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- Australian Cargo
- David Jacobsons blog describes a report prepared by Booz Allen Hamilton, analyzing problems in the Australian Integrated Cargo System. The system is intended to track goods coming into Australia by either air or sea. A variety of implementation problems with system resulted in traffic congestion and escalating costs, and the...
- Tags: Project management, Project failures, Government projects
- Blog posts 2006-07-17
- Medical Emergency
- CIO magazine has an article written by Allan Holmes, describing Maines attempt to develop and deploy a web-based system for processing Medicaid claims and payments. The project was started back in 2001, to help the state to modernize its systems and also ensure compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and...
- Tags: Project management, Project failures, Implementation, Government projects
- Blog posts 2006-04-23
- Poor, Poor FBI
- About a year ago, the FBI annouced they had this little problem: the agency built a software system, called the Virtual Case File, that never saw the light of day. You see, the software designers never asked the users what they actually did need. So, the FBI spent $170M developing...
- Tags: Project management, Project failures, Government projects
- Blog posts 2006-04-07
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- Back to school special: Big thanks to our green tech kids
- I have no children so I really can't appreciate the end of August, when the parents I know count down the hours until their offspring heads back to the classroom. But I do remember mourning the bittersweet end of summer in the northeast, when crickets chirp of a summer evening...
- Tags: Green Technology, Canon Inc., Corporate Communications, Team Management, Marketing, Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-08-21
- Typosquatting the U.S presidential election - a security risk?
- Cybercriminals know how to take advantage of anticipated traffic by abusing the momentum of a particular event, like the U.S presidential election in this case. Everyone, from scammers coming up with legitimately looking donation sites that they will later on spam, to the a bit more complex blackhat search engine...
- Tags: Campaign, Domain, Internet, Security, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-08-21
- Comcast undecided on network management scheme
- Despite the fact that it's testing a system to cut back bandwidth for heavy (P2P) users during peak traffic time, Comcast says it hasn't decided on any network management techniques as yet, IDG reports. The FCC issued an order this week requiring Comcast to stop network management that discriminates against...
- Tags: Network, Comcast Corp., Network Management, FreePress, Networking, Network Administration, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-08-21
- Top five issues your IT staff wants to address but is afraid to tell you
- If you’re an IT manager or CIO, you may want to gather the troops before you begin the Web 2.0 modernization process as even the best laid plans can go awry says Nexaweb Technologies Jeremy Chone. Commentary--The proliferation of enterprise Web 2.0 has created new...
- Tags: Web, Information Technology, Web 2.0, Strategy, Internet, Management, CIO, IT management, code, Jeremy Chone, Nexaweb Technologies
- News items 2008-08-21
- Microsoft launches 3-D photo viewer Photosynth
- Microsoft Live Labs' latest project is actually an old one with a new twist. Photosynth lets you stitch together an entire roll of photos into dazzling 3-D environments. CNET.com's Ina Fried sits down with Microsoft's Gary William Flake to chat about what you can do with this new technology.
- Tags: 3D, Microsoft Corp., Photograph, Microsoft Live Labs, News, ina fried, microsoft, photosynth, gary william, pictures, albums
- Videos 2008-08-21
- Exploit code published for Apache Tomcat flaw
- The United States Computer Emergency Response Team (US-CERT) has raised an alarm for a serious vulnerability in Apache Tomcat, warning that a proof-of-concept exploit is publicly available. The code, posted to Milw0rm.com, exploits a directory traversal vulnerability vulnerability in the way Apache Tomcat handles malformed requests. ...
- Tags: HTTP, XSS, Apache Software Foundation, Exploit Code, Apache Tomcat, Flaw, Open Source, Application Servers, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-08-21
- Pulse provides novel training and tools configuration resource to aid in developer education, preparedness
- MyEclipse maker Genuitec developed Pulse last year to monitor and update the most popular Eclipse plug-ins, but Pulse also has a powerful role in making Java training and tools preferences configuration management more streamlined, automated and extensible. by Dana Gardner
- Tags: Education, Academia, Developer, Java, Eclipse, Training, Plug-in, Tool, Pulse, Pulse Website, Productivity, Java Development Tools, Open Source, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-08-21
- Fastest-growing Web categories in France in May 2008
- Site Category Apr-2008 May-2008 Growth Total Internet : Total Audience 30,649 31,066 1% Weather 6,107 7,445 22% Retail - Sports/Outdoor 2,145 2,586 21% Genealogy 772 930 21% Maps 10,347 11,622 12% Sports 10,187 11,272 11% Travel...
