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Government use of IT

Article | 4/02/2011 NIST report aims to help U.S. agencies deploy cloud apps
Organizations that are deploying public cloud computing applications need to pay close attention to security and management risks, the National Instit...
Article | 4/02/2011 Hospitals kill the fax and exchange health data over the Internet
Health-care facilities in two states have begun exchanging data with each other and public health agencies over the Internet as part of a pilot progra...
Article | 2/02/2011 Competition aims to make cybergeeks cool
A new cybersecurity competition for high school students aims to make cybergeeks as cool as sports stars, in addition to identifying a new generation ...
Article | 1/02/2011 Oracle to pay $46 million to settle kickbacks complaint
Oracle has agreed to pay the U.S. government US$46 million to settle complaints that Sun Microsystems, which merged with Oracle in 2010, engaged with ...
Article | 1/02/2011 Mobile phone service restored in Egypt -- for now
Vodafone and France Telecom say mobile phone service was restored in Egypt on Saturday as demonstrations against President Hosni Mubarak's government ...
Article | 26/01/2011 Obama talks about innovation, IT investments in speech
U.S. President Barack Obama called for Congress to focus on supporting innovation and support research in IT and clean energy during his State of the ...
Article | 26/01/2011 FCC sets LTE as standard for public safety network
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has set Long Term Evolution (LTE) as the data standard for a nationwide mobile broadband network for public...
Article | 26/01/2011 NYC installs virtual suggestion box
New York City is harnessing the power of employee-based collaborative filtering to solicit new ways to save money and improve city government.
Article | 25/01/2011 Hackers get access to New Jersey school data system
Users of the 4chan online message board managed to get access to the online student information system used by a New Jersey school district after the ...
Article | 25/01/2011 Consumer Watchdog calls for investigation of Google
Consumer Watchdog, an advocacy group largely focused in recent years on Google's privacy practices, has called on a congressional investigation into t...
Article | 14/01/2011 Taiwan develops face-recognition vending machine
Government-funded researchers in Taiwan have developed a vending machine that recommends purchases based on people's faces, one of the inventors said ...
Article | 14/01/2011 JFK Library opens largest online digitized presidential archive
Marking the 50th anniversary of the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy, the JFK Library Foundation on Thursday unveiled the nation's largest on...
Article | 12/01/2011 Spectrum analyzer catches exam cheats in Taiwan
Police in Taiwan used a set of spectrum analyzers to catch at least three people suspected of cheating on an exam by monitoring them for mobile phone ...
Article | 7/01/2011 WikiLeaks fiasco prompts new Fed effort to boost data security
Prompted by fallout from the WikiLeaks debacle, the White House Office of Management and Budget has asked all federal agencies and departments handlin...
Article | 6/01/2011 Google wins injunction against agency using Microsoft cloud
A judge has sided with Google and issued a preliminary injunction ordering the U.S. Department of the Interior to abandon procurement efforts for a Mi...