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Federal IT security is crap. Why?

How to explain the crappy state of federal IT security? And more importantly what to do about it? Zach Goldfarb's piece in The Washington Post today suggests some answers to both those questions. Why are federal agencies seeing so many breaches? First, because they are under almost constant...

Tags: agency, Tom Davis

Blog posts 2006-07-18

VA boss: Give security laws more teeth

Federal data security laws need more "teeth," VA Secretary Jim Nicholson told Congress today, News.com reports. "While we have a system in the government of doing background investigations on those to whom we will give access to classified information, we do not have a similar screen for those to whom...

Tags: Tom Davis, FISMA, security

Blog posts 2006-06-08

Latest transparency effort: All federal grants online

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Tags: Tom Davis

Blog posts 2006-04-03

Additional Resources

Delays, delays on White House cyber positions.

Where is the cybersecurity czar? And the White House intellectual property coordinator? The folks for those important federal tech positions have been chosen but there is no sign of announcements being made, NextGov says. The likely nominees for cyberczar: Howard Schmidt, former White House special adviser...

Tags: Job, White House, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-07-27

Brick and Click Stores: How Circuit City Could Re-Open Its Doors

Why doesn’t a consumer electronics store work this way, in the age of the Internet? You walk into the digital photography section. On a slanted shelf sit 15 different cameras, each tied to its stanchion for security. But there’s a big screen...

Tags: Circuit City Stores Inc., Camera, CompUSA Inc., Fiorentino, Internet, Retail, Branding, Marketing, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2009-06-12

California governor: Silicon Valley should go to Germany

After more than a hundred years of talk about the Pacific Rim economic opportunities for California, Silicon Valley and other California businesses are firmly focused on the west rather than the east. But Thursday morning California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger will be at Intel's HQ in the heart of Silicon Valley...

Tags: California, CeBit, Transportation, Strategy, Corporate Communications, Management, Marketing, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2008-10-01

Whatever happened to CMP?

When this decade dawned, the big three technology news publishers were International Data Group, Ziff-Davis and CMP Media. Now, Ziff-Davis has been split into multiple pieces, including this site owned ultimately by CBS. And the initials “CMP” are nowhere to be found. The business that brings you...

Tags: Acquisition, Information Week, CMP Media, United Business Media, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Thin Clients, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Hardware, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-09-09

A peek into Silicon Valley and beyond . . .

I enjoy being a journalist and reporting on the business and culture of Silicon Valley. Most of my reporting is done the traditional way, with a notepad and pencil. Increasingly journalists have to do more, carry a camera, do podcasts, run video. Software engineers have to...

Tags: Silicon Valley, Tom Foremski, Journalist, Video, Corporate Communications, Marketing

Blog posts 2008-08-26

Semantic Web Gang forms, debates Semantic Web 'readiness'

With the increasing cacophony from 'semantic' players in the technology space, it can be extremely difficult to work out what's important, to identify the trends, and to make informed decisions about how any of this affects you and your business. As part of our contribution to bringing some clarity to...

Tags: Semantic Web, Internet, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-03-25

Talking about that Semantic Web thing

Opinion, to put it mildly, is somewhat divided on the whole Semantic Web thing. Is it the same as 'Web 3.0'? Or is it simply close enough for the distinction to pale into insignificance amongst those who don't see counting angels on the heads of pins as...

Tags: Web, Semantic Web, Web 2.0, Internet, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2007-11-09

Encyclopedia of American Cinema. FREE first chapter in the trial version (Mobile)

This illustrated Encyclopedia includes biographies of the best American directors and actors, reviews of the best American movies, and lists of awards. FREE first chapter in the trial version.Features Fully illustrated. Search for words or phrases. Navigate from Table of Contents or read page by page Add Bookmarks Text annotation...

Tags: Cinema, Mobile, Biology, Director, MobileReference, American

Software downloads 2007-09-27

The green car: electric vs. hydrogen?

At the AlwaysOn GoingGreen conference in Davis, Calif., panel moderator Jessie Deeter, producer of Who Killed The Electric Car, leads a discussion with executives on the advancements in renewable energy for automobiles and which technologies will emerge as the most successful. The panelists are: Tom Gage, CEO of AC Propulsion;...

Tags: Hydrogen, CEO, Emerging Technologies, Telecom & Utilities, Green

Videos 2007-09-13

Electrons driving us drivers and may juice up our future

That's an eBox in the picture. Made by AC Propulsion, one of the four electric vehicle makers on the GoingGreen Panel, Davis, CA. Moderator, Jesse Deeter, Producer "Who Killed the Electric Car?". Tom Gage, CEO, AC Propulsion. They are...

Tags: Electricity, Car, Vehicle, Battery, eBox, TG, GS, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2007-09-11

Google fights against Click Fraud? Yes, BUT No

The Google machine is fueled by SPIN, I said earlier in the year: "Google’s secret weapon is a four letter word."BUT, Can Google SPIN conquer everything, even the scourge of click fraud?Shuman Ghosemajumder, Business Product Manager Trust & Safety, continues to do his darndest!I met one-on-one with Ghosemajumder and separately...

Tags: Uncategorized, Google, Click Fraud

Blog posts 2007-04-30

Intel rides the datacenter build out wave

Intel is more than making up for slower sales of enterprise servers due to consolidation and virtualization by selling processors, such as the Xeon 5100 Woodcrest and 5300 Clovertown series, for large-scale datacenters built by leading Internet portals. "In the last three months we have shipped more product into this...

Tags: General, Hardware Infrastructure, Datacenter, AMD, Intel, virtualization

Blog posts 2007-02-28

Agencies fail to comply with FISMA

Federal agencies are failing to test their IT security controls consistently, a new General Accounting Office report has found, Government Accounting News reports. “Federal agencies have not adequately designed and effectively implemented policies for periodically testing and evaluating information security controls,” the GAO concluded after surveying 24 major agencies...

Tags: agency, FISMA, General Accounting Office

Blog posts 2006-11-20

Why is open source so fast?

Why is open source so fast?The IBM precedentWhat you describe has been the case for over 40 years. It was first discovered when IBM was developing the IBM 360. For more on all this, and its cost in human terms, might I suggest Tom Watson Jr.'s memoir, "Father Son &...

Tags: open source

Discussion threads 2006-09-26

Commerce lost 1,100 laptops

How many laptops has the Commerce Department lost? One thousand, one hundred, the agency revealed today - including 250 from the Census Bureau. Those contained personal information like names, incomes and Social Security numbers. The revelations comes only because the House Committee on Government Reform requested that agencies...

Tags: Social Security, agency, government, laptop computer

Blog posts 2006-09-22

Have you seen the ZDNet blog network?

There has been a lot of talk recently about bloggers like Mike Arrington and Om Malik going it alone and building up a network of blog sites. The best example is Mike's "Crunch network" which seems to be doing quite well, covering a wide range of topics. But...

Tags: open source, blog

Blog posts 2006-08-25

On heels of VA's giant data breach, White House & GAO review security practices

According to ComputerWorld, the White House Office of Management and Budget OMB and the Government Accountability Office GAO are jointly looking into the data security practices of the Veterans Administration as well as several other agencies. Recently, a computer containing the personal data of over 26.5 million people was...

Tags: OMB, FISMA, password

Blog posts 2006-06-19