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Social Security: Coverage Of Public Employees And Implications For Reform
White Papers This paper discusses how Social Security affects public employees and how reforms may change those effects. Social Security covers about 96 percent of all U.S.workers; the vast majority of the rest are state, local, and federal government employees.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Social Security: Proposed Totalization Agreement With Mexico Presents Unique Challenges
White Papers At the same time, the agreements impose a financial cost to both countries' social security programs. Regardless of the country under consideration, sound management practices dictate that SSA managers have a risk management process in place to...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Mobile Phones And Geography: Social Positioning Method
White Papers The objective of the paper is to introduce the potential of the mobile phone positioning based social positioning method in geography and planning. Mobile phones are widespread and their positioning has achieved such accuracy that it can be used...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Friendster Scales-Out With MySQL Network: Social Networking Site Handles Over One Billion Database Queries Per Day
White Papers However, as the largest social networking site on the Web, Friendster is up to the task - even with 60 million page-views each day. Helping 17 million people stay in touch with their friends and make new connections with others is a big job.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Social Bookmark Icons
Downloads The Fast Icon has released "Social Bookmark Icons", a collection of 12 freeware icons. Social Bookmark Icons is available for download as standard Mac or Windows icons as well as a handy PNG files for Linux, Web or blogs.
[July 24, 2007, 3:46]
Social Community, Desktop Application Breaks New Ground To Unite Olympians
White Papers Using Windows Presentation Foundation, the World Olympian Alliance and interactive design agency, Lightmaker, built the world's first social community application that runs on the desktop. Windows Presentation Foundation and Windows Communication...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
The Fragile Families Study: Social Policies And Labor Markets In 7 Cities
White Papers An analysis of the welfare, child support, and labor market environments in the first seven Fragile Families cities confirms that these cities represent the extremes in terms of their social policies and labor markets.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Social Networking - The Downside
Blog The bane of social networking. You might also think that social networking - blogging, Facebook, and so on - is part of the IT business, and thus similarly constructed. There is one underlying problem with the business of social networking that...
[August 24, 2007, 13:49]
Producing Open Source Software: Social And Political Infrastructure
White Papers Technical success is not hard to achieve, but without a robust developer base and social foundation, a project may be unable to handle the growth that initial success brings, or the departure of charismatic individuals.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Social, Economic, And Ethical Implications Of Ambient Intelligence And Ubiquitous Computing
White Papers This paper is an attempt to classify the social, economic, and ethical implications of this development. Visions of ambient intelligence and ubiquitous computing involve integrating tiny microelectronic processors and sensors into everyday objects...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Social Security: The Challenges Of An Aging Population
White Papers Addressing the growing cost of Social Security would not by itself relieve the economic and budgetary pressure caused by the aging of the U.S.population. CBO projects that federal spending for Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid combined will...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Social Security Administration: A More Formal Approach Could Enhance SSA's Ability To Develop And Manage Totalization Agreements
White Papers However, the agreements also impose a financial cost to both countries' social security programs and require initial and continued assurances that data on potential beneficiaries are accurate. Because SSA historically has only performed limited...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Social Capital
White Papers This paper surveys research on social capital. The paper explores the concepts that motivate the social capital literature, efforts to formally model social capital using economic theory, the econometrics of social capital, and empirical studies of...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Social Security Administration Looking Toward Reducing Main Warehouse Labor Costs With RFID
White Papers Social Security Administration (SSA) employees go about their business under the focus of a nation trying to decide how best to steer Social Security's future. Spotlight glare or no, administration employees will continue to support the public they...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Social Networking: IT Vs HR
Blog Social networking costs UK businesses £6.5bn a year, according to a poll conducted by Global Secure Systems and Infosec 2008. The poll was conducted "amongst 776 office workers, who admitted to spending at least 30 minutes a day visiting social...
[January 21, 2008, 10:44]
Social Sciences Will Become More Important Than IT To IT Departments
White Papers Technology is becoming a fundamentally social medium, bringing employees ever closer together. This Gartner paper from IBM looks at how organisations can harness new social technologies to dramatically raise organizational effectiveness.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Social Networks - Future Portal Or Fad?
News Social networks like MySpace and Facebook are the zeitgeist for online executives and investors, just as they are for millions of young people. Also, it's unclear whether advertisers are spending enough with social networks to make their free...
[June 14, 2006, 15:10]
Social Security Administration Gives RFID A Try
White Papers This paper describes Social Security Administration? s (SSA) attempt at using RFID. SSA uses bar coding for inventory management, but it's investigating RFID technology for several applications, including warehouse management and asset tracking.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
MSDN Webcast: Digital Blackbelt Series: Social Engineering And Mitigating System Vulnerability (Level 200)
White Papers Most clever technical attacks begin with some assistance from social engineering. This webcast defines social engineering and reviews a number of real-world hacks that began with social engineering efforts.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Social Security: Reform Proposals Could Have A Variety Of Effects On Distribution Of Benefits And Payroll Taxes
White Papers Social Security faces a long-term structural financing shortfall. Program changes to address that shortfall could alter the way Social Security's benefits and revenues are distributed across the population and affect the income security of millions...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
