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- Startup's short-pulse laser tech has DoD's interest
- A small high-tech startup in Northern California has caught the attention of some big investors, including the Defense Department, all due to a breakthough in laser technology, reports the Santa Rosa CA Press Democrat.Lasers have a wide variety of applications and have been used for years in everything from bar...
- Tags: Defense
- Blog posts 2007-06-25
- DOD says site blocking is only about bandwidth
- Quite a hullabaloo over the Defense Dept's shutdown of the world's most popular websites, as reported here. Now the Pentagon is responding by sending out a top tech officer to explain the decision, The Washington Post reports.Rear Adm. Elizabeth A. Hight, vice director of the Defense Information Systems...
- Tags: Defense
- Blog posts 2007-05-18
- DOD turns off access to YouTube, MySpace, Pandora
- Soldiers stationed overseas wont be watching their favorite YouTube videos anytime soon. The Department of Defense has announced it will begin blocking 12 popular websites in order to protect information and reduce drag on the departments networks, reports the Associated Press. "This recreational traffic impacts our official DoD network...
- Tags: Defense, Government technology
- Blog posts 2007-05-14
- DoD funding high-tech research equipment for universities
- The Defense Department is funding universities purchases of high-tech equipment as part of a program to "improve the capabilities of US institutions of higher education to conduct research and to educate scientists and engineers in areas important to national defense by providing funds for the acquisition of research equipment," Ars...
- Tags: Government technology, Defense, Science
- Blog posts 2007-03-06
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- US proposes DNS fix: digital signatures
- The Commerce Department is considering deploying digital signatures to make DNS less susceptible to hacking, ComputerWorld reports. Under the proposal, DNS records would be signed by DNSSEC Domain Name and Addressing System Security Extensions. There have been some commitments to the system for the following top-level domains:...
- Tags: Digital Signature, DNS, ICANN, Domain Names, Digital Signatures, Authentication/Encryption, Networking, Security, Internet, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- The Apple II is baaaaccckk (via emulator)
- In the Friday nostalgia department, TechRepublic's John Sheesley has unearthed an emulator for the Apple II. All you need is a browser and you're off to memory lane. Sheesley writes: Unlike the TRS-80 Model I Basic emulator page, the Virtual Apple site doesn't use a Java...
- Tags: Apple II, Apple Inc., Emulator, ActiveX, Sheesley, Virtual Apple, ActiveX/COM/COM+/DCOM, Middleware, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- H-1B visas rife with fraud, worker mistreatment
- Thirteen percent of petitions for H-1B visas filed on behalf of employers are fraudulent. That's the conclusion of a report by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services agency, part of the Department of Homeland Security, BusinessWeek reports. A key part of the fraud is loopholes that allow...
- Tags: Visa, Loophole, Worker, Fraud, H-1B, Human Resources, Labor Relations, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- Entellium executives arrested by FBI for making up revenue figures
- Software as a service company Entellium's future is uncertain after its CEO and CFO were arrested by the FBI for inflating sales to land venture capital. The U.S. Department of Justice said in a press release that CEO Paul Thomas Johnson, 40, and Parrish Jones, 39, were...
- Tags: Revenue, Entellium, FBI, Revenue Figure, Federal Government, Operational Accounting, Corporate Governance, Government, Finance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- (Gallery: Touchy, feely BlackBerry Storm)
- (Gallery: Touchy, feely BlackBerry Storm)After reading the specs...Why only 1GB of onboard memory? Why only 128MB Flash ROM? This is inadequate for today's user and I bet this thing will cost twice as much as the iPhone and I still have to buy additional memory (MicroSD which pales in performance...
- Tags: Handhelds, Flash memory, Apple iPhone, BlackBerry Storm, RIM BlackBerry, Gallery
- Discussion threads 2008-10-09
- Scientists make ultrathin superconducting films
- U.S. researchers have developed ultrathin films that when sandwiched together form a superconductor, an advance that could lead to a new class of fast, power-saving electronics. CHICAGO--U.S. researchers have developed ultrathin films that when sandwiched together form a superconductor, an advance that could lead to a new class of...
