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- Oh, and BTW: 'Intellectually Bankrupt' FCC Chief To Be Around Until Mid-2009
- There's little love lost between the nation's largest cable operator, Comcast, and the country's top industry watchdog, Kevin Martin, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. FCC Chairman Kevin Martin During his tenure, Martin has pushed repeatedly to usher in...
- Tags: FCC, Comcast Corp., Chairman, Federal Government, Government, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-12-02
- State of California CIO: E-governing with Web 2.0
- Teri Takai, CIO of the State of California, discusses how she plans to use collaboration and knowledge sharing tools to help communicate with the federal government on various programs such as homeland security, health care and education.
- Tags: Web, CIO, California, Web 2.0, Homeland Security, Federal Government, Internet, Government, State of California CIO, CIO Sessions
- Videos 2008-11-25
- E-governing with Web 2.0
- Teri Takai, CIO of the State of California, discusses how she plans to use collaboration and knowledge sharing tools to help communicate with the federal government on various programs such as homeland security, health care and education. by Administrator
- Tags: Web, Web 2.0, Homeland Security, Federal Government, Internet, Government, Administrator
- Blog posts 2008-11-24
- Trust the doctor or a computer analysis
- Do you want your doctor trusting their gut, or the decisions that come from computer analysis? by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Patient, Analysis, Computer, Clinician, Productivity, Government, Federal Government, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-11-24
- IT resellers encouraged to spread the EPEAT green gospel
- If you're not interested in understanding the in's and out's of the EPEAT Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool rating systems, the Green Electronics Council has started training IT solutions and services providers about how to better-interpret the information for their clients. EPEAT uses 51 different criteria (such...
- Tags: Information Technology, Reseller, EPEAT, Federal Government, Strategy, Government, Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-11-21
- Who will lead Obama-era FCC?
- Monday morning may continue the speculation that Hillary Clinton will be named Secretary of State, but in more technical climes the wagers are on what will happen with the Federal Communications Commission. Ars Technica talked to telecom attorney Andrew Lipman, who expects Obama to move fast. Why? The issues the...
- Tags: FCC, Job, Broadband, Federal Government, Telecommunications, Government, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-11-16
- Give 'em the cash, forget fuel efficiency
- The chorus of disagreement in Washington over a measly 25-billion dollars is something to behold. For the record that's less than 4% of the money that's been earmarked by the federal government to save the banks, insurance companies, the mortgage mills and other big-spenders on Wall Street and their...
- Tags: Detroit, Cash, Mortgages, Insurance, Federal Government, Finance, Capital Structures, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Government, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-11-14
- Foreign governments attack White House, Obama, McCain campaign systems
- Hmm, anyone want to place bets on what "foreign entity" has been hacking into Obama and McCain campaign computers, as Newsweek reports? Could it be the same country China that penetrated the White House's email archive system and lifted email conversation between top officials, as the Financial Times reports? ...
- Tags: Network, White House, Attack, Obama, Government, Phishing, E-mail, Hacking, Federal Government, Vertical Industries, Security, Cyberthreats, Spam And Phishing, Online Communications, Enterprise Software, Software, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-11-07
- When will we see White Space devices?
- Now that the FCC has approved White Space devices, how long til we get our hands on the little radios? From a technical standpoint, at least 12 to 18 months. But politics -- including court fights and appeals to Congress -- may delay the breakthrough for years. by Richard Koman
- Tags: Device, Federal Government, Advertising & Promotion, Government, Marketing, Richard Koman, FCC, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment
- Blog posts 2008-11-07
- What does FCC's decision on white spaces spectrum mean for wireless?
- Despite Dolly Parton's best efforts, the FCC voted unanimously yesterday to open up the unlicensed white spaces spectrum to companies hoping to build wireless devices that can make use of the spectrum, which currently sits unused between TV channels. (A PDF version of the official press release is here.) Because...
- Tags: FCC, Network, Broadband, Spectrum, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Federal Government, Wireless, WiMAX, Network Technology, Government, Networking, Sean Portnoy
- Blog posts 2008-11-06
- Newsweek: Obama, McCain campaigns hacked by 'foreign entity'
- Newsweek is reporting that the computer systems of the campaigns of both Barack Obama and John McCain were compromised in a "sophisticated cyberattack" by an unknown "foreign entity." At Obama headquarters, what was originally believed to be a virus planted in a phishing attack turned out to...
