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Building Careers With Better IT

Thomas College's IT team needed a simplified system for providing cutting-edge laptops, desktops and portable computers to the school while managing the data center. The school migrated to Microsoft Windows Vista on Dell Latitude laptops and Dell OptiPlex desktops and portable computers with Intel vPro technology to help students become...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Information Technology, Career, Thomas College, Notebooks, Strategy, Servers, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Management

Case studies 2009-05-01

College Boosts Productivity, Security by Upgrading to the Latest Operating System

Thomas College is a small liberal arts school in Maine that prides itself on providing the latest technology for its students and staff. The school's Information Technology department wanted to standardize on one PC operating system in order to improve user productivity, enhance security, and ease management tasks. The school...

Tags: User Productivity, Security, Operating System, Thomas College, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), 64-Bit, Software, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components

Case studies 2008-05-01

Additional Resources

The case for a Global Digital Public Library Network policy

By Bill Kallman This guest blog is penned by Bill Kallman, CEO of Scayl, a direct, unlimited secure email solution, a longtime VC and real estate investor. He was a founding director of Streamcast, one of the defendant's in the landmark MGM v Grokster ruling. He holds...

Tags: Google Inc., Network, Radio, Library, Digital Library, Library Network, GDPLN, Content Industry, Copyright War, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-05-22

News to know: Windows 7; Top student laptops; Facebook; Larry Page's commencement speech

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. Ed Bott: How many Intel CPUs will fail the XP Mode test in Windows 7? Larry Page's fine commencement speech. Andrew...

Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Microsoft Windows 7, Larry Page, Laptop Computer, Microsoft Windows, Data Centers, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Microsoft Windows XP, Operating Systems, Software, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-05-04

World Wildlife Fund releases new reports on how virtual meetings can cut carbon dioxide AND increase productivity

World Wildlife Fund releases new reports on how virtual meetings can cut carbon dioxide AND increase productivityVirtual Journalism Summit is a Great ExampleLast night I attended the 1st [b]Virtual Journalism Summit[/b], sponsored by The Edward R. Murrow College of Communication, in partnership with the McCormick Foundation. Co-speakers for this...

Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Second Life, virtual meeting, carbon dioxide

Discussion threads 2009-04-07

Union: IBM layoffs accelerating as employees vent

Union: IBM layoffs accelerating as employees ventSmiling Sam does it againIt seems to me that the government is overlooking one of the critical components of this economic meltdown - the offshoring of American jobs. IBM is one of the worst offenders in this regard. This one...

Tags: Workforce management, Litigation, Financial accounting, Proskauer Rose, Madoff, IBM Corp., SEC, layoff

Discussion threads 2009-03-26

Student suicide threat over corporate bullying tactics

Student suicide threat over corporate bullying tactics...and they suborned Congress to break the lawIn the US, the Constitution is the Supreme Law of the Land. And when both Breyer on the left and Thomas on the right agree that current US copyright law is unConstitutional, I think it is...

Tags: music piracy, RIAA

Discussion threads 2009-02-16

Microsoft's "Don't Talk Like a Pirate" day

Microsoft's "Don't Talk Like a Pirate" daySo this is code for"Love and Accept DRM Day"? Yes, please, give us more of the aphrodesiatic DRM we love so much!! MORE MORE MORE!!If they were serious, they could.Seriously, been over this with Ed. You could make the actual install activation...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Microsoft Corp., piracy, digital-rights management, DVD

Discussion threads 2008-10-21

Startup essentials: Dr. Pepper, coffee and accessories

One of my Irregular chums started a GoogleGroup thread about what you need in a job that requires you work from a home office. The same can be said for the 1-3 person startup. The conversation immediately became a discussion of the merits or otherwise of different coffee making facilities...

Tags: Dr., Beverage, Accessory, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-09-26

RIAA loses $222K verdict against Jammy Thomas

RIAA loses $222K verdict against Jammy ThomasHer turn nowI hope she turns around and files a MULTI MILLION dollar suit against the RIAA. If "offering a copyrighted work to the public" is a crime, then we must by definition force the closure of all public libraries. . .This poor...

Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, RIAA, Jammy Thomas, verdict

Discussion threads 2008-09-25

Got science?

