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- State rejects privatization of AsiaSat
- The State Department has rejected a bid by GE and Beijing-controlled Citic Grouptogether to take private Asia Satellite Telecommunications, which operates the AsiaSat satellites, The Financial Times reports. The State Dept. has veto power over the suggested restructuring because of the Cold War-era US International Traffic in Arms...
- Tags: International, Government technology
- Blog posts 2007-04-25
- Return of Lenovo tempest
- Back in March, the State Dept. was roundly criticized for purchasing 16,000 Lenovo PCs (that's the Chinese company that bought IBM's PC business). At the time we characterized concerns from the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission as evidence of isolationist paranoia. After all, what were the concerns,...
- Tags: Lenovo Group Ltd., State Department
- Blog posts 2006-05-11
- Hysteria over State buy of Lenovo PCs a 'drive-by smearing'
- A few weeks back we wrote about a Beltway Brouhaha over the State Dept.'s purchase of 15,000 Lenovo PCs. The problem critics had was that Lenovo is Chinese and they imagined that all kinds of digital moles would be installed in top-secret US locations in DC and around the...
- Tags: Lenovo Group Ltd.
- Blog posts 2006-04-12
- Lenovo-U.S. State Department PC deal under scrutiny by security commission
- The BBC reports that the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission USCC, whose members are Congressional appointees, wants to begin an official probe into Lenovo's $13 million contract to sell 16,000 ThinkCentre desktop computers to the U.S. State Department. Why? The Chinese could turn them into remote spys, planting bugging...
- Tags: Lenovo Group Ltd.
- Blog posts 2006-03-29
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- Understanding Enterprise 2.0 Tolerances & Scale
- We're at an interesting intersection in the collaboration world where projects both large and small tend to be discussed with the same terms. This can be very confusing to the lay person since it's hard to know what sort of scale is being described. ...
- Tags: Environment, Enterprise 2.0, Small And Medium Business Need, European Enterprise 2.0 Scene, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-11-14
- Navicat for MySQL 8.1.5 (Mac)
- Navicat is an ideal solution for MySQL administration and development. This is an all-inclusive mysql front end provides a powerful graphical interface for databases management, development and maintenance. Easy installation and intuitive interface make it an irreplaceable tool for mysql on the web or your local desktop. Navicat supports all...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, MySQL, Navicat, Open Source, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Software downloads 2009-10-28
- Updegrove: Obama should give FOSS equal treatment
- ConsortiumInfo.org's Andy Updegrove urged President Obama to show more public support for free and open source software. In a blog featured on the site today, Updegrove said open source has made huge inroads in various government sectors, especially the Department of Defense, Â but it's high time that...
- Tags: Procurement, F/OSS, ConsortiumInfo.org, Open Source, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2009-10-20
- How did IT fall so far behind the tech curve?
- Information technology departments are overloaded, missing the consumerization wave, and failing to use new developments to cut their budgets. Those are some of the takeaways from a Gartner presentation at the IT Symposium in Orlando. The spiel by Gartner analysts David Mitchell Smith and Tom Austin revolves...
- Tags: Information Technology, Gartner Inc., Information Technology Department, Discontinuity, Strategy, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-10-19
- School District Virtualizes Aging Servers, Saves $200,000
- Based in Louisville, Jefferson County Public Schools is the largest school district in the state of Kentucky. Operating in an economic downturn, the district felt pressure to reduce costs without affecting classroom learning. The IT department responded by looking for a solution to contain server sprawl, standardize a disparate server...
- Tags: Information Technology, School District, IT Staff, Data Centers, Strategy, Servers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Management
- Case studies 2009-10-16
- The cloud: no place for amateurs
- Interesting but...Phil... it may be a contentious argument but neither of these two examples (IBM/Air New Zealand and Sidekick/Danger) are really cloud computing.My definition of cloud computing is in keeping with the utility model. Using the analogy of electricity supply, one power station going down does not greatly affect my...
