Should Local Governments Rush to Upgrade Point-of-Sale Terminals?
Microchipped credit and debit cards are finally taking off in the U.S., but Apple Pay and Google Wallet could undo them, according to one tech expert.
Tax Resistance Unlikely to Thwart Vermont Education Reform
Government officials see the quality of education diminishing across the country.
San Francisco’s Public Libraries to Get 10-Gigabit-Per-Second Boost
The move comes as California aims to upgrade Internet connectivity speeds at all the state’s public libraries.
DHS delivers geospatial data as a service for first responders
The Department of Homeland Security pushes remote sensing imagery and GIS data through Terra Pixel to provide information to first responders.
House gets green light for open source
Members and staff can now procure open source software and make code contributions.
Puerto Rico Is ‘Out of Options’ With $72 Billion Debt; Florida Health Info Hack
Also: NYC city worker EZ-Pass investigation and Montana’s outsourced autopsies.
A security checklist for SCADA systems in the cloud
Because supervisory control and data acquisition systems manage critical infrastructure, acceptance of risks in cloud-based SCADA system controls should approach zero.
Religious Freedom, States’ Interests Clash Over Autopsies
Some states are changing their autopsy laws, as America becomes more religiously diverse and more objections are raised on religious grounds.
NIST drops NSA-backed random number generator
Responding to public concerns about cryptographic security, the National Institute of Standards and Technology has dropped Dual_EC_DRBG from its list of recommended algorithms over concerns that it might contain a weakness that attackers could exploit to predict the outcome of random number generation.
Behind the app: Integrating mobile into the enterprise
Not all agencies have the back-end systems integration or maintenance resources to get the most out of customer-facing mobile apps.
A Triumphant Victory, 11 Years After San Francisco City Hall’s ‘Winter of Love’
California Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom reflects on how the nation has “traveled full circle” since his defiant actions to sanction same-sex marriages as mayor in 2004.
With NYC’s Stonewall Designation, ‘Salvation Isn’t a Guarantor’; Monitoring Water Abusers
Also: Trouble finding women leading local governments and when $15 an hour just won’t cut it.
These States Collected the Most Q1 Taxes on Booze, Gambling and Other Categories
Newly released figures from the U.S. Census Bureau detail state tax revenues for the first three months of 2015.
DevOps: What it is and how to get there
Here are four ways agencies can align culture, process and tools to create a continuous cycle of innovation and agility.
State and Local Leaders React to the Supreme Court’s Marriage Equality Ruling
Palm Springs’ mayor: “Looking around me, reading headlines, taking calls from around the nation ... Today, I just feel love.”
Cupertino cuts reporting time from two weeks to five minutes
A new financial management and HR system offers highly flexible permissions, near-real-time reporting.
Network modernization: big change, but one step at a time
In upgrading from old architectures to new, agencies should focus on making incremental updates to take advantage of software defined networking and network function visualization.
Army makes headway on cryptographic equipment upgrades
The Army is continuing with updates to its cryptographic devices as part of the Army-Wide Cryptographic Network Standardization.
Can Watson make government apps smarter?
A team of students at the University of Texas at Austin won $100,000 in startup funds for their work on a mobile app that helps users access Medicaid and other public services.
Maine, Tennessee CIOs Talk Surfing the Coming 'Silver Tsunami' of State IT Retirees
“If we don’t figure out how to do this, we’re really going to have systems we can’t support, and we’re going to have public failures.”
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