Digital Government

Census struggles to solve IT problems in time for 2010 count

With time running out before the decennial head count gets fully under way, key IT systems the Census Bureau is relying on still have performance problems, the Government Accountability Office told Congress.

Digital Government

Is your cell phone trying to kill you?

Studies that link cell phone use to cancer probably aren't going to scare us into not using them, but is the risk even real? GCN Lab's Greg Crowe has some thoughts.

Modernization

Dispatches from the federal blogosphere: Apple's iPad, broadband and blogging advice

A NASA blogger on blogging; broadband's national hookup; and the USPS IG ponders the implications of the iPad.

Modernization

Government re-opens while feds talk telework in aftermath of blizzard

Now that severe weather in the nation's capital and elsewhere have provided ample opportunities for testing continuity-of-operations plans, federal employees have some thoughts.

Digital Government

2020 vision: 10 things you'll see on the Web in the next 10 years

By 2020, you'll have one device for all uses, proximity networking will take hold, and spam just might be brought under control, says IDC senior analyst Shawn McCarthy.

Digital Government

White House launches iPhone app

The White House has joined in the application frenzy with a free download for the iPhone and iPod Touch.

Digital Government

Clinton urges Internet freedom, cybersecurity

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton today urged against censorship of the Internet and called for responses to cyberattacks.

Digital Government

10 technologies to watch in 2010

Government policies on information sharing, mobility, more efficient networking and, of course, security help define the technologies that will be hot this year.

Digital Government

BlackBerry enters the app wars with winner for feds

The Presenter takes two things feds really love, BlackBerrys and PowerPoint, and combines them in an application that could not only make presentations easier, but could also let you leave your laptop PC at home.

Digital Government

FIPS-certified USB drives have security flaws

Vulnerabilities in supposedly secure USB flash drives that received FIPS certification are causing NIST to review the certification process for cryptographic modules.

Digital Government

Nexus One: All that and a trackball

Google ups the ante in the smart phone frenzy with the Nexus One, a smart phone running the Android OS.

Digital Government

Security issues to fear in the New Year

An increasingly complex and networked world poses new threats; cloud computing, social networking and mobile platforms claim the attention of security prognosticators for 2010.

Digital Government

The ’00 7: The decade’s most important tech advances

We select seven technologies that changed the game during the unofficial decade of 2000-2009.

Digital Government

iPhone: Enterprise-worthy, perhaps, but secure enough for feds?

The latest iPhone operating system is more secure, but doubts linger about whether it can rival the BlackBerry for government-level real security.

Digital Government

Hands on with Army Go Mobile gear

The real potential of the Go Mobile program is in providing military personnel access to their AKO/DKO accounts wirelessly. The days of luggable laptops might be over soon, replaced in this case with smart phones that pack almost as much computing power.

Digital Government

'Sexting' at work: Can employees expect privacy on government equipment?

Supreme Court gears up to decide whether review of police officer's racy text messages was an invasion of privacy.

Digital Government

Google phones may ring in the new year

Google is reportedly considering offering its own mobile phone based on the Android operating system as early as next year.

Digital Government

iPhone overcoming IT security skepticism

Apple's iPhone is winning over enterprise security skeptics and is now becoming a viable option to Research in Motion's BlackBerrys and Microsoft Windows Mobile handsets.

Digital Government

Droid does it better

The new Verizon Wireless Droid by Motorola is a phone that could really change the industry, and the way the federal government does its job.

People

New study finds feds less prepared to work remotely than industry counterparts

Sixty percent of feds wouldn't be prepared to work remotely if their offices couldn't open, according to the results of a survey of IT executives released today.