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- united states coast guard Explores Potential to Enhance Training With Digital Note-Taking Solution
- The United States Coast Guard is known for its impeccable standards and service. To maintain these levels of performance, USCG habitually goes above and beyond the call of duty to seek out new tools and resources that support the ongoing education of its members. In preparation for upgrading its computer...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Training, United States Coast Guard, Productivity, Workforce Management, Performance Management, Microsoft Office, Human Resources, Office Suites, Software
- Case studies 2008-04-01
- Greenland becoming a green land
- This picture is from NASA/JPL. What do you see here? You see stresams of water on the surface of a melting Greenland ice sheet. The streams converge on a moulin which is a shaft or tubular path down which the water pours until it...
- Tags: Greenland, Ice, United States Coast Guard, Ice Sheet, Web Site Development, Blogging, Web Technology, Internet, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2007-10-25
- Port worker ID card program starts - without card readers
- The Department of Homeland Security announced a new program, to start in March, that will require 750,000 U.S. port and maritime workers to carry biometric identification cards. There will be no card readers for at least a year, though, The Sacramento Bee reports. The Transportation Security...
- Tags: Transportation Security Administration, United States Coast Guard, Security, Homeland security, Government technology
- Blog posts 2007-01-04
- U.S. Coast Guard Expects to Save $1 Million Annually With Data Transmission Solution
- Following September 11, 2001, new federal regulations required ships arriving at U.S. ports to file detailed passenger and cargo information to the U.S. Coast Guard National Vessel Movement Center NVMC. In 2002, the NVMC created a Web site for ships to submit arrival data online, but staff still had to...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., United States Coast Guard, Ship, Regulations, Internet, Government
- Case studies 2005-11-09
- On Alert With Mobile IP at the Coast Guard
- Cisco Systems collaborated with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA to invent the Cisco 3200 Mobile Access Router, a miniaturized router suitable for use in mobile deployments, particularly for military, Homeland Security, law enforcement, and emergency response agencies. Central to the router is its use of Mobile IP technologies...
- Tags: Router, Mobile, IP, Cisco Systems Inc., United States Coast Guard, Mobile IP, Routers & Switches, Network Technology, Networking
- Case studies
- The united states coast guard Uses WAVE to Enhance and Extend the Reach of Its Radio Communications System
- The United States Coast Guard needed to be able to conduct real-time conversations with the crews of the ships and aircraft involved in the operations. A further requirement was that personnel needed secure access to these radio channels from any location they found themselves at - be it at a...
- Tags: Radio, United States Coast Guard, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing
- Case studies
- CIBER Implements Peoplesoft Solutions for U.S. Coast Guard Human Resources Management
- Prior to 1998 the United States Coast Guard had a combination of 27 systems and subsystems in support of CG Human Resource Management. With approximately 43,000 active duty and 7,000 reserve military members, 7,000 civilian employees, and 25,000 retirees being managed at 165 administrative sites both in and out of...
- Tags: PeopleSoft Inc., HRM, United States Coast Guard, CIBER, Human Resource Management (HRM), Organizational Structure, Hardware Upgrade, Human Resources, Hardware
- Case studies
- CIBER Provides Financial Systems Support for U.S. Coast Guard
- The Office of Financial Systems for the U.S. Coast Guard (G-CFS) contracted with CIBER, Inc. (formerly Dynamic Resources/Metamor WorldWide) to deploy custom desktop financial systems throughout the Coast Guard. These systems include LUFS a desktop accounting and purchasing system integrated with the core accounting system, IBUDS a budget system, AFTS...
- Tags: Accounting, Financial, Financial System, United States Coast Guard, CIBER, Financial Planning, Service Management, Microsoft Windows NT, Finance, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software
- Case studies
- Success Story: U.S. Coast Guard Finance Center
- Operating as part of the Department of Homeland Security, the U.S. Coast Guard USCG serves as the nation's front-line agency for enforcing the laws at sea, protecting coastlines and ports, and saving lives. Before implementing Ecora's Enterprise Auditor, the USCG Finance Center FINCEN did not have the time or resources...
- Tags: Ecora Software Corp., United States Coast Guard, Databases, Enterprise Software, Storage, Software, Data Management, Hardware
- Case studies
- Modernizing Operations With Performance Management: U.S. Coast Guard's Award-Winning Strategy and Business Intelligence (BI) Solution
- The presenter explains the steps a performance-based acquisition used to develop a measurement system that supports all phases of the acquisition. The presenter also explains the software best practices used by the Deepwater Program. And it explains how web-enabled analytics can take the balanced scorecard to the level of business...
