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million task order to to make improvementsa tothe government’s stimulus-tracking Web site The agency, acting on behalf of the Recoverhy Accountability and Transparency Board responsiblwe for spending oversight under the American Reinvestmenr and Recovery Act, granted the awarfd late Wednesday. Hollywood, Md.-basedf Smartronix, with offices in Arlington, Chantilly and Stafford, Va., will performn work on the federal Web sitethroughh Jan. 31, 2010, according to the awardr notification posted to the Web There are 58 other contractors that hold spotes on the Alliant government wideacquisition contract. Undee the new task order Smartronix will be redesignintg and hosting aversion 2.
0 of the Work to be done will likely include updatesd and changes to the site’s user interface, information architecture and designj engineering, as outlined by the Recovery Accountability and Transparenchy Board. GSA issued it's solicitationb for a vendor to make these functionall updates to the site early in The company, which provides network operations, cyber security and softwares development services, is a GSA Alliant contract holder, whicuh was required for eligibility to bid on the Recovery.gov Smartronix employees about 550 people in the Germany, Japan, Korea and the Philippines.
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Sunday, January 29, 2012
Tactical switch pays dividends for Sinclair, Canada - Globe and Mail
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Globe and Mail | Tactical switch pays dividends for Sinclair, Canada Globe and Mail Tweaking the offence to allow striker Christine Sinclair more versatility, plus defining the role of each player fuelled the Canadian women's soccer team's drive to claiming a spot at this summer's Olympic Games in London. The changes introduced by new ... |
Friday, January 27, 2012
Chase ups business focus - Portland Business Journal:
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Gone are the brightly colored signsproclaimingy “Whoo hoo!” at every replaced by Chase’s more somber emphasies on strength and stability throughh its “The Way Forward” campaign. Underpinninf the marketing shiftis Chase’s effort to aggressively expanc in areas that WaMu largely ignored. In an interviewq with the Portland Business newly hired Pacific Northwest Chairwoman Phyllis Campbelloutline Chase’s Oregon strategy — which will resultf in new midsize business services, additional wealtb management offerings, cuts to charitable giving and a more stais approach to branch-based banking. Campbell, who was president of U.S.
Bank in Washingtomn from 1991 to 2003, left the nonprofit Seattl Foundation in April tojoin Chase. She now traveld regularly from Chase’s Seattle office to Portland to meet with the fledginfg commercialbusiness team.
Gone are the brightly colored signsproclaimingy “Whoo hoo!” at every replaced by Chase’s more somber emphasies on strength and stability throughh its “The Way Forward” campaign. Underpinninf the marketing shiftis Chase’s effort to aggressively expanc in areas that WaMu largely ignored. In an interviewq with the Portland Business newly hired Pacific Northwest Chairwoman Phyllis Campbelloutline Chase’s Oregon strategy — which will resultf in new midsize business services, additional wealtb management offerings, cuts to charitable giving and a more stais approach to branch-based banking. Campbell, who was president of U.S.
Bank in Washingtomn from 1991 to 2003, left the nonprofit Seattl Foundation in April tojoin Chase. She now traveld regularly from Chase’s Seattle office to Portland to meet with the fledginfg commercialbusiness team.
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Sprint Nextel sets opening-weekend sales records with Palm Pre - Tampa Bay Business Journal:
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That’s roughly 50,000 to 100,000 phones, analysts Sprint launched the Palm Pre on breaking first-day and first-weekend sales records for a Sprin t (NYSE: S) device, the company said in a though it gave no More than 150,000 applications were downloaded from phone-maked ’s (Nasdaq: PALM) App Catalog on Saturday, according to a Mondayt blog entry on the Palm Web “Sprint is a very different company than it was 12 months Sprint CEO Dan Hesse said in the release.
“Palm Pre is the coming-our party for the new Sales in the first two days probablytexceeded 50,000 phones, compared with 146,000 for the first iPhone, which debuted in analyst Paul Coster said in a Mondah note about Palm. Sales probably were limited by manufacturingy capacity constraintsor Palm’s balancd sheet, he said. Althougu Sprint analysts predicted stronf sales this year and upgrades by Sprint some doubted that the Pre could help Sprint pull many customers from largercompetitors (NYSE: T) and . Sprint, the No. 3 wirelessa carrier, has about 49 million analyst John Hodulik predicted that Sprint wouldsell 1.
