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- Insurance Company Simplifies Policy Renewal, Improves Underwriting With Portal
- United Educators UE Insurance is a 90-person, member-owned insurance company that was created by United States educational institutions to address their unique insurance needs. To meet those needs, UE collects extensive data from its member institutions when they renew their policies. But the renewal forms were complex multiple-part applications that...
- Tags: Solution, Insurance Company, Renewal, Microsoft Corp., United Educators Insurance, Insurance, Financial Planning, Portals, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Finance, Internet
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- Echelon wins smart meter project in Germany; plus insight on smart grid in Europe
- A reseller for smart grid technology player Echelon announced a deal this week to deploy an advanced metering infrastructure system that will serve roughly 10,000 customers in Hassfurt, Germany. The contract, which will be rolled out over the next three years, is being handled by EVB Energie AG. The utility...
- Tags: Germany, Green Technology, Echelon, Grid, Cloud Computing, Utility Computing, It Management, Network Technology, It service Management, Networking, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- Should political postings stay or go? A survey.
- I've been blogging for ZD Net for several years, writing for ZD publications for almost 20 years. I've always found readers to be intelligent and thoughtful, which is why I continue to do this while doing other things as "work." My posting, A virus in your genes, think about that,...
- Tags: U.S., R&D, Discovery, Blog, Politics, Survey, Creationism, Rational Rants, Research & Development, Blogging, Business Operations, Internet, Mitch Ratcliffe
- Blog posts 2008-09-04
- Microsoft to slash price of Xbox 360
- Microsoft announced that it will cut the price of its Xbox 360 game console to $199, just in time for the holiday shopping season. SEATTLE--Microsoft said on Wednesday it plans to cut the U.S. prices of its Xbox 360 video game machine, lowering the price of its entry-level console...
- Tags: Console, Video, Microsoft Corp., Price, Microsoft Xbox 360, Microsoft Xbox, Game Players, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Reuters, video consoles, video games, Xbox, Wii, Playstation 3. Microsoft
- News items 2008-09-04
- Slash to album poster: 'Rot in jail'
- You might question why illegally posting an unreleased album on your website should put you in federal penitentiary for three years, but Guns 'n' Roses guitarist Slash doesn't. "I hope he rots in jail," said Slash, the former Guns N' Roses...
- Tags: Resource, Attorney, Federal Government, Government, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-09-03
- Hybrids v. Pickensplan? You do the pickin'
- Some of the folks touting hybrid cars--standard fuel plus electric--think their favored technology runs against the plans of T. Boone Pickens. I recently blogged Pickens' pick of CNG as a great new transit fuel for American drivers. Over at Hybridowners they're saying electric hybrids and eventually plug-ins will...
- Tags: Car, Hybrid, Folk, Hybridowners Site, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-09-03
- Where WiFi succeeds
- Where WiFi succeedsAll Good PointsMost important is your point that the cities' failures result from the failure of their business models. Just because the city council votes it to be true, and then commands, "Make it so", doesn't make it so.Your last point, that WIFI can work well on any...
- Tags: Wireless LANs, WIRELESS, Wi-Fi
- Discussion threads 2008-09-03
- Top aviation search terms in July 2008
- Rank Search Term Volume 1. southwest airlines 8.50% 2. american airlines 3.93% 3. united airlines 2.90% 4. continental airlines 2.67% 5. delta airlines 2.63% 6. us airways 2.06% 7. southwest 1.97% 8. northwest airlines...
- Tags: Airline, NB
- Blog posts 2008-09-03
- Hacker wants promise he'll be returned to UK
- British hacker Gary McKinnon is almost out of options to avoid extradition to the US, but not quite. The BBC reports that McKinnon is asking the British Home Office to ensure he won't be jailed in the US once he's convicted. His lawyer wants him returned to the UK after...
- Tags: U.S., Home Secretary, U.K., Mr., Hacker, Government, Hacking, Vertical Industries, Security, Enterprise Software, Software, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-09-02
- Updated: Recycled ink cartridges in your garden?
- UPDATED TO FIX BAD LINK AND REPLACE PHOTO Printer maker Lexmark is the first U.S. printer maker to ink (at least publicly and, yes, pun intended) a deal with Close the Loop, a recycling concern that has come up with a patented new use for discarded printing...
