April 11, 2013
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February 21, 2013
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Chris Cruz, Deputy Director
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November 15, 2012
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September 20, 2012
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Carlos Ramos
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This is pretty spectacular: Flying Unmanned Aircraft In The Face Of Authority. Nastycop420 is Raphael Pirker, one of the cofounders of Team BlackSheep, a Swiss-based group of radio-controlled-aircraft enthusiasts that has been gleefully pushing the boundaries of what you can do aerially (and legally) with [...]
What does a public sector CIO do when his boss, instead of backing up his agency-wide authority on IT budget and spending, decides to override it in favor of various departments in that agency? Apparently, at the Department of Homeland Security as least, the CIO [...]
Michigan Chief Information Security Officer, Dan Lohrmann launches his new eBook today at Amazon. The title is BYOD for You: The Guide to Bring Your Own Device to Work www.byod4u.com. Learn the basics of BYOD; including legal, financial, security, privacy and ethical. Click image for [...]
TechLeader.TV will be taking it on the road again next week when I will be presenting one of the keynotes at the New York State IT Leadership Academy in Albany. As part of the event, there will be an interesting, interactive session on April 18th [...]
And it seems to be working. As some are skeptical of social media’s impact on the bottom line (see GM Says Facebook Ads Don’t Pay Off), Tesla is all in, and it’s paying off. It has been quite a week for Tesla Motors (TSLA). The Palo [...]
If you are using that unreported income to travel around the world, and bragging about it on social media, you may be in for a rude awakening, and a letter from the IRS. According to a report on Fox News: IRS collecting tax payer information [...]
California picks up Computerworld award for it vaunted social media program. The state’s most public department is among some of the heaviest hitters in government and private industry to receive a 2013 Computerworld Honors Laureate for Innovation. The technology publication is honoring the DMV’s 3-year-old [...]
In case you want to surprise your significant other or indulge yourself by forking over $1,500 for the “newest thing” this Christmas, here’s a video and an article on Google Glass to help inform your decision: … Google Glass can… record videos, take photos, chat, [...]
In a sign of the times and the reality of Obamacare: Nearly 4,800 people have applied for 180 new health exchange call center agent positions at the newly approved call center facility in Concord, the county reported Thursday…The agents will help eligible state residents enroll [...]
Linda Cureton announced that she was leaving her position as NASA CIO last month, and she has written an interesting article entitled: The future of the CIO. An early social media adopter, evangelist and blogger as evidenced here: There’s a lot of discussion about the [...]
Description: Cal-Vendor Technology Connection half-day forum to promote and engage the public and private sector in developing strategic technology partnerships for a better California Event: Cal-Vendor Technology Connection Kick-Off Event Type: Registration Required Audience: California State Leaders Recurring: No Date: [...]
March 31 is World Backup Day! Not sure I knew we had such a Day, but good idea; I try to do so first of each month…
Plus the new hires may have to undergo background checks and fingerprinting. But that’s the least of the problems. Fact is they’ll be paid for each enrollee they find! In the State Attorney General’s Med-Cal fraud investigators’ parlance – I believe they call such individuals [...]
Next Program with Ron Hughes Director, California Office of Technology Services Live Webcast Hosted By John Thomas Flynn with Special Guest Ron Hughes Ron Hughes was appointed Director of the Office of Technology Services (OTech) in April of 2012. OTech has over 800 employees and [...]
The 50 million uninsured Americans, 7 million of them in California alone, “should” be able to contact calls centers for guidance in establishing their eligibility for federal subsidies and obtaining health insurance coverage as well later this year. Emphasis is on “should” as they must [...]
As State CIO in both Massachusetts and California I quickly became accustomed to the monthly (and often more frequent) public record act requests, first in the mid-nineties for employee phone records, and by the end of that decade, for emails as well. Now we see [...]
Ubiquitous cameras, virtually real time video, social media and boorish behavior, too. Throw in a politically correct culture, and it can cost you your job. SAN JOSE, Calif. — A female developer was fired after tweeting about a group of men she said were making [...]
I suspect this will be standard soon: Apple today quietly added optional two-factor authentication for Apple ID accounts, joining the likes of Google, Dropbox, PayPal, Facebook, and an ever-growing number of other sites. This additional layer of authentication helps protect the increasingly important Apple ID [...]
Snapshot from AP via the NYT about states’ Health Insurance Exchanges and Medicaid expansion. Glaringly, in my opinion, no word on whether states will make the Obamacare deadline just over six months away on October 1, 2013 to have enrollment and eligibility systems up and [...]
This could be a game changer: CIA has agreed to a cloud computing contract with electronic commerce giant Amazon, worth up to $600 million over 10 years…Amazon Web Services will help the intelligence agency build a private cloud infrastructure that helps the agency keep up [...]
