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U.S. Ethics Committee staffer file-shares sensitive document

So the answer will be change the technology, right??...I certainly hope not. The person responsible should be fired immediately, if this group is supposed to be so secretive and protective of their data. Putting ANY work-related material on your personal computer is not only a bad idea, it may be...

Tags: Peer to peer (P2P), U.S. Ethics Committee staffer, U.S. Ethics Committee, sensitive document, staffer, file-sharing

Discussion threads 2009-11-04

Web Usability experts not appreciating in value

Jakob Nielsen, usable information technology analyst, has taken a look at “Salary Trends for Usability Professionals" over the past seven years. Here are his findings:Entry-level staffers were paid unrealistically high salaries during the bubble, when dot-com companies were desperate to hire any warm body that walked in the doorExperienced staffers...

Tags: Web, salary, staffer

Blog posts 2006-06-09

Open Internet advocates poised between elation and despair

There is a strange bipolar aspect to the Freedom2Connect conference. Everyone seems poised between elation and despair. DeWayne Hendricks was among those who offered the elation. Like folks such as Dave Hughes 20 years ago he doesn't complain about what can't be done, he just goes out and does it....

Tags: FCC, staffer, Dewayne Hendricks, elation, despair

Blog posts 2006-04-03

Blocking IP addresses

This is truly hard to believe unless you are a fan of Dave Barry. Congressional staffers have discovered the Internet! They must have read about the abuses possible at Wikipedia and investigated. They quickly found that they could anonymously alter entries on their congress people. They immediately began to...

Tags: Wiki, staffer, Wikipedia

Blog posts 2006-01-31

Additional Resources

News to know: Intel; Microsoft layoffs; Motorola, Palm; Oracle-Sun; MSN

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.: Sam Diaz: New York AG files antitrust charges against Intel; alleges bribery, coercion Mary Jo Foley: Are the Microsoft...

Tags: Layoff, MSN, Hewlett-Packard Co., Oracle Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., Palm Inc., Andrew Nusca, Microsoft Corp., Matthew Miller, Sam Diaz, Intel Corp., Motorola Inc., Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Data Centers, Storage, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware, Data Management

Blog posts 2009-11-05

U.S. Ethics Committee staffer file-shares sensitive document

Perhaps file sharing should be banned. An employee of the U.S. House Ethics Committee put a sensitive report detailing 30+ current investigations on to a public accessible computer. by Doug Hanchard

Tags: File-sharing, Peer To Peer (P2P), Productivity, Internet, Doug Hanchard

Blog posts 2009-11-04

Ubuntu 9.10 launch - 29 October

If it's ...... easier than Win7 to install, they will have a winner!^o^Yawn, another boring launch of another boring linux distro. No excitement, people aren't enthused. There is nothing new here. As I said...BORING.Well 9.04 was not diffcult to install Not sure what you are going for here 9.04 was...

Tags: Linux, Media Center PCs, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, KDE 4 Desktop, Win7, Ubuntu, HDCP, Microsoft Windows 7, hardware, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-10-26

PR Google Wave: When opportunity meets overkill

Common Sense and Good MannersJennifer ? just as desktop publishing made it easy to produce really bad newsletters, social media enables lazy or inept PR people to pollute ?In? boxes and social sites. Technology evolves and methods change, but common sense and good manners never go out of style. Peter...

Tags: Enthusiastic Employee, POM Wonderful, public relations, Google Inc., social media

Discussion threads 2009-10-21

Verizon Droid ad attacks iPhone on features

I'm really interested in this phone. I hear it won't drop 30% of its callsThe ad is pure genius and truly highlights how terrible the iPhone is. The iPhone also has the dubious distinction of being the only modern cell phone to drop 30% of its calls, as admitted by...

Tags: Smart phones, advertisement, Verizon Communications Inc., Apple iPhone, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-10-19

Climate change denial: only in America? Then, there's global cooling...

Climate change denial is as global as global warming. Even in obscure corners of the world the political battle is being fought. From the British Broadcasting Company to American mass media, the new...