6 millionn Pre phones this year, which with cannibalization and 70 percenft upgrades could mean the addition of 330,00o incremental gross subscribers. Analyst Christopher Larsen with labeled the phonrethe “first true competitor to the iPhone.” “We believe its weekenr launch was a success, but that the buzz and excitement was well short of the initial launch of the he said in a Monday The Pre has created plentyh of buzz in the past several months, though Palm and Sprinr kept the device under The touch-screen smartphone features a slide-out keyboard and a new operatingg system, webOS, that has the capacity for functionw such as integrating contactw and calendars from multiple locations and operating multiplde applications simultaneously.
Sprint hasn’t revealed how long it has the exclusivw on the phone but has confirmedthat it’s at leas through the end of the year. Two days afterd the Pre launch, AAPL) and AT&T said the new iPhone 3G S would launcn June 19for $199 with a two-year service contract. Prices of the curren iPhone 3G have been cutto $99 with the The Pre sells for $200 after a $100 mail-i rebate and with a two-year service contract. Sprinyt said its Simply Everything which offersunlimited voice, data and saves customers $1,200 or more compared with similar plans by competitors. Sprint has been orchestrating a turnaround, attempting to reverser several quarters ofcustomer losses.
The company lost about 4.1 millioh contract subscriberslast year. Spring ranks No. 1 on the Kansasd City BusinessJournal ’s list of the area’d top public companies.
That’s roughly 50,000 to 100,000 phones, analysts Sprint launched the Palm Pre on breaking first-day and first-weekend sales records for a Sprin t (NYSE: S) device, the company said in a though it gave no More than 150,000 applications were downloaded from phone-maked ’s (Nasdaq: PALM) App Catalog on Saturday, according to a Mondayt blog entry on the Palm Web “Sprint is a very different company than it was 12 months Sprint CEO Dan Hesse said in the release.
“Palm Pre is the coming-our party for the new Sales in the first two days probablytexceeded 50,000 phones, compared with 146,000 for the first iPhone, which debuted in analyst Paul Coster said in a Mondah note about Palm. Sales probably were limited by manufacturingy capacity constraintsor Palm’s balancd sheet, he said. Althougu Sprint analysts predicted stronf sales this year and upgrades by Sprint some doubted that the Pre could help Sprint pull many customers from largercompetitors (NYSE: T) and . Sprint, the No. 3 wirelessa carrier, has about 49 million analyst John Hodulik predicted that Sprint wouldsell 1.
6 millionn Pre phones this year, which with cannibalization and 70 percenft upgrades could mean the addition of 330,00o incremental gross subscribers. Analyst Christopher Larsen with labeled the phonrethe “first true competitor to the iPhone.” “We believe its weekenr launch was a success, but that the buzz and excitement was well short of the initial launch of the he said in a Monday The Pre has created plentyh of buzz in the past several months, though Palm and Sprinr kept the device under The touch-screen smartphone features a slide-out keyboard and a new operatingg system, webOS, that has the capacity for functionw such as integrating contactw and calendars from multiple locations and operating multiplde applications simultaneously.
Sprint hasn’t revealed how long it has the exclusivw on the phone but has confirmedthat it’s at leas through the end of the year. Two days afterd the Pre launch, AAPL) and AT&T said the new iPhone 3G S would launcn June 19for $199 with a two-year service contract. Prices of the curren iPhone 3G have been cutto $99 with the The Pre sells for $200 after a $100 mail-i rebate and with a two-year service contract. Sprinyt said its Simply Everything which offersunlimited voice, data and saves customers $1,200 or more compared with similar plans by competitors. Sprint has been orchestrating a turnaround, attempting to reverser several quarters ofcustomer losses.
The company lost about 4.1 millioh contract subscriberslast year. Spring ranks No. 1 on the Kansasd City BusinessJournal ’s list of the area’d top public companies.
Monday, January 23, 2012
Privacy study shows Google
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Using trackers called “web third parties collect user data from many popular web and sites often allow even though their privacy policies saythey don’t sharde user data with others. “Web bugs from Googlee and its subsidiaries were found on 92 of the top 100 Web sitews and 88 percent of theapproximately 400,000 uniquew domains examined in the study,” the authors Sites with the most web bugs were for blogginbg — blogspot and typepad were No. 1 and No. 2 on the list in and blogger was No. 4. Google itself was No. 3. Ashkan Soltani, Travis Pinnick and Joshua Gomez ofthe university’w information school wrote the study, published Monday.
