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Via Marcus P. Zillman, news of his latest Awareness Watch Newsletter, on Script Resources. “Resources for scripts, codes and programming languages on the Internet continue to expand at a very rapid rate especially with the developments in the Web 2.0, MashUps, and the constant creation of new applications which of course foster new scripts.”
PTO Direct was created by intellectual property professionals for intellectual property professionals and their clients. Its purpose is to provide an efficient way to search, gather and share relevant intellectual property record information from the United States Patent and Trademark Office and the United States Copyright Office. PTO Direct provides free patent searches.” [Ted McClure]
New LC Country Profile of Colombia, February 23, 2007.
Deloitte Telecommunications Predictions 2007 (TMT Trends 2007) – “This study examines 10 emerging developments sure to make 2007 another eventful year for the telecommunications industry”: 1. “Reaching the limits of cyberspacegrowth in video traffic on the “superhighway” means the Internet is approaching gridlock. 2. The net neutrality debate needs resolutionthe Internet, fundamental freedom for all …
Follow up to previous postings on calls for judicial pay raises, “the top lawyers at 60 major U.S. corporations have urged congressional leaders to provide a “substantial increase to the salaries of federal judges.” Letter text, February 15, 2007.
Pew Research Center Survey – Voters Remain In Neutral As Presidential Campaign Moves Into High Gear – Republicans Lag in Engagement and Enthusiasm for Candidates, Released: February 23, 2007 “with more candidates than usual, but many people appear not to have noticed. Americans are no more likely to say they have given the presidential campaign …
Interim Review of Contract Costs, Clearbrook, LLC, FEMA Disaster No. DR-1603-LA, Report No. DD-07-06 (PDF, 6 pages), February 2007.
Follow up to February 21, 2007 posting, DHS Announces Traveler Redress Inquiry Program, today Rep. Henry Waxman, Chair of Oversight and Government Reform Committee, sent a letter to TSA requesting “explain why a TSA website that collected Social Security numbers and personal information from the public operated for several days without basic security measures.”
Federal Computer Week reported that “sixteen agencies complied with the Office of Management and Budget’s request to post their information technology business cases online.” Direct links to the data by agency, as follows: Department of Commerce business cases Department of Education business cases Department of Labor business cases Department of Housing and Urban Development business …
“Access to online Texas county clerk public record databases has been shut down after the Attorney General issued an opinion on Feb. 21 clarifying that clerks must redact social security numbers from documents before releasing copies of them and/or posting them online. Texas Attorney General opinion GA-0519 is here…and is the cause for this removal. …
International Atomic Energy Agency press release: “IAEA Director General Mohamed ElBaradei has circulated his latest report [UN Security Resolution 1737] to the upcoming meeting of the IAEA Board of Governors on the Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement and Relevant Provisions of Security Council Resolution 1737 (2006) in the Islamic Republic of Iran. The report …
Press release: “On February 22, 2007, OMB Watch released a new version of FedSpending.org, free, searchable database of federal government spending, that includes updated data for FY 2006, improved navigation, upgraded features, and an application programming interface (API) for advanced users. Learn more about the new features in About This Site.”