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- Study: Cell phones, hospitals don't mix
- Study: Cell phones, hospitals don't mixSounds likeequipment needs to be manufactured from the begin to not interfere so as to not put the duty on the owner to worry about interactions with other devices, especially in a hospital, on a plane, or by a pacemaker. And maybe those devices...
- Tags: HEALTHCARE, Vertical industries, Benefits, Web 2.0, Cellular phones, privatization, cell phone, health care, hospital, phone
- Discussion threads 2007-09-07
- TX union wants IT privatization slowed
- TX union wants IT privatization slowedPrivatize Money and Media NextThere are a lot of weaknesses to the US Government. They've bowed down to bribes so many times, they are owned by private industry. When things get too bull for the government to be in the way anymore, it...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Insurance, information technology, government, privatization
- Discussion threads 2006-11-28
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- DHS takes over flight lists from airports
- Another black eye for the privatization of public tasks: The Department of Homeland Security is taking over from the airlines the job of checking airline passenger names against watch lists, the Washington Post reports. by Richard Koman
- Tags: U.S. Department Of Homeland Security, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Richard Koman, Productivity, Government, Security
- Blog posts 2008-10-23
- POWEO Streamlines Business Processes to Improve Customer Satisfaction
- POWEO wanted to ensure a competitive edge in the residential electricity and gas provider market from its start and manage an increasing volume of potential customers following privatization. The challenge was to place customer relations at the heart of business processes and capitalize on customer knowledge to increase customer satisfaction,...
- Tags: Business Process, Oracle Corp., Customer Satisfaction, POWEO, Operational Planning, Product Marketing, Marketing Research, Business Operations, Marketing
- Case studies 2008-08-01
- Medicare vs. Medicare Advantage in the House of Wax
- Reformers will talk about "greed" among those who have benefitted from the Bush Administration's privatization efforts. Industry will claim government can't do anything right, and thus all imagined savings are illusory. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Democrat, Medicare, Medicare Advantage, Healthcare, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-07-28
- VistA dieing of starvation and neglect
- VistA dieing of starvation and neglect...McCain is a f*cking idiot! Gee some patriot he is, eh?"[B]Ideology, a desire to privatize all government functions. “John McCain has come out for closing the VA and giving everybody vouchers,” Longman said.[/B]"And privatizing our government... don't you people get it? When you privatize we...
- Tags: Government, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Purchasing & Procurement, Microsoft Windows Vista, Medsphere, OpenVistA CIS
- Discussion threads 2008-04-23
- At FCC, change must be the mantra
- At FCC, change must be the mantraUniversal service is a worthy goal? In the USA it is a birthrightThe mantra is that the air is a public commons. There is no privatization opportunity here. We can not have trans national big businesses mucking up the greatest public commons of all...
- Tags: Federal government, Universal Service, FCC, mantra, spectrum
- Discussion threads 2008-02-25
- The+power+of+open+spectrum
- The+power+of+open+spectrumDon't forget! The paradigm $works$ !Even state and county governments are into this selling of public resources bandwagon. Both Texas and Harris County where Houstonis are entertaining "selling" rights to publicly funded roadsto private companies in exchange for a "cut" of the profits fromthe tolls paid to use...
- Tags: The+power+of+open+spectrum, spectrum, Joe Camp, government
- Discussion threads 2008-02-07
- Report: Lucrative future for mobile TV
- Report: Lucrative future for mobile TVWiMax - It is Japan - It is USA - It is not EUA colleague returned from Japan with news that mobile TV, interactive TV, wireless broadband Web 2.0, digital democracy, YouTube, what every you want to call it, is already being rolled out in...
- Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Wi-Fi, WIRELESS, TV, airwave, mobile TV, WiMAX, mobile
- Discussion threads 2007-09-20
- Today's Debate: Doctors vs. Insurers
- Today's Debate: Doctors vs. InsurersDebate: Doctor vs IT ProfessionalsI believe the good physician should pay more attention to treating patients than acting as a shill for Microsoft and the Gates Foundation. Specifically, as an IT professional and health care administrator I object to the following statement"The insurance industry has priced...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Insurance, Right Now IT, physician, health care, information technology, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-08-07
- Wisconsin's Apologist for IT Failure
- Wisconsin's Apologist for IT FailureEDS is toast in Seattle150 EDS consultants are to be turned lose from the Seattle Office in August. Let me give a theory. In government, just as in business, there are core competencies. Where many will argue that IT is a core competency of every on...
