White House announces the federal CTO is planning a departure.
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DISA office to manage mobile devices, online app store
The Defense Information Systems Agency opens program office to offer mobile device management services as well as an online store for apps.
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Twitter users clam up to protest new in-country blocking policy
Some users are trying to organize a Twitter blackout Jan. 28, in protest of a new policy that allows tweets to be blocked within a country.
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Federal Buzz: The price of innovation in federal government
To what lengths should government go to discover the next great innovation?
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How to Pick the Best Antivirus App
The internet has become much more versatile plus more individuals are being linked.
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Contract Duplication Challenges Continue
Contract Duplication remains a challenge for government and industry and is an issue that the Coalition will continue to highlight in the interest of improving the efficiency and effectiveness of t
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Lockheed, Northrop battle for $690M Navy contract
The Navy's contract to upgrade its shipboard networks is expected to be awarded Feb. 1.
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Health IT investments on the rise
Venture capitalists are showing their love and dollars for health IT.
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1967 called. They want their Performance Management System back.
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Strategic & Tactical Advantages of Custom Web-Based Training
If you’re interested in developing custom web-based training courses for your employees, but you’re having trouble getting upper management to buy-in, we can help.
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Energy Department to establish new cyber center
Energy Department CIO highlights importance of partnerships in fighting cyber threats.
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As Chief Technology Officer Leaves White House, Industry Looks for Signals
When President Obama appointed Aneesh Chopra as the first federal chief technology officer in 2009, it was seen as the beginning of a new era in the government's relationship with technology.
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White House Presses For New Cybersecurity Laws
Congress has dragged its feet for years on passing cybersecurity legislation, so the Obama administration is applying pressure.
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Federal chief technology officer to step down
The nation’s first federal chief technology officer is leaving his post, the White House announced Friday.
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Court's GPS ruling doesn't answer the real question of online privacy
The court's decision that use of a GPS tracking device constitutes a search relied on property rights and did not address the question of privacy in an increasingly online world.
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DLT to supply CAD software to DOD for $81M
DLT's partner Autodesk is a design and engineering software specialist.
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Defense Budget's Civilian Cuts -- Explained
The announcement of a new round of BRAC closures and some careful trimming of military pay raises might have been the biggest personnel news from the highlights of the fiscal 2013 Pentagon budget rele
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Visualization of the Week: Politicians' word counts
'Tis the season for political infographics, what with the 2012 presidential election well underway as well as this week's State of the Union address.
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2Day in #OpenGov 1/27/2012
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European Union proposal could foil U.S. hacker probes
EU's rule would require cloud providers to notify authorities of a data breach within 24 hours.
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Army must cut energy costs to balance budget
Service's modernization strategy includes investments in cyber, command and control systems.
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Aneesh Chopra leaving the White House
The nation’s first chief technology officer plans to step down from his White House job, according to administration officials.
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Patent and Trademark Office Sides with Beyonce, Jay-Z
If you're thinking you might be able to capitalize financially on the birth of Beyonce and Jay-Z's baby daughter, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has a message for you: Back off.
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Chopra: I'm Going Back To Virginia
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Georgia considers bill to curb municipal broadband
Some Georgia lawmakers are taking a page from North Carolina’s playbook in order to limit municipal broadband projects in the state.
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Hadoop Quickstart: Use Whirr to automate standup of your distributed cluster on Rackspace
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Agencies: Stop abusing simplified acquisitions
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More details on how Google's new privacy policy affects federal users
Google offers tips for minimizing the impact of its new privacy changes, but experts still caution federal users.
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Cloud computing expected to spur job creation
Analysis shows cloud computing adoption is growing globally, with the U.S. spending the most on cloud-based solutions and services.
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Publishing News: Ereader ownership doubles, again
Here are a few of the stories that caught my attention this week in the publishing space.
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Top stories: January 23-27, 2012
Here's a look at the top stories published across O'Reilly sites this week.
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OPM Launches Telework Training Module
The Office of Personnel Management has created a telework training package designed to help agencies meet the mandates of a 2010 telework law.
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Federal CTO Aneesh Chopra Resigns
Chopra, the first person to hold the federal CTO post and a strong voice behind Obama administration efforts on open government, will depart in February.
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Defense board issues cloud recommendations, warnings
DOD should move cautiously but decisively to adopt cloud computing and carry out data center consolidation, board advises.
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Dear Google, I am not buying Plus
Okay Google, we get it. You make some really great products. But what’s the deal with Google+?
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Catbird’s vSecurity 5.0
While virtualization offers many benefits to enterprise such as lower costs and greater flexibility, it also creates new challenges.
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President Mentions Cyber-Threats in State of the Union Address
Cyber practitioners have long wondered when this would happen. Now it has.
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Symantec warns pcAnywhere users of remote software code hack
Security firm Symantec is advising customers of its pcAnywhere to deactivate the remote desk software after individuals from the Anonymous hacker group allegedly released Jan.
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Exploring the evolution of insurance exchanges: The final installment
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Chopra Steps Down - Who Should be Next U.S. Federal CTO?
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Navy prepares to award contract for shipboard computer networks
The Navy is upgrading its shipboard networks with the first phase of a new contract expected to be awarded Feb. 1.
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Why Indiana is doing better than it thinks
It’s almost as if they’re gonna get smarter by locating to an urban area. - David Audretsch, Indiana University professor of economic development
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Google: Privacy changes won't affect government clients
The changes to Google's tracking policy announced this week will not apply to existing contracts with its government clients.
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Leadership Lessons: Robert Baratheon
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Wrapping up TRB in ten tweets
The Transportation Research Board's 91st Annual Meeting is over, and li
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Panetta fires first shot in defense budget showdown
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Hadoop Quickstart: Use Whirr to automate standup of your distributed cluster on Rackspace
We have previously provided a Quickstart guide to standing up Rackspace cloud servers (and have one for Amazon servers as well).
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SOCOM’s Technology Wish List
Special Operations Command (SOCOM) recently released a Broad Agency Announcement soliciting proposals for several types of technologies that they are looking for in cooperation with the private sector
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Apple has $46B Quarter – But what does it mean?
Apple Inc just had their first $40B quarter ever – to the tune of $46B dollars in revenue. They sold 37M iPhones, 15M iPads and 15M iPods. Additionally, they sold 5M Mac computers.
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Trust, Enterprise Security, and Autonomous Technology
The technology writer Langdon Winner wrote an interesting book 30 years ago that has a lot of relevance to technologists today–especially when thinking about enterprise security.
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