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Critics of Fox News' coverage of climate change issues were given a rich vein to mine in an email from a top editor to his staffers, which was made public recently In the email dated Dec. 8 and made public Wednesday by Media Matters for America, Fox News Washington managing e...

One is program management. The government is underpowered in terms of employing enough truly professional IT managers. OMB plans to introduce measures to develop "career tracks" and better professional development resources for employees. As an incentive to federal agencies to improve their staffs, OMB will only approve IT projects that are managed with competent personnel that are "hardwired" into an agency's organizational structure...

Hackers associated with the site 4Chan broke into Gawker's site in July, triggering a challenge from Gawker publisher Nick Denton and his staff. This apparently angered the people behind Gnosis, who launched their attack in retaliation Revenge of the Hackers...

Dissident staff members at WikiLeaks, led by that site's former spokesperson Daniel Domscheit-Berg, reportedly plan to launch a spinoff to be named "OpenLeaks." This may be unveiled as early as next week....

That tactic actually worked, at least until Amazon decided that WikiLeaks was violating its terms of service because WikiLeaks could not prove it legally owned the data it was housing on the Amazon's cloud. Amazon subsequently booted WikiLeaks off its cloud, sending Assange and his staff on a worldwide journey for another hosting site. Its last known landing spot was somewhere in Switzerland.

Managed services often pose a challenge with staffing, the amount of effort needed to perform tasks, or making sure to assign the right resource with the proper tools to manage the environment. These challenges may result in a failure to recognize issues before they occurred, as expected when managing an IT environment...

While some federal agencies have moved parts of their organization's email systems to cloud platforms, the GSA contract marks the first time a federal agency will adopt a cloud-based system for email on an enterprise, or agency-wide, basis.The migration will result in a 50 percent savings over the next five years when compared to current staff, infrastructure, and contract support costs, GSA said. Nearly 17,000 GSA users will be affected by the change...

Bilal is known for controversial art projects, and this latest one has stirred up the faculty and staff at NYU His project could be seen as one type of "sousveillance" -- the recording of an activity from the perspective of a participant....

2. Choose a partner -- This is one of the most important decisions that you will make, so choose carefully. Look for a partner that has extensive application expertise as well as cloud expertise. Partners that understand what it takes to run your ERP, financials and messaging applications will have applications experts on staff that will be able to scale quickly and help you transition seamlessly...

Aberdeen surveyed 240 users and managers of IT support to find out how organizations in this new world can ensure that workers are productive and customers enjoy their products. The 107 support managers who responded to Aberdeen's survey ranked the metrics they use to evaluate their IT support staff on a scale from one to five, where 1 was the highest priority and 5 the lowest.

One of the great benefits of a system built with virtualization for aggregation is that it eliminates the complexity of managing a cluster, allowing for users to manage their systems more easily and reduce management time overall. This is especially helpful for projects that have no dedicated IT staff...

What's certain is that this change will not happen overnight. The slow pace of economic recovery is causing IT executives -- like most decision-makers -- to take a conservative approach to spending and staffing up. In my own conversations with our clients, many have indicated they are more optimistic than a year ago, but that they are still hesitant to hire full-time talent, choosing instead to leverage temporary or contract workers to fill their needs. ...

In addition to recognizing recent advances in technology, these rulings reflect basic common sense, according to Corynne McSherry, senior staff attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), which was a leading advocate for all of the rulings issued by the Library of Congress.

The inability of existing tools to handle hyperscaled sites also requires IT to use new tools or write some themselves. For example, Twitter's IT staff wrote an open source tool called "Peep" that lets users figure out what the optimal size for a Memcached memory slab is. Memcached is a general-purpose distributed memory caching system...

Each of these options has different costs for hardware, backups and operating system software. Software installed by your IT staff in your own company's environment will have all of these costs. On the other hand, solutions provided directly to your browser from the vendor's system (Software as a Service, also known as "SaaS" or "cloud" solutions) usually only have a monthly fee, and any Web browser will work with the software...

Although Salesforce.com offers a very inexpensive entry-level product, some of the more advanced versions offer tremendous benefits, providing a company has enough resources and staff to take full advantage of them, Hyken said. That functionality could change the whole face of a business...

The first lesson is that the company with the stronger partner ecosystem will have a distinct advantage. With increasing competitive factors, pricing pressure, and reduced staffing resources, smartly leveraging a partner ecosystem to create a sustained advantage through value-added solutions is key to a company's success. ...

However, that hasn't stemmed public outrage, which was further fueled recently when video surfaced depicting TSA staffers frisking a crying three-year-old girl, Mandy Simon, who screamed at them to stop touching her "We've been a strong supporter of stronger aviation security ...

Of course, both of these activities aren't easy -- we're not likely to get there for this year's budgeting discussions. But strategic thinking means thinking beyond where we are currently. And if we start right now, we should be able to get there for next year. A solid risk analysis will take several quarters to complete -- longer if we haven't done it before and don't have expertise in house. But starting the risk assessment process now should get us to where we need to be ahead of next year's budget cycle in the very worst case. As far as the transparency side, the budgeting cycle is the perfect time to start gathering data about what and how we're spending on security technology and staff -- it's top of mind for everyone anyway, so collecting the data during the budget discussions is a good "target of opportunity." ...

Therefore, effective IT management systems must be easier to administer, more responsive to shifting requirements, and quicker to produce timely analysis so the IT staff can optimize the performance of fluctuating resources Expanding Opportunities...