Information Technology

Official In Bankrupt County: State Is 'Kicking The Can'

Reuters | Posted 05.03.2012

Read More: Layoffs, Video, Bankruptcy, Jefferson County, Reuters, Municipal Bankruptcy, Political Corruption, Jobs, Jefferson County Employees Association, Chapter 9 Bankruptcy, Information Technology, Debts, Government Employees, Business News

By Verna Gates BIRMINGHAM, Ala., May 2 (Reuters) - Alabama's bankrupt Jefferson County is laying off more government w...

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Content in Motion For Better Business Outcomes

Ken Bisconti | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: Tejon Ranch, Ken Bisconti, New Technology, Information Technology, Big Data, Smarter Ideas, Ibm, Ibm-Bao, Technology News
Ken Bisconti

There's valuable content in those emails, documents, correspondents, statements, videos and blogs. The key is to find it, make it accessible, and shar...

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Nurturing Entrepreneurs in Africa

Jeannine Jennings | Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Africa, Smarter Ideas, Jeannine Jennings, Ibm-Midmarket, Startups, Entrepreneurship, South Africa, Ghana, Information Technology, Bloovue, Dropifi, Motribe, Seda, Bblog-ibm20, Technology News
Jeannine Jennings

Entrepreneurship in Africa is on the rise. Savvy African small and midsize businesses are taking advantage of the worldwide social media explosion to drive growth.

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Open Humanitarian Initiative: Improving Disaster Response

William Brindley | Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: Humanitarian Crisis, Nethope, Natural Disasters, Information Technology, Technology, Impact News
William Brindley

Why is it so important that data be widely accessible during a disaster? Imagine that you're in a coastal region reeling from the aftermath of a tsunami. You may be trapped under rubble or in desperate need of medical attention, food and water.

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Collaborative Impact for New Philanthropy's Demands

William Brindley | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Nethope, Information Technology, Global Philanthropy Forum, Technology, Collaboration, Impact News
William Brindley

NetHope brings 34 of the world's leading humanitarian organizations together to collaborate, create and implement innovative IT solutions in remote parts of the developing world.

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Give Your Office IT People A Break, They Probably Need It

BusinessNewsDaily | David Mielach | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: GFI Software, Stress, Stressful Jobs, Video, It, High Blood Pressure, Computers, Opinion Matters, Jobs, Information Technology, Technology, Business News

By: David Mielach, BusinessNewsDaily Staff Writer Many people believe they have a stressful job, but a new survey shows that information technolo...

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We're Entering a New Era of Computing

Marie L. Wieck | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: Smarter Ideas, Computing, Information Technology, Ibm Technology, Iphones, Facebook, Ibm, Bblog-Ibm7, Video, Technology News
Marie L. Wieck

What really separates leaders from laggards in our Facebook, iPhone, tweet-driven world?

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Building Bridges for Student Success

William Brindley | Posted 05.29.2012

Read More: Nethope, Education, Information Technology, Nethope Academy, It Internship, Impact News
William Brindley

According to a recent High Flyers Research report featured in The Guardian, recruiters say that graduates with no work experience have little or no chance of being offered a position in their intended field.

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Advanced Technology: Analyzing The Human Language, Social Media, Consumer Sentiment And More

Deepak Advani | Posted 05.20.2012

Read More: Technlogy Data, Human Language, Business Analytics, Social Media, Bblog-ibm5, Ibm-Bao, Information Technology, Smarter Ideas, Ibm Business Analytics, Technology News
Deepak Advani

How to use business analytics and not drown in information overload.

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Change Your Email Password Now (for Your Financial Security)

Mark W. Schleisner | Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: Identity Theft, Login, Cyber Crime, Cyber Security, Password, Information Technology, Computer Hacking, Password Security, Email Password Security, Cyber-Hacking, Email Hackers, Cyber-Security, Technology News
Mark W. Schleisner

Chances are that your current email password is useless (and even dangerous to your financial health). Fortunately, you can protect yourself by changing your email password now! Here's how.

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Healthy Pull-Back?

Michael Farr | Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: Consumer, Employment-Data-Economy, Volatility, qe3, Stock Market, Federal Reserve, Information Technology, S&P 500, Treasury Yields, Business News
Michael Farr

The media were all abuzz following yesterday's much-anticipated sell-off in stocks. Prior to yesterday's 1.5 percent drop, the S&P 500 had gone 44 st...

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Business Analytics: Leveraging Business Data and Insights with IBM

Posted 03.13.2012

Read More: Business Analytics, Video, Ibm, Ibm-Bao, Data, Information Technology, Smarter Ideas, Customer Experience, Technology News

IBM is helping global IT leaders use smarter business analytics to extract major insights from big data and meet growing customer expectations....

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Small Data on Big Data

Stephen W.T. O'Keeffe | Posted 03.12.2012

Read More: Technology News, Information Technology, Big Data, Meritalk, Technology News
Stephen W.T. O'Keeffe

Brace yourself -- Big Data is the new IT buzz phrase coming to the Beltway. So, what is Big Data and why should we care?

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Educating for Democracy: All About Jobs

Joel Shatzky | Posted 03.11.2012

Read More: Department of Labor, Nyu, Information Technology, No Child Left Behind, Education News
Joel Shatzky

There is no evidence that No Child Left Behind, with its reliance on standardized tests and the incalculable damage it has done to the teaching profession, has made math more accessible to our students in the decade since its inception.

