White House pushes more telework paid leave
The White House issued a statement reiterating the president's strong support for more telework as a means to make the federal government more productive and also to attract some of today's most desirable workers to federal agencies.
HP ships Windows 7 Slate PC
Hewlett-Packard's long-awaited slate PC is now available but with a different target audience than originally planned.
Few IT pros have deployed Office 2010
An industry-sponsored survey of IT professionals found that just four percent have deployed Microsoft Office 2010, although interest remains high in the productivity suite.
Teri Takai appointed DOD's CIO
Former California chief information officer Teri Takai has been appointed as the Defense Department's CIO.
Army moves e-mail to DISA cloud
Army announces joint effort with DISA to move the service's email and calendar applications to the agency's cloud.
Army to match processes to budget reality, says top official
The Army will revise its developmental model and make other adjustments to successfully counter adversaries around the globe and adjust to changing fiscal circumstances at home, Army Secretary John M. McHugh said today at the opening session of the AUSA conference and symposium in Washington, D.C.
DOD sketches its diagram of the future
Dave Wennergren talks about past experiences, the evolution of the federal government in the Information Age and what the future might have in store.
SSA to create dozens of new datasets
Social Security Administration said it will be protecting against release of any personally identifiable information as it extracts new datasets for open government and transparency projects.
CDC publishes social media toolkit online
Officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention share the lessons they have learned by using Facebook, Twitter, podcasts, blogs and other social media.
NIST late to start work after getting paid, GAO says
Auditors scold the National Institute of Standards and Technology for taking too long to deliver results on research studies paid for by federal agencies.
CBP moving e-mail to DHS' private cloud
Customs and Border Protection officials are moving the agency’s collaboration software and e-mail services to a private cloud located in one of the Homeland Security Department’s new state-of–the-art data centers.
Don't panic: IPv4 address depletion is not a crisis
Hype is beginning to appear about the impending crisis of IPv4 address depletion and the need to adopt IPv6. Yes, we do need to prepare, but the Internet will still be with us.
Carey to replace DOD's Wennergren
Navy CIO Robert Carey will replace David Wennergren as deputy assistant secreatary of defense for information management.
Can technology cure texting while driving?
Readers agree that texting while driving is dangerous and should be stopped, but say that bans against the practice and technology solutions can go only so far.
Holy cow! FCC live-tweets baseball playoff game
The Federal Communications Commission put on a sportscaster's hat for a few hours while it live-tweeted a baseball game affected by the Fox-Cablevision dispute.
Microsoft's Ray Ozzie to retire
Microsoft's chief software architect Ray Ozzie is stepping down from his role and will retire, the company announced late Monday.
Frustrated developers rip Microsoft in hidden source-code comments
Software developers working with Microsoft products express their frustrations with the company in comments hidden in source code.
What's on state CIOs' minds? Consolidation, cost control, health care.
Consolidation, virtualization, budget and health care are among the most critical policy or technology issues to be faced by state government in 2011, according to a recent NASCIO survey.
4G public safety network to undergo first tests
Telecom industry partners are being signed up for the public safety demonstration network being established by the Commerce Department to test LTE equipment for a 700 MHz nationwide public safety network.
Marathon looks to broaden fault tolerant computing
Marathon Technologies rolled out everRunMX software aimed at broadening the availability of fault tolerant computing.
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