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Patch Microsoft Windows and Windows Servers for Daylight Savings Time now

The United States Federal government has decided to start Daylight Savings Time earlier, starting with the year 2007, than it has in previous years. Unfortunately, many versions of the Microsoft Windows operating system and Windows Servers like Exchange are not ready for the early starting point and have to be...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Server, Window, Server, Microsoft Corp., Daylight Saving Time, Josh Hoskins, United States Federal Government, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Download resources 2007-02-23

Think Secure: Building Your Security-Minded Workforce

The United States Federal Government is bound to provide information security awareness training by the Federal Information Security Management Act FISMA.The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act HIPAA requires that the health care industry provide privacy training to their employees. Financial institutions must comply with the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act GLBA.The Sarbanes-Oxley...

Tags: Getronics, FISMA, Health Care, Training, Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, United States Federal Government, Regulatory Compliance, Hipaa, Regulations, Sarbanes-Oxley, Workforce Management, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Training And Certification, Healthcare, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures, Government, Financial Accounting, Finance, Enterprise Software, Software

White papers 2005-07-25

Webmaster held on terror charges

Webmaster held on terror chargesRidiculous[i]"U.S. extradition warrant. American authorities are seeking to try Ahmad on five federal charges, including material support of terrorism and prohibited support of the Taliban.."[/i]Well, then, I guess the US federal government should put itself on trial. After all, it CREATED the Taliban in the first...

Tags: Homeland security, United States Federal Government, Islamic fundamentalism, Islam, Taliban, terrorism, U.S. Government

Discussion threads 2004-08-06

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BlackBerry the choice of organized crime

You mean police have to workand do things themselves instead of casting a massive net over everyone? What a shame...well its good for RIM ....As for gang member there is one thing i never understood .Why does the a real clean up have been never made ....you set...

Tags: Handhelds, organized crime, RIM BlackBerry, RCMP

Discussion threads 2009-10-19

McCarran-Ferguson and a cross-state health market

Las Vegas?"But if you?re going to let New Yorkers buy from Vermont why not let them buy from Las Vegas?"Uh, because Las Vegas is NOT A STATE.We are the united states of america and not the united cities of america.I could have written Nevada, trueBut Las Vegas is funnier and...

Tags: HEALTHCARE, Benefits, Vertical industries, Corporate governance, Insurance, Delaware, health care, health insurance

Discussion threads 2009-10-16

A single national market for health care

health care should wait untill we get rid of the liberals in the governmentonce the Democrats are no longer in power we could start talking about some real healthcare reform based on tax credits and tort reform.Socialist ideeas like single payer or public option are a non starter.Heaven forbid, a...

Tags: Vertical industries, HEALTHCARE, Benefits, Healthcare reform, health care

Discussion threads 2009-10-07

The Google Voice app scandal: is Apple losing control over the iPhone?

I was out of the loop last week when Apple, AT&T and Google all answered Washington's questions surrounding the apparent rejection of the Google Voice app for the iPhone. Over the weekend, I had a chance to do some reading on what had gone down and, more importantly, the official...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., VoIP, AT&T Corp., Apple Inc., App, Google Voice, Smart Phones, Telephony, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Networking, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-08-24

Word ban threatens industry? Not mine

Case in TexasIs an example of idiotic patent litigation. The case shouldn't even exist.-MChris, you need to get out of your bubble moreIt is very likely that the patent in question is also violated in other office suites that use XML.The issue isn't whether you can smugly say that you...

Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), Microsoft Word, Juggernaut, Microsoft Corp., XML, I4i, patent, Microsoft Office

Discussion threads 2009-08-19

Use H-1B or L-1 workers? Prepare for a Federal audit!

About timeThere are employers who have > 50% of their workforce as foreign workers. I can't imagine all of them are doing things according to the letter of the law.RE: Use H-1B or L-1 workers? Prepare for a Federal audit!this is probably the only good thing to come...

Tags: Financial accounting, H1B, audit, Use H-1B, L-1 worker, Federal audit, L-1, H-1B

Discussion threads 2009-08-12

EPEAT spreads its wings, goes international

The Green Electronics Council has created an international version of Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool EPEAT that will now enable manufacturers to list their products in 40 countries worldwide. With the expanded focus, EPEAT can now be used by IT purchasers in the United States, Canada, Europe,...

