Flynn Testifies at Little Hoover Commission on Governor’s Re-Org Plan; Calls it the Looming Threat to State IT Investment

May 1, 2012

Your TechLeader.TV host held nothing back as he testified on April 24, 2012 before the Little Hoover Commission, California’s “good Government”,  independent state oversight agency that was created a half century ago. The Commission’s mission is to investigate state government operations and – through reports, [...]

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TechLeader.TV with Anna Brannen & Paul Benedetto, Under Secretaries, California Technology Agency, April 26, 2012, 11:30 AM PT

April 18, 2012

Next Program April 26, 2012 11:30 AM PT Live Webcast Hosted by John Thomas Flynn with Anna Brannen   Under Secretary for Policy California Technology Agency Paul Benedetto Under Secretary for Operations California Technology Agency TechLeader.TV will discuss with Anna and Paul key developments affecting [...]

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TechLeader.TV Opens Sponsorship Opportunities

April 18, 2012

Join the Premier State & Local Government IT Marketing Vehicle for California and the Nation Now in our sixth season, TechLeader.TV (TLTV) Webcasts focuses on public sector, particularly in the State of California, through live interviews with key state IT and program leaders during each [...]

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Gov. Brown Re-Org Plan, Including Cal Tech Agency Downgrade, Scheduled for Little Hoover Commission Review April 23-25

April 12, 2012

The Little Hoover Commission (LHC) will take up its statutory obligations later this month to review and make recommendations on Governor Brown’s proposed government reorganization plan which was submitted to the LHC on March 30, 2012. The way California government re-org’s work, LHC has until [...]

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TechLeader.TV covers California National Guard Showcasing its New Civil Support Helicopter

April 5, 2012

  Cialis Generic Viagra   We were up close and personal this morning at Mather Field for the California National Guard (CNG) aviation open house to showcase its UH-72 Lakota helicopters, the latest addition to its fleet of civil support aircraft, to local, state and [...]

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Speculation Over, Brown Formally Initiates Plan to Downgrade California Technology Agency

April 3, 2012

Over the last month or so, there has been some speculation that Jerry Brown’s FY2012-13 budget plan which called for downgrading the State’s primary technology organization was going away. After all the Agency Secretary has been recently confirmed (though somewhat awkwardly) by the Senate Rules [...]

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New Assistant Secretary at CaTA

March 30, 2012

California Technology Agency announced the appointment of Kari Gutierrez as the Assistant Secretary for Professional Development. Technology Agency Announces Appointment of First-Ever Assistant Secretary for Professional Development  

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Review: Chase Bank Mobile App QuickDeposit with iPhone

March 30, 2012

Just tried the new Chase Bank Mobile App Chase QuickDeposit on my iPhone this week to deposit a check simply by taking a photo of front and back of check, and voilà. Well, not quite voilà, but it’s pretty cool. Took me a couple of [...]

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NSA Building the Country’s Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say)

March 16, 2012

Under the Obama Administration? Say it ain’t so… Under construction by contractors with top-secret clearances, the blandly named Utah Data Center is being built for the National Security Agency. A project of immense secrecy, it is the final piece in a complex puzzle assembled over [...]

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IBM’s awarded contract for 21st Century project deployment and training; bittersweet after disqualification of their FI$CAL Bid

March 16, 2012

Techwire reports on IBM’s award of a $12 million contract for 21st Century Payroll Project deployment and training for the new SAP based system. Not sure if it will make up for IBM’s failure to even have their FI$CAL final bid opened. Apparently, just CGI [...]

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More blow back about State of California’s boast about being a transparency leader

March 15, 2012

Not so reports SacBee’s Torey Van Oot: Gov. Jerry Brown’s decision to shut down a state-run “transparency” website has caused California to slip in an annual ranking based on access to government spending data. California, one of eight states to receive the ranking’s second-lowest grade [...]

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Texas Company Uses Homeless as Wi-Fi Hotspots – What could possibly go wrong?

March 14, 2012

Or perhaps file this under, “No good deed goes unpunished”. South by Southwest, the festival being held in Austin this week, has been chock full of interesting panels, lots of geeks on their phones, and marketing stunts. But the most daring marketing attempt — and [...]

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California Wins Transparency Award – huh?

March 13, 2012

For the third year in a row the State of California has won a “transparency” award. California Wins “Sunny Award” for Transparency, Third Year In A Row I wonder what they’d have won if the Governor had not shut down the state’s Transparency Web Site [...]

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TechLeader.TV with Keith Tresh, California Chief Information Security Officer, March 14, 2014, 11:30 AM PT

March 11, 2012

 Next Program   March 14, 2012 11:30 AM PT   Live Webcast Hosted by John Thomas Flynn with Keith Tresh           Chief Information Security Officer  and the Director Office of Information Security TechLeader.TV will discuss with Keith the information security, privacy and data protection [...]

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New Permanent OTech Director Appointment Imminent

March 5, 2012

Levitra online Levitra Speaking of OTech, TechLeader.TV broke the news last week that Nancy Johnson was out and Steve Rushing in as Office of Technology Services Acting Director.  Definite Changes afoot at OTech Now we understand that Steve Rushing is just a placeholder for a [...]

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Adrian Farley slated for Department of Justice CIO Slot

March 5, 2012

TLTV veteran and friend Adrian Farley has landed nicely on his feet since he left as OTech Acting Director last summer with a new gig as DOJ CIO. Considering that then Attorney General Jerry Brown never had a legitimate CIO for more than a few [...]

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State CIO Carlos Ramos has another Senate Confirmation Hearing this week – Better outcome predicted

March 5, 2012

State CIO & Secretary of the Technology Agency Carlos Ramos is scheduled for another confirmation hearing this week on Wednesday March 7, 2012. Let’s hope it goes better than the last time. By all indications it should go smoothly, though so it was thought the [...]

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Is Antivirus Software a Waste of Money?

March 2, 2012

This blew me away. From Wired Magazine, and very well worth reading. We’ll be sure to ask California CISO Keith Tresh when he appears on TechLeader.TV on March 14th. Jeremiah Grossman is the kind of guy you’d expect to be super paranoid when it comes [...]

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Definite Changes afoot at OTech

March 2, 2012

Rumors were a swirling at the CIO Academy last week about leadership changes at the Office of Technology Services. Appears to be true that Steve Rushing will replace Nancy Johnson as Acting Director next week. As they say, developing…

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Park & Rec CIO Alan Friedman Retiring

March 1, 2012

One of the grand pooh-bahs of California State IT, a ParkZone Stryker modeler extraordinaire, and a dear friend of TLTV has announced he is hanging up his spurs. Famous (or as Teri Takai was known to say, infamous) for his frank demeanor and the one [...]

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