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Portals and Public Governance: Transformation Through the Internet: Americans believe that the Internet can transform government and change the way citizens interact with their governments. Increasingly, federal and state and local governments understand the importance of integrating the Internet into their core business model for providing information, service, and transactional assistance -particularly through the creation of customer-specific portals.; Tags: United States Small Business Administration, Government, Internet, Portals, Vertical Industries, Web Technology, Enterprise Software, Software; White papers

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Should free broadband be neutral?: A lot of politicians are bandying about the idea of licensing unused or underutilized radio frequencies to create a free, nationwide broadband network. As the US gets repeatedly dinged for a lack of broadband penetration, especially in the inner city and rural areas, an initiative like this would have...; Tags: Broadband, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Networking, Christopher Dawson; Blog posts 2008-07-08
Late breaking news: Microsoft investigates reports of Office Word 2002 SP 3 exploited in the wild: From Bill Sisk, security response communications manager for Microsoft: Microsoft Security Advisory (953635) Vulnerability in Microsoft Word Could Allow Remote Code Execution Published: July 8, 2008 Microsoft is investigating new public reports of a possible vulnerability in Microsoft Office Word 2002 Service Pack 3....; Tags: Attacker, Vulnerability, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Word, Word Processors, Microsoft Office, Security, Office Suites, Software, Nathan McFeters; Blog posts 2008-07-08
The HP iPAQ 910 has excellent RF reception and is an impressive device: One week ago I wrote about my first impressions of the HP iPAQ 910 Business Messenger. I have been using it steadily every day since then and actually found something rather surprising over the holiday weekend. I had the Samsung Blackjack II, HTC Touch Diamond, T-Mobile Dash, and Nokia N95-3...; Tags: Device, Hewlett-Packard Co., Compaq iPAQ, HP iPAQ 910, iPAQ 910, Handhelds, Hardware, Matthew Miller; Blog posts 2008-07-08
EMC taps ex Microsofter Maritz to fend off Microsoft Hyper-V: It takes one to know one. At least that's what EMC hopes as it appoints former Microsofter Paul Maritz to head up its lucrative VMWare unit, not coincidentally on the same day that Microsoft formally released its much anticipated Hyper-V to market. The departure of longtime...; Tags: VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., EMC Corp., Storage, Hardware, Paula Rooney; Blog posts 2008-07-08

Kaminsky and Ptacek comment on DNS flaw: Well, well, well, what a day for security news! I got a chance to get the scoop word of mouth from Dan Kaminsky of IOActive (pictured above [image courtesy of quinnums]) and Thomas Ptacek of Matasano pictured below on the DNS flaw that's been all over the...; Tags: DNS, Flaw, Nate, Domain Names, Networking, Security, Internet, Nathan McFeters; Blog posts 2008-07-08
A Modest Privacy Proposal: The Senate Commerce, Science & Transportation Committee is holding a hearing tomorrow on Privacy Implications of Online Advertising. Appearing before the committee headed by long-time Senator Daniel K. Inouye (D-Hawaii) are lawyers for Google and Microsoft, as well as Facebook's chief privacy officer -- and Robert R. Dykes, the chairman...; Tags: Google Inc., Web, Internet Service Provider, Service Provider, Internet Service, Internet, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Business Services, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld; Blog posts 2008-07-08
Software's drive to become like television: Software business models are becoming more and more like that of television. That fact is the real driver behind Microsoft's desire to buy Yahoo, given the central importance software-oriented ad networks will have in the future. by John Carroll; Tags: Software, Advertisement, Microsoft Corp., TV, Tools & Techniques, Games, Management, Personal Technology, John Carroll; Blog posts 2008-07-08
One month later and the HTC Touch Diamond has lost some shine: I just passed the one month mark with the HTC Touch Diamond and it has been a love/hate relationship that is now ending with me sending the device to a friend to check out. I was pretty blown away by the Teeter game, TouchFLO 3D, FM radio, and many other...; Tags: High Tech Computer Corp., Device, HTC Touch, Keyboards, Monitors & Displays, Microsoft Windows, E-mail, Handhelds, Operating Systems, Hardware, Peripherals, Components, Software, Online Communications, Matthew Miller; Blog posts 2008-07-08
Deskless Workers, Useless Services: Microsoft Online Misses the Mark: I spend a lot of time tracking the deskless souls who inhabit the workworld, the factory workers, nurses and others who spend more time on their feet and less time on their butts than the rest of us. So I was all ears as Stephen Elop, Microsoft's latest Business Division...; Tags: Microsoft Corp., Worker, Joshua Greenbaum; Blog posts 2008-07-08
