IQS 101 : News and politics

Mounties warn: financial institutions under-report cybercrime

Thu, 29 May 2008 15:39:43 GMT

"The Mounties believe the $35 million of mass-market fraud reported in 2007 represents at most 10 per cent of all incidents." Story here

From a mobile web perspective (and recent study by IBM) consumers may want more from various perspectives. Perhaps the wants and needs of consumers around the globe will increasingly include a musical ride to increased security and governance.

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National association of CIOs shows strong support for green IT

Wed, 28 May 2008 19:00:53 GMT

Taking no credit, simply sharing awareness and applauding progress. Read the story by Tucci on SearchCIO.com. Do your part to help make quality increasingly inherent (i.e., intrinsic and pervasive) from various perspectives (e.g., green IT). Thank you for doing so.

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Q: What is CCITP?

Sat, 24 May 2008 17:22:38 GMT

A: The Canadian Council of Information Technology Professionals

For a related 2007-2008 annual report which includes mention of a new IT designation linked to helping develop a global IT profession, read on.

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See the difference you can make for the World

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 22:47:58 GMT

Earth Hour 2008, 8pm March 29

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News from Planet Earth & Beyond, Google Sky now in your web browser

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 01:11:27 GMT

Does a universe map, to past and future, exist?

Did you hear about the 1st 3D Map of the Universe's Dark Matter?

Can a microscope translate light information into sound allowing you to hear living cells?

Did Mars and Venus start out like Earth and do they hold priceless climate change information?

For bits of entertaining news from planet earth and beyond, you may like to visit The Daily Galaxy.

For other news — e.g., Google Sky now in your web browser — another site you may like to visit is TechCrunch.

The Internet is vast becoming a virtual space for news, political updates and more, the raising of consciousness around matters of high purpose. Perhaps in time it will be shown to have increasingly helped as a force for good that contributed to bringing about fellowship, positive climate change, elevated collective wisdom, world peace and global prosperity.

Technorati Tags: The Daily Galaxy,Climate Change,TechCrunch,Microsoft,Google

Bill Gates says no decent Americans in the U.S. willing to work for Microsoft?

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 13:48:15 GMT

"Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates urged Congress to commit to increased visa caps and greater investments in research and education during an appearance before the U.S. House of Representatives Science and Technology Committee."

David Vasta had a strong reaction: "Bill Gates has no idea what he is talking about when he says there are no decent Americans in the US willing to work for Microsoft."

Perhaps there needs to be an agreement for greater levels of Global Free Trade?

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Bits of insight? Government probe, Endeavour launch, Digg sale, farm stress-free, supercomputing for masses, Gates Foundation seeking unorthodox health ideas

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 21:10:31 GMT

Bits of insight?

Launch of space shuttle Endeavour (bringing Canadian-built robotic arm system and Japanese laboratory to the International Space Station) on schedule for liftoff 2:28 a.m. ET on Tuesday. (read more)
Digg sale to Microsoft or Google imminent (read more)
Supercomputing for the masses (read more)
Mobile technology for stress-free farming (read more)
Government probes NAFTA leak (read more)
Gates Foundation seeking unorthodox health ideas (read more)

Technorati Tags: CBC,Supercomputing,NASA,NAFTA,Microsoft,Google,GatesFoundation

A real first

Fri, 15 Feb 2008 20:12:32 GMT

Is it time to elect the first U.S. woman President? Americanwomenpresidents.org thinks that after 135 years it is; they include a list of U.S. Presidents and years served near the bottom of the page. Their About page says they are "looking forward to electing America's first woman president on November 4, 2008, and to attending her swearing as President of the United States on January 20, 2009".

How about this; the first U.S. black President?

Balance and Equality, not gender or race and so on, would be a real first to rally in support of. By 2020 will the world and interconnected universe more so evolve in this direction? Yes there has been related progress however more must be done to enable truths to higher dimensions and bring wonderful gains and a real first, such as equality worldwide, and sustainable worldwide peace.

