Crowd-Sourcing Public Sector App for Windows Phone, Azure

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Crowd-Sourcing Public Sector App for Windows Phone, Azure

We’re pretty thrilled to see our good friends and partner Blue Dot Solutions highlighted on Bruce Kyle’s MSDN Channel 9 blog demoing their Advanced Mobile 311 solution.  Says Kyle: Blue Dot’s Advanced Mobile 311 solution is an innovative crowd-sourcing solution for Public Sector that enables citizens to quickly and easily create non-emergency Service Requests through

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Linkology: The Best of the Internet for 4/29/11

Know This The PlayStation Network was (badly) hacked, and 75M user accounts were compromised.  What’s been taken?  Passwords, billing information, and likely credit cards. If you our your children game on the PlayStation network, you need to know the details.  Here they are. A biologist’s postdoc student wanted to buy a book about flies.  In

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On Parenting, College Admissions and Continuous Learning

Mitch Albom did a story recently that really hit home for me personally and I imagine it will for others as well.  It’s entitled, The College That Rejects You May Do You a Favor. Our second daughter is going through the college application/decision process.  While our first daughter pretty much knew where she wanted to

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QUOTE: On Simplicity

“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius—and a lot of courage—to move in the opposite direction.” — Albert Einstein (via SvN) ### More links: MIPRO Consulting main website. MIPRO on Twitter and Facebook. About this blog.

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Linkology: The Best of the Internet for 4/22/10

Know This Steven Soderberg’s media stream: here’s a list of Soderberg’s favorite books, movies, TV shows, plays and short stories he enjoyed over the past year. The science of why we don’t believe in science. Does anyone in Silicon Valley care about Windows anymore?  Robert Scoble on the PC-to-Mac ratios he’s seeing in major tech

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Business Health Improving, but Not Fully Recovered

CFO.com’s Alix Stuart: Business Failures Down, but Not Done: Bankruptcy has been in the headlines recently, thanks to the high-profile Chapter 11 filings of companies such as gourmet-food retailer Harry & David and bookseller Borders. But business failures overall have been declining, according to the most recent data from Dun & Bradstreet. Formal bankruptcy filings

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F1 Racing: The Pinnacle of Autosport

This is hardly tech related, but it’s a passion of mine, so please bear with me while I climb atop a nearby soapbox.  Ah, there’s one. Ahem. Formula 1 racing is the pinnacle of autosport.  It’s widely regarded as the absolute top of the heap, attracting the best of the best, and is not comparable

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For Oracle, ‘Choice’ Is Key Message

Vinnie Mirchandani (@dealarchitect on Twitter) with a nice synopsis of Oracle’s new ‘choice’ messaging.  Given Oracle’s incredibly wide (and premium) stable of offerings, combined with its recent cloud-facing announcements, this is smart, solid positioning: He emphasized choice in other ways as he discussed Fusion apps – more choice in portfolio of ERP apps versus competitive

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