Tablets for government: Apple iPad
The iPad's bright display and long battery life may not compensate for its limited processing power and number of ports.
Tablets for government: Panasonic ToughPad FZ-G1
Panasonic's ToughPad FZ-G1 is a Windows 8 Pro tablet rugged enough to be used in practically any environment. But when multiple options are in use, its power consumption might be an issue.
The tech that will make drones safe for civilian skies
Sense-and-avoid technologies are close to ensuring safe UAV flights on a large scale. It's mostly a matter of time, standards and FAA rules.
App provides disaster assessment on the fly with ArcGIS Online
A Michigan county is using WebMapSolutions to build a mobile app that provides faster, more complete damage assessments.
West Virginia U. brings Super Wi-Fi to campus
The free "white spaces" network is the first of its kind on a U.S. campus, and it could lead to more rural deployments.
How's your app performing? Fathom does a deep dive
Crittercism's Fathom Mobile Command Center offers a way for agencies to track the performance of increasingly complex mobile applications.
Serious game tests GIS, disaster response skills
A Rochester Institute of Technology team comes up with a GIS-based game involving toxic materials that can be adapted to other scenarios.
5 steps to making agile development work
Experts from government and industry offer tips on making sure agile lives up to its promise.
Smart phone: 30 years in the making
The technology behind smart phones can be traced back to GCN's beginnings, and further, into government research projects. Here's a brief look at what's behind a smart phone's key components.
Agencies sprinting to Scrum for agile development
The Scrum methodology allows project teams to regularly and frequently evaluate the progress and deliverables of their IT projects.
Microsoft 'starts' over with Windows 8.1
The upgrade brings back the Start button, sort of, and adds a few other features.
Haswell chipset leading to some powerful, tiny PCs
The fourth-generation Haswell Core i7 CPU, combined with an Nvidia GPU, powers the small but muscular Giada D2308.
Hadoop data too big to move? Splunk may have a solution
Splunk Analytics for Hadoop lets users explore, analyze and visualize data natively within the open-source programming framework.
Just what does NIST consider a mobile device?
Any guide to mobile technology is a work in progress.
NSA's intell gathering puts the spotlight on metadata
Metadata is valuable for extracting knowledge from smaller subsets of data for intelligence-gathering as well as for energy, weather and public safety research, experts say.
That was fast: High-speed wireless routers show up early
New 802.11ac models are appearing ahead of the new standard’s adoption, and are even certified by IEEE.
Dell goes to school with new, low-priced Latitude
The 3330 isn't a powerhouse and lacks some government-style security features, but its performance, price and peripherals will fit just fine in educational settings.
DARPA takes a smart-phone approach to Android ground sensors
The agency's ADAPT program is using reusable hardware and software and an open-source approach to app development in order to get new designs into the field more quickly.
Agencies hot for big data, but plans, resources are lacking
Big data can save government $500 billion with the right technology in place, but most IT execs say their agencies lack an adequate strategy, a MeriTalk survey finds.
One of the 37.7 percent: My XPerience with XP
John Breeden II was one of the people who stuck with Windows XP until forced to upgrade. Why didn't he switch sooner?
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