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The Weekly Round-Up: 18.01.08

Round-Up Facebook veterans will remember the good old days around September 2007 when the absolute zaniest thing that could be done on the site was toss a sheep at someone. And so another Macworld has passed us by and Mac fans and news rooms are a-twitter...

Tags: iphone, mac, apple, macworld

[18 Jan 2008]

Security experts slam HMRC over data loss

News Jonathon Armstrong, principal partner at law firm Eversheds drew parallels with a similar security breaches in the US last year, when 26 million armed forces veterans' personal data was lost and when retailer TJX lost more than 90 million...

Tags: hmrc, security, disclosure, hands

[22 Nov 2007]

Predictive Maintenance: Repair & Overhaul

whitepaper Accenture has developed an aviation MRO standard process model based on the knowledge and experience of industry veterans and validated at three of the world's leading airlines. Commercial aviation Maintenance, Repair & Overhaul (MRO) is on the...

Tags: supply chain management, maintenance, aviation, mro

[10 Sep 2007]

Secure Wireless Communication Ensures Patient Confidentiality

whitepaper With Federal legislation requirements, government agencies such as the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), along with the general healthcare market have taken steps to ensure the integrity and privacy of its patients.

Tags: protect, privacy, hospitals, centers

[07 Aug 2007]

Not-for-Profit E-Business Initial Initiatives

whitepaper This paper is written for beginners in E-Business games but could prove invaluable for veterans as they can find similarity and differences in approaches and results on the way to progress. By participating in the E-Business evolution within the...

Tags: business management, raising, guidance, operation

[06 Jul 2007]

The Art of Conference Calling-How is Your Audio and Web Conferencing Etiquette?

whitepaper Even seasoned veterans are finding they suffer from anxiety-induced conference call episodes as they dial into the wrong bridges, disconnect participants, and subject countless others to what they thought was a private conversation.

Tags: voip - ip telephony, conference, conferencing, learning

[25 Jun 2007]

Software Leaders Experience Improved Productivity, Develop Cutting-Edge Product

whitepaper The company's principals are veterans of the Help-authoring space and the creators of RoboHelp, the original Help-authoring standard. MadCap Software is the developer of MadCap Flare, the next generation in Help authoring tools.

Tags: xml, authoring, flare, language

[01 Apr 2007]

After the tech boom - what's India's next big thing?

News And, as well as foreign venture capitalists, local business angels - often tech veterans that have already made money in India's IT services boom - are also looking at funding new businesses. Sometimes you can have too much of a good thing.

Tags: entrepreneurs, offshoring, outsourcing, india

[29 Mar 2007]

Hard drive goes awol with US vets' data

News The US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has launched an investigation into a portable hard drive that went missing late last month from an Alabama medical facility and may contain personal data on as many as 48,000 veterans.

Tags: veterans, data loss

[06 Feb 2007]

The Windows Vista Beta Experience: RC1

whitepaper For others who are hardened beta veterans, this is just one more step in the continuum that results in the final product. For many who will be using Windows Vista Release Candidate 1 (RC1), this is the first time they've ever used a "Beta" product.

Tags: beta, vista, windows vista, paper explains

[05 Dec 2006]

The Woz takes a trip down memory lane

News Several hundred long-time Silicon Valley veterans and youngsters alike showed up for the talk. Apple's co-founder Steve Wozniak took part in a panel discussion on Saturday called 'Apple in the Garage', at the Computer History Museum in Mountain...

Tags: wozniak, steve wozniak, mac, apple

[06 Nov 2006]

Seagate to padlock mobile data

News In the past year, major organisations, including the US Department of Veterans Affairs and Fidelity Investments, have had to report embarrassing security breaches after hardware containing personal data on people went missing.

Tags: seagate, data breach, encryption, hard drive

[31 Oct 2006]

Air Force Health Study Brings Science of Epidemiology to the Agent Orange Issue With Help From SAS

whitepaper Air Force has been studying the health concerns of veterans and their families as well as trying to determine the long-term health risks attributable to Agent Orange exposure. Of the 19 million gallons of herbicides that U.S.warplanes sprayed onto...

Tags: knowledge and data management, force, agent, health

[20 Oct 2006]

Guide to Linux Filesystem Mastery

whitepaper Linux veterans understand, from context, the sense in which these terms are used. The terminology used to discuss Linux filesystem concepts is a bit confusing for newcomers. The terms filesystem and file system are used interchangeably in the Linux...

Tags: database applications, file, concepts, context

[11 Oct 2006]

US fills top cyber-security post at last

News Washington veterans who know Garcia applauded Monday's announcement. More than a year after US Homeland Security secretary Michael Chertoff publicly promised to bring in a top cyber security specialist, he has finally hired one.

Tags: cyber security, tsar

[19 Sep 2006]

ID theft fears for over 100,000 Floridians

News The US Department of Veterans Affairs is still recovering from the theft of a laptop and external hard disk drive that exposed the identities of 26.5 million veterans. A US Department of Transportation laptop with personal information on 133,000...

[14 Aug 2006]

Veterans get free ID monitoring in wake of breach

News The US Department of Veteran Affairs announced on Wednesday it has accepted an offer from an analytics company to monitor veterans' personal data for free, following the theft of a device containing personal information on about 26.5 million...

Tags: veterans, data breach

[11 Aug 2006]

Post-July 4 Fireworks: Cyber Security, Critical Infrastructure Debates Re-Ignite

whitepaper Instances involving the theft of information regarding U.S.veterans and active military personnel also underscore and highlight such threats. United States critical infrastructure and cyber space security protections - with Internet communications...

Tags: cyber security, theft, threats, states

[11 Aug 2006]

Taskforce aims to end NHS care records row

News The taskforce will also consider the workings of the US Veterans' Administration electronic health record system, which holds a summary record for some 23 million US ex-servicemen and women. Clinical experts and patients' representatives have been...

Tags: care records, nhs

[20 Jul 2006]

Hacker exposes 26,000 to ID fraud risk

News The most high-profile news, by far, came from the US Department of Veterans Affairs. That agency reported late last month that personal data on as many as 26.5 million veterans - a category later revised to include nearly two million active-duty...

Tags: data breach, id fraud

[23 Jun 2006]

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