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The case against health care reform

Say hi to Conservatives for Patients Rights, headed by former Columbia/HCA executive Richard Scott. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Patient, Barack Obama, Health Care, Healthcare Reform, Richard Scott, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Taxes, Free Trade, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Financial Planning, Finance, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2009-03-05

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Lawyer files a full-throated attack on Google Books deal

Lawyers and the New York Times are sitting up to take notice of a new "sweeping" objection to the Google Books deal. The objector is Scott E. Gant, an author and partner at the Washington law firm of Boies Schiller & Flexner. In an interview, he told the Times: ...

Tags: Google Inc., Class Action, Attack, Gant, Litigation, Business Operations, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-08-19

Delays, delays on White House cyber positions.

Where is the cybersecurity czar? And the White House intellectual property coordinator? The folks for those important federal tech positions have been chosen but there is no sign of announcements being made, NextGov says. The likely nominees for cyberczar: Howard Schmidt, former White House special adviser...

Tags: Job, White House, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-07-27

PR firms battle over Google's inside track to White House

The Washington Post takes a look at Google's complex relationship with Washington. For starters, CEO Eric Schmidt was closely tied to the Obama campaign, and is part of Obama's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. But with three Google executives having left the...

Tags: Google Inc., White House, Public Relations, Corporate Law, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Business Operations, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-06-05

Obama picks Bolden for NASA

So, it looks like manned spaceflight may yet have a future at NASA, with the selection this weekend of former astronaut Charlie Bolden to head the troubled agency. Bolden would be the agency's first black Administrator. The LA Times talked to NASA insiders, who said Bolden wouldn't...

Tags: NASA, Barack Obama, Advertising & Promotion, Recruitment & Selection, Marketing, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-05-24

News to know: IBM; SAP; Microsoft; Sarbanes-Oxley; EMC

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily.  For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: IBM rolls out the 'Smart Cube' with app market: Think enterprise iPod-iTunes combo Joe McKendrick: Goodbye, SOX? AP: Supreme Court to...

Tags: Facebook, Larry Dignan, Craigslist, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Microsoft Windows 7, SAP AG, Microsoft Corp., EMC Corp., Netbook, IBM Corp., Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Storage, Microsoft Windows, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software

Blog posts 2009-05-19

Oracle-Sun: an enterprise catastrophe

Oracle-Sun: an enterprise catastropheonly M$ sees it as a catastropheHaving a serious and rich contender for Linux, Office, sql & .net gives Balmer cold sweats.Everyone else is happy, may be except IBM.Your right DennisOracle is REALLY GOOD at making a profit. Ellison is a forward thinker, he was the first...

Tags: Linux, Databases, Programming languages, OPEN SOURCE, Oracle Corp., GREAT NEWS, Microsoft Corp., analysis, database, Sun Microsystems Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-04-20

Outrage in aftermath of China's YouTube censorship

As of Monday, YouTube is unavailable in China, an unexplained move apparently made in response to the existence of a video of Chinese soldiers beating Tibetan monks, says the BBC. Leslie Harris, president of the Center for Democracy and Technology, responded that: China's actions...

Tags: China, YouTube Inc., Corporate Communications, Internet, Marketing, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-03-25

PlayStation-based kiddie porn. What next?

It makes sense when you think about it, but I never did. Seems we have our first case of a PlayStation child predator. The Houston Chronicle reports that 24-year-old Anthony Scott O'Shea was arrested on charges of online solicitation, promotion of kiddie porn and sexual performance of a child. ...

Tags: Sony Playstation, Girl, Game Players, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-03-14

The case against health care reform

The case against health care reformLiberals no likey Mr. ScottA long attack on Mr. Scott's record at Columbia/HCA appeared today at http://rss.dailykos.com/~r/dailykos/index/~3/XMnVXsHxVPk/704850Doesn't look like a case against reformThat would be a case for the status quo, which nobody seems to like. Rather, what you describe is the basis for...

