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Climbing to the top of the charts last week was a book titled, What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception. The stated purpose of this book is to showcase how politics in Washington turned a presidency that started as revolutionary into one that was a disaster. It's also a heads-up to McCain and Obama who, with similar ideals, may be blind to the fact that the Washington machine may change them more than either can change it. It tells a story of what can happen if folks focus too much on marketing and not enough on reality.
Part 1 of this two-part series outlines concerns about the privacy of personal health information more than five years after medical and health care organizations covered by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). Part 2 examines some of the myths and misconceptions surrounding HIPAA, as well as the ramifications of the act and its effectiveness...
Revision3, an entertainment network for the Web, had planned to release its two most popular shows last Friday evening in time for the Memorial Day weekend. Instead, chaos struck, and the Web 2.0 company found itself unable distribute videos or advertising or respond to clients' requests. Even its internal e-mail servers were brought down.
Taiwanese chipmaker Via Technologies announced its new line of low-powered Nano processors, formerly codenamed "Isaiah," Thursday. The new processor family offers up to four times the performance of Via's C7 processor line while featuring the same power requirements, the company said Aimed primarily at the low-cost PC and ultra mobile PC markets, t...
Fresh off an ambitious wireless spectrum auction that could help create a new marketplace for high-speed wireless services, the Federal Communications Commission will soon consider another auction with a significant twist that could help close the digital divide. The new spectrum sale would come with the requirement that the winning bidder offer f...
Dell turned in a strong first quarter, beating Wall Street forecasts and prompting investors to buy up its shares on the hopes that the founder's turnaround plans are beginning to bear fruit Thanks largely to vigorous sales of notebook PCs in the U.S. as well as international sales, Dell posted revenues of US$16.1 billion for the quarter that ended...
I have been managing the technical support team at Journyx, a timesheet software company, for about 7 years. When I began, we were hemorrhaging angry customers, but now we haven't received a legitimate customer complaint in years Since my experience was in sales and retail management, the first thing I did was ask the CEO and VP of sales what they...
The current economy in the U.S. has put tremendous strain on many companies, particularly startups. Usually, our firm gets very few inquiries from companies that are facing bankruptcy and are looking for strategies, options and alternatives to bankruptcy. Lately, however, that seems to have changed With so many companies in financial trouble, the p...
Software security breaches add up in recent headlines alone: US$13 million in losses; 45.6 million credit cards stolen; recovery costs at $256 million dollars and mounting; and companies driven into bankruptcy or out of business. Financially motivated targeted attacks are becoming more prevalent, and new vulnerabilities continue to be reported, according to industry research firm Gartner. Eighty percent of companies will suffer an application security incident by 2010, with the cost of a sensitive data break increasing 20 percent per year through 2009, Gartner estimates...
Growing companies encounter various bottlenecks that inhibit growth and cause them to plateau. It starts innocently enough. Everyone reaches for a spreadsheet to make lists: Marketing gets a list of prospects.
Part 1 of this two-part series looks at the current state of the vote-tallying system and calls for its reform in the wake of vote-counting irregularities in the last two presidential elections. Part 2 explores whether open source software in electronic voting machines is the solution Even as the presidential elections draw ever nearer, debate rage...
Last week, President Bush signed into law the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA), which will protect individuals from employer and insurance discrimination based on the results of high-tech gene tests. Fighting discrimination is a good idea, but the lack of opposition to GINA points to some potentially serious problems. GINA passed ...
Qualcomm and Adobe Systems are bringing Flash-based applications to Qualcomm's BREW (Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless) mobile platform. The two companies jointly announced their plans at Qualcomm's BREW conference in San Diego on Thursday Flash support will make it much easier for Flash developers to deliver rich Internet applications and co...
In a demonstration of its efforts to bridge the chasm between Web-based applications and client, or native, applications, Google announced changes to its Google Earth 3-D mapping software as well as Google Gears Wednesday at its annual I/O software developer's conference in San Francisco For webmasters, Google launched its new Google Earth Browser ...
Amazon.com will launch a new streaming video service in the next "several weeks," CEO Jeff Bezos said Wednesday Speaking at The Wall Street Journal's three-day D6: All Things Digital conference in California, Bezos also said his company is "very serious" about music and movies, and is currently readying a streaming version of video on-demand....
Google reportedly took a moment to show off a prototype mobile phone based on its Android operating system at the Google I/O conference in San Francisco Wednesday Android is Google's open source, Linux-based mobile phone OS, middleware stack and software development platform. Android has the backing of the Open Handset Alliance, a consortium of har...
In a nod to the growing need to track mobile users for marketing purposes, Internet research firm comScore has acquired M:Metrics, a top provider of mobile user data, for US$44.3 million in cash and 50,000 stock options The deal extends comScore's measurement and research reach beyond the traditional Internet channels to include a family of mobile ...
Selling Facebook to Microsoft would not be the best way to fulfill its mission of enabling people to connect with one another, said Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of the social network During the D6: All Things Digital conference in Carlsbad, Calif., Zuckerberg was asked whether he would consider selling if Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer offered US$...
Companies in the SMB (small and medium-sized business) market segment (between 100 and 1,000 employees and less than US$1 billion in annual revenue) often don't have the expertise or financial resources to formulate and then implement formal business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR) plans like larger enterprises. In a recent Aberdeen Benchm...
The power of community is grossly underestimated in this country. Current collaborative trends on the Internet, from Web 2.0 to Wikipedia models, are seen as merely social or arguably informative in nature. That's a bit like saying the U.S. Constitution, another collaborative work, is a fetching flight of fancy thoroughly detached from real world application. Such a claim may be attempted, but it doesn't make a dent in the enduring truth of a multigenerational community commitment.
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