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Washington Group International Integrates Business Processes With Service-Oriented Architecture

Washington Group International provides the talent, innovation, and proven performance to deliver integrated engineering, construction, and management solutions for businesses and governments worldwide. The company wanted to unify applications and business processes across multiple lines of business and diverse geographic locations. The challenge was to align IT infrastructure with business...

Tags: Business Process, Oracle Corp., SOA, Washington Group International, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Operational Planning, Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Business Operations

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Washington digs in on text message pricing; asks about carrier exclusivity

Washington digs in on text message pricing; asks about carrier exclusivityGimme? No, its socialism in actionWhy do you figure the government has any right to dictate what phones are available through what carriers? I don't happen to like the iPhone - but I know a lot of people...

Tags: Text messaging/SMS/MMS, Cellular phones, Telecom & Utilities, text message pricing, carrier exclusivity, phone, text messaging

Discussion threads 2009-06-17

Russian, Euro cybermafia own your data

This report from Verion Business PDF, as reported in the Washington Post, offers some interesting numbers amid the obvious conclusion that cybercrime is conducted by organized crime. 100 data breaches involving 285 million consumer records (think you weren't touched)? 93 percent of...

Tags: Card, Attack, Verizon Business, Financial Services, Security, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-04-16

DHS still doesn't quite get this cybersecurity thing

The Department of Homeland Security is still lacking in the cybersecurity department, according to a bevy of critics. What's galling is that the DHS' inadequacies are barely news anymore. Here's what would be a real news flash: "DHS locks down cybersecurity. Hackers locked out!" Perhaps I'm cynical...

Tags: U.S. Department Of Homeland Security, Cybersecurity, Intelligence Community, Security, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-09-17

Microsoft wasting no time rejoicing in its OOXML win

Like it or not, Microsoft’s OOXML â€" now known as IS 29500 -- has received the proper number of votes to become an ISO standard. And the Redmond, Washington company is wasting no time rejoicing the turnaround win. In his blog today, Jason Matusow,...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., OOXML, OpenDocument Format (ODF), XML, Iso standards, Microsoft Office, Emerging Technologies, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Quality, Business Operations, Office Suites, Software, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2008-04-01

FCC asked to make companies carry all text messages

Public interest groups are taking the net neutrality battle to the very small screen. The groups are pushing the FCC to stop the cellphone carriers from discriminating against text messages, The Washington Post reports. In September, Verizon denied text messaging rights to NARAL, the abortion rights group....

Tags: FCC, Verizon Communications Inc., Federal Government, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Government, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2007-12-10

FBI crackdown nabs 8 botnet herders

The FBI today announced the arrest of eight U.S. men accused to hijacking PCs for use in a million-strong botnet that accounted for $20 million in economic loss. In its "Bot Roast II" crackdown, the FBI said it also served 13 search warrants in the U.S. and...

Tags: U.S. District Court, FBI, Bot, Distributed Denial Of Service, Computer, Florida, AKILL, Michael Downey, Federal Government, Phishing, Security, Government, Spam And Phishing, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2007-11-29

World Digital Library to offer the world's cultures online

Two years ago, James H. Billington, the Librarian of Congress, proposed a global digital library. The vision may be realized over the coming years, The Washington Post reports. The World Digital Library -- comprised of international librarians, computer scientists and U.N. officials -- unveiled a prototype for the project ...

Tags: Culture, ZDNet Government

Blog posts 2007-10-19

Bush and planet Earth, any overlap?

Today President George W. Bush's own special, invitation-only, climate change summit is wrapping up in Washington D.C. Earlier this week the United Nations held a conference of all members on the same suibject. Secretary of State Rice attended on behalf of the U.S. Bush could not allow...

Tags: George W. Bush, Conference, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2007-09-28

3Com (and TippingPoint) head to China in $2B cash deal

Computer networking giant 3Com has been sold for $2 billion in cash to Bain Capital and Chinese telco equipment group Huawei Technologies. Bain, a private equity firm with headquarters in Mass., partnered with Huawei to offer $5.30 a share for 3Com (a 44% premium over the Sep....