- Tags: Cartridge, Lexmark International Inc., Loop, eLumber, Printers, Hardware, Peripherals, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-09-02
- Infosys: Moving up the consulting food chain
- An Infosys executive reiterated that the offshore outsourcing business is holding up amid an economic slowdown and outlined plans to continue to move up the technology food chain to offer consulting services. Speaking at the Citigroup Technology Conference in New York, Ashok Vemuri, head of banking and...
- Tags: Food, Consulting, Infosys Technologies Ltd., Axon Group, Game Plan, Outsourcing, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-09-02
- The Technological and Economic impact of a New Cold War
- The Technological and Economic impact of a New Cold WarPrivate space transportationInterestingly, the weakening US-Russian relationship may end up being very good for the US private space industry. Even before the latest souring of relations, NASA made contingency plans to limit dependency on Soyuz and avoid relying on the Russian...
- Tags: Commercial Orbital Transportation Services program, NASA, COTS, Soyuz, Economic Impact, SpaceX, cargo
- Discussion threads 2008-09-01
- The Technological and Economic impact of a New Cold War
- Cummings of the Daily Express, 24 August 1953, "Back to Where it all Started" The events of the last several weeks surrounding Russia's invasion of Georgia and its recognition of the rogue provinces of South Ossetia and Abkhazia have threatened to...
- Tags: Russia, Russian, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-09-01
- Beijing2008.cn visitors by country in August 8-17, 2008
- Audience, 000 Share Total Visitors 16,546 100.0% China 4,260 25.7% United States 4,104 24.8% Canada 937 5.7% United Kingdom 853 5.2% Australia 463 2.8% France 457 2.8% India 359 2.2% Japan 306...
- Tags: Visitor, NB
- Blog posts 2008-08-30
- Psystar files answer to Apple complaint
- Psystar files answer to Apple complaintBut they don'tYou have to modify Leopard to get it to run on non-Apple hardware.Case closed, Psystar loses.Especially the asinine argument that OS X is not a copyrightable work.Except....I would imagine Psystar is well backed in its endeavor. Or would be. There is...
- Tags: Apple Mac OS X, Desktops, Apple Mac OS, Operating systems, Psystar, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-08-29
- Map Suite Geocode USA (zip)
- Map Suite Geocode USA is a .NET-native geocoding and reverse geocoding component for the United States. It can convert U.S. addresses into latitude, longitude, county, elevation, time zone, and more. Geocode USA comes with a highly-optimized dataset covering the entire United States. Supports .NET Framework 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005...
- Tags: U.S., ThinkGeo, .Net, C#, Microsoft Development Tools, Application Servers, Programming Languages, Middleware, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Development Tools, Enterprise Software, Software
- Software downloads 2008-08-29
- The depressing future of the Internet
- A brief overview of how the Internet came about: some years ago, some military boffs thought it'd be awesome if computers could talk to each other, so the US could nuke the hell out of other countries without actually being near there. A smart professor from England then came up...
- Tags: Security, IPv6, Computer, Flaw, IPv6 Adoption, Internet, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-08-28
- Attention Craig Newmark: Citizens aren't customers
- Craig Newmark, founder of Craigslist, has offered a thoughtful but misguided palliative at CNN to the shortcomings of the age of networked democracy. ... if you know how Americans use the Net to talk, you can easily stay in touch with real people. ...
- Tags: Politics, Democracy, Government, Vertical Industries, Enterprise Software, Software, Mitch Ratcliffe
- Blog posts 2008-08-27
- Defendant in key RIAA decision destroyed evidence
- Defendant in key RIAA decision destroyed evidenceSo they are sueing someone with no money. LOLKnow what my insurance company told me when i was hit by a driver with no insurance, no job and was living with relatives.... "to bad for you" I was lucky, my mother insisted...
- Tags: E-mail, Insurance, fool, RIAA
- Discussion threads 2008-08-27
- The role of media in the Internet age
- Jon Stewart, host of "The Daily Show" on Comedy Central, a fake news show that has acquired a huge following a group among whom I include myself, is attending the Democratic National Convention in Denver this week. As a result, he had the chance to meet with members of...
- Tags: Newspaper, Internet, Media, News, Jon Stewart, Advertising & Promotion, TVs, Marketing, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, John Carroll
- Blog posts 2008-08-27
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