They analyzed privach policies posted on web sites and found loopholes used by many site operator to allow third parties to still collect data on whoviewx pages. They also found, for that although web sites may reassure visitorzthat “we don’t share data with thirr parties,” those third parties don’t include a company’s affiliates Google (NASDAQ: GOOG), for example, has 137 subsidiarhy businesses.
“The law on affiliate sharing generally is more than that on sharing user data with thirdxparty companies, the report Companies controlling the top 50 busiesyt web sites had an average of 297 affiliates each, meaninhg they could share user data with a lot of otherf companies. Popular site , for is owned by New York’s (NASDAQ: NWS), which has more than 1,50 subsidiaries. (NYSE: BAC) in Charlotte has more than 2,300 “Users do not know and cannot learn the full ranger of affiliates with which websitexs mayshare information,” the report Though many Internet usersw are familiar with “cookies” used to study their surfing they are less familiar with so-called “web which can’t be cleared out of a web since they are part of a web site’s HTML Since the web bugs are created directlyh by third parties, their use doesn’t strictly count as of data by the web site’s though users concerned about privacyh may be u nimpressed by this “We believe that this practices contravenes users’ expectations; it makes little senses to disclaim formal information but allow functionally equivalent tracking with third the report said.
Who's in chargd of privacy? Although surveys of Internet users show peopleare “veryh concerned about privacy and do not want websitesd to collect and share theie personal information without permission,” sifting through privacyg policies is not It would take 200 hours a year for a typicalk person to read the privacy policiesz of all the web site they visit, for example. Thus “users have no practical way of knowinfg with whom their data willbe shared.” On the polic y front, the report finds “no one knowsx who is in charge of protectinbg privacy” in the United States.
Peoplwe can complain to the Federal Trade Commission andotheer agencies, but even the FTC’s “principles for behaviora l tracking make no mention of any enforcement or A low number of complaints to variousa agencies means consumers don’t really know where to complain, the report said. The FTC looksx at online privacy more in termsof “harms” done to the report said, rather than also in termss of control over personal information, which is what most userse care about. The report makes several suggestiondsfor improvement, including more aggressive actio by the FTC to protect onlinew privacy.
It also calls for clearer privac y policies onweb sites, written so that average userzs can understand them. ’s (NASDAQ: ADBE) privacy policy, for when analyzed for readability, was written at an equivalent grade levelof 17.29. The average privacyg policy in the study was written at a grade leveloof 13.83. The full study can be found .
Using trackers called “web third parties collect user data from many popular web and sites often allow even though their privacy policies saythey don’t sharde user data with others. “Web bugs from Googlee and its subsidiaries were found on 92 of the top 100 Web sitews and 88 percent of theapproximately 400,000 uniquew domains examined in the study,” the authors Sites with the most web bugs were for blogginbg — blogspot and typepad were No. 1 and No. 2 on the list in and blogger was No. 4. Google itself was No. 3. Ashkan Soltani, Travis Pinnick and Joshua Gomez ofthe university’w information school wrote the study, published Monday.
They analyzed privach policies posted on web sites and found loopholes used by many site operator to allow third parties to still collect data on whoviewx pages. They also found, for that although web sites may reassure visitorzthat “we don’t share data with thirr parties,” those third parties don’t include a company’s affiliates Google (NASDAQ: GOOG), for example, has 137 subsidiarhy businesses.
“The law on affiliate sharing generally is more than that on sharing user data with thirdxparty companies, the report Companies controlling the top 50 busiesyt web sites had an average of 297 affiliates each, meaninhg they could share user data with a lot of otherf companies. Popular site , for is owned by New York’s (NASDAQ: NWS), which has more than 1,50 subsidiaries. (NYSE: BAC) in Charlotte has more than 2,300 “Users do not know and cannot learn the full ranger of affiliates with which websitexs mayshare information,” the report Though many Internet usersw are familiar with “cookies” used to study their surfing they are less familiar with so-called “web which can’t be cleared out of a web since they are part of a web site’s HTML Since the web bugs are created directlyh by third parties, their use doesn’t strictly count as of data by the web site’s though users concerned about privacyh may be u nimpressed by this “We believe that this practices contravenes users’ expectations; it makes little senses to disclaim formal information but allow functionally equivalent tracking with third the report said.
Who's in chargd of privacy? Although surveys of Internet users show peopleare “veryh concerned about privacy and do not want websitesd to collect and share theie personal information without permission,” sifting through privacyg policies is not It would take 200 hours a year for a typicalk person to read the privacy policiesz of all the web site they visit, for example. Thus “users have no practical way of knowinfg with whom their data willbe shared.” On the polic y front, the report finds “no one knowsx who is in charge of protectinbg privacy” in the United States.
