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Gov't IT projects: Billions at risk

New Congressional testimony by the General Accountability Office GAO reports that "352 [US federal government] projects totaling about $23.4 billionâ€"were poorly planned." by Michael Krigsman

Tags: Testimony, Information Technology, Federal Government, Strategy, Government, Management, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2009-05-18

Yahoo's Callahan parses his testimony

Business Week has a copy of Yahoo GC Michael Callahan's far right written testimony to Congress, in which he explains his February 2006 testimony and why it was not a lie. In my testimony, I stated: "When Yahoo! China in Beijing was required to...

Tags: Testimony, Yahoo! Inc., Business Week, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2007-11-06

White House censors global warming testimony...yawn

If Congress really wanted to hear the truth about global warming and is health effects, they'd invite testimony from somebody whose paycheck is not signed by President George W. Bush. Instead they heard from the head of the Federal Center for Disease Control. Well, they heard a little...

Tags: Testimony, White House, Global Warming, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2007-10-24

Sprint attorney at infringement trial: without our inventions, Vonage ..."could not exist"

Testimony is under way in the patent infringement trial pitting Vonage against SprintNextel. Attorneys for SprintNextel are demanding $103 million from Vonage for what they believe is infringing use of SprintNextel technology to build its network. The particular alleged infringements relate to the way...

Tags: Testimony, Vonage Holdings Corp., Sprint Communications, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2007-09-05

Additional Resources

Bells give net neutrality the McCain two-step

Net neutrality can only...be accomplished by a company divesting the provision of the infrastructure from the provision of the services that use the infrastructure. As long as the same company provides both services there will never be neutrality. These companies have to much at stake in delivering services that ride...

Tags: Net Neutrality

Discussion threads 2009-10-23

B&N's Nook e-reader: Weirdly unrevolutionary

In addition to this posting, please visit this clarifications posting to get the whole picture. It would be nice to say, as Matt Miller has, that the e-book and e-reader market was revolutionized today. It simply got more interesting. A careful reading of the $259 Nook's...

Tags: E-reader, Device, E-book, Amazon Kindle, Barnes & Noble Inc., Wireless, B&N, Nook, Cover-flow, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility, Mitch Ratcliffe

Blog posts 2009-10-20

CIA News Reader 1.6.4 (Mobile)

CIA News Reader grabs the top stories from the CIA Central Intelligence Agency and delivers them to your iPhone and iTouch. The news feed covers CIA library, What's new on CIA.gov, CIA press releases, statements, CIA featured story, CIA careers, CIA speeches and testimony, and CIA.gov kids page updates. It...

Tags: CIA, Mobile, Splaysoft, CIA News Reader, Professional Development, Smart Phones, Career, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-09-18

House Judiciary considers Google Books deal Thursday

The House Judiciary Committee hears testimony from Google, Amazon, the Copyright Office and academics. by Richard Koman

Tags: Google Inc., House Judiciary Committee, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-09-09

FAA News Reader 1.6.4 (Mobile)

FAA News Reader grabs the top stories from the Federal Aviation Administration and delivers them to your iPhone and iTouch. The news feeds are news and updates, press releases, fact sheets, speeches, and testimony. It features landscape view mode and share stories with friends and coworkers.

Tags: FAA, Mobile, Splaysoft, FAA News Reader, Smart Phones, Advertising & Promotion, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-09-09

Google Chrome ... one year on!

Wow "phones home with your surfing data"Is that true? Really bad then.One Year On, FailNo plugins/addons actually usable by actual humans fail, particularly no adblock major fail, and the app still phones home with your surfing data really the worst fail.Wouldn't use it on your computer.And these guys are writing...

Tags: Web browsers, Chrome, Google Inc., Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Web browser

Discussion threads 2009-09-02

Homeland Security News Reader 1.6.2 (Mobile)

Department of Homeland Security News Reader grabs the top stories from the DHS and delivers them to your iPhone or iTouch. The news feeds covers DHS News, DHS Press Releases, DHS Speeches, DHS Testimony, and FEMA. It features a landscape viewable mode and you can share stories with friends and...

