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- UK envisions zero waste: What about computers?
- Recycling is part of our daily lives. We do it everyday with plastics, newspapers and other general household things. Cars are now recycled throughout North America and Europe at high efficiency rates. Everything seems to be covered, right? Computers and batteries face recycling problems. We already know that...
- Tags: Landfill, Computer, Productivity, Monitors & Displays, Government, Hardware, Components, Doug Hanchard
- Blog posts 2009-10-18
- Obama upholds Bush laptop search policy - with new safeguards
- Really at this point, can anybody be surprised to read this, in today's Washington Post: The Obama administration will largely preserve Bush-era procedures allowing the government to search -- without suspicion of wrongdoing -- the contents of a traveler's laptop computer, cellphone or other electronic...
- Tags: Policy, Laptop Computer, Obama, Government, Notebooks, Vertical Industries, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-08-28
- Open-source voting: Secure over obscure?
- At the OpenSource World event in San Francisco, California Secretary of State Debra Bowen says open-source software can help improve security in voting systems. Even with built-in security measures, though, potential human error among thousands of volunteers will put them at risk. [video=331148] by Larry Dignan
- Tags: Security, Open Source, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-08-13
- Open-source voting: Secure over obscure?
- At the OpenSource World event in San Francisco, California Secretary of State Debra Bowen says open-source software can help improve security in voting systems. Even with built-in security measures, though, potential human error among thousands of volunteers will put them at risk.
- Tags: Security, Open Source, Open Source World
- Videos 2009-08-13
- MSD Tasks 5.20 (Windows)
- MSD Tasks is a visual task manager that allows to organize visually the tasks of several people at the same time. The secretary will be able to organize her boss agenda, a professional will be able to manage his clients visits, or a staff member will be able to control...
- Tags: Task, MSD Soft, MSD Tasks, Task Filter, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software
- Software downloads 2009-08-05
- £10bn national ID card scheme vs. £65m cuts in higher education
- Two very controversial topics met in the middle today, when one potentially pointless national identity card scheme which would cost the UK taxpayer between £10-20bn according to the London School of Economics, and a cut of £65m in higher education at university level would cut a further 1,500 full time...
- Tags: Education, Card, National ID Card, U.K., Identity Card, Government, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2009-07-31
- Can a Virginia hack scuttle health IT reform?
- The Virginia hack is important because the Northrop-Grumman agreement compromised by it was negotiated by Aneesh Chopra, then the state's secretary of technology, now President Obama's CTO. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Information Technology, Health Care, Virginia, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Strategy, Human Resources, Management, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-06-30
- Clinton defends State-Twitter connection, even as she pleads ignorance
- Clinton defends State-Twitter connection, even as she pleads ignoranceClinton on TwitterGetting snarky over a politician not being conversant regarding twitter is not going to change Secretary Clinton's point. Many, many people, such as me, could care less about Twitter and tweets, but we know they are there and we...
- Tags: Twitter, State-Twitter, State-Twitter connection
- Discussion threads 2009-06-18
- State asks Twitter to put off maintenance
- Is Twitter now a part of U.S. foreign policy? The Washington Post reports that: The State Department asked social networking site Twitter to delay scheduled maintenance earlier this week in order to avoid disrupting communications among tech-savvy Iranian citizens as they took to the streets...
- Tags: U.S. Department Of State, Twitter, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-06-16
- Live from the X2 Community Conference
- I'm at the X2 Development Corporation Community Conference for the next two days. It's an annual event that our SIS vendor puts on to bring together end users (power, guru, new, and otherwise) and, not surprisingly, build community among their growing cadre of school districts. Obviously,...
- Tags: District, Aspen Technology Inc., SiS, Help Desk, Call Centers, Process Improvement, Financial Accounting, It Operations, Quality, Business Operations, Finance, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-05-06
- Clinton has new tech advisor but State-driven projects will remain ineffective
- Let me offer this background before discussing the arrival of Alec Ross as a techno-diplomat at State. In 2004, I spent a couple months in Uganda, putting together the Uganda Digital Bookmobile. Inspired by the Internet Archive's Bookmobile Brad deGraf and I obtained funding from the World...
- Tags: Education, Advisor, Technology, Clinton, Government, Vertical Industries, Entrepreneurship, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-04-06
- Day in the life of... a laid off tech support
- Editor's note: In these troubled times, we struggle to find work if we're left without any. The current economic climate dictates many challenges to face, such as being laid off if we are left out of work. This is the case of JD Clyde (who has written over on sister...
- Tags: Job, Job Search, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2009-03-19
- Does Kundra have an impossible job as Obama's federal CIO?
- On Thursday, U.S. President Barack Obama named Vivek Kundra as the CIO of the federal government. Kunda below is a 34 year-old IT leader with a strong reputation in the tech community. He has track record for driving efficiency and transparency, and has shown a penchant for bold actions such...
- Tags: Job, CIO, CTO, Information Technology, Vivek Kundra, Government Operation, Federal Government, Government, Strategy, Management, Jason Hiner
- Blog posts 2009-03-06
- Does Kundra have an impossible job as Obama's federal CIO?
- On Thursday, U.S. President Barack Obama named Vivek Kundra as the CIO of the federal government. Kunda below is a 34 year-old IT leader with a strong reputation in the tech community. He has track record for driving efficiency and transparency, and has shown a penchant for bold actions such...
- Tags: Job, CIO, CTO, Information Technology, Vivek Kundra, Government Operation, Federal Government, Government, Strategy, Management, Jason Hiner
- Blog posts 2009-03-06
- Failure in Silicon Valley and the guild of entrepreneurs
- Here is the second part of my conversation with Silicon Valley veteran Bill Coleman. The first part is here: How will the recession affect Silicon Valley? Mr Coleman is optimistic about Silicon Valley's long term prospects but he is pessimistic about the current situation. "These days...
- Tags: Silicon Valley, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, Productivity, Management, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2009-03-05
- Obama names D.C. CTO Kundra as federal CIO
- President Obama today named Vivek Kundra, Washington, D.C.'s chief technology officer, to the position of federal chief information officer. Kundra, who previously served as a technology policy adviser for President Obama (and who ZDNet Open Source blogger Dana Blankenhorn considers "Obama's tech daddy"), will be responsible for...
- Tags: Washington, Barack Obama, CTO, Vivek Kundra, Government, Cellular Phones, Strategy, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Management, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-03-05
- World leaders in CO2 now talk climate change
- Today you can read headlines that would have been unthinkable four months ago. American and chinese political leaders discuss what their nations can do about climate change. The new U.S. Secretary of State has invited China to join her country in working against global warming. China and...
- Tags: China, Carbon Dioxide, Leader, Leadership, Management, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-02-21
- More precious than platinum
- A few days with no water and we humans get our priorities straight. We're about to witness what happens when one of the largest farm economies in the world runs out of water. California looks to be headed to its worst drought since agri-business became big business in...
- Tags: California, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-02-04
- TurboTax face-off: Treasury Secretary Geithner vs. Intuit
- Most likely to be Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner--the man entrusted with overseeing with the Internal Revenue Service and a remaining $350 billion in bailout funds--apparently isn't so smooth when it comes to Intuit's TurboTax. And the flap over Geithner's confirmation hearings, his back taxes and his mention of TurboTax highlights...
- Tags: Intuit Inc., TurboTax, Taxes, Free Trade, Personal Finance, Financial Planning, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-01-26
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