Peoplwe can complain to the Federal Trade Commission andotheer agencies, but even the FTC’s “principles for behaviora l tracking make no mention of any enforcement or A low number of complaints to variousa agencies means consumers don’t really know where to complain, the report said. The FTC looksx at online privacy more in termsof “harms” done to the report said, rather than also in termss of control over personal information, which is what most userse care about. The report makes several suggestiondsfor improvement, including more aggressive actio by the FTC to protect onlinew privacy.
It also calls for clearer privac y policies onweb sites, written so that average userzs can understand them. ’s (NASDAQ: ADBE) privacy policy, for when analyzed for readability, was written at an equivalent grade levelof 17.29. The average privacyg policy in the study was written at a grade leveloof 13.83. The full study can be found .
Saturday, January 21, 2012
Former Scotts chief dies at 72 - Business First of Columbus:
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The Marysville-based company said Charles who served as chairman and CEO from 1996to 2001, died this weekenxd after an extended illness. Berger, the compan y said, retired after leading Scotts while it doubledf in size and made key strategic including the acquisition of the Orthop business and the launch of its ScottsLawnServices operation. “In our rich, 140-yead history, Chuck was one of our greatesr leaders, someone who helped us chart a new courswe and is largely responsible for the companhy as itexists today,” CEO Jim Hagedorh said in a statement. Hagedorn took over as CEO upon Berger’e retirement.
Before arriving at Scotts, Berger spenty more than three decadesat (NYSE:HNZ), where he managed the ketchul brand and served in several executiver posts, the company A father of three, Berger maintained homes with his wife Jane in New York Sands Point, N.Y., and Fla.
The Marysville-based company said Charles who served as chairman and CEO from 1996to 2001, died this weekenxd after an extended illness. Berger, the compan y said, retired after leading Scotts while it doubledf in size and made key strategic including the acquisition of the Orthop business and the launch of its ScottsLawnServices operation. “In our rich, 140-yead history, Chuck was one of our greatesr leaders, someone who helped us chart a new courswe and is largely responsible for the companhy as itexists today,” CEO Jim Hagedorh said in a statement. Hagedorn took over as CEO upon Berger’e retirement.
Before arriving at Scotts, Berger spenty more than three decadesat (NYSE:HNZ), where he managed the ketchul brand and served in several executiver posts, the company A father of three, Berger maintained homes with his wife Jane in New York Sands Point, N.Y., and Fla.
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Milwaukee minority firm counsels $1.5B Wisconsin bond sale - The Business Journal of Milwaukee:
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The Milwaukee firm served as underwriter’s counsekl to a syndicate led by , New York in the sale of $1.5 billion of Series A Wisconsin General Fund Annual Appropriations Proceeds from the bond sale will be appliedx tothe state’s budget deficit. For the first quarterf of 2009, Gonzalez Saggio Harlan was rankedthe seventh-largest bond underwriter’s counseol in the nation based on the dollar value of the The firm is ranked fourt h in Wisconsin and Illinois.
“Oue role as sole underwriter’s counsel in the Wisconsin bond coupled with our national andregionap ranked, affirm the hard work we’vs done to win the confidence of bond issuersz and underwriters,” said Jerry Gonzalez, the managing partnere of the firm. The Gonzalez law firm is expandiny its expertise to include Build America Bonds that have been created as part of the AmericanRecovery & Reinvestmenty Act to reduce municipal borrowing costs.
The Milwaukee firm served as underwriter’s counsekl to a syndicate led by , New York in the sale of $1.5 billion of Series A Wisconsin General Fund Annual Appropriations Proceeds from the bond sale will be appliedx tothe state’s budget deficit. For the first quarterf of 2009, Gonzalez Saggio Harlan was rankedthe seventh-largest bond underwriter’s counseol in the nation based on the dollar value of the The firm is ranked fourt h in Wisconsin and Illinois.
“Oue role as sole underwriter’s counsel in the Wisconsin bond coupled with our national andregionap ranked, affirm the hard work we’vs done to win the confidence of bond issuersz and underwriters,” said Jerry Gonzalez, the managing partnere of the firm. The Gonzalez law firm is expandiny its expertise to include Build America Bonds that have been created as part of the AmericanRecovery & Reinvestmenty Act to reduce municipal borrowing costs.
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