5 thieves, 5 cities, 12 hours: Can Twitter catch them?
A State Department-sponsored contest will test social media's intelligence-gathering power, asking contestants to find a ring of international jewel thieves.
Oak Ridge morphing Jaguar supercomputer into 10+ petaflop Titan
When completed later this year, the updated machine will have nearly three times the computing power.
Microsoft building a government community cloud
Microsoft is developing a multi-tenant, government community cloud to add to the variety of cloud offerings the company provides agencies and businesses.
IBM achieves quantum computing milestone
Researchers at IBM have developed new error-correction and fabrication processes that greatly increase processing times for quantum computers.
StumbleUpon and feds: Tricks of the social media trade
A StumbleUpon executive explains how federal agencies can leverage the StumbleUpon platform to drive traffic to federal websites.
Microsoft's Azure cloud service goes dark
Microsoft's Windows Azure cloud platform is still in the process of recovering after a lengthy outage that affected multiple countries took it offline Feb. 29. Was Leap Day 2012 the culprit?
CIA wants big data, petascale computing to speed info analysis
The agency is looking at new information processing and networking technologies to dramatically reduce the time it takes to analyze data.
National Geospatial Platform still has a few mountains to climb
The depository for federal GIS data is operating but must clear some hurdles before it can reach its full potential, geospatial information officers say.
Search engine poisoning: How malicious sites fool your filters
Despite efforts by search providers to filter malicious query results, search engine poisoning still accounts for about 40 percent of malware infections.
Conflicting laws undercut global cloud's promise, study warns
Governments need to harmonize their policies on privacy, cybersecurity and five other areas to support the flow of data across borders, according to a BSA study that ranks 24 countries' preparedness.
Apple, Google, MS, 3 others on board with mobile apps privacy mandate
A new agreement will call for app developers to provide clear information on their individual privacy policies before their products are downloaded.
Google Apps on the job: The GCN Lab tries it out at NOAA
With agencies looking to Google Apps for Government as a cloud computing option, the Lab's Greg Crowe visits NOAA, where a team is putting collaboration, customization and cost-control to work.
What's inside NOAA's cloud?
An installation of Google Apps for Government can feature a variety of different programs.
How NOAA went from zero to cloud in a year
In just a little more than a year, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration went from shopping for solutions for desktop services to a full-scale implementation of Google Apps for Government. Here are some milestones in that process.
TSA piggybacks on Coast Guard emergency alert systems
When the Transportation Security Administration needed to upgrade its emergency alert system, it opted to use the system already in place for its sister agency the Coast Guard.
A self-healing network and other new technology for government
Federal officials and industry representatives got together at AFCEA's Emerging Technology Symposium to go over the latest tools.
Interior says cloud e-mail data must be stored in US
The department revised its RFP for an agencywide cloud e-mail and collaboration platform, saying the data must physically reside in the U.S. or its territories.
Obama proposes online privacy bill of rights, voluntary Do Not Track
The administration's plan, which includes a consumer bill of rights and a Do-Not-Track browser feature, gives government limited enforcement powers, but could still have some teeth.
Einstein still right: CERN cites flaw in neutrino experiment
Problems with the experiment in which neutrinos exceeded the speed of light may have thrown off the results, CERN says. So for now, Einstein's still undefeated.
Google: Claims of bypassing Safari security settings 'mischaracterized'
The search giant defends itself against claims of subverting Safari, as Microsoft says IE's settings were also bypassed.
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