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AS Profile Another initiative, the "virtual town hall", has enabled the public to vote for changes in legislation. US President Barack Obama entered the White House with a pledge to use technology to transform government. [08 Oct 2009]
A Proactive Security Posture: The Benefit of a Partnering With a Security Service Provider in a Difficult Business Environment
White Paper If an organization cannot assure its customer base that strong security measures are in place to protect credit card information and other types of personal and sensitive data, customers will vote with their feet and... [06 Oct 2009]
Google's $10m change-the-world prize: 16 themes chosen
News Google is asking the public to vote on the most worthy of the 16 "idea themes" that it has identified from the submissions it has received over the past year. Now that the themes have been chosen, Google is asking the... [28 Sep 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 25.09.09
Round-Up Last time the Round-Up checked, phone lines didn't have the vote but phone bill payers who don't like extra taxes definitely do. For the Apple II it was the early spreadsheet VisiCalc. For the IBM PC it was another... [25 Sep 2009]
Facebook adds Nielsen to friends for ads
News As part of the Advertising Week festivities in New York, Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg is slated to make a marketing-related announcement on Tuesday morning. The announcement of a partnership with Nielsen on a product... [22 Sep 2009]
Microsoft asks shareholders: How much should execs get paid?
News The board of directors approved a plan that calls for a vote on the company's executive compensation every three years. However, under the board's plan, the vote will be advisory in nature. We believe... [21 Sep 2009]
Google to announce finalists in $10m 'help others' competition
News That will likely involve the release of 100 proposals for the public to vote on and choose 20 finalists, from which a Google board will choose the five winners. Google is finally promising to shed light on its "Project... [19 Aug 2009]
Apple tablet or no Apple tablet, business is the device's natural home
News A straw poll of ten CIOs revealed a unanimous yes vote to the question 'Is there a place in business for tablet PCs? In tech terms, the tablet is nothing new: Microsoft first announced tablet PC software back in 2001,... [13 Aug 2009]
Google's $106.5m software buy to be challenged in court
News The deal, which is expected to close in the fourth quarter of this year, still needs the approval of On2 shareholders, but the board has yet to announce a date for the vote. Google's acquisition of video-compression... [13 Aug 2009]
Photos: Google Street View takes on Stonehenge
Photo More than 10,000 suggestions were received and whittled down to 16, which then went to the final public vote. Google and VisitBritain have revealed the seven landmarks and attractions that will get a visit from the... [15 Jul 2009]
BBC's iPlayer is mobile's most wanted
News Navigation/maps and unlimited music are the next most desired mobile services after iPlayer, according to the analyst's report, with around a fifth (19 per cent) of the vote each. Multiplayer games and other mobile TV... [13 Jul 2009]
Labour politician joins calls to scrap ID cards
News Despite ongoing criticism of the scheme, the Conservatives lost a vote on the motion "That this House believes the government's identity cards scheme should be cancelled immediately", with 293 MP's voting against and 203... [07 Jul 2009]
Know Your Neighbors: Web Spam Detection Using the Web Topology
White Paper They demonstrate three methods of incorporating the Web graph topology into the predictions obtained by their base classifier: clustering the host graph, and assigning the label of all hosts in the cluster by majority... [01 Jul 2009]
BT tops terrible customer service poll
News In a survey asking 5,000 Brits to vote for UK businesses with the worst customer service half of the top 10 are telecoms companies. Telecoms companies may tell us it's good to talk but they seem to be struck dumb when it... [30 Jun 2009]
iPhone has no place in business say CIOs
News Only two of the 12 IT chiefs were willing to give it a vote of corporate confidence. The Apple iPhone may have got a makeover last week but it's not enough to convince CIOs the device has a place in business. [16 Jun 2009]