What's in store for 'Mango' Windows Phone 7 users?
The smart-phone OS upgrade is to include the IE9 Mobile browser, SkyDrive access and, probably, Twitter integration.
Air Force to build Space Fence to track orbital junk
The next-generation space radar will allow ground controllers to find and track even small pieces of debris.
GIS app gives first responders in Georgia a moving picture
An app built for $30,000 gives crews in Marietta, Ga., an evolving, real-time view of emergencies.
DOD to KO Defense Knowledge Online portal
The Defense Department's plans to shutter its Defense Knowledge Online portal are set. What comes next?
Army tackles data center consolidation, enterprise e-mail
The Army CIO tackles data center consolidation and enterprise e-mail, two major projects that have significant interest across the Army and the Defense Department.
Have you delved into your data lately?
Instead of just reporting on public-sector data, shops should be exploring it. This is particularly true in government, where very large data sets can benefit from cutting-edge visual data exploration technologies.
Take two of these and boost your data quality
These modern techniques will help make any enterprise data quality initiative, no matter how complex, a success.
The big deal about big data
Data management evangelist David Loshin talks about the challenges of managing large data sets, Hadoop and more.
Death march begins for Windows XP, Office 2003, IE6
"We love those products, but ... they're dead," exec says, as company announces their last 1,000 days of support.
Gatewing UAV delivers high-res digital mapping
The drone can stay aloft at its default flight altitude of 492 feet for half an hour, during which it can photograph nearly a square mile at a time, taking 1,000 photographs.
Public gets first peek at 'Windows Server 8'
Microsoft gave the public its first glimpse of "Windows Server 8," the code name for the company's next-generation server that's still under wraps, July 12 at its Worldwide Partner Conference.
Xplore tablet raises the ruggedness bar – and drops from it
The iX104C5 tablet comes back strong in follow-up testing.
Army's new modernization plan: IT on a tight budget
With its 2012 Modernization Plan, the Army is taking a close look at how it will use its fiscal 2012 budget to achieve its most critical goals and re-balance the force.
Will smart phones replace your Internet connection?
A new study by the Pew Internet Project finds that not only are smart phones multiplying like Tribbles, but that a growing number of people use the phones as their primary access devices to the Internet.
What do feds think of the iPad?
GCN's sister publication Federal Computer Week spoke with some avid tablet users in the federal government about how they use their tablets and how these still-new devices are likely to change the game.
20 years after first call, GSM rules the mobile world
Twenty years ago this month, the first mobile phone call via the Global System for Mobile Communications was made in Finland. It was a call heard 'round the world.
FOSE 2011: These products could steal the show
From the new BlackBerry PlayBook to the rugged Algiz XRW handled, here is a sampler of technology that is fit for feds at the FOSE 2011 show.
Space shuttle technology that fell to Earth
Even though the Atlantis' 12-day mission marks the close of the shuttle era, you might be surprised at some of the beneficial technologies the program leaves behind.
Memo to health IT planners: no need to reinvent standards
Columnist Mike Daconta helps clarify the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology's recommendation for a universal exchange language for health care information and explains why it is more than feasible today.
USAID to help Afghan cell-phone users get news
Afghans will have easier access to newspapers, radio and other news sources on their cell phones thanks to a project by the U.S. Agency for International Development.
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