Federal and State Technology Partnership Program (FAST): “

Funding Opportunity Number:
FAST-10-R-0004

Opportunity Category:
Discretionary

Funding Instrument Type:
Cooperative Agreement

Category of Funding Activity:
Science and Technology and other Research and Development

CFDA Number:

Eligible Applicants
Others (see text field entitled ‘Additional Information on Eligibility’ for clarification)

Agency Name
SBA

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(Via Grants New Opportunity List by Agency.)

Single Sign-on across Sub-Domains in Drupal with No Extra Modules: “
With the multitude of single sign-on modules out there for Drupal, it’s easy to miss the fact that Drupal has a built-in single sign on mechanism already. No modules, no configuration, just 20 easy lines of PHP in your site’s settings.php file. This solution works for a lot of clients, but the set of requirements is pretty specific as to when you can use this approach. This includes:

The sites sharing a single log-in must be on the same domain. For …

Google Apps highlights – 2/19/2010: “This is part of a regular series of Google Apps updates that we post every couple of weeks. Look for the label ‘Google Apps highlights‘ and subscribe to the series. – Ed.
Over the last couple of weeks we’ve been busy adding new functionality to make communicating and sharing with Google Apps easier than ever, whether you use Google Apps for work, for school or at home.
Web clipboard for Google DocsAs more and more people are getting work done in the cloud with Google Docs, a …

The Technical Side of PCI DSS: “
What merchants don’t know about the technical side of protecting customer data can be costly.
The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) describes 12 system and procedural requirements for securing customer credit card data that is transmitted, processed, or stored by an online merchant.
In order to accept credit cards as a form of online payment, merchants are expected to comply with the PCI DSS standard. In an effort to meet this requirement, online stores dutifully encrypt data transmissions with a secure socket …

Get more from Google Apps with Premier Edition: “

Get more from Google Apps with Premier Edition

Google Apps Premier Edition gives your business the business-grade experience with lower total cost of ownership with features like:
* 24/7 phone support
* 99.9% uptime SLA
* 3x more email storage
* Blackberry and Microsoft Outlook interoperability
* Increased security and administrative controls
Join us to learn more about these features and more ways your …

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Small Business Trends November 18, 2009 By Lisa Barone
It’s not stalking. It’s research. It’s you doing research on your competitors to help you stay up-to-date on what they’re doing so you know which direction you should go. It’s not stalking and everyone’s doing it.
Here’s a list of 11 tools that can help you track your competitors movements on the Web and give you actionable information that you can use. It doesn’t make you …

New update information

Site templates launched in Google Sites
Posted: 17 Nov 2009 03:07 AM PST
New feature launched that enables users at a domain to access a gallery of site templates so that page layouts, navigation links, embedded gadgets, content, themes and other site attributes are already done.
Administrators also have the ability to upload custom templates that will be highlighted for users to see when creating a new site. Users can also create a site template and upload it to a domain template gallery so that everybody at …

Entrepreneurs: How to Use Networking to Market Your Business and Yourself: “

Today’s post is written as a resource for the Kent State University Entrepreneur Extravaganza where I will be a presenter with Rob Felber of Felber & Felber Marketing. Click here to read his post.
As an entrepreneur, I’ve come to realize that knowing how to improve your networking will improve your ability to market and brand your business.
Why is networking so important to entrepreneurs?

Starting and running a business requires  many facets of talent and experience.
 Having friends and business acquaintances who can help you …

SAML Single Sign-on with Desktop Apps – Enabled by OAuth: ”

One question that repeatedly comes up in any discussion of web single-sign on is ‘How do I get my desktop apps to play?’. Often, Enterprise Single Sign-on (ESSO) is the answer – deploying an agent to the client desktop to automatically populate the username/password popup for Outlook, or whatever desktop app you’re working with. This has always felt a bit clunky to me, particularly since you need a credential store somewhere in the system, but it works well enough for …

A Chat with the Designer of the Google Logo

By Philipp Lenssen
Ruth Kedar of KedarDesigns.com designed the Google logo in the version that became famous around the world (the original tries at designing the logo were by Google co-founder Sergey Brin, reportedly, using the Gimp software). I asked Ruth how the Google logo design came about originally, and here’s her reply.

I was teaching design at Stanford University in 1999 when I was introduced to Larry Page and Sergei Brin by a mutual friend at Stanford. They were looking at designers …