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The Road to Recovery: Obama's Stimulus Plan and Its Business Impact on Government Agencies

President Obama's initial stimulus package focuses on a variety of investments, including direct aid to state governments, technology expansion, healthcare programs, school modernization, energy efficiency initiatives, and physical infrastructure improvements. The result will be a massive flow of new funding dollars from federal coffers to state and local governments, and...

Tags: Recovery, Agency, Stimulus Plan, Stimulus, Computer Associates International Inc., Government, Vertical Industries, Enterprise Software, Software

Webcasts 2009-02-18

Tech will see direct, indirect benefits from stimulus plan

Tech will see direct, indirect benefits from stimulus planThe debt is already thereThe irresponsibility of the previous administration to carry on an all out war with decreases in taxes is what got us into this mess in the first place. We've been draining money on overseas projects for the last...

Tags: indirect benefit, stimulus plan, benefit

Discussion threads 2009-02-12

Tech will see direct, indirect benefits from stimulus plan

I have to say that I'm very impressed with Washington these past couple of days. In just about 24 hours, the House and the Senate were able to reach an agreement on a massive economic stimulus plan, now tagged at more than $789 billion. That's no small task. And now,...

Tags: President, Information Technology, Stimulus Plan, Health Care, U.S. Senate, Tech Industry, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Management, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-02-12

Additional Resources

Reid promises 60 on Saturday

promises, promises, promisesHe will not get his 60 on Saturday. There are enough senators with the backbone to avoid what will be an economic catastrophe for our nation.Obama created phantom jobsSomeone did bother looking into the jobs Obama claimed to save / create and found this:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1t3zZBhJ7wBlog not about Obama or...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, health care, Reid

Discussion threads 2009-11-19

U.S. unemployment rate highest in 26 years, at 10.2%

Misinterpreted numbers..."In October, the number of unemployed persons increased by 558,000 to 15.7 million."That's not 190,000. The 190,000 is non-farm payroll decrease, which doesn't include farm workers or self-employed persons who have hung it up.Maybe we need a NEW "New Deal?"Remember the 3 R's of Franklin Roosevelt's "New Deal?"...

Tags: Operational accounting, Personal finance, FDR, Common-sense, unemployment rate, New Deal, Obama, Reagan

Discussion threads 2009-11-06

Schmidt: Worst of recession is over; Google is hiring

The longer the denial the more the smack of reality hurts. We aren't anywhere near coming out of this recession yet.RE: Schmidt: Worst of recession is over; Google is hiringI'm happy for Google and, if Schmidt is right, for us. It's a great company with great products and true...

Tags: recession, Google Inc., hangover, hiring

Discussion threads 2009-10-15

Report details action plan for smart grid standards

It shouldn't surprise you to hear that the 90-page smart grid standards document released in late September by the U.S. Commerce Department lists no fewer than 80 standards that are vying for some role in the nation's smart grid infrastructure. The analysis ("NIST Framework and Roadmap for...

Tags: Action Plan, Standards, NIST, Quality, Business Operations, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-10-06

TD Bank botches IT system consolidation; Customer havoc ensues

But hey, don't worry... TD's got you covered.As reported in the local news last night, a woman who went to withdraw money from her account to pay her rent found that the ATM would not let her. So after discussing the situation with TD bank employees at her branch,...

Tags: Financial services, information technology, Regis, TD Bank, bank, IT system consolidation

Discussion threads 2009-10-02

News to know: Microsoft, ICANN, Best Buy, RIM, mobile apps, Zimbra

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. Richard Koman: Judge overturns $388m patent verdict against Microsoft CNET: Court reverses Microsoft patent-infringement rulin Sam...

