Who tweets in government?
A surprising number of government officials are using Twitter.
Reducing 'noise' in quantum computing is more difficult than first believed
Scientists at NIST prove that what once looked like a promising technique for limiting errors in futuristic computers is not only more difficult than thought, but impossible. But that is a good thing to know.
DARPA project aims at improving processor performance
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded a grant to Rice University researchers to develop better compilers to improve the performance of applications running on any microprocessor.
Shawn McCarthy | Government should keep an eye on domain-name expansion
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers plans to greatly expand the numnber of top-level domains, so that in addition to the traditional .com or .gov, you could see .ford, .walmart or .anything.
Wyatt Kash | GSA clears some roadblocks to expanded use of Web 2.0 tools
The General Services Administration's recent agreements with social-media providers remove some key legal barriers to using Web 2.0 tools, allowing agency officials to join the experiment at last.
Michael Daconta | The next wave of semantic applications
Wolfram Alpha, a Web site that will compute the answers to natural language questions, could be another watershed event in semantic computing.
Silverlight hot, Java not?
Java's presence on the desktop seems to be fading while a new contender, Microsoft's Silverlight, is on the rise.
Air flow control can yield more efficient data centers
DOE's Berkeley National Laboratory is engaged in several projects to demonstrate how cooling and technology can more effectively manage air flow in data centers, thus improving energy efficiency.
Energy Star zeros in on green servers
The Environmental Protection Agency and industry partners are moving closer to an Energy Star specification for enterprise servers that will help government agencies identify systems that deliver performance while reducing energy consumption.
William Jackson | The Web at 20: Rewards and risks of an open platform
In a short time, the Web has become an embedded infrastructure in our economy and society, but it is a double-edged tool that frequently cuts the hands using it.
HP selling cloud assurance to enterprises
HP Cloud Assure is a turnkey package of services and best practices delivered in the cloud.
Kundra courts the risk of innovation
Listening to federal CIO Vivek Kundra speak, two themes keep coming up: cloud computing and open government data. Both could help agencies do their jobs better, though both will require some upfront work.
Microsoft introduces on-demand software platform
Microsoft is venturing further into the cloud — and into providing software as a service — with the introduction of a new line of on-demand solutions for government and education.
HP products target teleworkers
HP is expanding a line of scanning and printing products designed for a growing market: teleworkers.
W3C investigates possible e-Gov standards
The World Wide Web Consortium has started an effort to develop standards that governments could use to harness Web 2.0 and social networking technologies.
Intel unveils new processor series
Intel Corp. has introduced 17 enterprise-class processors, led by the Xeon processor 5500 series.
Microsoft: IE8 bugs squashed
In response to Internet Explorer 8 being compromised at a hacker's contest last week in Vancouver, Microsoft has tinkered with the Internet Explorer 8 Web browser and is now claiming a resolution to those vulnerabilities.
Nordic River launches TextFlow
Web-based word processing collaboration tool enables concurrent editing by multiple authors on the same document and provides tools for collaborative editing.
Zeroing in on greener enterprise servers
EPA and industry partners move toward an Energy Star specification for enterprise servers that will help agencies identify systems that deliver performance while reducing energy consumption.
GSA opens door to Web 2.0 content for federal agencies
The General Services Administration has signed agreements with Flickr, YouTube, Vimeo and blip.tv that make it possible for federal agencies to use new-media tools while meeting their legal requirements.
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