- Tags: Degree, Electronics, Reuters, superconductor, film
- News items 2008-10-09
- Palin the reformer? In fact, a pattern of stonewalling and hiding
- The Associated Press takes a hard look at Sarah Palin's spotty – perhaps, hypocritical – record on open government and online transparency. She claims to be a reformer who will bring to Washington the government openness she says she established in Alaska. But the AP's review of her...
- Tags: Associated Press, Alaska, Sarah Palin, E-mail, Online Communications, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- Palin e-mail hacker indicted, pleads not guilty. Is justice being served?
- Justice is being served against the kid who allegedly hacked into Republican VP candidate Sarah Palin's Yahoo email account, right? David Kernell, the 20-year-old son of Democratic Tennessee state representative Mike Kernell and a student at the University of Tennessee, was indicted on a charge of accessing...
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Hacker, Computer, Kid, E-mail, Productivity, Online Communications, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- AdSense for Games: Could RIAs be next?
- AdSense for Games: Could RIAs be next?Where do they cook up these numbers?25% of internet users play games. Okay, does that mean they play the little cutesy web games, or the massive online games like WoW, or multiplayer PC games, or any kind of game at all? Does it count...
- Tags: Games, game, Google AdSense, rich Internet application
- Discussion threads 2008-10-08
- Teaching telecommuting
- Teaching telecommutingtelecommuting skills?I'm a fulltime telecommuter, though I do venture out to teach an IRL composition class a couple of days a week. I think the kids already have the skills they need to telecommute, and they value having the connection between the classroom and that new work environment made...
- Tags: telecommuting
- Discussion threads 2008-10-08
- Kernell indicted in break-in to Palin's Yahoo email
- The Department of Justice has indicted David C. Kernell, the 20-year-old son of a Democratic Tennessee state representative, for "intentionally accessing without authorization" Gov. Sarah Palin's Yahoo email account, the Justice Department announced today. Kernell turned himself in for arrest and will be arraigned today. According to the...
- Tags: Password, e-Mail Account, Yahoo! Inc., Governor, Family Member, E-mail, Online Communications, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- Vodafone posts Blackberry Storm with iPhone screen shots
- Check out the promotional photos that Vodafone posted of the new Blackberry 9530 - a.k.a Storm. Someone in the art department (accidentally?) mocked it up with iPhone screen shots and posted it in official RIM marketing material – most likely because the actual screens were still under...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Vodafone Group Plc., RIM BlackBerry, Handhelds, Hardware, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- Student indicted for Palin e-mail hack
- The U.S. Justice Department today announced that a federal grand jury in Knoxville, Tennessee has indicted the 20-year-old son of a state lawmaker in connection with the compromise of Sarah Palin's Yahoo e-mail account. David Kernell left, who was identified for a while as the alleged hacker,...
- Tags: E-mail, Online Communications, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- Oracle catches another minnow; Buys Primavera
- Oracle said Wednesday that it is acquiring Primavera Software, which makes project portfolio management software. The purchase of Primavera--terms weren't disclosed statement--highlights how Oracle is content to acquire smaller firms instead of big bang purchases like BEA at the moment. On Oct. 1, Oracle...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Project Portfolio Management, PPM, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, It Operations, It service Management, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- The IT role in the mortgage meltdown
- The IT role in the mortgage meltdownNobody likes a WhisleblowerYou got blacklisted for publicly Whistle-blowing at a company meeting. For your trouble you lost a job, faced economic hardship, and had to explain at interviews why this employer would not give you a reference. You did not follow...
- Tags: Leadership, information technology, mortgage meltdown, IT role, U.S. Congress
- Discussion threads 2008-10-08
- 2009 Mazda CX-7 Grand Touring
- Photo gallery:Mazda CX-7 Grand TouringEarlier this year, we tested a Mazda's CX-9. So when we heard that we were getting a CX-7 Grand Touring in the CNET garage, we braced for more of the same, only smaller. The tiny Mazda crossover didn't disappoint; the CX-7 has a lot in common...
- Tags: Mazda CX-7, Mazda Motor Corp.
- Product reviews 2008-10-07
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