- Tags: Storage, Managed hosting, cloud computing, Hitachi Ltd., electricity supply, Hitachi HDD, hard drive, amateur
- Discussion threads 2009-10-12
- A single national market for health care
- health care should wait untill we get rid of the liberals in the governmentonce the Democrats are no longer in power we could start talking about some real healthcare reform based on tax credits and tort reform.Socialist ideeas like single payer or public option are a non starter.Heaven forbid, a...
- Tags: Vertical industries, HEALTHCARE, Benefits, Healthcare reform, health care
- Discussion threads 2009-10-07
- ICANN declares independence, breaks ties with U.S. government
- Let the in-fighting begin!How long before it is subverted for political/ideolical purposes like the U.N. has been subverted?(not to say the U.S. hasn't)A bit of naiveness involvedIt stands to reason that, when governments are involved, that there will be political and ideological squabbles on any decision.The EU as a "unified"...
- Tags: Government, Corporate governance, INTERNET, Vertical industries, U.S. Government, ICANN
- Discussion threads 2009-10-01
- University Cuts Downtime, Saves Thousands of Dollars a Year in Data Center Costs
- Indiana University is a large state university and leading research center with 100,000 students. The university's Auxiliary Information Technology AIT department, which manages IT services for auxiliary departments, deployed Windows Server 2008 with Hyper-V virtualization technology in its data center. The IT staff continued to look for opportunities to enhance...
- Tags: Data Center, Microsoft Windows Server, Downtime, Data Centers, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software
- Case studies 2009-10-01
- U.S. willing to let go of Icann
- Obama is selling us outonly a peace monger like Obama could cede US sovereignty to UN.It's time to elect a real American in 2012!Huge MistakeThis is a very bad idea. Whenever we cede control to the 'world,' the worlds tin horn disctators make a mess of it.This should have...
- Tags: Benefits, payroll solutions, Personal finance, Obama, salary, ICANN, job
- Discussion threads 2009-09-29
- Hacker ships tool to circumvent China's Green Dam filter
- So any bets on how long before the U of M's IT system is attacked... ...from China?Was thinking the exact same thing.I applaud their effort especially after China pirated US software to create the Green Dam product.It won't be long before the retaliations begin.nobody saw that coming, did they?If hackers...
- Tags: Vertical industries, SECURITY, tool, Green Dam, government
- Discussion threads 2009-09-29
- How Internet surveillance, IT sleuth work helped indict suspected terrorist Zazi
- Kinda eerieMakes me wonder if I should delete that "Socialism" picture of Obama as the Joker from my machine.There are 2 Issues HereThe first is whether such forensics have a legitimate place in law enforcement and the second is whether these methods can be misused. I believe that the...
- Tags: Blogging, information technology, Zazi, Internet Surveillance, Internet
- Discussion threads 2009-09-25
- Texas may ride you out of town on a rail
- There's open rebellion brewing in Texas, again. Not against Santa Ana this time. Not on behalf of the Confederacy. This time it's a plot to install trains. Trains in the home state of Big Oil. It's got the makings of a great Hollywood thriller. Big...
- Tags: Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-09-21
- Why I Can Never Be Exclusive to Linux and Open Source on the Desktop
- It uses WINEBut I've noticed a number of performance issues and stability problems with it.ActuallyAs far as I've ever able to tell there's no practical difference between Picasa on Windows and Linux. StevenActually, it uses WineLib, so that it is more like a native application.But there are still all the...
- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, open source, desktop, Linux, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2009-09-20
- Harvard study leads liberal pushback
- And passing this would be the "first shot" of the next civil war..Passing rubbish like this is whats going to ultimately make this country fall. The federal government, under the 10th Ammendment, has no business telling their citizens that they [b]must[/b] have health insurance. That is a state right and...
- Tags: Financial Planning, HEALTHCARE, Benefits, commy, insurance, Harvard, hospital
- Discussion threads 2009-09-18
- DOJ requests more info on Microsoft-Yahoo search deal
- DOJ?Why does DOJ put its nose everywhere. this deal will create a company that will have half the market share as its competitor, let the market and shareholders take the decision.becuase.....why should one company which has 90% of the desk market have the same control over the Internet?It is good...
- Tags: INTERNET, Yahoo Search, Exchange 14, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., U.S. Department of Justice
- Discussion threads 2009-09-11
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