Posts Tagged ‘Perfect Storm’
Friday, October 9th, 2009
October 9, 2009 — In two separate announcements, IT services firm CGI Federal revealed this week it has won two high-profile contracts with US government agencies, the US General Services Administration and the US Environmental Protection Agency. Related Websites Are Student Loans the Source of the Next Financial Meltdown? A perfect storm may be brewing in the financial world, and this time it is not the fault of sub-prime m
Tags: Cgi, Environmental Agency, Environmental Protection Agency, Federal Contracts, Federal Government, Financial Meltdown, General Services Administration, Government Agencies, Government Contracts, Government Services, Perfect Storm, Profile, Student Loans, Us Environmental Protection Agency, Wins
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Tuesday, August 4th, 2009
Arrest grabs headlines and shines light on daily plague to domain industry. First ever domain thief mugshot. As far as theft is concerned, it doesn’t get much more intriguing than this. It involves the internet, intellectual property, the first arrest of its kind, and a celebrity. It’s a perfect storm and is shining light on one of the plagues of the domain name industry: domain theft . Domain Name News broke the story yesterday about an arrest in the theft of P2P.com. That st
Tags: Celebrity, Domain Industry, Domain Name News, Grabs, Headlines, Industry Domain, Industry News, Intellectual Property, Media Attention, Name Domain, P2p, Perfect Storm, Plague, Plagues, Shining Light, Thief
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Friday, July 3rd, 2009
Illustrating the continued fragility of the modern Internet, threads in both the Zen Cart and Web Hosting Talk forums indicate that one of the country's largest credit card authorization networks has gone completely offline. According to several posters, a "perfect storm" was created by the combination of a data center fire and the July 4 weekend holiday, resulting the company going completely dark for more than five hours and counting. The company's phone lines and this Authorize.net websi
Tags: Authorize Net, Center Fire, Credit Card Authorization, Credit Card Processing, Credit Processing, Fragility, Holiday Card, Holiday Weekend, July 4, Perfect Storm, Posters, Processing Company, Threads, Websi, Weekend Holiday, Zen Cart
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Sunday, June 28th, 2009
I met Stowe Boyd, of Microsyntax.org at Jeff Pulver’s 140 Characters Conference which convened in the middle of a perfect storm for t he State of NOW (more mundanely known as the real time web) as thousands of tiny Twitter pipes became a vital conduit for the historic events occurring in Iran (picture on left, Stowe Boyd, from Brian Solis ‘ Flickr here , and on the right, Bruce Sterling, presenting at reboot11 from scriptingnews ‘ Flickr here) . But, as Clay Shirky pointed out,
Tags: Amp, Bruce Sterling, Flickr, Iran, Jeff Pulver, Met, Perfect Storm, Pipes, Real Time, Solis, Squelettes, Stowe Boyd, Time Web, Twitter
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