Tags: British Broadcasting Corp., Climate Change, Global Warming, Climate Change Denial, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-10-14

The brain drain from Apple to Palm

Bloomberg reports that Palm rebuffed a request from Apple CEO Steve Jobs in August 2007 that the companies stop hiring each others employees. Then Palm CEO Ed Colligan pictured left dismissed Jobs' proposal saying: Your proposal that we agree that neither company will hire the others employees, regardless of...

Tags: Palm Inc., Apple Inc., Business Ethics, Product Development, Public Relations, Leadership, Management, Research & Development, Business Operations, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2009-08-20

My smartphone affair: Cheating on Verizon and Blackberry for a taste of Sprint and Pre

Congrats on testing the watersBe sure to check out precentral.net and their forums for realworld user experiences and solutions - as well as the homebrew apps. There is actually a homebrew app store now with 100 apps. But that site and others will definitely help if you run into any...

Tags: Handhelds, Smart phones, Cellular phones, Telecom & Utilities, Pre, Sprint Communications, Verizon Communications Inc., smartphone affair, smart phone, phone, RIM BlackBerry

Discussion threads 2009-08-11

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

IBM consultant publishes step-by-step guide for greening your IT

Here's one for your summer beach reading list: "The Greening of IT," a new tome about "How Companies Can Make a Difference for the Environment," written by John Lamb, a senior technical staffer with IBM's Global Business Services division in Somers, N.Y. (If you visit this link, you'll get a...

Tags: Information Technology, Green IT, ROI, IBM Corp., Roi/Tco, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-05-25

Could remote access technology help your green IT agenda?

Remote-access technology company Lantronix is brandishing a self-commissioned survey that gauges the green IT priorities of approximately 300 IT professionals. The data is illustrative of several surveys sitting in my in-box right now in that is dedicated to spinning some sort of green angle for virtually every...

Tags: Information Technology, Green IT, Lantronix Inc., Survey, Remote Access, Telecommunications, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-05-05

'Minor' MacBook and Mac Pro updates on tap for WWDC

I'm filing this one squarely in the rumor category but a source at 9-to-5 Mac claims that Apple is planning "minor" updates to MacBooks and MacBook Pros at WWDC which runs from June 8-12 in San Francisco. He said he wasn't sure what the minor upgrade was but there...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Apple MacBook, Organic Light-emitting Diode, Apple Inc., Apple Mac Pro, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2009-04-22

Is Linux only for the poor?

Last week, I followed a conversation on an OpenSuse Education newsletter to which I subscribe. I didn't have time to join in, but it did get me thinking about open source in education more broadly. Regular readers will know that my school district has made serious strides in...

Tags: Computer, Linux, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Productivity, Software, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-03-22

Ryanair website bug: employee calls blogger 'idiot and liar'

Ryanair website bug: employee calls blogger 'idiot and liar'Can you prove it WAS a Ryanair employee?Look at all the peole here with screen names.I could just as easily take your name as a screen name, post a blog on this guy's site saying something like:"Jason, you're an idiot, and I...

Tags: Blogging, Web site, Ryanair

Discussion threads 2009-02-28

CEO vs. CIO faceoff: Doing more with less has limits

Here's a scenario via TechRepublic that could turn out to be very ugly for this CIO. How do you think this CEO will react? Guest post: Doing more with less has become the phrase of the times as companies struggle to meet financial goals.  The...

Tags: Team, CIO, CEO, Team Management, Strategy, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-02-26

Advice for Obama: Keep the Blackberry; Get a Mac

The newly sworn-in leader of the broadband generation and his faithful staff of Facebookers, MySpacers, YouTubers and Tweeters (Twitterers?) showed up for work yesterday to discover that the White House is still living in a dial-up world. Among the findings: computers with six-year-old versions of Microsoft software, a scarcity of...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Barack Obama, White House, RIM BlackBerry, Federal Government, Social Networking, E-mail, Handhelds, Government, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Hardware, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-01-22