Army gives soldiers access to Twitter, Facebook
A recent Army order directs network managers to give soldiers access to social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter.
Joint Forces commander blasts tech planning
Marine Corps Gen. James Mattis is critical of what he calls "wrongheaded thinking" of military planners in recent years who placed too much emphasis on the role of technology in winning wars.
Tale of two smart-grid bills
Bills now before the House Homeland Security and Energy and Commerce Committees take different approaches toward regulating and strengthening the security of the electric grid against cyberattack.
DOE, NIST aim to secure smart grid
Parallel efforts to secure a new, technologically advanced power grid are taking place in Congress on the regulatory side and at NIST and the Energy Department on the technology side.
Army boosts satellite communications in Afghanistan, Iraq
The Army is providing mobile satellite communication systems featuring WANscaler accelerator technology from Citrix Systems to soldiers in the field to optimize communications between combat teams in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Savi Technology unveils wireless tracking devices to manage assets
Savi Technology has unveiled a wireless Real Time Locating System that simplifies the tracking and management of assets, inventory and shipments.
DHS project aims to bring open-source software to state and local agencies
The Homeland Security Department is funding a program that will help federal, state and local agencies better understand their options for using open-source software.
Microsoft executive: Business adoption of Windows 7 to start in 2010
Bill Koefoed also said Windows Server 2008 R2 includes a live-migration feature that lets IT pros move virtual machines across nodes with little to no downtime for end users.
Google offers alternative to Exchange Server
Google may have just made it easier for IT organizations to ditch Microsoft Exchange Server.
Minneapolis/St. Paul, federal DOT test next-generation 911 systems
The Minneapolis/St. Paul metropolitan region is testing a regional, IP-based 911 call system that would run over a wide area network, as the federal Transportation Department launches a Next Generation 911 pilot next week at five sites.
GAO: Better planning needed for most difficult phase of universal broadband deployment
Ninety percent of the U.S. population has access to broadband Internet connections; providing access to the remaining 10 percent, mostly in remote rural areas, will require a shift in federal policy from current market-based incentives to more direct funding, according to the GAO.
Readers add their tips to better parallel processing
A recent blog item on whether parallel processing requires new languages pointed out that developers are divided on the best way would to split programs across a multiple-core architecture. The comments the blog drew reflect some of those divisions.
Social-networking tools fuel collaboration
More organizations are using Web 2.0 technologies to connect employees, brainstorm ideas and win new business.
How to write apps for multiple cores: Divide and conquer
The move toward multicore processors — and, in the supercomputer world, multiple processors — does not immediately guarantee great performance increases. The IT industry is just beginning to figure out how to rewrite computer programs to get the most from this new architecture.
Michael Daconta | UCore: The Twitter of information sharing
UCore's use is part of a revolution in digital communication as our information processes shift from producer-centric to consumer-centric.
Keith Rhodes | Effective IT security starts with risk analysis, former GAO CTO says
Keith Rhodes, now chief technology officer at QinetiQ North America’s Mission Solutions Group, discusses the importance of setting priorities for protection and who in government is doing a good job with security.
IT policy in the U.S. goes back 100 years
The Cyberspace Policy Review continues a tradition that dates back to the telegraph.
UniKeep shows eco-friendly media storage products at GSA Expo
UniKeep, maker of eco-friendly products for media and document storage, limits the environmental impact of its polypropylene products.
Double duty for video cards
How graphics processing units are being used for hard-core number crunching.
Study finds wireless APs open to attack
AirTight, a provider of Wi-Fi security services, recently scanned 3,632 access points and nearly 550 clients in seven different financial centers and found that half of these WAPs were either unprotected or used WEP encryption.
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