Government & Regulation

In Friday's IT Blogwatch, Richi Jennings watches bloggers watch the UK's Navy finish installing Windows XP in all its nuclear submarines, replacing the existing command system. Not to mention PING: happy holidays...

Cisco is going to be finding out, the hard way, that open source isn't the same thing as free software.

Madoff's firm claimed use of Wall Street's most advanced, sophisticated and proprietary technology.

Yesterday, President George Bush was attacked by an Iraqi journalist who hurled his shoes at him. Thanks to the power of YouTube, footage of the attack may be what some people remember most about his administration.

In Monday's IT Blogwatch, Richi Jennings watches the Wall Street Journal "inaccurately" stir up a hornets' nest of net-neutrality controversy. Not to mention a merry BetamaXmas...

Building a new economy means getting rid of the old one.

Court records from the Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich case gives out some details on how the feds got the goods on Blago.

Many of the fundamental assumptions regarding the nature of the credit crunch spawned by the current financial crisis are quite simply not supported by or contradict the government's own facts and figures. As a result, the policies being employed by the government to deal with the crisis may also well be the wrong ones, according to a soon-to-be-released report from Celent, an IT research and consulting firm that specializes in the financial services industry.

The report is written by Octavio Marenzi, the company's CEO.

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Now drivers in Indiana have one more excuse for hating their license photos. Effective in November, Indiana residents applying for new driver's licenses or renewing existing ones are being forbidden from smiling for the camera. The reason is new facial recognition software being used by the Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles. The software was installed as part of an effort to cut down on identity fraud and is being used to compare an applicant’s new photo with the ones on file.

Welcome to a special IT Blogwatch EXTRA: as Richi Jennings watches the UK child-porn watchdog apologize for blocking Wikipedia. Not to mention why you shouldn't trust phone surveys...

Can possessing lewd images of Lisa and Bart Simpson earn you jail time? In the land down under, the answer apparently is yes.

Last February I wrote a blog posting to see if anyone knew the whereabouts of Roger Covey, who in the 1990s ran the high-flying manufacturing resource planning software company System Software Associates of BPCS fame, and whose dissemblance and alleged perpetration of fraud ultimately drove SSA into the ground. It seems we've finally had a Covey sighting.

In Monday's IT Blogwatch, Richi Jennings watches ISPs in the UK ban access to parts of Wikipedia, over child pornography concerns.^{[citation needed]} Not to mention geeky Christmas ornaments...

Welcome to a special IT Blogwatch EXTRA: as Richi Jennings watches bloggers watch the latest battle in the net neutrality war. Not to mention Fox's Photoshop disaster...

GM's CEO is saying the wrong thing