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Teachers Association Turns to Centralized Data Repository to Improve Member Service

whitepaper It provides a full range of offerings, including the improvement of teaching conditions, representation in the political arena, insurance, and education-oriented publications. The California Teachers Association (CTA) serves 350,000 members.

Tags: crm software, association, teachers, microsoft dynamics crm

[11 May 2008]

Public Diplomacy and Strategic Communication: Cultures, Firewalls, and Imported Norms

whitepaper This paper uses public diplomacy and strategic communication to describe an instrument of statecraft that embraces diplomacy, cultural diplomacy, international broadcasting, political communication, democracy building, and open military...

Tags: security tools

[11 May 2008]

Editor's Blog: Time to take the politicians out of technology?

Comment Government IT chiefs have long been waiting for some sign that their political masters care about technology. As an aside, I'm pretty sure neither the abacus nor the wheel was invented by the government.

Tags: public sector, government

[30 Apr 2008]

Police Facebook presence strikes privacy chord

News According to Facebook's "platform application terms of use", when a user adds an application, that application gets access to a long list of different types of "Facebook site information", which could include political views, relationship...

Tags: facebook, privacy, police, submit

[22 Apr 2008]

Critics label Microsoft's OOXML a 'marketing tool'

News And Microsoft's internal documentation group pretty obviously didn't have time to make it a good document when someone in the political side of Microsoft decided to dump it on Ecma. He said: "V1, which does SC 34 work in Incits, was at a stalemate...

Tags: ooxml, iso, microsoft, vista

[21 Apr 2008]

Noncommercial Email Lists: Collateral Damage in the Fight Against Spam

whitepaper There is also some evidence that administrators are misusing spam blockers to block email lists because of personal malice or political opposition to the content of the messages. The large number of anti-spam tools is a tremendous problem for email...

Tags: cyber security, list, spam, email

[18 Apr 2008]

The 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund: Overview and Comment

whitepaper Like many other observers all along the political spectrum, conservatives regard it with mixed reactions-legal, moral and economic. The 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund, and the statutory bail-out scheme to which it is married, constitutes unique...

Tags: anti-hacking, united states, rights, fund

[10 Apr 2008]

The Public Sector Governance Reform Cycle: Available Diagnostic Tools

whitepaper These tools enable practitioners to assess the scope for political change and reform, identify processes and constraints, find country-specific starting points, and match them with options for public action.

Tags: performance budgeting and management, country, scope, assess

[10 Apr 2008]

The Ramifications of the Microsoft Anti-trust Case on Other Intellectual Properties

whitepaper Bill Gates and his Microsoft Corporation smacks of political payback. There are many lessons to be learned from the current Microsoft Anti-Trust case. The most important lesson has to do with the preservation of intellectual property as personal...

Tags: legal, anti, intellectual, protection

[10 Apr 2008]

The ISO is right to back Microsoft's OOXML

Comment We have witnessed a no-holds-barred political battle between two big industry power bases, with the foot-soldiers from the open source community unwittingly lending their support to a thinly veiled corporate commercial cause.

Tags: xml, office, microsoft, standards

[04 Apr 2008]

Yahoo! CEO: Business 'grey areas' are international obstacle

News Harry Wu, a former political prisoner in China, will oversee the initiative. Yahoo! chief executive Jerry Yang, whose company helped identify a Chinese dissident who was later jailed, said yesterday that legal "grey areas" overseas made doing...

Tags: china, yang, yahoo

[04 Apr 2008]

The Brampton Factor: Open source 'brotherhood' closed to co-operation

Comment As with political groups, many of which are frequently in the news, developers are inclined to align themselves with particular communities. The open source brotherhood prides itself on its collaboration and community spirit.

Tags: standards, development, open source

[03 Apr 2008]

The Weekly Round-Up: 28.03.08

Round-Up Thanks to the HMRC debacle and the ID cards U-turn, the pressing issues surrounding privacy and personal data have made their way to the centre of the political boxing ring. Planes, trains and automobiles - the title of an amusing comedy flick...

Tags: ofcom, wi-fi, train, plane

[28 Mar 2008]

An Assessment of Software Project Management Maturity in Mauritius

whitepaper Given that Mauritian software development companies are making use of European/Western software project management methodologies, the study presented in this paper has been carried out and a preliminary attempt was made to also assess their...

Tags: project management, methodologies, software project, context

[24 Mar 2008]

The Naked CIO: Offshore - or off their trolley?

Comment It's like affiliation to a political party. Pressure is building up behind a move to managed services at the Naked CIO's company. Is our embattled hero right to take a stand on the issue or should he meekly submit?

Tags: outsourcing, managed services, offshoring, evidence

[10 Mar 2008]

Mobiles on the moon, Google Android, Facebook fall

News Two columns provoking much debate this month are this one where the Naked CIO rails against arrogant job applicants who lack right skills, and this one on the political pitfalls of supplying home workers with fancy equipment.

Tags: mwc, facebook, 419 scam, moon

[28 Feb 2008]

OpenVMS: The Future Is Secure

whitepaper This longevity is a noteworthy achievement that speaks to its adaptability and flexibility amid dramatic IT, business world, and political changes since 1977. HP is celebrating the 30th anniversary of the OpenVMS operating environment.

Tags: digital vms

[14 Feb 2008]

Can the government offshore with confidence?

Comment Only a handful of departmental CIOs have displayed the confidence to take the offshore route, choosing to navigate the political minefield associated with UK plc using resources in, for example, India or China.

Tags: offshoring, dwp, john suffolk, departments

[14 Feb 2008]

The Business Case for Outsourcing Software Testing to Vietnam

whitepaper Political, economic, ethnic, and religious stability This white paper outlines a framework that your development organization can use to evaluate whether a potential outsourcing destination can meet its critical software testing needs.

Tags: outsourcing, framework, outsourcing, testing

[11 Feb 2008]

The Naked CIO: Time to wage war on home users

Comment Of course it's never as simple as that - it becomes a political issue. Our embattled hero - newly appointed CIO at a largish firm - discovers there's a big difference between home workers and home users…

Tags: home working, games, management, support

[04 Feb 2008]

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