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- Genachowski sails through FCC confirmation hearings
- Genachowski sails through FCC confirmation hearingsFree Speach = Republican Dominance???You say that removing the imposition of ideological quotas repealing the Fairness Doctrine was, "a key foundation of the Republican dominance over the past 25 years." So free speech is what caused the supposed Republican dominance???? If you believe...
- Tags: Federal government, Insurance, DTV Transition, Genachowski, confirmation hearing, FCC
- Discussion threads 2009-06-17
- News to know: Palm CEO; Barry Diller; iPhone upgrade; Iomega; MS Money
- 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: Palm injects Apple DNA: Colligan out as CEO; Rubinstein in Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: Barry Diller: The Internet 'Absolutely'...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Larry Dignan, Iomega Corp., Palm Inc., Mary Jo Foley, Microsoft Corp., Sam Diaz, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Hardware
- Blog posts 2009-06-11
- Senate IT oversight bill: Detailed analysis
- Here is my analysis of proposed IT oversight legislation, is a well-intentioned and important step toward reducing wasteful spending on mismanaged IT projects. by Michael Krigsman
- Tags: Information Technology, U.S. Senate, Analysis, Strategy, Management, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2009-06-10
- Senate introduces important IT watchdog bill
- Senate introduces important IT watchdog billYes! Visibility enables insight and accountabilityThis is so great to hear. Yes, I agree that many folks will view this as "introducing yet another layer of complexity and bureaucracy", especially those folks who characterize everything government does in this way.I agree with you and I...
- Tags: Strategy, information technology, IT Watchdog, U.S. Senate
- Discussion threads 2009-05-01
- Rockefeller makes support for open source explicit
- Rockefeller makes support for open source explicitWhat's the difference?You state: "While introducing his bill Rockefeller did not mention Medsphere, whose software is installed at many state hospitals. Instead he focused on the Veteran Administration?s VistA system, and the NHIN-Connect system for linking medical records installed by Harris Corp., which includes...
- Tags: Taxes, Vertical industries, HEALTHCARE, open source, Rockefeller, tax
- Discussion threads 2009-04-27
- Closing time: Circuit City will liquidate
- Closing time: Circuit City will liquidateClosing time: Circuit City will liquidateCheap stuff! Oh boy!!! HDTV here I come.This is a bitter lesson for the corporate AmericaPutting Obama in charge of the economy led to this dire situation after many years of growth.The salvation can only come in 2012...
- Tags: Macy, Circuit City Stores Inc., Best Buy Co. Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-01-16
- Transitioning NASA: Tensions high between Griffin, transition team
- Transitioning NASA: Tensions high between Griffin, transition teamHe has always voted against anything NASAHis original plans were to cancel every mayor project at NASA.Then he changed his stand the same day he visited Florida to give a speech near Kennedy Space Center. Then and only then he was pro-NASA.His...
- Tags: O'Keefe, NASA, Griffin, Transitioning, transition team, Space-X
- Discussion threads 2008-12-12
- Collision course for American-owned car makers
- America's auto makers were very handy in protecting themselves against having tougher fuel efficiency standards. Just this past year as fuel prices spiralled ever upward the feds finally increased the fuel efficiency standards after thirty years of stasis. So now those auto makers in America and elsewhere are...
- Tags: U.S., Car, Automobile Company, Detroit, U.S. Congress, General Motors Corp., Manufacturing, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-11-17
- Senate introduces IT failures bill: No wiggle room
- Senate introduces IT failures bill: No wiggle roomIt's what the President should have been requiring alreadyThis really isn't what Congress should be doing, but there should be such rules.RE: Senate introduces IT failures bill: No wiggle roomA little accountability goes a long way. I just hope the legislation is...
- Tags: Government, Strategy, DEF, information technology, IT Failure, U.S. Senate
- Discussion threads 2008-11-13
- McCain wants bailout package online, defends Fiorina as working girl
- McCain wants bailout package online, defends Fiorina as working girlEnough already!We get it! Anybody that is supporting John McCain is bad and anybody supporting Barrack Obama is good. You have sufficiently established your liberal credentials.RE: McCain wants bailout package online, defends Fiorina as working girlMcCain wants something acutally ONLINE?...
