Local governments adopt PayPal
Governments at the local level are using PayPal to handle payments for services ranging from parking tickets to library fines.
Washington State chooses new decision engine
Washington State’s Department of Information Services has integrated Microsoft’s decision engine, Bing, into the state’s Internet portal.
Sandia supercomputer boots a million virtual machines
The supercomputer work will be used to provide a foundation for studying botnets.
FDsys makes America's documents immediate and permanent
The Federal Digital System—a Web site of sweeping scope—offers the public access to documents from all three branches of government through a single portal.
State puts social networking to diplomatic use
Among the public services that State uses are Facebook, Twitter, YouTube for video and Flickr for photos.
Transit 511 combines public transportation systems in the Bay Area
The California Metropolitan Transportation Commission's Transit.511.org site combines the schedules of dozens of subway, light-rail, trolley and bus systems, a heroic act of interagency coordination.
Forge.mil brings net-centric speed to software development
The idea behind Forge.mil is to provide an online meeting place for military agencies to build software in a collaborative fashion. By offering this environment as a network-based service, DISA eliminates the need for the developers to set up their own environments.
Data.gov sets tone for transparent government
To the casual viewer, the Office of Management and Budget's Data.gov might not be the most exciting virtual destination. The site's modesty however, belies a fundamental shift in how government interacts with the Web.
Readers suggest a few great government Web sites of their own
Readers offered their own suggestions of government Web sites that are doing a great job of providing services and connecting with citizens.
Tool for hijacking application update sessions to be demonstrated at hackers conference
Security company Radware is releasing the tool to demonstrate the vulnerabilities of software updates done over insecure public networks.
New metrics needed for cloud computing
Cloud computing has the potential change the requirements for how the value of IT projects is measured in the upcoming years.
Online Arabic for dummies
Web-based CriticalTV platform aggregates Arabic news television and translates the speech into English-language text.
Army monitors its carbon bootprint
Army deploys Enviance software as a service in 11 installations to track greenhouse gases.
User satisfaction with government Web sites levels off
Users of government Web sites report no greater satisfaction with these sites than they did four months ago, according to a recent survey.
First round of test specs for formal IPv6 compliance being readied
The first specifications for the Government IPv6 test program being developed by NIST got a workout by test labs and vendors earlier this month.
That shortened URL just might be spam
MessageLabs finds that shortened URLs of the kind found on Twitter are increasingly spam.
Great dot-gov Web Sites 2009
These 10 government agencies show what Web sites are capable of, pushing the boundaries of federated search, user-friendly services, transparent government and social networking.
Government Web sites worthy of respect
The "best government Web sites" featured in our July 27 print issue point to a new type of government-style Web that reflects both the vision of the new administration and the groundwork laid by the architects of e-government.
Army Research selects NetBase intelligent search platform
The Army Research Lab (ARL) has selected advanced search technology from Netbase to better equip researchers to address warfighters’ requests for new technology, tools and gear.
Readers divided over Kundra's plan for upgrading FISMA
Readers opinions on the federal CIO's devire to upgrade FISMA reporting rnaged from the hopeful to the skeptical.
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