Social media, crime fighter
Police can use social networks to spot trends, counter threats and communicate with the public. But it also has potential pitfalls, law enforcement officers say.
Right on bin Laden, analyst would use tweets to predict future
A company that called Osama bin Laden's death four hours before it was announced claims it can use tweets to predict the future, and has partnered with Twitter to prove it.
MIT team nabs 3 suspects in State's TAG Challenge, 2 go free
The contest to test social media's ability to work quickly across international borders produces a partial, but still pretty impressive, result.
When does online radicalism become real-world terrorism?
Though there is no litmus test to predetermine when or even if an extremist on the Web will become a violent terrorist, there are a few tell-tale signs.
Who's on first: Ranking the best U.S. cities online
Cities are getting better at what they offer people online, with social media the biggest new trend, a University of Illinois at Chicago study finds. Which cities come out on top?
Integrated services? The cloud alone isn't enough.
Agencies will need to deploy cloud and service-oriented architectures together to achieve integrated services and greater information exchange across agencies and organizations, government and industry experts say.
FOSE 2012 serves up 5 courses of hot tech
FOSE offers five conferences in one: program slices on cloud computing, cybersecurity, mobile computing, defense innovation and records management.
Government cloud gets personal -- and Siri-ous
When the government cloud meets the burgeoning consumer cloud, service to the citizen should look more like Siri to the citizen.
Don't look now, but everybody (CIA, DHS, etc.) is watching
As social media analytics improves, the intelligence community and other agencies are monitoring the traffic on popular sites. But could they put privacy at risk?
Social media falls short in DARPA's CLIQR challenge
Nobody claimed the grand prize in the quest to test the potential effectiveness of social media during a disaster.
Harvesting your data? Suit alleges there are lots of apps doing that.
A class-action lawsuit filed in an Austin, Texas, court the week of March 12 alleges some of the most-downloaded mobile apps are stealing personal information without users' knowledge. Just who is responsible? There are some pretty well known names, including but not limited to Facebook, Apple and Twitter.
NASA's new trajectory: Angry Birds in space
NASA is going into outer space again, but this time instead of launching a spaceship, it's sending some Angry Birds.
Interior wants to put all its messages in one cloud
The department is looking for a cloud-based Enterprise eArchive System for capturing e-mail, social media, instant messaging and electronic documents.
Wolfram Alpha Pro runs rings around today's search engines
More concierge than search engine, Wolfram Alpha Pro will analyze a query, perform high-end math calculations and even analyze images.
China suspected in Facebook scam against NATO officers
A fake profile for NATO's senior commander lured other officers into accepting a friend request, compromising personal information in the process.
5 thieves, 5 cities, 12 hours: Can Twitter catch them?
A State Department-sponsored contest will test social media's intelligence-gathering power, asking contestants to find a ring of international jewel thieves.
StumbleUpon and feds: Tricks of the social media trade
A StumbleUpon executive explains how federal agencies can leverage the StumbleUpon platform to drive traffic to federal websites.
DARPA's $40K 'quest' tests social media's ability to help in emergency
The CLIQR Quest Challenge asks participants to use their social media skills to locate QR codes that represent resources crews would need in an emergency.
The riskiest cities for cyber crime: Where does yours rank?
Norton and Sperling's BestPlaces list the U.S. cities with the highest online risk factors, which seem to boil down to using the Internet.
Good metadata means good government
Understanding how to design the right metadata is the key to helping users (and citizens) get the most value from data on your organization's products and services.
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