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Double Trouble

Stephen W.T. O'Keeffe | Posted 02.07.2012

Read More: Data Center Exchange, Information Technology, Gao Report, Government, Meritalk, Technology News
Stephen W.T. O'Keeffe

Sometimes, the challenges facing Federal IT -- and Washington writ large -- seem so complex as to be intractable. Other times the answers are so simple it makes my blood boil.

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Looking Back on My 2011 Projections

Don Tapscott | Posted 02.04.2012

Read More: 2012 Business Predictions, Clean Technology, Information Technology, Market-Predictions, 2011 Market Predictions, European Debt Crisis, European Debt, Global Financial Crisis, Eurozone Debt Crisis, 2011 Youth Unemployment, Youth Unemployment, Facebook Privacy, Net Neutrality, Business News
Don Tapscott

A year ago I published "10 Big Themes for 2011" -- related to how the digital revolution changes business and society. It's helpful to review what actually occurred. Below are my projections and some 20-20 hindsight editorializing.

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The Curated Web

Brittany Morin | Posted 01.16.2012

Read More: Information Overload, Information Technology, Curated Web, Women and Technology, Women Business Owners, Women Technology, Small Business News
Brittany Morin

For all of the incredible doors the web has opened for the world, it's also overwhelmed us with an amount of content that we'll never be able to absorb. The curated web is an important next step to provide people with the ideas and information they are looking for.

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Technology Leaders from Leading Global NGOs Gather in Ireland for NetHope Summit

William Brindley | Posted 01.08.2012

Read More: Innovation, Information Technology, Ngos, Humanitarian, Technology, Impact News
William Brindley

Once a year, technology leaders from more than 30 of the world's leading international NGOs convene for a week with one main purpose: to share.

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Federal CIO VanRoekel's 'Future First' Vision for Government Focuses on Cloud, Open Standards, Modularity, Shared Services

Alexander Howard | Posted 12.27.2011

Read More: Steven VanRoekel, Gov 2.0, Government 2.0, Lean Startup, Government IT, Open Government, Government Spending, Open Source, Information Technology, Cio, Federal IT, Technology News
Alexander Howard

While no speech is going to simply fix an entrenched issue, articulating principles based upon the need for modularity, interoperability and open standards represents at least a breath of fresh air.

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The Broadcast Industry's Free TV Scam Redux

J.H. Snider | Posted 12.24.2011

Read More: American Jobs Act, E-Petitions, Spectrum, Incentive Auctions, Information Technology, Wireless Spectrum, Public Airwaves, Technology News
J.H. Snider

What the broadcasters really want is to transition to mobile broadband service without paying for the privilege. The debate in the industry is over the means, not the end.

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USAJobs: Help Not Wanted, But Desperately Needed

Linda E. Brooks Rix | Posted 12.13.2011

Read More: Office of Personnel Management, Information Technology, Federal Jobs, Technology, Job Search, Usajobs, Technology News
Linda E. Brooks Rix

One year behind schedule and nearly $20 million spent this year alone, the Office of Personnel Management couldn't come close to engineering a smooth launch of its USAJobs 3.0 platform update on Wednesday.

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Soaking the Rich in Obama's Jobs Plan?

J.H. Snider | Posted 12.05.2011

Read More: Special Interest Politics, Public Assets, Corporate Welfare, Spectrum, Tea Pot Dome, Information Policy, Telecommunications, Wireless, American Jobs Act, Information Technology, Public Airwaves, Technology News
J.H. Snider

The Obama Administration's spectrum reallocation policy has been characterized by lots of talk of spectrum auctions and fees while in practice relying almost exclusively on giveaways.

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Big Ideas and the Concentration of Wealth

Jared Bernstein | Posted 10.14.2011

Read More: Income Disparity, Income Inequality, Information Technology, Smarter Ideas, Economics, Economy, Business News
Jared Bernstein

Why did we economists squander the opportunity for a new paradigm of thought? Not because there's so much information on the web. It is, at least in part, because the concentration of wealth and power blocked the new ideas from a fair hearing.

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5 Reasons to "Go Cloud"

Steve Hamby | Posted 09.13.2011

Read More: It, Map Reduce, Cloud Computing, Microsoft Cloud Computing, Icloud, Information Technology, Cassandra, Apache Hadoop, Technology News
Steve Hamby

From Google-derived Map Reduce and Apache Hadoop to Facebook's Cassandra, new Cloud-based technologies are driving analytics that were considered impossible 5-10 years ago.

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"Idonomics" and the American Dream

Hoyt Hilsman | Posted 08.08.2011

Read More: Debt, Freud, Entertainment, Relationships, Economy, Mortgage Crisis, Psychology, Information Technology, Media, Credit Cards, Business, American Dream, Recession, Marriage, Corporations, Great Recession, Financial Crisis, Technology, News, Health Care, Executive Compensation, Los Angeles News
Hoyt Hilsman

Over the past 50 years, the pleasure principle -- the id -- has dominated American society. The result has been "idonomics," in which the id dominates not only the marketplace, but also politics, media, technology and even our personal relationships.

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