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- Global Logistics Provider Deploys New ERP System in Battlefield Environment
- The Supreme Group - which provides food, fuel, logistics, and other services to military and commercial groups operating in areas of conflict - had an Enterprise Resource Planning ERP application that was intended for a small organization. After exponential growth, Supreme sought a more integrated, extensible ERP solution. It deployed...
- Tags: Food, Environment, Logistics, ERP System, ERP, Microsoft Corp., Supreme Group, Supply Chain, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Food & Beverage, Enterprise Software, Business Operations, Software, Manufacturing
- Case studies 2009-06-01
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- An interesting exchange on politics and IT
- Was just thinking about thisExcept I was thinking about what I've heard Linux advocates say in the past, that most consumers make dumb technology choices, and whether this squares with advocating for free markets? Yes, I think it does. People will buy products that they can relate to and feel...
- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, PRODUCTIVITY, information technology, Linux, computer, software
- Discussion threads 2009-11-14
- Bright Shadow 1.2.3 (Windows)
- Game Story For over a century, the civilization of Luciena has known the mysterious properties of Soul Power. Soul power exists within every facet of the universe, in all sentient beings, and can be manipulated for power, benevolence, or evil. Lucienans used this power to create a peaceful society. However,...
- Tags: Society, Microsoft Windows, Gamepot USA, Soul Power, Games, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2009-10-26
- Open source can save your life
- don't mix OSS with socialized medicineOSS is for the all the people, socialized medicine is demanded only by a small minority of craizy liberals.VA health careSince 2001, the VA has had remarkable bipartisan support for just about all the funding they needed or could handle. When the gravy train...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Walter Reed, Walter Reed hospital, open source, health care
- Discussion threads 2009-08-24
- Social networks change how we understand Sotomayor nomination
- Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Sonia Sotomayor are happening now, with partisan forces on both sides cheering on their relevant Senators. The debate, of course, is also happening online, The Washington Post's Jose Antonio Vargas reports. One Facebook group, "Sonia Sotomayor for U.S. Supreme Court Justice" now...
- Tags: Facebook, Senator, Network, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-07-13
- Building a vision for Government 2.0
- Building a vision for Government 2.0need for binding electionsIf Democracy 2.0 is only about more discussion then nothing is really going to change. We need binding elections on issues, that is, we need national ballot initiatives. In 24 states, we have ballot initiatives. Ballot initiatives permit public policy to catch...
- Tags: Government, vision, ballot initiative, NI4D, National Initiative
- Discussion threads 2009-06-03
- Congress eyes LimeWire over inadvertant P2P breaches
- LimeWire is in the hotseat as the flagship P2P application. This time the issue is not music filesharing but security breaches through inadvertant file sharing. A House committee has sent letters to Lime Group chairman Mark Gorton, the FTC and the Justice Department, announcing that it would reopen a previous...
- Tags: LimeWire, P2P, U.S. Congress, Social Security Number, House Committee, Peer To Peer (P2P), Social Security, Operational Accounting, Internet, Government, Finance, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-04-22
- Can good worms solve the Conficker problem?
- Can good worms solve the Conficker problem?Can good worms solve the Conficker problem?I like the idea in theory but then you are doubling worm traffic due to the good guys fighting the bad guys. One way around that is to have a worm kill switch to kill it once all...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, worm, good worm, Conficker problem, Conficker
- Discussion threads 2009-04-09
- Extreme capitalism. Consumption supreme. Is it over?
- Extreme capitalism. Consumption supreme. Is it over?Obamasiah will not allow drilling or new Nuclear powerObamasiah has banned off-shore drilling and building of any new power plants.So I hope everyone enjoys the 25% ENERGY TAX coming this summer, get ready to have electricity crisis along with high fuel cost...
- Tags: Financial accounting, Extreme Capitalism, accountability, Obamasiah
- Discussion threads 2009-03-08
- Microsoft
- MicrosoftSince WhenDid Microsoft become the almighty gods of standardized HTML? Think Ill stick to Firefox.Microsoft is always quickTo tell their customers what they CANNOT do. Read your EULA for details.RE: MicrosoftWow, the backlash is hilarious. All Microsoft is trying to do is adhere better to web standards and be...
