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- Fired up for new coal plant in Virginia
- The Commonwealth of Virginia has given the green light for a large coal-burning plant to generate electricity. It's planned for the southwest corner of the state and is expected to require lots more Virginia coal. The utility has promised to burn only coal mined in Virginia Opponents...
- Tags: Coal, Pollution, Plant, Virginia, Commonwealth Of Virginia, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-06-26
- Virginia, Illinois, and Texas all teaching Internet safety
- Virginia became the first state this year to require Internet safety courses in its public schools. Illinois and Texas both have laws on the books relating to curriculum and instruction in this area, but Virginia is currently the only state to require such courses according to VNUNet. ...
- Tags: Student, Virginia, Internet, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-04-09
- In close First Amendment case, Virginia court upholds spammer conviction
- What do geeks hate more than free speech restrictions? Spammers! Thus, anti-spam laws are an interesting collision. Spamming is clearly speech -- albeit commercial speech. So are antispam laws constitutional? The Virginia Supreme Court took that matter up in the case of Jeremy Jaynes, a particularly obnoxious...
- Tags: Speech, Anti-spam, First Amendment, Spamming, Statute, Virginia, Jeremy Jaynes, Spam, Security, Spam And Phishing, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-03-03
- Spammer says state law is unconstitutional
- Is an anti-spam law unconstitutionally infringe on free speech? That's what a former spammer is arguing to the Virginia Supreme Court, The Washington Post reports. Jeremy Jaynes of Raleigh, N.C., was convicted in 2003 in the nation's first felony anti-spamming case sentenced to nine years in prison. Prosecutors said...
- Tags: Computer Network, Speech, Anti-spam, Spammer, U.S. Supreme Court, Virginia, ZDNet Government
- Blog posts 2007-09-12
- Virginia Revitalizes Its Communities With Optical Networking
- The Mid-Atlantic Broadband Cooperative MBC was established in November 2003 to support the revitalization of southside Virginia by providing rural communities access to broadband telecommunications that would spur economic development. Many independent telecommunication companies service the area, but no single provider offered service throughout the south - let alone high-speed...
- Tags: Optical Networking, Nortel Networks Corp., Broadband, Virginia, Telecommunications, Broadband Internet, Telephony, Network Technology, Telecom & Utilities, Networking
- Case studies 2005-10-17
- Enterprise Business Architecture
- The Enterprise Business Architecture EBA provides that common reference model by defining the business strategy, governance, organization, and business functions of Virginia state government, and establishes a baseline that defines, which organizations perform those functions. This paper represents the initial enterprise business architecture for state government in Virginia and will...
- Tags: State Government, Virginia, Enterprise Business Architecture, Networking
- White papers 2005-04-13
- Virginia Enhances Performance, Service Through Reengineering of Tax Administration
- In the mid-1990s, officials at the Virginia Department of Taxation VATAX recognized the need to improve customer service and bolster operational efficiency, but lacked the funding and experience needed to leverage enabling technologies. VATAX joined forces with AMS to embark on a cutting-edge, public-private relationship called the Virginia Partnership Project....
- Tags: Customer Service, Performance, Administration, CGI Group Inc., Re-engineering, Systems Integration, Virginia, Taxes, It Services, Product Marketing, Free Trade, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Financial Planning, Finance, Marketing, Software
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- ABS Deploys Cisco IPT and IP/TV Technology for Virginia School District
- Floyd County Public Schools operates five schools serving 1,800 students in Southwest Virginia in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Virginia's Floyd County Public Schools had outgrown its aging media management system. There were not enough phones and voicemails for the staff who needed them, managing video needs was time consuming, and...
- Tags: IP, TV, Asset Based Security, Cisco Systems Inc., Virginia, Floyd County Public Schools, Investment, Finance
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- Laser-aided software for tunnel construction
- If you ever have cruised on California's Highway 1, you know it offers spectacular views of the Pacific ocean. But several areas of this road are potentially dangerous because they can be affected by landslides. This is why the U.S. National Science Foundation NSF is helping the California Department of...
- Tags: Software, National Science Foundation, Tunnel, Laser, gVT, Tools & Techniques, Management, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-07-02
- A world ruled by Apple
- A world ruled by AppleGood post[i]I am perfectly willing to praise Apple or Linux when I feel they are doing something right, and do so on a regular basis in this blog. That’s why I have a hard time understanding the need to believe that Gates did nothing right, in...
