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The Weekly Round-Up: 19.09.08
Round-Up The latter bit of surprising information surfaced earlier this week during a briefing by one of the Presidential hopeful's advisors. Tim Berners-Lee is a worried man. How so? After all he was bestowed with a knighthood... [19 Sep 2008]
Cheat Sheet: Microblogging
Cheat Sheet US Presidential hopeful Barak Obama - who has demonstrated a lot of wily web 2.0 ways - has more than 60,000 Twitter users 'following' him, for instance. Microblogging? I'm guessing you're talking about very short blogs. [02 Sep 2008]
Does Obama want the US to be the new India?
Comment US presidential candidate Barack Obama has vowed to discourage outsourcing, while John McCain supports the status quo. None of this has gone unnoticed by the two US presidential candidates - Barack Obama... [02 Sep 2008]
Investment Governance Webcast: Solving Presidential Mandates, OMB Requirements and Serving the American Public
White Paper Investment Governance is a hot topic across public sector and private sector, but what does it really mean? Over the past decade the OMB and the Executive Office of the President has been working diligently to put better transparency and... [04 Aug 2008]
Terrorist Identification, Screening, and Tracking Under Homeland Security Presidential Directive 6
White Paper There is an emerging consensus that the U.S.intelligence and law enforcement community missed several vital opportunities to watch-list and screen several conspirators involved in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. [03 Jul 2008]
Proposed Smart Card Interoperability Framework for FIPS 201
White Paper Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12 instructs NIST to produce a Federal Information Processing Standard for Personal Identity Verification (PIV) by February 2004. Among other things, the PUV (FIPS 201) requires a... [03 Jul 2008]
Voting Over the Internet (VOI) Pilot Project
White Paper The Federal Voting Assistance Program (FVAP) under the Department of Defense (DoD) administers this Act on behalf of the Secretary of Defense, who is the Presidential designee for carrying out the Federal provisions. [03 Jul 2008]
Inside the Mind of the Retail CEO
White Paper The combination of a nervous consumer, a shaky economy and a historic presidential campaign means that there has never been more at stake for the retail industry. So, what's on the minds of retails CEOs? [26 Jun 2008]
Preparedness and the Force of Law
White Paper It is a long held and accepted legal tenet that a Presidential Executive Order has the force of law and is for all intent and purpose "the law of the land. On January 29, 2000, a memorandum from the Counsel to the... [15 May 2008]
Curses or Cures: State Regulations, Hospital Creditors, and the ARM Industry
White Paper With less than a year until the 2008 presidential election, polls show that healthcare has become the most pressing domestic concern for many Americans. Consumers' rising out-of-pocket healthcare expenses and the more... [15 May 2008]
Fools, Drunkards, & Presidential Succession
White Paper The terrorist attack on America on September 11, 2001, represents an epic event in American history, one that compares to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. September 11's parallel to Pearl Harbor, however, extends... [10 Apr 2008]
Offshoring - not just about the costs
Comment Brame provided an interesting background to the protectionist themes emerging in the US presidential primary debates. Offshoring to India is often discussed in terms of staff cost-cutting. But speakers at this year's... [18 Feb 2008]
Federated Identity, Distributed PKI and Smart Cards
White Paper An important example of this type of deployment is the US Government planned deployment in support of HSPD (Homeland Security Presidential Directive) 12. This paper considers authentication systems based on smart cards,... [07 Jan 2008]
Hillary Clinton talks tech
News Iraq, immigration, taxes and health care probably have been the four most pressing topics of the 2008 US presidential campaign. Technology has never made an appearance. Knowing where the candidates stand on high-tech... [03 Jan 2008]
Novell's Identity Assurance Solution for HSPD-12
White Paper In August 2004, as part of ongoing efforts to heighten resource protection within government agencies, President Bush issued Homeland Security Presidential Directive (HSPD-12). HSPD-12 directed the Secretary of Commerce... [07 Nov 2007]