Tags: HEALTHCARE, Vertical industries, Benefits, health care, hospital, healthcare reform

Discussion threads 2009-03-05

Should federal government go open source?

Obama tech advisor Scott McNealy to call for open source mandates throughout federal bureaucracy. by Richard Koman

Tags: Software, Open Source, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-01-24

Placing bets on proposed cyberczar position

President-elect Obama should appoint a Center for Cybersecurity Operations and appoint a cyberczar to oversee its operations, according to a report by the U.S. Commission on Cybersecurity. According to Business Week: Active policing of government and corporate networks would include new rules and a "red...

Tags: Cybersecurity, CRN, Powell, Government, Security, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-12-10

Martin free wireless plan brings muni WiFi disaster back from the dead

OK, public spectrum, take 2. Or is it 3? After the infamous D-block auction meltdown, the FCC is set with a new plan to have the private sector deliver free Internet over the airwaves, Reuters reports. And FCC chair Kevin Martin's plan includes another long-held fantasy of policymakers: a...

Tags: FCC, M2Z Networks, Municipal Wi-Fi, Broadband, Spectrum, Wireless, Martin, Internet, Federal Government, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Government, Networking, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-12-03

Broadcasters fume as FCC moves forward on white spaces

We won't have nationwide wireless without a fight. The National Association of Broadcasters came out swinging against the FCC report passing white spaces devices. "It would appear that the FCC is misinterpreting the actual data collected by their own engineers," said...

Tags: FCC, Federal Government, Government, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-10-17

Canadian Conservatives vow to implement new copyright law

Candians who vote to re-elect the Conservative government next week will also be voting for an archly pro-copyright agenda. According to the party's official platform released yesterday: A re-elected Conservative government led by Stephen Harper will reintroduce federal copyright legislation that strikes the appropriate balance among the rights of...

Tags: Legislation, Copyright Law, Creator, Government, Intellectual Property, Vertical Industries, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Piracy, Strategy, Research & Development, Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Software, Security, Corporate Law, Management, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-10-08

TechCrunch50: Day 2

Yesterday's presentations were a lot of fun to cover. I'm getting right back into the grind today. 6:30 a.m. Here is a list of today's presentations: Alfabetic Presented by Oded Broshi and Arik Kopelman DropBox (Presented by Drew Houston...

Tags: Facebook, Phone, Tim O'Reilly, Mark Cuban, Mytopia, Swype, Mixtt Redefining, iMindi World, Popego Cut, exchangeP, Internet, Telecom & Utilities, Food & Beverage, Channel Management, Manufacturing, Marketing, Andrew Mager

Blog posts 2008-09-09

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

MPAA says proof isn't necessary to convict Thomas

PC World columnist Scott Nichols summarizes the MPAA's arguments in Capitol Records v. Thomas as saying that proof is not required in a trial. The issue, you will recall, is whether mere proof that someone "made available" content is as good as proving that they actually distributed. Says the MPAA:...

Tags: MPAA, Evidence, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-06-23

diversITy: can being gay hold your career back?

Edit: Just a couple of grammatical tweaks. This series of entries, called diversITy, continues from the previous topic, all concerning the diversity of people within the IT industry. This time, I'd like to put forward: sexual orientation in the workplace, can it set you back? ...

Tags: Workplace, Career, Diversity, U.K., IT Industry, LGBT, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-06-23

Nextel: 'We can't charge government those termination fees'

Nextel admitted in internal emails that it could never charge the government the kind of early termination fees it charged consumers, the Associated Press is reporting. In documents unearthed as part of one such lawsuit, employees at Nextel â€" now part of Sprint Nextel Corp....

Tags: Nextel Communications Inc., Termination, Termination Fee, Government, Workforce Management, E-mail, Vertical Industries, Human Resources, Online Communications, Enterprise Software, Software, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-06-13