Tags: 3Com Corp., Connection, TippingPoint Technologies, IPO, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Financial Planning, Investment, Government, Security, Networking, Financial Services, Finance, Business Operations, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2007-09-28

Task force recommends more tools for assessment of nano impact

As nanotechnology becomes more commonplace in food, drugs and cosmetics, the FDA must revise its regulatory standards to assess the emerging technology, reports the San Francisco Chronicle. An agency task force reported recently that nanotechnology, based on those tiny particles so small that they're measured in billionths of a meter,...

Tags: Government technology

Blog posts 2007-07-27

The verdict on candidates' texting: Obama ahead of Edwards, Clinton coming up lame

What campaign manager could resist technology that reaches more than 75% of Americans? Taking cues from television, presidential hopefuls are using cellphones to text-message voters in much the same way that viewers vote for their favorite American Idol contestatnt, reports the Washington Post.The Obama campaign has jumped on the fledging...

Tags: Elections

Blog posts 2007-07-02

$10 million to fight cyber crime

Law makers in Washington introduced a bill Monday called the "Cyber-Security Enhancement Act of 2007". Brian Krebs gives it good coverage. The bill would make additional funds available to the Secret Service, which is responsible for handling credit card theft in addition to their body guard duties, as well...

Tags: CyberCrime, Security blog

Blog posts 2007-05-16

TSA watchlists based on antique technology. Would ChoicePoint do a better job?

Writing in Technology Review, Mark Williams explains that the problem with the Transportation Security Administrations watchlists - which famously produce reams of false positives - is based on a very old algorithm called Soundex. Latanya Sweeney, director of the Data Privacy Laboratory at Carnegie Mellon Universitys School...

Tags: Government technology, Privacy, Homeland security

Blog posts 2007-04-13

Feds get C- security grade but Defense fails, DHS gets a D

The conventional wisdom is that the federal government deserves failing grades for computer security. After all, the big VA breach of a year ago has been followed by many more stories of agencies losing computers, suffering data breaches and failing to encrypt sensitive data. Today a House committee handed out...

Tags: Congress, Security, IT Management, Government technology

Blog posts 2007-04-12

Eight more companies that made SOA happen in 2006

Last week, I cited examples of SOA work that took place over the past year at ten leading companies. Here are eight more companies that led the way with SOA, originally posted over at my SOA in Action site: Integrate back-end legacy systems: International Truck developed an SOA-based "Common Vehicle...

Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, Enterprise software, SOA

Blog posts 2006-12-26

In Iraq, military seeking Universal Translator

For the military in Iraq, being able to speak with the locals is a huge problem. In the absence of enough translators, there was high hopes for technological fixes to the problem. But, the Washington Post reports, the Star Trek Universal Translator is still a long ways off. Two...

Tags: DARPA

Blog posts 2006-11-02

Google wants to pay you to improve Google usability

"The Science and Art of User Experience at Google" was the topic of a presentation at Google's Kirkland, Washington, operations last June by Jen Fitzpatrick, Google Engineering Director.She began by recounting the origins of Google’s “rather empty home page.”Fitzpatrick noted the “utter simplicity of our homepage” has changed remarkedly little...

Tags: Google Inc.

Blog posts 2006-09-23

Can SOA pick up where ERP leaves off?

Last month, I ran a piece that generated a lot of discussion, quoting Bruce Richardson's prediction that SOA would usurp many of the functions that now sit at the application level in ERP systems. Sometimes, ERP may seem like too much, but other times, believe it or not, it's not...

Tags: SOA, ERP system, ERP

Blog posts 2006-09-22

Lockheed gets contract for new space ship

The space shuttle is history. And NASA took a huge step forward towards the future by awarding a multibillion-dollar contract to Lockheed Martin to build the replacement craft, which would put a man on the moon again and be a precursor to a ship that would go to Mars,...

Tags: NASA, ORION

Blog posts 2006-09-01