Microsoft to sell hosted service subscriptions for $3 a month: For Microsoft resellers that had been fearing Microsoft would drop the bottom out of the hosted-services business with its Microsoft Online services offerings, their nightmares were realized on July 8. Microsoft is planning to sell Microsoft-hosted Exchange and SharePoint for $3 per user per month. by Mary Jo Foley; Tags: Microsoft Corp., Pricing, Marketing Research, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Mary Jo Foley; Blog posts 2008-07-08
Has Twitter just bought itself a business model?: A flurry of reports yesterday suggest that Twitter is on the verge of acquiring startup Summize, whose mission "is to search & discover the topics and attitudes expressed within online conversations." by Steve O'Hear; Tags: Twitter, Strategy, Management, Steve O\'Hear; Blog posts 2008-07-08
Softbank announces iPhone 3G rate plans for Japan: The iPhone 3G will be available in Japan on 11 July 2008 at 12 noon, but unlike in the United States, it will not be sold at the Apple Store Japan. Instead iPhone 3G will be sold by local carrier SoftBank Mobile Corp. SMB who has issued a...; Tags: Apple iPhone, Japan, Softbank Corp., 3G, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Jason D. O\'Grady; Blog posts 2008-07-08
Web 3.0 - the future of social networking: Note: re-posted after withdrawing post a few days ago; no changes made since then. I would put this very much on par with a past Scoble moment, as I've been lucky enough to see something which actually impresses me. I've seen a lot over my life, the...; Tags: 3D, Web, Facebook, Network, Web 3.0, Scene, Vivaty Scenes, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Zack Whittaker; Blog posts 2008-07-08
They don't all really need laptops, do they?: I've been getting this question a lot lately from administrators, parents, and taxpayers. The question isn't malicious, but rather comes from folks with a vested interest in making sure that our technology dollars directly benefit students. Does giving teachers laptops directly benefit students? For people who aren't...; Tags: Teacher, Laptop Computer, Notebooks, Productivity, Benefits, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Human Resources, Christopher Dawson; Blog posts 2008-07-08
Does Google need a standards office pronto?: Google is increasingly in the middle of multiple efforts like Android and standards development. The problem: Google doesn't have a centralized standards office to manage its efforts. According to open source consultant Stephen Walli, Google needs a standards office as its reach grows. Walli writes in a...; Tags: Google Inc., Standards Office, Walli, Team Management, Blogging, Management, Internet, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-07-08
Enterprise IT and the hypercompetition boom: Corporate information technology has led to more winner take all markets and a super competitive business environment where players often flame out as quickly as they showed up. That's the big conclusion from Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson in this month's Harvard Business Review. ...; Tags: Laggard, Information Technology, Leader, Strategy, Management, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-07-08
PlateSpin Launches PowerConvert 7.0: PlateSpin, a recent acquisition of Novell recently announced PowerConvert 7.0, The company was quick to point out that this is the first product launch since the acquistion. Why would they go to such great lengths to mention that? They want to convince the market that PlatSpin will continue to be...; Tags: PlateSpin Inc., Novell Inc., Data Center, Migration, PowerConvert, Aragorn, Data Centers, Microsoft Windows, Storage, Document Management, Servers, Hardware, Data Management, Operating Systems, Software, Enterprise Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Dan Kusnetzky; Blog posts 2008-07-08
Live Webcast: Unified Communications Beyond IP Telephony: No one can doubt the value of Unified Communications. From small and medium businesses to even the largest commercial enterprises, organizations of all sizes are now migrating to IP telephony solutions in record numbers. Some might even call it a communications revolution. But beyond simple voice and...; Tags: Telephony, Webcast, Unified Communications, IP Telephony, IP, Unified Communications Beyond IP Telephony, Collaboration, VOIP, Telecommunications, Networking; Webcasts 2008-07-08
AVG changes its stance on LinkScanner: A few days ago I wrote a story about AVG's LinkScanner causing a massive amount of additional traffic on the net in the name of protecting customers... yeah. Well, here's a quote from the original article to give some background: Apparently AVG is spamming the Internet with traffic that looks to...; Tags: Web, Web Site, Whirlpool Corp., Search Result, Slashdot, AVG, LinkScanner, Web Site Development, Search, Channel Management, Web Technology, Internet, Marketing, Nathan McFeters; Blog posts 2008-07-07