New Windows phones expected to arrive soon
Microsoft announced in October that various manufacturing partners were building new mobile phones using the Windows Mobile 6.5 operating system. Those efforts will soon bear fruit, according to a Microsoft spokesperson.
NORAD enhances Santa tracking abilities
Old St. Nick is under constant surveillance.
Appliance improves transfers of large files
The FIPS-certified Accellion file transfer appliance comes with software that lets you manage and transfer files securely, and it can easily handle files 20G in size.
VA financial management system: FLITE delayed
Inadequate staffing and poor program management have caused delays in development and implementation of the Veterans Affairs Department’s proposed Financial and Logistics Integrated Technology Enterprise.
Facebook plans DC event for application developers
Facebook will hold an event to help software developers create government applications for the social networking site.
Internet Explorer users face new zero-day threat
Just before Thanksgiving Day, Microsoft released a security advisory on a vulnerability affecting Internet Explorer 6 and 7 browsers, based on "new public reports."
Readers offer stuffing for IT turkey
Readers suggest a few projects that could have made our Thanksgiving list of failed, or deeply troubled, government IT projects and debate the causes of such large-scale failures.
Military and overseas voters to get online options
The 2010 Defense Authorization Act includes requirements to ease voting for Americans overseas.
AFCEA branches into federal energy initiatives
Newly focused chapter to facilitate collaboration between industry and government leaders in science, technology and policy.
Space agency inches toward multi-billion dollar IT contracts
NASA plans to soon open competition for the first of five information technology services contracts that have been estimated to be worth more than $4 billion total.
Grading the latest in mail servers
The GCN Lab takes a look inside five mail servers and finds they all have their strengths and weaknesses — and Exchange still rules the roost.
The nation needs a clear cyber war doctrine
If we accept that cyber warfare is a reality — or at least a possibility — we need to develop a clear doctrine for using the offensive and defensive capabilities being developed.
The military’s new suggestion box
The Army Knowledge Online program looked to a young, informed, tech-savvy group of folks to design its Go Mobile program—soldiers.
The world is flat after all (for TVs anyway)
During a rare week off, the GCN Lab checks out the local big box stores for a flat-screen TV.
5 steps to secure your data center
With the advent of cloud computing, rich Internet applications, service-oriented architectures and virtualization, data center operations are becoming more dynamic with fluid boundaries. The shifting form of computing adds layers of complexity that have broad implications for how IT managers secure the components that make up a data center.
Attempted break-ins are, almost, an everyday thing
More than half of federal IT professionals have to deal with some sort of cybersecurity-related incidents at least once a week, and almost a third deal with incidents daily, according to a survey.
The path to cloud computing is beginning to take shape
Cloud computing still has a lot of uncertainties -- among them a lack of maturity among many of its potential services -- but the path toward this nest era of enterprise computing is beginning to take shape.
DOT lifts the veil on its IT portfolio
The Transportation Department is deploying Métier's WorkLenz project and portfolio management software to streamline management of its $3 billion IT portfolio, improve its mandated OMB reports and comply with IT Dashboard requirements.
A-Space melds social media and intelligence gathering
With A-Space, a social-networking site for intelligence analysts, the Defense Intelligence Agency wants to extend electronic collaboration into the creation of intelligence.
NASA program proves the benefits of social networking
The NASAsphere pilot program showed how social networking could best be useful -- namely by allowing people to join a conversation and contribute valuable details that might have not surfaced otherwise. Approximately 93 percent of questions posted to the community were answered by users at different NASA centers.
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