Georgia fights tax fraud with identity-based filters
Georgia is using the LexisNexis Tax Refund Investigative Solution in a pilot program to mitigate identity fraud and has awarded the company a contract to continue the effort.
DOD still has penchant for BlackBerry 7 devices
New Defense Department approval means personnel can now use the BlackBerry 7 line of products across the department's enterprise network.
iPhone app programs your dreams
Sigmund, developed by a Harvard Ph.D. student, repeats selected words while you sleep.
IRS saves millions with server virtualization, IG says
Successfully virtualizing some of its servers helped the Internal Revenue Service save $10.2 million in equipment costs over two years.
'Cloud first' giving way to 'mobile first'
"Mobile first" has become the war cry of Web developers -- and agencies -- who want to take a standardized, enterprise approach to the explosion of smart phones and tablets.
Facebook 'Likes' not protected as free speech, judge rules
A district court judge has ruled that employees who are fired for liking something on Facebook have no legal remedy under the First Amendment.
Closing big-data R&D gaps
The federal government's big-data initiative fills key research and development gaps where industry fears to tread.
DARPA wants gamers to design medical training software
DARPA is looking at the gaming industry to help it design medical training and education software for use on mobile devices.
2012 GCN Awards call for nominations is open
Editors are looking for exceptional federal, state and local government IT projects and management teams, to be honored for their ingenuity, organizational skill and contribution to the public.
2 virtualization worries that keep admins up at night
System downtime and slow application performance related to storage in virtualized environments are the primary concerns of IT administrators surveyed in a new report.
VA looks beyond iPad pilot to 'hyper portable' era
The department is planning beyond its current mobile device pilot test for the day it fields as many as 100,000 mobile devices across the enterprise.
FAA mechanics, attorneys test-fly tablets
Like the VA, the FAA has a mobile tablet pilot program under way, now being tapped by the aviation agency's mechanics and attorneys.
NASA looks to space for better earthquake data
The agency is testing READI, which uses satellites to detect minute changes in GPS-enabled ground stations, providing real-time data on quakes and better tsunami predictions.
9 top tablets graded for government
The GCN Lab has put the latest tablet computers through their paces to test how suitable and secure they are for government workers.
Keys to big data in the brain, not the computer, former NSA exec says
Visualization and analytics will require cultural anthropologists and social scientists to help organizations understand how humans process information.
Solar-storm launch boldly goes where no rubber chicken has gone before
Some California high school students sent NASA's Camilla mascot into space during March's intense solar storms.
Tweet, tweet. Is this thing on? GCN Lab launches a feed.
Follow the GCNLabGuys to keep up the the latest from the lab.
Will the iPhone 5 be made of Terminator-like liquid metal?
The next iPhone reportedly will be made of Liquidmetal, a material that might not do everything the T-1000 could but is still like nothing you've ever seen.
Windows 8's new look makes sense, if you can take the shock
The tablet- and touch screen-friendly interface in the Consumer Preview might be familiar to Windows Phone users, but for everyone else, you're not in Kansas anymore.
Atlantis looks to unclog VDI storage bottlenecks
Atlantis ILIO storage optimization technology offloads virtual desktop I/O traffic before it affects storage.
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