According to a report by the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC) on Yahoo, governments are both stimulating the economy and investing in the future by spending on infrastructure. CIBC sees an opportunity for […]
According to NetworkWorld, several government agencies announced the timeline for broadband stimulus funding. The objective is to get $7.2 billion out the door by October 2010. NTIA sais that there will be three rounds, the […]
An article in LinuxInsider caught my attention, because it mentioned a comment by Jeremy Allison, a member of the Samba project, to the effect that Tom Tom may be violating the GPLv2 license agreement that […]
President Obama and Vice President Biden released the new emblem that will identify Recovery projects, projects funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). Given the amount of money that is funding the program, […]
The highest penetration of broadband (subscribers per household) in the world is South Korea with something like 93 % penetration. In fact in Seoul I believe it exceeds 100%. If I remember, the US just […]
I have taken a quick glance at the Obama administration’s proposed budget for 2009 and it looks to be heavily focussed on sustainability and technology. Here’s a list of highlights I identified. Department of Energy […]
Once in a great while a new feature or technology comes along that promises to change dramatically how people work. One such is 2D Geometric Constraints and Parametrics which is included in AutoCAD 2010. Shaan Hurley has […]
One of the readers of this blog pointed me to a fascinating article by Steve Vinoski, a name I remember because he was a technical leader at Iona, one of the companies which committed very […]