- Tags: Government, HEALTHCARE, Strategy, Outsourcing Deals, Government IT project, future possibility, Electronic Data Systems Corp., outsourcing, Medicaid, information technology
- Discussion threads 2007-08-01
- Privacy International pokes a stick in Google's eye
- Privacy International pokes a stick in Google's eyeUntrustworthy?Personally, I don't trust it. They appear to have *preemptively* singled out how Google is worse than Microsoft - why? They take offense to things that don't matter to me (what is wrong with seeing whether someone has read an e-mail...
- Tags: SECURITY, Google Inc., Privacy International
- Discussion threads 2007-06-10
- State rejects privatization of AsiaSat
- The State Department has rejected a bid by GE and Beijing-controlled Citic Grouptogether to take private Asia Satellite Telecommunications, which operates the AsiaSat satellites, The Financial Times reports. The State Dept. has veto power over the suggested restructuring because of the Cold War-era US International Traffic in Arms...
- Tags: International, Government technology
- Blog posts 2007-04-25
- Free sex on Craigslist
- Free sex on Craigslistsomebody was going to do itit just happened to be Craigslist.I agree that Craigslist is sapping newspapers of the cash flow lifeblood that sustains the journalism product that they produce. This is truly a sad situation, because quality journalism isn't free. At some point, we...
- Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Strategy, Operational accounting, Craigslist
- Discussion threads 2007-04-06
- I'll say it again: Vonage will go private
- Fellow blogger Andy Abramson thinks that with the decline in the price of Vonage stock as a result of the federal court ruling denying Vonage the use of patented Verizon technology, the most advisable route is a sale.Andy mentions Verizon as a possible acquirer, but adds that there could...
- Tags: Vonage Holdings Corp., SprintNextel
- Blog posts 2007-03-27
- Netra X4200 M2 Server: Architecture
- This white paper describes the architectural features and benefits of the Netra X4200 M2 server. Deregulation and privatization has created intense competition in the worldwide telecommunications market over the past few years. The marketplace continues to evolve as voice and data solutions become more integrated and next-generation wireless, video, and...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Messaging, Marketplace, Telephony, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Groupware, Networking, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2007-03-01
- Steve Jobs blasts teacher unions and textbook industry
- Steve Jobs blasts teacher unions and textbook industryUnion ProblemsThis is just another case where unions do more to harm the industry than help. The fact of the matter is, every teacher in the world is a teacher because they WANT to teach - the pay isn't and won't be...
- Tags: Benefits, Steve Jobs, education
- Discussion threads 2007-02-18
- Open source in the post-telephony era
- We are firmly in the post-telephony era. (Image from the BellSystemMemorial.) On buying BellSouth, AT&T executives spoke of selling "bundles" of service, wireless being the most important, and of using ads as a primary revenue stream. They were combining the land lines business as a by-product -- local, long distance,...
- Tags: Trixbox 2.0, open source, 2007 preview, business models, VOIP, Infrastructure, Strategy, Enterprise Policy, Implementations, Applications, General
- Blog posts 2007-01-04
- TX union wants IT privatization slowed
- Two years into a massive and controversial privatization program of the Texas state governments computer systems, Texas largest state employee union called on the legislature to put off the deal, the Austin American-Statesman reports. Citing two troubled computer-services contracts at the Health and Human Services Commission as a reason...
- Tags: Government technology, State &, Local Govt, Contracting
- Blog posts 2006-11-21
- U.N. summit revives concerns about Net control
- U.N. summit revives concerns about Net controlU.N. summit revives concerns about Net controlThe U.S. is here to stay and will remain in control of the internet. Yes the whole internet. Get over it.Pretty much says it all"During the Tunisia summit, nations like Cuba, Iran and Zimbabwe blasted the United...
- Tags: Domain names, PRETTY MUCH, Internet, U.N. Summit, Net Control
- Discussion threads 2006-10-27
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