- Tags: John McCain, Obama
- Discussion threads 2008-09-24
- TIA 2.0: NSA conducts data sweeps and mining without oversight
- In a front-page piece on Monday, Siobhan Gorman of the Wall Street Journal argued that the NSA has been building, over the past several years, the same capability that was planned for Total Information Awareness. TIA was an "experimental Pentagon antiterrorism program meant to vacuum up electronic...
- Tags: U.S., Phone, Story, NSA, E-mail, Government, Internet, Telecom & Utilities, Online Communications, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-03-12
- Government turns to SaaS to salvage IT failures
- The senior White House IT official, Karen Evans, said she believes software as a service SaaS can improve government IT projects and systems. Evans made her remarks during a talk at the Saas/GOV 2008 conference. From InfoWorld: "Our track record is clear -- we ...
- Tags: Software, Software-as-a-service, Agency, Information Technology, Karen Evans, Software As A Service (SaaS), Government, Tools & Techniques, Advertising & Promotion, Strategy, Emerging Technologies, Management, Marketing, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-01-21
- Life-saving program BANNED by the Feds!
- Pardon me while I bang my head on my desk Less than 3 weeks ago I wrote about a simple storage device that saved 1500+ lives and over $175,000,000 in just a couple of hundred hospitals out of 3700 nationwide. Now the Feds have ordered...
- Tags: Checklist, Medicine, Patient, Procedure, Best Practice, OHRP, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2007-12-30
- Google, CDT call for more searchable government
- It's time -- high time -- for government agencies to make their websites much more friendly to web search engines. That's what Google and Wikipedia plan to tell a homeland security Senate committee Tuesday, according to the Washington Post. The Center for Democracy and Technology and...
- Tags: Google Inc., Search Engine, Agency, Privacy, Center For Democracy And Technology, Wikipedia, OMB, Advertising & Promotion, Government, Wiki, Marketing, Online Communications, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2007-12-10
- House Dems ready bill for umbrella surveillance of foreign targets
- Does this sound like a Democratic plan? A secret court would be able to issue one-year "umbrella" warrants allowing the government to intercept e-mails and phone calls of foreign targets without independent approval of each target. No? That is the plan that House Democrats are preparing to pass, however, The...
- Tags: Democrat, Immunity, Government, Vertical Industries, Enterprise Software, Software, ZDNet Government
- Blog posts 2007-10-09
- Dept of Homeland Security: inexcusable IT waste on ADVISE project
- Dept of Homeland Security: inexcusable IT waste on ADVISE projectLots of backscratching, I'm sureThis is what happens when lobbyists and insiders capture contracts. No need to really provide a working anything. Throw around jargon, promise the moon, befuddle and obfuscate. Just get them to sign on the...
- Tags: Strategy, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, inexcusable IT, homeland security, information technology
- Discussion threads 2007-09-11
- What's your score? FBI STAR program uses to data to evaluate terrorism risk
- Would you trust a computer to identify potential terrorists? The FBI is working on a computer-profiling system that would do just that and not everyone is happy about it, reports the Washington Post.The System to Assess Risk, or STAR, set to be tested next year, will function in much the...
- Tags: Homeland security, Justice, Privacy
- Blog posts 2007-07-11
- Google makes plea for H-1B visas, U.S. asks for Google software
- Speaking before a Congressional House Judiciary oversight subcommittee hearing on immigration, Google's Laszlo Bock, vice president of people operations, said that 8 percent of Google's workforce have H-1B visas, and come from 80 different countries. In the news.com story Bock is quoted as saying, "It is no stretch to...
- Tags: Government, Google, General
- Blog posts 2007-06-06
- Failed Aspirations at Project Aspire
- According to the Tampa Bay Business Journal, Floridas Project Aspire has been stopped in mid-track. From the article:A top Florida official has suspended work on Project Aspire, a proposed financial management system for state government. Alex Sink, the states chief financial officer, said in a release that the project was...
- Tags: Project failures, Implementation, Government projects
- Blog posts 2007-05-21
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