Google's Street View of Penguins
09/30/10 03:41 pm ET
Watch out penguins. After raising privacy concerns in Europe, Google Street View has arrived in Antarctica.>>
TECHNOLOGY AND THE BUSINESS OF GOVERNMENT
09/30/10 03:41 pm ET
Watch out penguins. After raising privacy concerns in Europe, Google Street View has arrived in Antarctica.>>
09/29/10 05:43 pm ET
The General Services Administration is testing a new service allowing Americans to get text, e-mail, or RSS updates on a whole host of topics about which federal agencies provide information. That's all well and good, writes Juli Weiner at Vanity Fair, but she says...>>
09/28/10 06:13 pm ET
NASA has taken some hits for having decades-old computer technology running the shuttle program and the International Space station. For example, the space agency uses some technology that the moon programs relied on in the 1960s and the space station uses processors more than two decades old. Sounds like a typical government operation? Well, no, when you have scientists explain it.>>
09/27/10 11:58 am ET
What the ongoing furor over the WikiLeaks phenomenon has revealed, writes Peter Ludlow, author of Crypto Anarchy, Cyberstates, and Pirate Utopias, "is that the media and government agencies believe there is a single protagonist to be concerned with--something of a James Bond villain, if you will." >>
09/24/10 03:17 pm ET
Another European country has blocked Google Street View from taking pictures in their country, as some Europeans fight the program that provides panoramic views of locations from the street level.>>
09/23/10 03:34 pm ET
When hackers on Tuesday exploited a security flaw on the social-networking service Twitter to corrupt messages from users -- including the White House press secretary's account -- the breach seemed to be a joke rather than an effort to bring down systems.>>
09/22/10 05:08 pm ET
The Federal Communications Commission plans to rebuild its website using Drupal, an open source content management platform, Steven VanRoekel, managing director of the agency, said in a blog post on Wednesday.>>
09/22/10 04:58 pm ET
The Federal Aviation Administration acknowledges there is still a lot of work to do on its ambitious $20 billion program to replace the nation's aging radar-based air traffic control system with a satellite-based network by 2020.>>
09/21/10 02:27 pm ET
The Health and Human Services Department awarded Verizon Business, a Verizon Communications unit, a $169 million contract to manage and secure Internet protocol and data networks.>>
09/20/10 06:52 pm ET
For the Health and Human Services Department, Health IT is all about knowing the end result.>>
09/16/10 01:46 pm ET
It seems that viewing pornography is still a problem for some of those among the Federal ranks. >>
09/17/10 03:20 pm ET
Pentagon officials are starting to repeat one another's cyberwar rhetoric. Hello, is this an echo chamber? >>
09/16/10 01:45 am ET
Technology designed to circumvent Internet censorship by Iranian officials has been found to be riddled with security loopholes, raising questions on how the State Department could have approved it for distribution in Iran. >>
09/15/10 06:13 pm ET
The head inspector of stimulus spending on Wednesday issued a formal white paper, imploring the administration to regulate the way federal agencies label awards so they all use a common naming convention for all types of loans, grants and contracts. The lack of a...>>
09/14/10 03:25 pm ET
HP announced the latest in a string of acquisitions on Monday, with plans to buy security software company ArcSight for $1.5 billion in cash. In the last six months, the PC manufacturer has announced plans to acquire Fortify, 3Com, Palm and 3PAR, to name a few, giving it a larger footprint in networking, mobile computing and -- most notably -- security.>>
09/13/10 12:03 am ET
A study by internal government watchdogs found Defense Department contracts are missing certain provisions for protecting confidential government data, an omission that may leave sensitive files vulnerable to disclosure or misuse by company employees. But the footnotes of the audit indicate that changes to the guidelines are expected this month. >>
09/10/10 05:57 pm ET
Here's something every teenager will just love: The Council for Industry and Higher Education in London released a report on Friday that concluded children should take classes on computer games as a way to improve the United Kingdom's competitiveness in the information technology (or what the Brits call information communications and technology) field.>>
09/09/10 09:58 am ET
State Department Policy Planning staff official Jared Cohen announced this week that he would be leaving the administration to head a new "think/do tank" at Google, a move that cements the growing link between Silicon Valley and the State Department.>>
09/09/10 01:08 am ET
Some information technology contractors welcomed an announcement by President Obama on Wednesday that he proposes investing in infrastructure, such as advanced air traffic tech, as a way of stimulating the economy -- but expresses nervousness about how he intends to compensate for the cost.>>
09/08/10 01:55 pm ET
California Secretary of State Debra Bowen is a big proponent of open source voting machines, which developers say are more secure and less buggy than the proprietary devices made by various manufacturers and in use nationwide. (Here's a helpful article published in IEEE Spectrum magazine explaining open source vs. closed source voting machines.) Bowen got another chance on Wednesday to plug open source voting when she spoke at the Gov 2.0 Summit in Washington, saying it reduces time and costs.>>
09/07/10 11:31 am ET
The Sunlight Foundation said on Tuesday that it launched Clearspending.com, a site that will analyze data from USASpending.gov.>>
09/03/10 03:43 pm ET
In a recent article on how chief information officers can become part of an organization's senior leadership team (rather than an order taker who makes sure the e-mail or data center doesn't go down), CIO.com quotes Tom Davenport, professor of management and information technology at Babson College in Wellesley, Mass.:>>
09/02/10 01:19 pm ET
In another sign of just how attached individuals have become to their cell phones, two thirds of adults say they have slept with their mobile device or placed it next to their bed at night, according to a survey released on Thursday by the Pew Internet and American Life Project.>>
09/01/10 05:01 pm ET
Virginia computers that support issuing new or updated drivers licenses in the commonwealth have been down for a week. Commonwealth officials issued a statement today trying to play down how much inconvenience this caused drivers:>>
