We Need to Find IT Jobs for Our Veterans
The program created by the White House and several tech companies to help service members earn IT certifications is a good first step, but we need to do more.
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Boston Tech
If the investigation following the Boston Patriot Day bombings proved one thing, it's that law enforcement officials have caught up with the future.
Thursday, June 14, 2012 01:41 AM
Obama and the Vox Populi -1
There's a lot of excitement about the new WhiteHouse.gov site, perhaps especially the blog. Justifiably so, as the team that figured out 2.0 campaigning now brings the same skillset to the top job in the l....
Tuesday, March 13, 2012 10:03 AM
Where Are All the Jobs?
By Eileen Feretic Why aren't Fortune 500 businesses hiring more staff when many of them are hoarding vast quantities of cash? That was a key issue raised at a recent Harvey Nash Leadership Lecture Series.....
Wednesday, January 18, 2012 10:01 AM
Ten Years Gone: Hollywood vs the Web
SOPA and PIPA may be bad news, but they aren't really fresh news. Back in 2002, the equation already had been worked out: Hollywood money + Congressional cluelessness = flawed legislation The issue at t....
Friday, December 02, 2011 10:12 AM
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
by Tim Moran UPDATE: Challenge met, maybe. Ever since the glory days of James Bond, people have imagined themselves gamboling about the globe as operatives for Her Majesty's Secret Service. Well, this mig....
Monday, August 22, 2011 09:08 AM
No Parking, No IT
by Samuel Greengard Did you ever think about how incredibly inefficient it is to procure parking places and how much time and gasoline we waste doing so? We're stuck with a chaotic mess because the opera....
Friday, January 28, 2011 10:01 AM
Spy vs Virtual Spy
by Tim Moran I've never taken to video gaming, but I do like spy stories, so reports of the convergence of intelligence gathering and video games piqued my interest -- maybe because the words "intelligenc....
Wednesday, November 03, 2010 11:11 AM
Russian Revolutionary Wants Open Source
by Tim Moran If complaining about Outlook or PowerPoint could get you fired, we'd all be unemployed. But beefing about Microsoft did cost Vladimir Sorokin his job. Sorokin, a computer science teacher in....
Wednesday, August 18, 2010 14:08 PM
We're All Cyber-Warriors
By Eileen Feretic Are cyber-threats really a danger to our economy, our government and our way of life? Well, when more than 1,200 professionals from 50 countries travel to New York City to seek informatio....
Monday, April 05, 2010 10:04 AM
Makes IT Look Easy
by Tim Moran In a tunnel 17 miles in circumference some 500 feet beneath the Franco-Swiss border lies the LHC--the Large Hadron Collider, "the world's most powerful particle accelerator. High-energy proto....
Friday, December 18, 2009 14:12 PM
Saving Our Cities
BY EILEEN FERETIC "The world is undergoing the largest wave of urban growth in history." That statement is from "Linking Population, Poverty and Development," a report produced by the United Nations Popul....
Friday, October 09, 2009 10:10 AM
Fighting the Good (Green) Fight
By Eileen Feretic What do the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the U. S. Department of Energy (DOE), Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E), Coach, Verizon, The Walt Disney Co. and the NYSE Euronext ....
Wednesday, July 29, 2009 16:07 PM
Brain Drain
By Eileen Feretic A recent article from The Washington Post reported on the various challenges facing the U.S. Census Bureau. (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/22/AR20090722036....
Wednesday, July 29, 2009 15:07 PM
Let's Get Physical
By Eileen Feretic "The eventual integration of all business processes that relate to the physical world." That's the mission of GeoWeb, which is designed to "automate the aggregation of information about ....