Tags: Mobile, U.S. Department Of Homeland Security, Splaysoft, Department Of Homeland Security News Reader, Homeland Security, Smart Phones, Government, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-08-21

EU ombudsman slaps antitrust regulators over Intel case

No, evidence has no place in the EU investigations[i]Ultimately, the Dell conversation wasn?t going to sway the ultimate outcome.[/i]Exactly right. Before starting the investigation, the EU has already decided on the outcome. The investigation is merely the process they follow to justify their pre-determined outcome.RE: EU ombudsman slaps antitrust regulators...

Tags: Government, Corporate law, Intel Corp., antitrust, antitrust regulator

Discussion threads 2009-08-10

Tenenbaum defense relies on hot air, not facts

Wacky Harvard Prof. Charles Nesson crumbled a styrofoam box and displayed a "Necker Cube" optical illusion in his opening statement in the Joel Tenenbaum filesharing trial, Ben Sheffner reports from Boston for Ars Technica. That proved apparently that the Internet transformed the quantum of music from...

Tags: Witness, Music, Internet, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-07-28

Judge nixes fair use defense in Tennenbaum filesharing case

In a last-minute knockout punch, delivered just hours before the latest high-profile RIAA case was scheduled to start, Judge Nancy Gertner denied a fair use defense to Joel Tenenbaum, Ars Technica reports. Tenenbaum had sought to present his fair use theory to the jury but the judge...

Tags: Defendant, Joel Tenenbaum, Peer To Peer (P2P), Team Management, Internet, Management, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-07-27

Your implementation is killing us

Your implementation is killing usWell.. About a month ago, someone on your site posted a Gartner poll where something like 68% of the respondents stated they were going to implement large projects and on another question about budget, about 65% expected their budget to stay the same, or decrease....

Tags: SAP AG

Discussion threads 2009-07-13

Analyst: Forget the Feds, Apple is 'doing just fine at wrecking the wireless business'

Analyst: Forget the Feds, Apple is 'doing just fine at wrecking the wireless business'that's like SAP "wrecked" outsourcing...while I agree the govt inquiry may come to nothing, Moffat's argument is ingenious. By agreeing to a locked SIM, allowing AT&T to continue to play games with 3rd party apps like Skype...

Tags: Wi-Fi, Wireless and Mobility, Telecom & Utilities, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Apple Inc., wireless business, wireless

Discussion threads 2009-07-13

Biofuel fraud exposes some big names

A court has awarded over $10-million in damages for fraud perpetrated by Cello, a biofuel company. If you've read Anthony Trollope's THE WAY WE LIVE NOW you could have predicted something like this. Scams are as old as the stock market. If you follow any current headlines you...

Tags: Biofuel, Fraud, Biofuel Fraud, Scams, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-07-04

Satyam: PWC's version of the 'Who's On First?' comedy routine

Who's on 1st? Thank you, thank you, thank you to the folks at TechMarketView for finding the most inane testimony yet in the still amusing Satyam fraud saga. The story, and you’ve got to read the source document in The Times of India, is...

Tags: Audit, PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting, Satyam, Indian, Financial Accounting, Financial Statements, Outsourcing, Finance, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-07-02

Imagining a real-world verdict in Thomas-Rasset case

Ray Beckerman has a nice little piece of vitriol about the crazy-ass $1.9 million judgment in the Capitol v Thomas-Rasset case. Ray imagines a parallel universe in which the trial was conducted according to the Federal Rules of Evidence and Civil Procedure. In this world, the RIAA needs some shred...

Tags: RIAA, Ray Beckerman, Ray, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-06-21

Washington digs in on text message pricing; asks about carrier exclusivity

Congress continued to take the wireless carriers to the mat over the wrong issue, specifically the cost of a text message. Now, it looks like there may be an effort to pin them down on a matter  that will likely resonate with a greater a number of people: carrier exclusivity...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Senator, Wireless Carrier, AT&T Corp., Pricing Strategy, Wireless, Pricing, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility, Marketing Research, Cellular Phones, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-06-17