various parts of the financial services industry through guarantees and pumping in increased liquidity. You know what it means when there's more government involvement with...
- Tags: Financial, Information Technology, Industry, Enterprise Architecture, Strategy, Regulations, Financial Accounting, Management, Government, Finance, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-10-12
- 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
- Microsoft says crisis will impact tech
- Microsoft says crisis will impact techGround Control to L.E.M. Apollo13 Gemini has returned to Canada:Tom Hanks Impersonator,"Aren't we glad Houston didn't say San Fransico. That fire would wipe-out the SSA and put fourteen million Americans out of their homes."" I wonder how my trailer park is doing?"Wrong!!What's needed is NOT...
- Tags: Government, Vertical industries, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft says crisis, MICROSOFT SAYS
- Discussion threads 2008-09-30
- Microsoft says crisis will impact tech
- The way economists see it, there's the financial economy and the "real" economy. While Wall Street is in a genuine crisis and there's clearly been a tightening of credit, it's not clear that the collapse of the investment banks has severely impacted non-financial companies yet. But while...
- Tags: Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-09-30
- Nathan Myhrvold: Alpha patent troll?
- Nathan Myhrvold: Alpha patent troll?One thing I would like to knowHow many of those patents are actually [i]inventions[/i]?RE: Nathan Myhrvold: Alpha patent troll?That is a bit fuzzy isn't it. Initially here's all you'll find.http://www.intellectualventures.com/inv_main.aspxEveryone plays by the same rulesHow can he be considered a troll? He is doing for...
- Tags: patent, Alpha patent troll, Nathan Myhrvold, patent troll
- Discussion threads 2008-09-17
- Text message pricing: Is Sen. Kohl fighting the wrong battle?
- Text message pricing: Is Sen. Kohl fighting the wrong battle?I agreeWhile I like most believe the cost of text messaging is too high, surely there are other areas in which the service providers can be scrutinized. Unless collusion can be shown, I don't see anything the companies could be doing...
- Tags: Government, Cellular phones, Telecom & Utilities, OK Here, Kohl, phone, Text message pricing, SIM card, cell phone service
- Discussion threads 2008-09-10
- To Lexia or not to Lexia
- To Lexia or not to LexiaThe real question ishow many students will be identified and helped by this. Don't spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on software to screen a district with a thousand students because odds are you won't have more than 10 or 20 students with special needs....
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Lexia
- Discussion threads 2008-09-09
- Where WiFi succeeds
- Where WiFi succeedsAll Good PointsMost important is your point that the cities' failures result from the failure of their business models. Just because the city council votes it to be true, and then commands, "Make it so", doesn't make it so.Your last point, that WIFI can work well on any...
- Tags: Wireless LANs, WIRELESS, Wi-Fi
- Discussion threads 2008-09-03
- Canada, U.S. two ships passing in the ideological night
- Canada, U.S. two ships passing in the ideological night.....Our arrogance is our own demise. It's that simple. ]:)We already have a crippled two-level systemIt's called Medicare/Medicaid.And once again the author shows his ignorance of economics. In a truly private, competitive health care system, if universal electronic records provided increased profits,...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Insurance, Strategy, health care, ideology, ideological night, enormous innovation, surcharge, innovation
- Discussion threads 2008-08-25
- What's future proofing worth? Analyzing the Verizon FiOS bet
- What's future proofing worth? Analyzing the Verizon FiOS betcoax vs fiberNo brainer, but if Verizon thinks this is a 10-year ROI or something, think again.Cable has enough bandwidth to satisfy any residential / home-office use for the forseeable future. Heck, phone companies can now cram 3 or 4 high-def video...
- Tags: Network technology, bandwidth, Verizon Communications Inc., cable, Verizon FiOS bet, Verizon FIOS, Analyzing
- Discussion threads 2008-08-19
- FCC slaps Comcast's wrist over network neutrality; Sets precedent
- The Federal Communications Commission on Friday ruled 3-2 that Comcast overstepped its network management authority by blocking BitTorrent peer to peer traffic, but stopped short of fining the cable company. The move clarifies the boundaries a bit for other carriers and sends the message that the FCC enforces network neutrality...
