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- Feds lift ban on IBM
- From the AP: The government has lifted a week-old ban that prevented I.B.M. from getting new federal contracts in exchange for an agreement from the company to drop its protest of an $84 million Environmental Protection Agency contract it lost last year. ...
- Tags: Protest, Ban, IBM Corp., Government, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-04-06
- Your flight has been delayed...
- perhaps because protestors at Heathrow are out to stop the airport's planned expansion. British police say they're ready to deal with nationwide protests against what is seen as weak British government action to curtail greenhouse gases emission. The left-wing Guardian newspaper talks of anger at plans for a fourth...
- Tags: Protest, Greenhouse Gas, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2007-08-19
- Images: Storming the virtual gates
- Residents in Second Life stage a protest against CopyBot, a controversial software tool that could significantly affect the virtual world's economy.
- Tags: tool, gate, protest, software
- Image galleries 2006-11-15
- Photos: Immigrant rights rally
- Thousands of immigrant rights supporters in San Francisco join their counterparts nationwide in a one-day protest.
- Tags: immigrant, San Francisco, protest
- Image galleries 2006-05-02
- Photos: Immigrant rights rally
- Thousands of immigrant rights supporters in San Francisco join their counterparts nationwide in a one-day protest.
- Tags: immigrant, San Francisco, protest
- Image galleries 2006-05-02
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- On being detained in Cairo
- I've brought up Twitter before. Twitter is a micro-blogging service. You use it to "tweet" messages of no more than 140 characters. Your friends, colleagues and the general public can follow your Twitter stream and keep up with such urgent intelligence as, "Feeling bored," or "Currently surrounded by idiots." Or,...
- Tags: Twitter, James Karl Buck, Telecom & Utilities, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Ed Gottsman
- Blog posts 2008-05-07
- Canada caught on its own tar baby. Tar sand investments now a dead duck?
- As one Canadian newspaper put it. Ducks in Alberta died a crude death. One of the species of ducks that died on a pond filled with crude oil polluted water: Bufflehead. Here's a picture of a gorgeous male Bufflehead in fine fettle. ...
- Tags: Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-05-01
- The problem with Forrester's $4.6 billion prediction
- Forrester has released a report indicating that Enterprise 2.0 spending will reach $4.6 billion by 2013. ( I would offer a link but the one I have is broken.) I'm uncomfortable with the report though it hints at some interesting developments. Any prediction is based upon the...
- Tags: Collaboration, Enterprise 2.0, Forrester Research Inc., Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-04-21
- Questioning IT
- Questioning IT This is the 14th excerpt from the first book in the Defen series: The Board Member's IT Brief. This section is concerned with things you should talk to your CIO about - informally, but with attention. Topic one: disaster avoidance Basically...
- Tags: CIO, Data Center, Information Technology, Credit Card, Clustering, Membership Database, Data Centers, Backups, Storage, Servers, Hardware, Data Management, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-04-18
- OOXML appeal possible, but looks unlikely
- OOXML appeal possible, but looks unlikelyStandingISO has also stated that it will only accept appeals of NB votes from the NB itself. In other words, the only ones who can appeal for instance Norway's vote are the people who filed it.Either paid for or bullied into submissionThe results are...
- Tags: Office Open XML
- Discussion threads 2008-04-17
- OOXML appeal possible, but looks unlikely
- The International Organization for Standardization ISO has not received a formal appeal of its approval of Office Open XML as a standard, but it looks more unlikely with each day that passes. To date, there have been "no appeals and I have no way...
- Tags: ISO, Office Open XML, Iso standards, Process Improvement, Quality, Business Operations, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-04-17
- Why Symantec bought Appstream (not)
- Of course we all know the real reason why Symantec is acquiring AppStream — a move announced yesterday at its user conference in Las Vegas. Virtualization is hot and Symantec is big in systems management. AppStream helps round out its offerings for packaging and streaming virtualized software. It's as simple...
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, Symantec Corp., AppStream Inc., On-demand, Software As A Service (SaaS), Security, Emerging Technologies, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-04-10
- Chasing the torch through S.F.
- To protest the Beijing Olympic torch's visit to San Francisco Wednesday, people came with varying perspectives and varying gadgets to capture the moment. CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi reports on how technology is changing the way people demonstrate.
- Tags: News, kara tsuboi, olympic torch, san francisco, tibet, china, protesters
- Videos 2008-04-09
- The Big Apple bites off Apple logo
- The Big Apple bites off Apple logoApple vs. Big AppleI'm a fan of Apple, buasn't NY been known as The Big Apple for longer than Apple's been around? Come on. The logos don't look that similar to me.RE: The Big Apple bites off Apple logoYeah they look nothing...
- Tags: Apple Inc., Big Apple
- Discussion threads 2008-04-03
- Headaches in Armonk but will green lose out?
- No doubt the IBM top team will be passing around the Tylenol today in Armonk as they figure out what to do next after their temporary exclusion from further contracting with the US Federal government. Sadly it is not an April fool's joke - the US Attorney's office for the Eastern...
- Tags: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, IBM Corp., FCW, Purchasing & Procurement, Financial Management, Government, Business Operations, Financial Planning, Finance, James Farrar
- Blog posts 2008-04-01
- Microsoft wasting no time rejoicing in its OOXML win
- Microsoft wasting no time rejoicing in its OOXML winLong live the Microsoft Zimbabwe standardIn recognition of ISO adoption of IS 29500 it will hence forth be formally known ans the Zimbabwe stand.Microsoft vote riggers sorry I mean keen standards followers were quoted as saying "we learnt all about ballot...
- Tags: ISO standards, Process improvement, Sanity, Microsoft Corp., OOXML
- Discussion threads 2008-04-01
- Microsoft claims victory in ISO struggle over OOXML
- Microsoft claims victory in ISO struggle over OOXMLApril Fools?[i]My problem here is not with Microsoft. I know for certain that Steve Ballmer is a great and good man.[/i]I'm sorry, but if a corporation corrupts a standards process the way they did, the person at the helm of that corporation is...
- Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), ISO standards, Microsoft Corp., OOXML, OpenDocument Format, ISO
- Discussion threads 2008-04-01
- OOXML said to win ISO standardization approval with 75 percent of the vote
- While ISO isn't set to announce the official voting tally until tomorrow, the OpenDoc Society has posted to a mailing list what it claims are the final results indicating that Microsoft will be granted ISO approval for its Office Open XML OOXML document format. According to the...
- Tags: ISO, OOXML, Iso standards, Process Improvement, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Quality, Business Operations, Emerging Technologies, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-04-01
- Norwegian civil war: Call to recall OOXML 'yes' vote
- Posted on Geir Isene's blog: Formal protest regarding the Norwegian vote on ISO/IEC DIS 29500 I am writing to you in my capacity as Chairman (of 13 years standing) of the Norwegian mirror committee to ISO/IEC JTC1/SC34. I wish to inform you of serious irregularities in...
- Tags: Irregularity, Vote, XML, Blogging, Microsoft Office, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Internet, Office Suites, Software, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-03-31
- Google turns the lights out for Earth Hour
- Google turns the lights out for Earth HourHow much energy would be savedIf Google were really to lights out for an hour. My guess is that they can't shut down the datacenter or start it back up in that time frame, but it would certainly make a statement. ...
- Tags: Google Inc., Google Turns, Earth Hour
- Discussion threads 2008-03-31
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