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“[R]ailhead may actually degrade the ability to provide intelligence data for use in the consolidated terrorist watch list,” according to the U.S. House subcommittee report. This massive government IT project is failing — and it’s not an isolated case. Large IT projects in agencies from the FBI to the Census Bureau spectacularly — and, it seems, regularly — crash and burn, much to taxpayers’ disgust. It seems there are certain aspects of government culture that make IT failure more likely. It just may be that it’s built into the system.

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Signposts on the US Government’s Trail of IT Failures

Home pages for high street retailers may initially come across as similar, but their actual performance differs strongly due to the design of the navigation menus.

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High street retailers: menus make a big difference

Yahoo, HP and Intel are collaborating on an ambitious research endeavor called “Cloud Computing Test Bed” — designed to support cloud computing research and education at universities. Users will be able to develop and test software, data center management, and hardware associated with cloud computing on this large-scale grid. The three companies are partnering with the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany on the project.

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Yahoo, HP, Intel Give Ivory Towers a Stairway to the Cloud

Everyone knows clear and easy to use design is important for web sites and pays well to have in the competitive online environment. How exactly to achieve that goal and how to measure the user friendliness of your web design is often much less clear…

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Argos beats competition with user-friendly web design

Everyone knows clear and easy to use design is important for web sites and pays well to have in the competitive online environment. How exactly to achieve that goal and how to measure the user friendliness of your web design is often much less clear…

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