- Tags: Newsweek, FBI, Federal Government, Government, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-11-05
- FCC agrees to free white-space spectrum
- America wins. Large broadcasting companies and makers of devices like wireless microphones are squirming today after the FCC announced that it has voted in favor of Google -- freeing the frequencies between television channels to create a wireless broadband service. What does that really...
- Tags: FCC, Spectrum, Wireless Broadband, Wireless LANs, Wireless, Wi-Fi, Federal Government, Broadband Internet, Telecommunications, Government, Garett Rogers
- Blog posts 2008-11-05
- FCC opens up wireless 'white spaces;' Assessing winners, losers and wild-cards
- The Federal Communications Commission has opened up so-called wireless white spaces--unused spectrum between broadcast channels--in a move the agency hopes paves the way for 'Wi-Fi on Steroids'. In a statement following the FCC's 5-0 approval Techmeme, Chairman Kevin Martin said: Opening the white spaces will allow...
- Tags: FCC, Google Inc., WiMAX, Broadband, Spectrum, Federal Government, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Telecommunications, Government, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-11-05
- Preemption case went before Supremes today
- My feeling is that this will lead to illness and death that become matters for the criminal courts. Wyeth executives who skated in civil court, thanks to their friends in Washington, may find themselves behind bars one day. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Wyeth, Dana Blankenhorn, FDA, Drug Company, Side Effect, Bush Plan, Legal Times, Federal Government, Professional Development, Regulations, Government, Career
- Blog posts 2008-11-03
- News to know: Windows 7; OpenOffice flaws; Cybercrime; Apple
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Ed Bott: You've got Windows 7 questions, I've got answers Sam Diaz: Real vows fight for RealDVD, adjusts outlook Ryan Naraine: Code execution flaws...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Larry Dignan, Hewlett-Packard Co., Microsoft Windows 7, Flaw, LinkedIn, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Matthew Miller, Microsoft Windows, OpenOffice, Linux, Federal Government, Operating Systems, Software, Office Suites, Government
- Blog posts 2008-10-30
- Rockers fight white space; FCC unmoved
- The over-50 rocker set has piled onto the anti-white space campaign, Ars Technica reports. Among the musicians signing on to the opposition: Neil Diamond, The Bangles, Don Henley, Mac Davis, Kenny G, Vanessa Williams, Peter Frampton, Rick Springfield, The Scorpions, Meat Loaf, DJ Green Lantern, Stevie Nicks, Bonnie Raitt, and...
- Tags: FCC, Federal Government, Desktops, Government, Hardware, Richard Koman, Ars Technica, Adobe PDF
- Blog posts 2008-10-29
- Dolly doesn't want to share white space
- Dolly Parton joins the chorus of entertainment type fighting against white spaces, even though research shows Internet devices would not interfere with wireless mics. Does the entertainment business's opposition have to do with something other than tech concerns? Perhaps there's a reason TV and music don't want there to be...
- Tags: Entertainment, Dolly Parton, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Richard Koman, FCC, Space, Commission, Federal Government, Sales Force Management, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Government, Sales
- Blog posts 2008-10-28
- Dingell tries to slow white spaces vote
- Here come the Congress-critters to carry water for the giant corporations that broadcast what they call television and are crazy to stop a national wireless network delivered over the so-called "white spaces," those unused portions of the analog TV spectrum. Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.), chairman of the House Energy and...
- Tags: Space, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Federal Government, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Government, Richard Koman, FCC
- Blog posts 2008-10-27
- Atrise Find Bad Information (exe)
- Atrise FBI Find Bad Information is a tool to check your data CD/DVD, flash drive and a dying HDD for bad reading files (soft and true HDD bad blocks, wrong reading, and faulty drive/cable. Atrise FBI shows a full path to the current checking file, so it is very useful...
- Tags: Hard Drive, FBI, File, Atrise Software, Federal Government, Productivity, Government
- Software downloads 2008-10-27
- Broadcasters fume as FCC moves forward on white spaces
- We won't have nationwide wireless without a fight. The National Association of Broadcasters came out swinging against the FCC report passing white spaces devices. "It would appear that the FCC is misinterpreting the actual data collected by their own engineers," said...
- Tags: FCC, Federal Government, Government, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-17
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