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Webcast: In the Google Apps Cloud: How to Achieve Your Business Objectives
Dec 3rd, '09, 1 - 2 pm US/Eastern (GMT-5)
Join Council member Brent Hoag, Director, Global IT, at JohnsonDiversey, as he discusses the adoption of Google Apps which has helped meet four corporate goals; sustainability, simplification, increased employee productivity and global collaboration.
Webcast: Collaboration Initiatives: Benchmarks & Best Practices
Dec 15th, '09, 4 - 5 pm US/Eastern (GMT-5)
Join Council members Ruth Thorpe, VP & CIO at the U.S. Pharmaceutical Operations of Sanofi-Aventis, and Gary Kuyper, CIO at Bethany Christian Services, as they speak about their collaboration initiatives and experiences in how and why they chose the social networking and collaboration tools they are using and their business goals for collaboration, and facing culture change challenges.
Data Overview: Collaboration Initiatives Field Guide: Benchmarks & Best Practices
This appendix to the Council Field Guide provides an analysis which discusses benchmarks for collaboration IT implementation costs, adoption rates and payoffs. The overview identifies top IT and business goals and satisfaction rates for collaboration initiatives as well as best practices and lessons learned for implementing collaboration IT.
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Digital TV Switchover Date Now Feb. 2009
The U.S. Senate voted to require television broadcasters to end analog transmissions and switch to digital signals by Feb. 17, ...
December 22, 2005 — CIO —
The U.S. Senate voted to require television broadcasters to end analog transmissions and switch to digital signals by Feb. 17, 2009, reports the Associated Press on Yahoo News.
The House of Representative is expected to approve the bill, and President Bush praised the Senate vote.
Besides improving TV picture and sound quality, the move to all-digital transmission will free valuable parts of the radio spectrum. The government would auction a portion of the newly available spectrum for an estimated $10 billion.
The chosen switchover date was a compromise. The House had initially proposed Dec. 31, 2008, the Senate April 7, 2009.
The bill would allocate as much as $1.5 billion to subsidize converter boxes so that people with older, analog-only TV sets would not lose their signals. But consumer advocates say that is not nearly enough money. “We think this is unfair, unworkable and unacceptable. It virtually ensures that on Feb. 18, 2009, tens of millions of televisions go black,” Jeannine Kenney, senior policy analyst with Consumers Union, the publisher of Consumer Reports magazine, was reported as saying.
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