Got science?Great article!I'd love to believe that a political regime change (that we'll hopefully see in November) can bring us some progress in this area. Hopefully not more business as usual if the Dems can be believed. We'll see.Chris DawsonLeading Nuclear Research is now done in...India.Remember when the...

Tags: Nuclear Research, ozone, Thomas Jefferson

Discussion threads 2008-05-30

Complete Works of Gilbert Keith Chesterton. Huge collection. (400+ Works) FREE Author's biography (Mobile)

Indulge Yourself with the best classic literature on Your PDA. Includes the Complete Father Brown, The Man Who Was Thursday, Orthodoxy, The Everlasting Man, The Napoleon of Notting Hill. Navigate easily to any novel from Table of Contents or search for the words or phrases. FREE authors biography and stories...

Tags: Essay, Mobile, Poem, Biology, Cell

Software downloads 2007-12-12

Complete Works of Gilbert Keith Chesterton. Huge collection. (400+ Works) FREE Author's biography (Mobile)

Indulge Yourself with the best classic literature on Your PDA. Includes the Complete Father Brown, The Man Who Was Thursday, Orthodoxy, The Everlasting Man, The Napoleon of Notting Hill. Navigate easily to any novel from Table of Contents or search for the words or phrases. FREE authors biography and stories...

Tags: Essay, Mobile, Poem, Biology, Cell, MobileReference

Software downloads 2007-12-12

Why don't kids use email?

Why don't kids use email?An Interesting PerspectiveI was working at AT&T Wireless when they started really pushing text-messaging for our customers, and at the time I didn't get it: I never thought it would catch on. Typing a text-message into your cellphone instead of just placing a call is like...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Text messaging/SMS/MMS, Cellular phones, e-mail, e-mail application, cell phone, computer, text messaging

Discussion threads 2007-12-03

A watch to measure your stress

Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University CMU and the University of Pittsburgh are using a wrist-mounted watch to measure stress. This watch, which is in fact a wearable computing system, contains several sensors that gather information about the user and his environment. Now it will be used to conduct 3-minute interviews...

Tags: Carnegie-Mellon University, Study, Stress, eWatch, Productivity, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2007-10-18

Some iPhone gift certificate applicants deemed ineligible

Some iPhone gift certificate applicants deemed ineligibleYeah ! Me too got this ... But...Yup!Me too got that error, but I recon if you already got the 'Gift Card' or something from store already, then it won't honor your $100 Gift Card request from Apple.com directly!Actually thats what happened to me,...

Tags: SECURITY, Digital music, Digital media, Apple Inc., Apple iPhone

Discussion threads 2007-09-21

Crazy purchase - Death magnet!

Crazy purchase - Death magnet!Magnets from hard drivesAre pretty darn strong. We use them in our shop for door stops. The doors are those huge steel doors that weight a ton, and the magnets, fastened securely on the ground onto the little bumpers that stop the door from opening too...

Tags: magnet

Discussion threads 2007-08-16

The state of Enterprise 2.0

InfoWorld and Baseline have overviews of announcements made at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Boston this week. It's no longer just the upstarts flogging Enterprise 2.0-- now IBM, Microsoft, SAP and other incumbents have figured out that the social, remixed Web is not a passing fad defined by MySpace and...

Tags: Web Technology, IT Management, General, Enterprise 2.0

Blog posts 2007-06-20

McAfee and Davenport debate the value of Enterprise 2.0

This morning I moderated the debate between Andrew McAfee and Thomas Davenport on the merits of Enterprise 2.0 (I'll post video of the debate when it becomes available). The two professors agreed that Enterprise 2.0 is in its infancy, but disagreed on the potential for it to transform how people...

Tags: Web Technology, Social networking, IT Management, General, Enterprise 2.0

Blog posts 2007-06-18

Live event: Andrew McAfee and Thomas Davenport debate the merits of Enterprise 2.0

On Monday at 10:00 AM EST, I will be moderated a live videocast debate from Boston on the merits of Enterprise 2.0 between Andrew McAfee and Thomas Davenport. The two professors have differing opinions on the whether the emergent technologies of Enterprise 2.0--such as blogs, wikis, predictive markets, social networks--will...

Tags: Enterprise 2.0, IT Management, Web Technology

Blog posts 2007-06-15