- Tags: Acquisition, Performance, SAS Institute, Best Practice, United States Coast Guard, Business Intelligence, Pricing, Mergers & Acquisitions, Performance Management, Balanced Scorecard, Tools & Techniques, Corporate Law, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Marketing, Investment, Finance, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Marketing Research, Management, Business Operations
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- The newspaper's last stand
- Interesting news today...or was it yesterday? I have no idea. I got off an eleven hour flight from Johannesburg this morning, and then had to race to the US embassy to get more visa pages in my passport because I've managed to fill every available visa slot with stamps, causing...
- Tags: Newspaper, CBS Broadcasting Inc., London Underground, Consumption Habit, E-books, Internet, Personal Technology, John Carroll
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Icahn launches Yahoo proxy fight; Mark Cuban's return?
- As expected, billionaire Carl Icahn launched his proxy war to turn over Yahoo's board of directors and one of his nominees is Mark Cuban, who sold Broadcast.com to Yahoo and then took those funds to buy the Dallas Mavericks. Just for entertainment value I may buy a...
- Tags: Shareholder, Board, Yahoo! Inc., Chairman, Mr., Mark Cuban, Microsoft Corp., Carl Icahn, Director, Yahoo Shareholder, Bebchuk, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- We've been acquired: CBS buys CNET
- Nothing like scanning the headlines and finding out your parent company has been acquired. CBS Corporation To Acquire CNET Networks, Inc. The details: "Under the terms of the agreement, CBS will make a cash tender offer for all issued and outstanding shares of CNET Networks for $11.50 per...
- Tags: CNET Networks Inc., CBS Broadcasting Inc., Internet, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Investment, Financial Services, Development Tools, Finance, Business Operations, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Security Researcher to release Cisco rootkit at EUSecWest
- According to good friend Robert McMillan of IDG News, Sebastian Muniz, a researcher with Core Security Technologies, has developed malicious rootkit software for Cisco's routers, which he will release on May 22 at the EuSecWest conference in London. This will mark the first time at least publicly that someone has released a...
- Tags: Black Hat, Cisco IOS, Router, Cisco Systems Inc., Robert McMillan, Rootkits, Security, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-05-14
- Photos: Where the building is the network
- The San Jose, Calif., headquarters of Echelon, maker of technologies for smart buildings, model the company's energy management systems.Behind the scenes of "smart" buildings, including the Louvre Museum in Paris and the Sears Tower in Chicago, lies technology from Echelon. The company doesn''t call its embedded control technologies "green,"...
- Tags: Network, Echelon, Photograph, Building, It', Echelon', That', Networking, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2008-05-14
- Putting Workday on SAP's radar
- Now that SAP's SaaS project Business ByDesign has gone on the back burner, I've been wondering how I'm going to pass the time next week at SAPPHIRE Berlin. One thing I'll be asking the enterprise software giant is how it feels about losing out to SaaS startup Workday for a...
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, SAP AG, Radar, Workday, Flextronics International Ltd., Software As A Service (SaaS), Human Capital, Emerging Technologies, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-05-14
- Using satellite imagery to explore ancient Mexico
- An interdisciplinary team of researchers at the Rochester Institute of Technology RIT is using satellite imagery to peer into the ancient Mexican past. Bill Middleton, an archeologist, is teaming up with computer scientists to build the most detailed landscape map of the southern state of Oaxaca in order to learn...
- Tags: NASA, Scientist, Satellite, Satellite Imagery, Bill Middleton, ScienceDaily, Network Technology, Networking, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-05-14
- Perfect Mobile Icons (zip)
- Developing a software project for mobile devices? Enhance the appearance of your software on PDA and mobile devices by using a set of matching icons. Dial and Hang-up, Ring Tone and Vibrate Ring, Bluetooth and 3G, GPRS, various Battery states, SMS, E-mail, Calendar, Camera, Alarm and Video Call, and many...
- Tags: Mobile, Mobile Device, Icon, Aha-soft, PDAs, Advertising & Promotion, 3G, Handhelds, Hardware, Marketing, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2008-05-14
- Culpa Innata (exe)
- The year is 2047. For the first time in history, countries with significant resources have united under one World Union. In this utopian society, "survival of the fittest" takes its next inevitable step. Only the elite are deemed worthy to live under the World Union banner - the smartest, healthiest,...
- Tags: Murder, Strategy First Inc., Games, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2008-05-14
- Intense (and really thoughtful) ranting from the OLPC front
- Ivan Krstić has made his way into this blog before. As OLPC's former director of security architecture and one closely involved with their Peru rollout, his posts offered great insights into just how the XO worked or was supposed to work on the backend. Now he,...
- Tags: One Laptop Per Child Project, Ivan KrstiÄ, Nicholas, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
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