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Top Tech News (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Many agencies have yet to lock down their systems under the Federal Information Security Management Act. During the 1990s, the government transitioned from mainframe computers to networked computing, connecting federal employees to one another as well as to the public. Agencies also began to create Web sites to present information to the public and offer new ways to access services. But the new networked...
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Before I Forget... (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
IBM is doing something right. Last week even the unstoppable Google stumbled, failing to meet the lofty expectations of its cheerleaders. Microsoft too delivered mildly sub-par numbers in its fourth quarter as it felt the effect of a faltering economy. But IBM sailed calmly on, producing its third successive strong quarter. It is tempting to [...]
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Computerworld UK's Roundup (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
IBM reported strong second-quarter earnings Thursday, beating analyst expectations and buoyed in part by sales of its new high-end mainframe computer and continued strong performance overseas.
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Watts Up With That? (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
Stevenson Screen placement in relation to heated buildings- click for larger image Today I received an email that contained some startling revelations about the Weather Stations that were put in place on the DEW Line, a network of cold war era radar monitoring stations in Canada and Alaska, that have now been abandoned. It makes for [...]
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SignalBlog (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
IBM Corp. reports second-quarter financial results on Thursday. The following is a summary of key developments and analyst opinion related to the period. OVERVIEW: IBM’s broad international penetration continues to buoy the technology company, though investor worries abound that the economic slump in the U.S. that has pinched off spending in many corporate IT departments is [...]
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News.com.au (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
MAINFRAME computer program giant CA told the Delaware Supreme Court it shouldn't be forced to pay for dissident proxy fights.
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Off the Kuff (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
This can't be good. State social services officials now plan to switch 1 million or more needy people in the...
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Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | 07/12/2008
AUSTIN – State social services officials now plan to switch 1 million or more needy people in the next year to a different application process for benefits, including Medicaid and food stamps. The state says it intends to shift 953,000 elderly and disabled Medicaid patients into its problem-plagued "integrated eligibility" system by September 2009 – on top of its previously stated goal of moving in...
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Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | 07/12/2008
AUSTIN – State social services officials now plan to switch 1 million or more needy people in the next year to a different application process for benefits, including Medicaid and food stamps.The state says it intends to shift 953,000 elderly and disabled Medicaid patients into its problem-plagued "integrated eligibility" system by September 2009 – on top of its previously stated goal of moving in...
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On Our Radar Today (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
Swiatek has debugged computer problems at companies like Blue Cross Blue Shield , helped with programming puzzles at places like Citibank, Keycorp and Welch's Foods, and did consulting work with firms ranging from Nestle Foods to Sea ...
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Christopher Null (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
Has the battle to create a dream product to link online digital media to the TV quietly been won? Despite competition from just about everyone—Vudu, Apple, TiVo, Xbox, and more—humble Roku, which released its
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TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
Jump to the full entry & travel map Gulu, Uganda Tomorrow is now today. And today was my first less than perfect 24 hours. It all started with an innocent trip into town to use the internet. First mistake, referring to my trip as "innocent." No encounter with technology in Gulu is "innocent." And while it is not exactly malicious, it is definitely several steps beyond harmless. The internet was moving...
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BetaNews (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
HP didn't push IBM off the top spot in worldwide server revenues after all, according to Gartner. In revised statistics issued by the analyst firm late last week, the firm cut its overall server revenue numbers for the Q1 almost in half.
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tech.clickjobs.com (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
IBM announced on Wednesday that it has bought Platform Solutions Inc, acquiring its California rival’s technology and ending lawsuits, which the firms had filed against each other. PSI workers and intellectual property will be melded into IBM’s “long-term mainframe product is engineering cycles” and future product plans, according to the computer industry behemoth. “This acquisition makes the [...]...
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TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home (Free subscription) | 07/04/2008
Happy Fourth of July to our readers in the United States—and happy honorary Fourth to those elsewhere. In keeping with this history-rich day, I’ll point to HistoryLessons.net, through which you can sign up for free weekly e-mails on "the oddities and ironies of history." Topics have ranged from Churchill: God takes a hero to [...]
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timiwhat | 02/02/2008
Microsoft Makes $42 Billion Bid for Yahoo; Executives Hope Deal Can Help Them Topple Google
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robertoms2003 | 12/20/2007
Computers simply mean a machine which can compute. Let us peek into the past and find out who were the geeks who thought about having a device that could perform calculative tasks by recognizing inputs and giving the appropriate outputs. Abacus developed in 3000 BC can be called the first ever computer as it was a simple counting device. In 1941 a German engineer Konard Zuse developed a first programmable...