- Tags: Category, Government, Internet, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, NB
- Blog posts 2008-08-21
- IKEA's mixed bag of IT investments
- Last evening I read an interesting Gartner case study (registration wall warning.) It tells how IKEA Components, a company that is part of the iconic retailer of flat pack furniture used Lawson Software products to make significant across the board process savings and improvements. The business intelligence/process project makes great...
- Tags: IKEA, Information Technology, IT Investment, David Meerman Scott, Strategy, Management, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-08-21
- SAP All-in-One implementations in less than 3 months?
- At the risk of sounding like an infomercial for SAP or turning Irregular Enterprise into 'SAPWatch,' I recently learned about a consulting shop that guarantees implementing SAP All-in-One in three months at a fixed price. I was skeptical given that the on-demand Business ByDesign implementations I'm hearing about are taking...
- Tags: SAP AG, Training, Workforce Management, Change Management, Training And Certification, Human Resources, Tools & Techniques, Management, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-08-21
- Dell bets on Salesforce.com's platform as a service
- Amid a quarter that Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff called "spectacular," but spooked analysts worried about future growth was an interesting nugget: Dell has jumped on the platform as a service bandwagon. On Salesforce.com's second quarter conference call (earnings recap, InStranet acquisition) Benioff revealed that Dell signed a...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Dell Computer Corp., Marc Benioff, Billing, PaaS, Summer Sales Cycle, Sales Force Management, Sales, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-21
- FEMA's PBX network hacked, over 400 calls made to the Middle East
- Someone's been chatting a lot during the weekend, but picking up FEMA's PBX network as their main carrier might not have been the smartest thing to do. Over 400 calls, lasting from three up to ten minutes were placed through their network, a breach made possible due to an insecurely...
- Tags: Network, PBX, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Telephony, VOIP, Security, Networking, Telecommunications, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-08-21
- Hyperic CloudStatus adds Google App Engine monitoring
- There are many factors that could be seen as impediments to the adoption of "cloud computing" architectures. One of them is the assumption by some suppliers that organizations are going to leap with both feet into running important applications offsite somewhere in the cloud. These folks haven't learned from what...
- Tags: Google Inc., Performance, Monitoring, CloudStatus, Hyperic Inc., Google App Engine, Cloud Computing, Productivity, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-08-21
- News to know: Apple sued; IDF; Adobe hijack; Microsoft-Novell
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Sam Diaz: Apple faces suit over iPhone. Is it still worth the switch? Techmeme IDF wrap: Christopher Dawson: New touch screen Classmates unveiled today...
- Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Novell Inc., Palm Inc., Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Intel Corp., Software As A Service (SaaS), Business Structures, Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Emerging Technologies, Finance, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-21
- About Atom: Intel's big plans for its little chip
- One of the bolder goals Intel set at IDF this week is that within a decade it wants ship 1 billion Intel-based mobile computing devices each year. That's a big bet when you consider Intel estimates there will be a total of 163 million notebooks shipped this year. ...
- Tags: Mobile, Intel Corp., Chip, Menlow, Moorestown, Advertising & Promotion, Processors, Marketing, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, John Morris
- Blog posts 2008-08-20
- The Waltham Pact: Where are the tangibles?
- Â This week, Microsoft renewed their union with Novell, to the tune of an additional 100 million dollars in commitment to buy more SUSE Linux support certificates that it can sell to its customers. Dang, Ballmer, for that kind of cash, you can get your vows renewed...
- Tags: Novell Inc., Microsoft Corp., Linux, Open Source, OpenOffice, UNIX, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Office Suites, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-08-20
- Open source and the 'fear factor' mentality
- Guest editorial by Emma McGrattan In the current economic climate, businesses of every size are looking to reduce their spending wherever possible. Open source software, which has no upfront licensing fees, is one way of achieving significant savings. However, in order to protect their...
- Tags: Software, Security, Open Source, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-08-20
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