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Government use of IT

Article | 9/11/2011 China's Sina will not force users to register with real names
One of China's most popular Twitter-like services, Sina Weibo, said it needs better systems to stop harmful rumors on the site, but doesn't intend to ...
Article | 8/11/2011 Open-source proponents blast proprietary software in Dutch schools
Dutch education authorities have decided to throw out their government’s open standards policy and instead lock in to Microsoft proprietary software f...
Article | 7/11/2011 China's Internet firms vow to tighten regulation of Web
China's top IT firms have pledged to step up the regulation of their services as government authorities have intensified calls to control the developm...
Article | 4/11/2011 US report warns of Russia, China cyber spying
The U.S. can expect more aggressive efforts from countries such as Russia and China to collect information through cyberespionage in areas such as pha...
Article | 2/11/2011 Biden, Cameron hit out at Internet censorship, hacking
U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden and British Prime Minister David Cameron Tuesday condemned efforts by some countries to censor their citizens' use of...
Article | 25/10/2011 Idaho National Laboratory to move to Google Apps
As many as 5,000 workers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Idaho National Laboratory will be the latest government workers to start using Google Apps...
Article | 14/10/2011 U.S. Commerce Dept mum on Huawei block, citing security
The U.S. Department of Commerce will not explain why it is blocking Chinese company Huawei from participating in a project to build a national wireles...
Article | 12/10/2011 German officials admit to deploying intercept software
Officials in a number of German state governments have owned up to using the Quellen-TKÜ Trojan Horse software in criminal investigations to intercept...
Article | 8/10/2011 GAO report: DHS data mining needs privacy oversight
Data-mining programs at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security are not fully reviewed by the agency for their effectiveness and, in some cases, for ...
Article | 7/10/2011 Oracle to pay $199.5 million in gov't contracting settlement
Oracle has agreed to pay US$199.5 million plus interest for failing to meet its contractual obligations in a 1998 contract with the U.S. General Servi...
Article | 7/10/2011 US lawmakers question cloud security
A rush by President Barack Obama's administration to move U.S. government agencies to cloud computing services may lead to unintended security problem...
Article | 5/10/2011 India's low-cost tablet is made by Canada's DataWind
India is closer to its much-touted target of a US$35 tablet, with DataWind, a wireless Web access products maker in Montreal, designing and making a d...
Article | 30/09/2011 SAIC, others pay $22.7 million to resolve contracting case
Science Applications International (SAIC), a subcontractor and two former government employees will pay nearly US$22.7 million to resolve allegations ...
Article | 28/09/2011 IBM launches city parking analytics system
IBM has launched a system designed to help cities ease parking congestion and collect more parking fees, the company announced Wednesday. The service ...
Article | 27/09/2011 Quake-prone Japanese area runs disaster system on Force.com
A coastal region of Japan due for a major earthquake and possible tsunamis has implemented a cloud-based disaster management system run by <a href="ht...