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Government use of IT

Article | 21/05/2013 Amazon Web Services gets FedRAMP certification for US government cloud use
Amazon Web Services has finally received certification under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program, which the company said will lower ...
Article | 14/05/2013 US agencies can't track savings from data center closings
The U.S. government's effort to close 1,253 of its data centers is falling short of its goal, and agencies haven't been able to track projected cost s...
Article | 9/05/2013 Obama administration expands open data access
U.S. President Barack Obama has signed an executive order requiring that government data be made available in open, machine-readable formats, expandin...
Article | 8/05/2013 Study: US military too reliant on foreign-made equipment
The U.S. military's reliance on foreign-made products, including telecommunications equipment and semiconductors, is putting the nation's security at ...
Article | 30/04/2013 Detector finds smuggled cellphones even without batteries or SIM cards
Turning off cellphones or even locking them in metal boxes won't be enough to keep them hidden with a new phone detector introduced on Monday.
Article | 24/04/2013 North Carolina auditor: 84 state-run IT projects well over budget, schedule
Scores of IT projects being conducted by North Carolina's government are racking up higher-than-expected costs and going far beyond their planned sche...
Article | 9/04/2013 Blocking antiporn ban protest mails was justified, European Parliament president says
The President of the European Parliament has justified filtering 457,325 protest emails sent to Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) -- 106,771 o...
Article | 9/04/2013 EPIC presses FBI in lawsuit for details on biometric database
A privacy watchdog has filed a lawsuit contending the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation has failed to provide requested technical information about...
Article | 4/04/2013 Tech groups protest anti-China provision in US budget resolution
A little-publicized provision in a U.S. government budget resolution that largely prohibits four agencies from using Chinese-made IT products could ba...
Article | 1/04/2013 China slams U.S. for discriminating against nation's tech vendors
China has slammed a new U.S. funding law that will tighten scrutiny of information technology purchases from the country, and said it could severely d...
Article | 27/03/2013 Microsoft touts Office 365 wins, but customers want more
Microsoft is trumpeting Office 365 customer successes at its U.S. Public Sector CIO Summit on Tuesday, but some of those otherwise happy clients have ...
Article | 14/03/2013 US NIST's vulnerability database hacked
A U.S. government computer vulnerability database and several other websites at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have been down for ...
Article | 12/03/2013 Reporters Without Borders slams five nations for spying on media, activists
Reporters Without Borders named five countries that regularly spy on journalists and dissidents, a practice the group contends is made possible with a...
Article | 4/03/2013 EADS CEO seeks IT industry help to speed up aviation innovation
"From the initial research work to its decommissioning, an aircraft's entire service life can amount to up to 90 years," said Tom Enders, CEO of aeros...
Article | 28/02/2013 EU 'smart borders' program could lead to Big Brother surveillance, says leading politician
European Union plans for new border controls will result in “big brother” surveillance a leading politician warned on Thursday.