- Tags: Operating systems, PRODUCTIVITY, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., operating system
- Discussion threads 2008-06-30
- Fired up for new coal plant in Virginia
- Fired up for new coal plant in VirginiaCoal in Tampa BayWe've got coal here as well. Since moving here, they've put scrubbers on it and other sort of things to clean the exhaust. It's not my favorite type of power generation, but it has the benefit of buffering...
- Tags: Middle Eastern Oil, coal
- Discussion threads 2008-06-27
- News to know: ICANN hacked; IE flaw; OpenSuse 11; Hyper-V; iPhone 3G
- Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Zero-day flaw haunts Internet Explorer Tech heavyweights launch security response consortium ICANN and IANA's domains hijacked by Turkish hacking group Security researchers hack the London underground train for free ride Matthew...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, ICANN, Novell OpenSuse, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., Flaw, 3G, Cellular Phones, Healthcare, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, David Grober
- Blog posts 2008-06-27
- The Andrew Carnegie of our second gilded age
- The Andrew Carnegie of our second gilded ageLump of Coal or Coke to build the next empireAlthough from the past, I do recall in my mind the perception of comparing Gates to Carnegie. I never realized the connection all this time, esp. given what you report (i.e. backgrounds, culture, beliefs,...
- Tags: Rockefeller, John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, Robert Woodruff, Carnegie, Coke
- Discussion threads 2008-06-24
- Verizon FiOS goes 50 Mbps across U.S.: Should I upgrade?
- Verizon on Tuesday said it will roll out 50 megabits per second Mbps broadband service with upload speeds of up to 20 Mbps. Needless, to say this national rollout--the 50 Mbps down 20 Mbps up (50/20) service was tested in select areas--got my attention. I'm a Verizon...
- Tags: Verizon Communications Inc., Mbps, Verizon FiOS, Roi/Tco, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-06-18
- There's data and then there's asking for trouble
- There's data and then there's asking for troubleRE: There's data and then there's asking for troubleoff campus activities are private matters and should be held private, even of local staff insolong as students have not disclosed them. It should be the students call to disclose or not these information, and...
- Tags: Down-under, RTI
- Discussion threads 2008-06-17
- Google's Brin plots space jaunt; Is this a problem?
- Google co-founder Sergey Brin plans to head to space. According to the New York Times, Brin, an investor in Space Adventures, a Virginia-based space tourism outfit, is likely to hitch a ride on a Russian Soyuz en route to the International Space Station in 2011. ...
- Tags: Google Inc., Sergey Brin, Virgin, RealMoney, Financial Accounting, Insurance, Financial Planning, Finance, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-06-11
- Twin Falls Waterfalls 2 (zip)
- Twin Waterfalls State park is a beautiful park in West Virginia. This screensaver is a video screensaver of the second waterfall of the twin pair. This waterfall is about a 1 mile hike from the first waterfall. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
- Tags: Waterfall, ForestWander
- Software downloads 2008-06-06
- TW, Cable test bandwidth limits for P2P
- Cable companies to Internet users: game on! You want unlimited P2P usage? Well, you can pay more for it. Alternatively, you're getting pushed into the slow zone. How do you like them neutrality apples? From Reuters: Time Warner Cable said it...
- Tags: Bandwidth, Network, Comcast Corp., P2P, Network Management, Peer To Peer (P2P), Networking, Network Administration, Cable, Network Technology, Internet, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-06-04
- Business-friendliest states: Delaware, Nebraska, Maine
- US Chamber of Commerce named Delaware, Nebraska, Maine, Indiana, and Utah among the top US states to incorporate businesses in. At the bottom of rankings were Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Illinois, with West Virginia being the worst US state to do business in. by AM
- Tags: Maine, Nebraska, AM
- Blog posts 2008-06-03
- Technology killing off the traditional lecture?
- Most colleges and universities use Virtual Learning Environments VLE like Moodle, Blackboard and Dokeos and it's a great way to share information, collect coursework and essays, and keeping in touch with the students as well as the students keeping in touch with the lecturers. But...
- Tags: Lecture, Lectures, Telephony, Networking, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-06-01
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