- Tags: Web browsers, Microsoft Corp., IE8, Web browser, Mozilla Firefox
- Discussion threads 2009-02-18
- Google will appeal German copyright decision
- In a decision that directly conflicts with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals' interpretation (Perfect10 v. Google, PDF), a German court has ruled that Google's display of a thumbnail image of a photographer's work violates his copyright. “It doesn't matter that thumbnails are much smaller...
- Tags: Google Inc., Web Site Development, Web Technology, Internet, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-14
- Spammer walks as court says state antispam law is unconstitutional
- The Supreme Court may get to decide whether an antispam law that bans emails with false routing information violates the First Amendment (yes, I misspelled "unconstitutional" in the headline; my apologies.) The Virginia Supreme Court said the conviction of super-spammer Jeremy Jaynes is unconstitutional PDF, The Washington Post reports....
- Tags: Anti-spam, Spammer, U.S. Supreme Court, Virginia, E-mail, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Security, Online Communications, Spam And Phishing, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-09-13
- Cablevision, part 2: Is RS-DVR like a VCR or a copy shop?
- (See Part 1: Buffering is not copying) Direct liability for creating playback copies The plaintiffs charged that Cablevision violated its reproduction right by creating copies for playback to customers. The question here is who made the copies. "If it is Cablevision, plaintiffs’ theory of...
- Tags: Cablevision Systems Corp., VCR, Netcom, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-08-05
- Medicare vs. Medicare Advantage in the House of Wax
- Medicare vs. Medicare Advantage in the House of WaxAnd this is whyour Founding Fathers pushed for as limited a government as possible. If our federal government actually stayed within its constitutional limits, this debate and its corresponding corruption and graft wouldn't exist.Again, you are deliberately misreading historyIt is as foolish...
- Tags: Vertical industries, HEALTHCARE, government, U.S. Constitution, Medicare
- Discussion threads 2008-07-28
- Achieving magical results in IT
- Achieving magical results in ITClient assignments, no thanksI agree that Trust and empowerment are powerful motivators, but I doubt that there will be many cases where empowerment will be on the menu while assigned to a client area. This will require a similar shift in thinking for the client, away...
- Tags: Strategy, information technology
- Discussion threads 2008-06-30
- Sticking with XP / Upgrading to Vista / Waiting for Windows 7 / Switching to Mac or Linux - There's no single right answer
- Sticking with XP / Upgrading to Vista / Waiting for Windows 7 / Switching to Mac or Linux - There's no single right answerI respect your opinion, but...I also don't feel you've articulated why we should move to Vista, should we have the horsepower.If, after all the tweaking, it's only...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Desktops, OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Windows Vista, Adrian, Microsoft Windows 7, Upgrading, openSUSE, Microsoft Windows XP, Linux, Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2008-06-26
- Time to overhaul grandfather's FDA approval process?
- In February the U.S. Supreme Court ruled, in Riegel vs. Medtronic, that the FDA's authority to approve medical devices means states, and their courts, have no recourse when something goes wrong. At a stroke this pre-emption ruling eliminated medical device product liability. Once the FDA approves a...
- Tags: FDA, Medical Device, Recourse, Federal Government, Healthcare, Government, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-06-05
- The insurers bid to fix health care
- The insurers bid to fix health carethe problem isthat no one wants to lay the blame where it belongs. Government. Because that would mean killing socialized medicine.Bingo!!Blanky doesn't want to admit that tort reform *is* needed. My sister is a doc...the cost to her for malpractice insurance is shocking....
- Tags: Vertical industries, HEALTHCARE, Socialized Medicine, insurance company, tort, health care, insurance
- Discussion threads 2008-05-30
- Proposed NAFTA-like agreement would turn border guards into copyright cops
- Proposed NAFTA-like agreement would turn border guards into copyright copsDeclaring war on your customers!Great PR move by big content! Apparently big content is feeling too much love from its customers! (These guys are hopeless!)Woot!Finally someone will be cracking down on all of those GPL violations as they cross the border,...
- Tags: NAFTA, Proposed NAFTA, supreme, agreement
- Discussion threads 2008-05-29
- Mac Clones and Psystar
- Back in August of 2006 I outlined a business plan for a guy in California who wanted to go after the PPC market Apple was then abandoning. There were three keys to my plan: a manufacturing and sales partnership with a major defence contractor; a commitment from Freescale...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., Hardware, Data General, Apple Mac OS, Operating Systems, Software, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-04-19
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