By 2020, how far advanced may humanity be as a result of increasing transparency and collaboration intrinsic and pervasive to all matters of high purpose?

Technorati Tags: US Election

Today's fun quest to discover space included these three encounters: DailyPicture, Sudbury Star and USA Today

Fri, 15 Feb 2008 18:12:27 GMT

Three encounters from today's fun exploration of space included: DailyPicture.Net, TheSudburyStar.Com, and USA Today. Within the first there was mention of a new phone that will be available in selected markets from second half of 2008; here are a few words found within the article:

Sony's just announced XPERIA X1 is a sexy, sexy looking phone
With Windows Mobile® inside, the 1 lets you choose from a dynamic range of activities at anytime and anywhere.

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Unified, it is time for all to Think and Share

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 19:00:41 GMT

Unified, it is time to think of software, technology, information, communications, value, quality, life and related improvements. Unified it is time for all to Think and Share. For example, for IT management in Canada you may be interested in Microsoft podcasts and HEROES happen {here}. As someone connected to software, technology and information (whether you are an IT Pro, an aspiring leader in US politics, or a member of the general worldwide public), now would be a good time to start thinking and sharing supportive ideas and initiatives that strengthen the power of the IT profession increasingly becoming one unified global force for good.

Worldwide, IT industry “communications” must increasingly become more unified. Software, technology, and information professionals, communities, and competitors need to increasingly share and develop a perfect unified vision for innately contributing as one on all matters of high purpose while increasingly becoming one unified global IT profession. Together it is possible to more so increase the unification of complexity and simplicity. As the latter is developed and further enabled, value will become more inherent at wider, higher and deeper dimensions as the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.

Imagine a global IT summit increasingly helping to take complexity out of IT security while makings things more secure. Imagine a global summit also helping the world from other security perspectives, e.g., financial security, perhaps in relationship to helping to end homelessness and poverty. From many perspectives, unified communications and collaboration are at the core or heart to increasingly enabling wonderful changes for humanity and the planet earth. Now is a perfect time to think, to share, to review progress and to continue re-building towards better supporting the needs of all people within present and future generations.

While this is good

Episode 2: The New World of Work: Will unified communications change the way Canadians work? Posted Thursday, 15 Feb 2007, it is a discussion involving Microsoft Research about how the convergence of communications contributes to the evolution of Canadians' work styles

This is better

Some of the biggest names in the industry join forces. Posted Thursday, 7 Feb 2008, it is a positive sign of progress towards a notion of sharing and unified communications in the larger sense

IQS excerpts

Consistent with the words of Desiderata, many persons are striving and will strive for high ideals, and everywhere life is and will be full of heroism, as we are all children of the universe. No less than the trees and the stars we have a right to be here; whether or not it is clear to you, the universe is unfolding as it should; so be at peace, and whatever your labors and aspirations, keep peace in your soul; the world is beautiful and will become more beautiful. However you can, contribute cheerfully. Desiderata is plural for desideratum, something that is desired or felt to be essential, such as an inner practice which helps each person go beyond his or her ordinary thoughts and progressively attain greater enlightenment and become free from self-projections. Unencumbered by ideas, the enlightened will see that it is in giving that we receive evolution’s ameliorative call. Love one another. Share. Spread joy. Help to improve something or make it better. Contribute to driving quality, value, excellence, and simplicity upwards and inwards within software, technology and information, and within self and others, and within products, services, processes, and all that is or can be. Contribute beyond your own life. 2020 is perfect vision. The year 2020 is a leap year. A year in which we make tremendous steps forward can also be said to be a leap year in a different sense. By and beyond the year 2020 (i.e. perfect vision leap year 2020), help to build unimagined goodness.

To ensure tremendous progress and unimagined positive results in the future, the people of today’s world need to increasingly come together to motivate and give positive energy to each other—to help ensure value for self and others, and to help drive quality, value, excellence, and simplicity continually upwards and inwards for all, for everyone.

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