R. Fink | Will the law tame Second Life, or vice versa?
Commentary: Like all wild frontiers, the virtual world is finally seeing the arrival of the long arm of the law.
Owen Ambur | The data landscape
As co-director of the CIO Council's Extensible Markup Language Community of Practice, Owen Ambur tirelessly encouraged XML-based interoperability. Ambur discusses the importance of good records-keeping and why people don't seem to really want it.
Engines of change
SPECIAL REPORT | Teams build on technologies from past challenges
New ColdFusion bridges .NET and Java
The newly released version of ColdFusion will allow Web application developers to easily work with Microsoft .NET objects.
The next wave of defense
SPECIAL REPORT | Mutating threats shape DARPA's research in a wide range of new technologies
The Cutting Edge of Defense IT
SPECIAL REPORT | From chip scale to a grand scale, DOD research explores a full range of promising technologies.
IPv6 tunneling in Vista ' a new area of concern
Microsoft rewrote the network stack of its Windows Vista operating system. To use IPv6, it has included the Teredo tunneling protocol, which raises security concerns.
Web 2.0: Twice the fun, twice the vulnerabilities
Interactive Web applications are subject to the same vulnerabilities as client-server applications, as well as some new ones.
Clarke wants to know, where did we go wrong?
In the four years since the release of the National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace the U.S. lost its way, said former U.S. counterterrorism czar Richard A. Clarke.
Autonomy wins over state
The State Department has selected Autonomy to provide software for the department's iNet portal.
Space station tour not quite out of this world
NASA takes visitors to the space station.
USA.gov, USDA lead the e-gov pack
Brown University's eighth annual e-government study ' released this week ' ranks the 50 states and various federal agencies on overall e-gov performance.
Watching the watchers
Nielsen/NetRating's announcement last week that it was going to stop using page views as a measure of Web site popularity marks a significant change in the Web.
Technique | Warrior to citizen
The Marine Corps deploys online services to streamline Marines' transition to civilian life.
Turning point
With its new version of SharePoint, Microsoft may have solved the problems that had hampered its use as a collaboration platform.
Michael Jones | Geospatial Democracy
GCN Interview: Michael Jones, Google Earth's chief technologist who also oversses Google Maps and the company's local search service, talks about what goes into applications such as StreetView and the democratization of geospatial data.
ATF plans to field broadband system
The Justice Department's Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has announced plans to field a nationwide wireless broadband telecommunications and Web portal.
Report: E-gov puts pressure on security
The growth of interagency data sharing and public-facing services is putting new demands on IT security officials.
Views from the Hill
Study says consistency on congressional Web sites would improve service.
Simplified data access for Google Earth Enterprise
An enhancement to the Google Earth Enterprise mapping system allows users to view geospatial data in two-dimensional format from the product on a Web browser.
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