State taps BI software to share criminal info, link other agencies
Oracle's platform helps Maryland create a single view of criminal justice data for federal, state and local crime fighters and extend business intelligence to other agencies, including the Education Department.
Study: Most tweets not worthwhile, but you can change that
A new study found that people on Twitter said only 36 percent of the tweets that fill their feeds each day are useful. But there are ways users can improve their tweets.
6 NASA technologies in play at the Super Bowl
Inventions and innovations created for the space program have filtered down to the playing field and have contributed to making the big game what it is.
NASA's 'Blast Off' a new frontier for Facebook games
Games on the social media site to date haven't taught users much. But the multiplayer "Space Race Blast Off" is different.
DARPA developing contact lenses with 'Terminator'-like abilities
The Defense Department wants to give warfighters science-fiction grade contact lenses that would allow them to magnify distant objects and overlay their vision with battlefield data.
BlackBerry 7 OS gets FIPS 140-2 certification
Smart phones running the OS now meet the cryptographic standard required by government.
Do candles hold the cure for touch-screen smudges?
The product of an old-world technology, simple candle soot, just might be the answer to a 21st-century scourge, according to German researchers.
Agile platform gives Army division a fast track to the cloud
The Army's Architecture Services Division within the Software Engineering Center has deployed a platform designed for the rapid development and migration of applications to a private cloud.
Are the days of hands-off Internet policies numbered?
International regulations on telecommunications, drafted in 1988, will be revised later this year, and several countries could look to exert control.
Hackers strike again: California city's site latest target
The city of Sacramento, California's, website is the most recent government website to suffer an attack, which is becoming a trend. So who will be next?
RIM takes BlackBerry users to the cloud
Business smart-phone maker Research In Motion has rolled out its cloud-based service for BlackBerry devices that works with the Microsoft Office 365 suite of services.
Army working to streamline networking efforts
The Army's new acquisition and evaluation process is beginning to show results as the service identifies shortcomings and rolls out new systems to troops.
DOD's move to Android started with DARPA apps program
Among the next challenges: ensuring connectivity and security in the field.
DOE facility sees powerful savings in the cloud
The Richland Operations Office in Washington State could save 60 percent a year in network costs by moving to a federal community cloud.
Millions of legal Megaupload files could go out with the bathwater
Users get a reprieve from having legitimate files deleted, but there's still no guarantee they'll get them back. Is this a weakness of cloud storage?
White House: Tech standards are (mostly) industry's job
Standards will be created primarily by industry, but the government will still have a say in national priority areas such as cybersecurity, health care IT and clean energy.
Android apps infect 5 million phones with something bad
Symantec identified 13 apps that deliver what it says is a Trojan, but which another security company calls aggressive adware. Either way, who wants it?
Google, Microsoft, Facebook, 12 others gang up on phishers
The group's DMARC specification could even keep spam out of your spam filter.
Political borders don't stop cyberattacks, but they prevent defense, study finds
A fragmented environment and lack of shared understanding hinders the cooperation needed to defend cyberspace against hostile nations and criminals, a McAfee study found.
Can virtualization save government $30B by 2015?
Federal, state and local IT leaders expect virtualization to double in the next four years, but legacy apps and funding remain hurdles, a MeritTalk survey finds.
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