- Tags: FCC, Network, Comcast Corp., Network Neutrality, Network Neutrality Rule, Deborah Taylor Tate, Federal Government, Networking, Government, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-01
- Passports worth £2.5 million stolen in van hijack
- Passports worth £2.5 million stolen in van hijackInside Jobwhat a coincidence: the driver happened to stop for a paper and candy bar right at the spot where a couple of thieves saw an opportunity to take a van with a couple of cardboard boxes in them. ;)RE: Passports worth £2.5...
- Tags: SECURITY, van, Nate, Passports worth, attack
- Discussion threads 2008-07-29
- Investment Governance Webcast: Solving Presidential Mandates, OMB Requirements and Serving the American Public
- Investment Governance is a hot topic across public sector and private sector, but what does it really mean? Over the past decade the OMB and the Executive Office of the President has been working diligently to put better transparency and oversight into the business of Government. With the goal of...
- Tags: Webcast, Governance, Investment, Finance
- Webcasts 2008-07-11
- 300 Lithuanian sites hacked by Russian hackers
- A recently accepted legislation in Lithuania banning communist symbols across Lithuania, has prompted Pro-Russian hackers to start defacing Lithuanian sites, an indication of the upcoming attack was detected last week with active discussions around Russian forums greatly reminding us of the Russia vs Estonia cyberattack sparkled due to the removal...
- Tags: Web, Web Site, Hacker, Distributed Denial Of Service, Attack, Hacking, Security, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-07-02
- Vodafone's Big(ish?) Adventure
- It's fun to think of similes to categorise the headlong rush towards CO2 reductions or at least the pledges for such. I think of Vodafone's pledge of a 50% cut of the 2007 baseline by 2020 as a 'Big Adventure'. They have not yet clearly identified how they will get there yet...
- Tags: Vodafone Group Plc., Carbon Dioxide, Climate Situation, Jonathon Porritt, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, James Farrar
- Blog posts 2008-06-19
- Health care debate not really about costs
- Health care debate not really about costsThis is where you lostall your credibility and turned into nothing more than a propagandist:"And they are paying for this lack of coverage, sometimes, with their lives."People die every day in your socialist utopia nations while waiting for needed health services. In the good...
- Tags: Vertical industries, HEALTHCARE, government, health care
- Discussion threads 2008-06-10
- Miracles happen: a transparent gov't dashboard
- Failed government projects often remain hidden behind layers of bureaucratic obfuscation, only to be revealed after an agency has wasted substantial time and money. Given this, imagine my surprise upon learning of a state agency providing the public with genuine transparency and openness with web-based, real-time project...
- Tags: Agency, Information Technology, Dashboard, Transportation, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-06-03
- 6 reasons government IT projects fail
- Failed government IT projects occur with alarming frequency. In some respects, these failures share much in common with botched private sector initiatives. For example, failures in both environments are primarily a function of poor management rather than bad technology. Still, there are important differences between government...
- Tags: Team, Information Technology, Procurement, Accountability, Government, Vertical Industries, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-05-30
- NASA employee punished for political blogging
- NASA employee punished for political bloggingThose are the rulesCivil service people aren't allowed to participate in partisan political activity. Looks like he's guilty, so no sympathy.Now if he had been blogging on the issues of the day from the privacy of his own home, without endorsing or disparaging particular...
- Tags: Civil Service, blogging, NASA
- Discussion threads 2008-05-28
- Scam calls... something we've forgot about?
- Scam calls... something we've forgot about?Pretty sure they can...but why would they? Less money for the phone company, more cost. Until our government makes stronger, more punishing laws around this, nothing will happen.-NateRE: Scam calls... something we've forgot about?Why can't the phone companies trace these calls and shut...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, Spyware, adware & malware, Call centers, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, PLA, malware, call-center, phone, IP
- Discussion threads 2008-05-27
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