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Yearly Archives: 2010

US Patent Office's Plan to Address Huge Backlog

By Dick Weisinger

The average time that a patent approved in 2009 was under review was 35 months — that’s almost three years.  There are currently 750,000 patents in backlog.  The long length of time to be approved, frequent complaints that patents are

Compliance: Eight Years of Sarbanes-Oxley

By Dick Weisinger

It’s been eight years now since the Senate merged their “Public Company Accounting Reform and Investor Protection Act” with the House’s “Corporate and Auditing Accountability and Responsibility Act”.   The combined version is what we now know as the Sarbanes-Oxley

Big Data: Science Experiments with Cloud Computing

By Dick Weisinger

The Department of Energy is asking the question whether cloud computing is useful for large-scale science simulation projects.  In the past the DoE and DoD have been leaders in large-scale modeling and simulation projects using some of the world’s biggest

Records Management: Government Agencies Struggling

By Dick Weisinger

The Federal government budget for next year sets aside about $80 billion to fund 809 major IT initiatives across all federal departments and agencies.  That’s a lot of dollars.  Yet despite all those dollars flowing into IT, many agencies are still

Enterprise 2.0: A Balance of Collaboration Benefits and Compliance Concerns

By Dick Weisinger

Financial institutions are highly regulated, perhaps more than any other type of company.  And that’s part of the reason why financial companies have been slow in adopting Enterprise 2.0 collaboration tools.  Chris Kanaracus at IDG recently gave the example of the