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The evolving reader forum
The opportunity for readers to post comments about the stories we publish makes for a worthwhile public forum about the issues surrounding a story.
Army uses a wiki to let personnel rewrite field manuals
The Army created a wiki to let any of its personnel offer rewrites to one of seven field manuals. If it works, many others could follow.
HTML 5 steps up
Does Microsoft's interest in the new version of HTML add some forward momentum?
Attacks underscore the limits of Twitter, Facebook
Social networking might provide useful business tools, but recent attacks are a reminder that they are not ready for mission-critical tasks.
Better procurement can feed transition to 21st-century federal IT, Kundra says
Recently, federal CIO Vivek Kundra met with reporters and editors from the 1105 Government Information Group, publisher of GCN, to talk about lines of business, the GSA storefront and other topics that affect the federal information technology landscape.
Pentagon hopes use of social media attracts younger audience to its Web site
Social media is the prominent feature on the new Defense Department's home page, which was launched today.
IE 8 earns high marks for security in reports
Microsoft is putting out the word that users of Internet Explorer 6 should upgrade to IE 8, primarily for security and standards-compliance reasons.
Security upgrades highlight DISA buying surge
The Defense Information Systems Agency plans to bolster security features embedded in its far-flung networks and data centers via several acquisition projects planned for the twilight of fiscal 2009.
Genen Soo-Hoo brings finer IT to N.Y.'s finest
Genen Soo-Hoo developed two enterprise apps for the New York City Police Department: One for the police academy and another for submitting crime tips via the Web.
6 IT trends government IT managers should be wary of
There are many good information technology innovations, but not all the current fads are good for government IT. Some trends are bad in general, and some are very bad for government IT managers in particular.
Q: What's a top-level domain? A: Practically anything.
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers recently gave the OK on a potentially huge expansion of top-level domains. Under the new rules, pretty much anything goes.
Air Force logistics goes for rich Web experience
The Air Force has deployed Flash-based dashboards that let logistics personnel track a variety of metrics relating to the readiness and status of inventory.
Federal IT execs a bit fuzzy on cloud computing use, survey finds
A survey by MeriTalk of more than 600 federal IT executives found they held contradictory notions of how much cloud computing their agencies were using.
Sandia to boot behemoth botnet
In October, a huge botnet will be run not by nefarious underground figures but by DOE's Sandia National Laboratories.
Professors propose research-based approach to social media
Ben Shneiderman and his colleagues offer a plan to harness social media for the greater good.
DISA in search of a few good information technologies
DISA wants to deliver on-demand, enterprisewide technology services across the Defense Department.
Online mapping eases county growing pains
Cumberland County, N.C. establishes self-service map-based info-center.
Dot-org zone offers lessons learned in implementing DNSSEC
The .org zone was signed with the DNS Security Extensions in June, and its operators are offering their insights to agencies that are looking for an architecture to enable signing of the Internet’s authoritative root zone.
GSA issues cloud storefront RFQ
Storage, Web hosting and virtualization requested on an on-demand basis.
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