Tags: Lifecycle Management, Manufacturer, Green Electronics Council, Manufacturing, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-08-11

News to know: VMWare; Facebook acquires Friendfeed; Facebook Search; MS Office;

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. Larry Dignan: VMware goes shopping: Buys SpringSource for $420 million; Can it keep the open source mojo? Joe McKendrick: Panel: too...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Facebook, Larry Dignan, Mobile, Microsoft Office, VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., Virtualization, Smart Phones, Cloud Computing, Advertising & Promotion, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, Storage

Blog posts 2009-08-11

Private sector necessary to achieve infrastructure growth, U.S. CTO says

Private sector necessary to achieve infrastructure growth, U.S. CTO saysCap & TradeYes, and the Cap & Trade errr. Tax & Trade will destroy the economy as well.Good luck...Private investors just got slaughtered over ChryslerAnd you think anyone of them would be dumb enough to get involved w/ government any more?RE:...

Tags: Vertical industries, infrastructure growth, government

Discussion threads 2009-06-11

New software enables communication for students with severe disabilities

New software enables communication for students with severe disabilitiesWow!To me, that is the natural progression of software/technology, to be able to include everyone in a full, rich life experience and share it with others. I often wondered how children with severe speech issues are able to express the natural...

Tags: Operational accounting, HEALTHCARE, Peachtree Software, revenue, Accenture Ltd., Sun Microsystems Inc., New Software

Discussion threads 2009-06-09

H-1B legislation to watch - What it's really about

Both L-1 and H-1B visa law changes could impact SIs, outsourcers and more Dick Durbin is one-half of the Durbin-Grassley senatorial duo that is proposing new legislation re: H-1B and L-1 visas. Lately, a number of publications have opined about the latest proposed legislation and its impact...

Tags: Legislation, Worker, Dick Durbin, DOL, Enforcement Issue, H-1B, Human Resources, Labor Relations, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-06-05

Achieving Federal Desktop Core Configuration Compliance (FDCC) with Lumension® Solutions

The Federal Desktop Core Configuration FDCC is an Office of Management and Budget OMB mandated security configuration set applicable within United States Federal Government agencies. Private enterprises may also choose to utilize this established framework as a foundation for their own security configuration baselines. All federal agencies that utilize or...

Tags: Desktop, Compliance, Lumension Security Inc., Security Configuration, Federal Desktop Core Configuration

White papers 2009-06-01

Washington: Together, we can tackle cybersecurity

Following a 60-day review of cybersecurity in the United States, the White House today released details of a short-term action plan, which includes the appointment of a "cybersecurity policy official" - a cybersecurity czar, if you will. PDF of full report In a nutshell, the report concluded...

Tags: Agency, Cybersecurity, Federal Government, Government, Vertical Industries, Security, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-05-29

National Archives: What, Me Worry?

National Archives: What, Me Worry?Legitimately do us harm??wtf do u mean"Granular levels of Access" - probably notFor the record so to speak, there is no "National Security Administration". There is the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA - the National Archives) and the National Security Agency (NSA - the communications...

Tags: Government, Vertical industries, National Security Archive, National Archives

Discussion threads 2009-05-26

What Obama can do for and to open source

What Obama can do for and to open sourceSorry we let you down.It doesn't surprise me though. We are very focused on our agendas. The Obama Administration presents a large field of issues. The only thing I can say so far is that his choice to fill...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, Obama, open source

Discussion threads 2009-05-16

Who will pay to fix the Internet's Interstates?

Who will pay to fix the Internet's Interstates?Obama will print more money....ntsimple solutionJust make proprietary software vendors pay a percentage of the sales on their products to an Internet fund.It's their software that benefits from the internet and also is hogging the bandwidth. I think I see the problem.They never...

Tags: Document management, Internet, Obama, Bush, printing

Discussion threads 2009-05-15

China's 'secure' OS Kylin - a threat to U.S offensive cyber capabilities?

Picture a cyber warfare arms race where the participating countries have spent years of building offensive cyber warfare capabilities by exploiting the monoculture on one another's IT infrastructure. Suddenly, one of the countries starts migrating to a hardened operating system of its own, and by integrating it...

Tags: China, Operating System, Operating Systems, Linux, Software, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2009-05-13