Tags: Best Buy Co. Inc., Research In Motion Ltd., Larry Dignan, Mobile, ICANN, Dana Blankenhorn, Zimbra, Microsoft Corp., Matthew Miller, Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows 7, Sales Strategy, Advertising & Promotion, Smart Phones, Handhelds, Sales, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware

Blog posts 2009-10-01

Max Baucus' bet on John Castellani

Socialist careI guess the 'Stimulus' money is going here now to write propaganda for the Obama socialist cause. we don't need big governmentThe health care industry in USA is the best in the world.ObamaCare would make it more expensive and in line with third world countries.We must stand behind the...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Government, Max Baucus, health care, Dems, Obama

Discussion threads 2009-09-16

Small signs of a health care deal forming

what deal?The New York Times is the least reliable source of information.If you want signs of a deal in the making just watch the conservatives talk shows: O'Reilly, Beck, Hannity, etc as real Americans do.They would tell us if there are any talks about it. RE: Small signs of a...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, health care, Nissan Leaf, Nissan Motor Co. Ltd.

Discussion threads 2009-09-03

An open letter to the RIAA: Illegal file sharing problem solved?

I think I'll skip......governments collecting and paying royalties. Its called tolling and every business in the world would like to access governments' ability to use force to collect money for them.What would be the outcome of such a scheme? Whenever "artists" (and I use the word loosely given...

Tags: Taxes, Vertical industries, Free trade, Peer to peer (P2P), RIAA, government, file sharing problem, tax, open letter, file-sharing

Discussion threads 2009-08-31

Wind energy: recession proof?

2008 was another record year for increased use of wind energy to generate electricity in the U.S. For the fourth straight year the U.S. led the planet in adding new wind energy generation capacity. That was before any stimulus plan. It was certainly boosted by 2008's rising...

Tags: U.S., Recession, Wind Energy, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-08-11

Google, Microsoft demand place at medical stimulus table

No, of course notNo, Obama doesn't want to kill your grandma. But he DOES want her to wait in the back of the line for that hip transplant while other, younger, patients get higher priority. If she dies while waiting, well, that's a shame, but there's limits to...

Tags: HEALTHCARE, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., liar, Medicare

Discussion threads 2009-08-08

Google, Microsoft demand place at medical stimulus table

Given the outright lies being told right now concerning the main health care plan -- Obama does not want to kill your grandma -- it's hard to see how subtle differences between EHRs and PHRs can be explained so that 300 million people can access their data and be counted...

Tags: Google Inc., Health Care, Microsoft Corp., Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2009-08-08

Cleaning up our act

By now nearly every American has seen the "cash for clunkers" signs all over the surviving car sales lots. That money's coming from us, the generous taxpayers. Part of the stimulus plan in an effort to goad buyers into dumping their old, fuel wasting cars for new,more fuel...

Tags: Car, Sales Strategy, Sales, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-07-28

Is $400 billion a lot of money?

One U.S. Senator says we spend that much every year importing petroleum from our friends in Saudi, Nigeria, Canada, Mexico, Russia and Venezuela. I use the term "friend" advisedly. They are in fact pushers for the American addiction former President George W. Bush called out so pointedly. ...

Tags: Car, Solar Energy, Telecom & Utilities, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-07-24

Are we re-training America?

Rail transit is the most efficient current method of moving more than few people over long distances. Yet the U.S. is far behind most wealthy nations in its speed and usefulness of its long-distance rail travel. There is some indication the U.S. is going to play catch-up. ...

Tags: U.S., Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-07-20

While I'm away..."Google Gears = no more Office/OpenOffice for students"

Since I've been using the heck out of Google Gears to access my offline documents/email while I'm on vacation and largely Internet-less (and yes, it is terrible, but at least the sunsets are nice here), here's a repost of an article about Google Gears: Every day, I...

Tags: Google Inc., Google Gears, Microsoft Office, Internet, OpenOffice, Office Suites, Software, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-07-14

One example of "smarter planet"

The smart grid for electricity has become so mainstream Congress wrote it into the stimulus law enacted earlier this year. IBM's marketing of "smarter planet" goes way beyond electricity and networked grid. I recently spoke with Drew Clark, director of strategy of IBM Venture Capital Group. And...

Tags: Sensor, Grid, IBM Corp., Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-06-21