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Live Webcast: Getting to Microsoft Office 365: The Right Migration for Your Business
If you've been stuck using bare bones, web-based tools, you'll appreciate the full featured collaboration in MS Office 365. Check out this live webcast to learn more about Microsoft Office 365,...
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Virginia to ban student-teacher texting? One simple rule of school communications
Virginia bans student-teacher texting and Facebook communications to prevent accusations of sexual misconduct. There is one, simple rule however to effective student-teacher communications.
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Virginia governor calls for IT outage review on Northrop Grumman's tab
Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell said Thursday the state will order an independent review of its information technology outage that stretched on for a week and shelved key agencies. Northrop...
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Virginia IT woes drag on; Northrop Grumman grateful for the patience
Follow up: Northrop Grumman said that it is committed to restoring the information systems behind key state of Virginia services and supported a thorough post mortem.
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Virginia's IT outage doesn't pass management sniff test
It has been a rough few days for anyone interacting with the state of Virginia following an IT outage that affected 26 state agencies. Can a storage area networking failure really cripple a...
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Virginia backs off demands for Facebook data
The state of Virginia has backed away from its attempts to force Facebook to divulge the complete contents of a user's account to settle a dispute over workers' compensation.
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Lofty aspirations for power efficiency: Power Loft seeks silver certification for new data center
Colocation data center Power Loft began dreaming about greener data centers several years ago, long before it became vogue to do so. Now, in collaboration with Hewlett-Packard's Critical...
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Can a Virginia hack scuttle health IT reform?
The Virginia hack is important because the Northrop-Grumman agreement compromised by it was negotiated by Aneesh Chopra, then the state's secretary of technology, now President Obama's CTO.
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What Chopra offers open source
Chopra's most relevant experience to open source is his work on rural broadband. There he worked to give private WiMAX operators access to government-owned radio towers. He also gave local...
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Petroleum Age continues
I recently blogged about a U.S. government report on energy resources on offshore energy sources. Currently the Interior Department is holding public hearings on the next steps toward exploiting...
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Supreme Court won't hear appeal in Va. antispam case
A Virginia antispam law is now officially unconstitutional. The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal of a Virginia Supreme Court decision that invalidated a state law that makes illegal...
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Spammer walks as court says state antispam law is unconstitutional
The Supreme Court may get to decide whether an antispam law that bans emails with false routing information violates the First Amendment (yes, I misspelled "unconstitutional" in the headline; my...
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Fired up for new coal plant in Virginia
The Commonwealth of Virginia has given the green light for a large coal-burning plant to generate electricity. It's planned for the southwest corner of the state and is expected to require lots...
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Virginia, Illinois, and Texas all teaching Internet safety
Virginia became the first state this year to require Internet safety courses in its public schools. Illinois and Texas both have laws on the books relating to curriculum and instruction in this...
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In close First Amendment case, Virginia court upholds spammer conviction
What do geeks hate more than free speech restrictions? Spammers! Thus, anti-spam laws are an interesting collision. Spamming is clearly speech -- albeit commercial speech. So are antispam laws...
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Spammer says state law is unconstitutional
Is an anti-spam law unconstitutionally infringe on free speech? That's what a former spammer is arguing to the Virginia Supreme Court, The Washington Post reports. Jeremy Jaynes of Raleigh, N.C.,...
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Huge anti-spam suit targets email harvesters
Unspam Technologies, a company that consults with government agencies and private companies, and with users in 100 countries, filed suit today seeking the identity of those who have harvested...
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CT, VA use Reverse 911 for automated messages to public
Technology uses database and GIS data to send emergency messages out to cellphones.
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Asian countries covet US love of learning, if not test scores
Singapore sends educators to US schools to learn something about quick thinking and problem solving. Some worry NCLB is robbing US of those very traits.
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VA legislators call for paper receipts for election day
In light of bug that will trim candidates' names from summary ballots in some counties, Virginia leaders call for adding paper receipt printers to e-voting machines.
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In VA, Webb's name cut off on some e-ballots
In increasing font size to help voters, some names are truncated due to a software bug.
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