Agencies tap online channels to spread the word on swine flu outbreak
CDC is using interactive Web tools and channels such as RSS feeds, Twitter and other social-networking sites to meet the growing demand for up-to-date information on the outbreak of the deadly new flu strain
Keith Nelson | In a world of online surveys, Paperwork Reduction Act is an absurdity
How do government Web managers stand a chance of creatively using modern technology tools if they can’t solicit feedback in timely and regular intervals?
SmartPro UPS is made for shallow spaces
The SmartPro Shallow-Depth Rackmount UPS System performs as well as you would expect from a 2200VA UPS, but has a slightly different form factor to help it fit better into some shallow server racks.
BlueCat Proteus 5000 keeps IP addresses in order
GCN LAB REVIEW: The Proteus 5000 gives administrators a clear look at all of a network's IP addresses, and a lot of flexibility in managing them.
DHS studies music's effects on first responders
The Science and Technology Directorate is studying a form of neurotraining that uses music to help responders sharpen their reflexes or relax when off-duty.
Amazon rehosts Census data for cloud users
Staging the data in Amazon's Elastic Block Storage platform makes Cenesus information more easily accessible than getting it from Census, which offers the material in ZIP files via FTP.
Survey: Public-sector IT pros out of the loop on recovery funding
A Dell.com survey of 662 IT professionals in government, education and health care found that most are in the dark about American Recovery and Investment Act funding, and few expect recovery funds to have an impact on their budgets.
Cost overruns, lack of oversight threaten DOD space programs, panel told
DOD’s space-based communications and intelligence gathering infrastructure is troubled with outdated procedures, bloated goals and inadequate oversight, resulting in canceled programs and billions of dollars in cost overruns, House panel is told.
NIST demonstrates method for reducing errors in quantum computing
Experiments at NIST labs in Boulder, Colo., demonstrate the feasibility of a technique to reverse errors in quantum bits before the number of errors grows large enough to become a problem.
Fingerprint identification goes higher-tech
Crime scene investigators may be able to accelerate latent fingerprint identification with new automated identification technology.
ARIN again warns of IPv4 address depletion, encourages IPv6 adoption
A letter from the American Registry for Internet Numbers states that the organization expects the IPv4 address pool to be depleted 'within the next two years.'
Online dashboard would track recovery act spending
Government officials and private citizens could soon be able to track stimulus funding expenditures through an information dashboard that taps into data on Recovery.gov.
Wyatt Kash | DISA opens its software forge
DISA's Forge.mil seeks to harness communities of developers to build and test software faster and accelerate the certification process.
Energy efficiency: paper vs. electrons
More bad news for the newspaper industry: Online news creates less carbon dioxide (CO2).
Remixing government data
Citizens, nonprofit groups and companies are using Web 2.0 tools to present government data in ways agencies haven't been able to.
Small networks can use sender verification to block spam
E-mail Security Platform makes senders and mail servers jump through a series of hoops before e-mail is accepted as valid within the network.
CISOs have growing clout in agencies, but still face challenges
Although the role of the federal chief information security officer is maturing, there still is not enough senior management attention to security, there are too many organizational stovepipes and there is too much focus on compliance and reporting rather than on managing risk, according to a survey released by ISC2, Cisco Systems and Government Futures.
Smart IDs could soon control physical access
Government’s introduction of smart ID cards has set the stage for a long-awaited convergence of access control for both IT systems and physical facilities.
Michael Daconta | A heretical view of knowledge management
The crux of knowledge management is first defining the knowledge you want and how you want to curate it, then capturing content.
Tom Termini | Zen and the art of service-oriented architectures
The author of "The Zen of SOA" talks about how to align the concept of a service-oriented architecture with the components that make it work.
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