Maryland goes hybrid: No more clouds of smoke
The Maryland Transit Administration is transitioning to hybrid buses, and the reviews are good. Original post
INPUT Pulse: Justice, Public Safety and Homeland Security April Review
INPUT Analyst Evan Halperin provides a recap of the April’s justice and public safety news. Taking a look back at the justice, public safety and homeland security markets for April, there are a few trends that seemed to carry over from March, along with the emerging trend of agencies holding back large projects until theRead… Read more »
IT matters of interest in the 2011/2012 Federal Budget
Just about every year since the Australian Federal Budget was first put on the web, I have done a quick search though the documents to find matters of interest in information technology.This year budget web site worked fine at 8pm and kept working (last year the system failed at 7:53pm, reporting: “HTTP Error 404 –Read… Read more »
Adverts on council websites
Adrian Short picks up on some adverts that appear on a council’s website. They’re for debt management companies that encourage people to apply for bankruptcy. Probably not a good thing – I think we’d probably rather people needing advice about that sort of thing go to the Citizens Advice Bureau, for example. Soem folk don’tRead… Read more »
Beyond MetroCard: MTA unveils vision for new farecards
The MTA (NY) is outlining goals for a new fare collection system in a meeting with more than 70 technology, telecommunications and financial companies. Original post
slow computer fix
You have got nothing to bother about in case your own computer system slows a bit once in a while but if you’re encountering this issue routinely, then you must take notice of this difficulty. The sudden or even continuous cut in performance of your computer system is normally a result of a number ofRead… Read more »
WordPress just got even more funky
I was so pleased to read that WordPress have announced that you can now embed google docs and calendars into WordPress This is such a good feature that I actually believe we will start to see lots more use of “on the edge” WordPress sites as well as more mainstream sites within the public sectorRead… Read more »
How to Make the Journey Relevant
Imagine you’re organizing an event and you’re asking people to participate. You’re trying to persuade them to join you. The story you tell them should include one or more personal benefits each of them may realize by participating. In his latest post on business storytelling, Ira shared three tips for inspiring others to action throughRead… Read more »
Thin Client and Application Virtualisation at Defence
The Australian Defence Department will proceed with its Next Generation Desktop Project, using thin client computers and application virtualisation (“Next generation desktop for Defence”, Warren Snowdon, Minister for Defence Science and Personnel, MIN55/11, 6 May 2011). While this will deliver benefits, such as energy and cost savings, it is a difficult to implement in aRead… Read more »
Mobile Health 2011 – Mapping the Uncharted
Susannah Fox provided a powerful analogy for mobile health at the start of the Mobile Health 2011 conference last week at Stanford. She spoke of individuals moving between the kingdom of the healthy and the kingdom of the ill and when we find ourselves (or our loved ones) in that unfortunate second kingdom, we graspRead… Read more »