February 2004
Monday 23 February
- Vodafone - down but definitey not out (14:30) - The Register echos a report in The Times (of London) that Vodafone is glad it lost the bidding for AT&T Wireless. It seemed strange to me that Cingular would pay $41bn for a company that's clearly been struggling for some... | 0 Trackbacks
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- Get secure or lose your cash (00:07) - OMB is demanding that 18 agencies beef up their security or lose funding for development projects in 2005. As a vendor of development services, this alarms me enormously. But, at the same time, it's heartening to see Karen Evans (and... | 26 Trackbacks
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Friday 20 February
- Europe moves e-gov onward (15:52) - In another report from the UK's Government Computing, the European Commission has identified six new e-gov projects and will begin work on them this year. The contracts will be worth €9.5m and will be awarded this year. Of note, however,... | 0 Trackbacks
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- Gershon 'apoplectic' (15:46) - According to the UK's Government Computing weekly e-mail, Sir Peter Gershon was "apoplectic" about the leak of his report regarding the radical overhaul of how government does business, which . Seems like news of this sort does make it out... | 129 Trackbacks
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Wednesday 18 February
- Canada e-gov: a road 2/3 travelled (10:22) - Canada is four years into their six year Government On-line plan and now the most difficult tasks remain. Seems like the normal way of doing things: do the easier stuff first and worry about the rest later. Having said that,... | 9 Trackbacks
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Monday 16 February
- UK considers e-gov cost savings (16:31) - People in the UK should compulsorily use electronic forms to do business with the government, says Sir Peter Gershon, head of the Office of Government Commerce in a new report on public services reform. The Financial Times reports that Sir... | 68 Trackbacks
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Sunday 15 February
- The Two Ronnies! (17:02) - One of the best British comedy duos, The Two Ronnies, are making a comeback! The BBC has announced that Ronnie Barker and Ronnie Corbett will be writing new material for a series to be aired next year.... | 142 Trackbacks
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- IBM to launch Office on Linux (12:29) - InfoWorld reported yesterday that IBM intends to migrate Microsoft Office to Linux. This is audacious and incredibly smart...if it's true, and possible at all It could seem quite an odd initiative, as OpenOffice/StarOffice are both maturing well and are largely... | 2 Trackbacks
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- OO.org in libraries (11:33) - The Guardian reported on chap in Scotland who has spent £5,000 of his own money to distribute CDs of OpenOffice to libraries around the country. Seems like this practice is spreading, too. In the past few days, I've seen three... | 2 Trackbacks
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Wednesday 11 February
- i-gov (15:16) - Today I had lunch with a very interesting man called Frank (whose full name I won't reveal, lest he prefer otherwise) who has just started a new blog, i-Gov: Progress of electronic government (e-gov). The central notion of the blog... | 90 Trackbacks
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- Name change (14:30) - I changed the name of the blog today from The Fella to Defenestrated. The reasons aren't that interesting. I like the name better. Most of the stuff here is "thrown out the window," so to speak, so it seems appropriate.... | 33 Trackbacks
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Tuesday 10 February
- Culture can lead to profit (22:56) - Tom Yager's one of my favorite columnists in "InfoWorld", the weekly technology magazine. In his latest column, he discusses analyst's proclamations of doom for major companies, based on their last year's financial reports and the size of their competitors. He... | 8 Trackbacks
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- IT contractors to UK govt: "Steady on, chap!" (22:49) - Nick Kalisperas, head of the public sector committee at Intellect (the UK association for IT companies), gave evidence to UK government MPs, reports The Register, claiming that the government is being too harsh in its contracting terms. It's always been... | 159 Trackbacks
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- Vodafone going for gold? (22:23) - Interesting reports have emerged of Vodafone dumping the idea of buying the searching-for-a-suitor AT&T Wireless and, instead, considering an outright hostile takeover of Verizon Wireless. Verizon clearly leads the US mobile phone market but is heavily invested in CDMA, rather... | 247 Trackbacks
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- FCC says no to FBI on VoIP (09:41) - The FBI asked the FCC to delay discussions on rules to govern the use of Voice Over IP (VoIP), which is gaining significant ground against land-based telcos. The Government FCC said no, which is both positive and intriguing. It's positive... | 231 Trackbacks
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Monday 9 February
- America: CALM DOWN! (12:29) - Reuters posted an interesting sidebar called Transatlantic Allies Poles Apart Over Breasts in which opinions from both sides of the Atlantic are aired...in much the same way as Janet Jackson exposed her, er, views during the Superbowl.... | 0 Trackbacks
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- Excellence.Gov awards (11:25) - On Thursday I went to the Excellence.Gov Awards luncheon, which was chronicled today in Federal Computer Week. The SBA, SEC, DHHS, DHS, and DISA all got major props but there were 20 other winners. One of those included the Do... | 13 Trackbacks
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- LMIT throws another wobbler (10:07) - The Washington Post is reporting that Lockheed Martin (who "never forget who they're working for") is taking another step to win back their $860 million contract at the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) from EDS. LMIT has been... | 46 Trackbacks
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- e-Gov: What I do every day (09:56) - The government needs help in improving their use of IT, and that's what I do every day. I'm hoping to track the major goings-on in e-gov -- events, people, projects, technologies -- from the perspective of someone working for a... | 69 Trackbacks
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- New Mozilla browser, Firefox (09:37) - Get this now! http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/ I have and -- whee! -- it's luvverly. The more I use the Mozilla browsers, the more I like them. Seems to me that the users are listening to the users and the results are phenomenally... | 198 Trackbacks
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- If you can't beat them... (09:34) - The Washington Post reported that Microsoft's associate general counsel, Richard J. Wallis, will chair the antitrust section of the American Bar Association! The Post ran a phenomenally short blurb in their Business section but a much longer piece was featured... | 129 Trackbacks
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