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Congress: Open-source for U.S. military

If you thought you'd never see the phrase"open-source" in a federal funding bill, think again. The House's proposed National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2009 (H.R. 5658) includes language that calls for military services to consider open-source software when procuring manned or unmanned aerial vehicles,...

Tags: Software, Open-source Software, U.S. Congress, House, GCN, Tools & Techniques, Open Source, Software Development, Management, Software/Web Development, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-09-26

Global Communications Network 2.7.9 (Windows)

GCN is a new online communications service, which allows you to see when your friends are online, communicate in private conversations, talk collectively in chat rooms, send files, post to and create message boards, send and receive E-mail, create your own profile, speak in voice chats, play games, draw in...

Tags: Global Communications Network, GCN, Corporate Governance, Internet, Microsoft Windows, E-mail, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Operating Systems, Software, Online Communications

Software downloads 2003-09-01

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Facial recognition technology shows improvement

The National Institute of Standards says that facial recognition technology can be better than human identification with accuracy rates approaching 99 percent. Iris scanning, however, could improve. The report, dubbed the Face Recognition Vendor Test FRVT 2006 and the Iris Challenge Evaluation ICE 2006, evaluates...

Tags: Security, Science, Innovation, General

Blog posts 2007-04-05

What's wrong with fed IT? Lack of training

What exactly is the problem with government IT? Why are so many millions of dollars wasted? Why do so many projects fail to see the light of day? The answer: inadequate training of federal project managers, according to a survey of 104 federal IT leaders conducted by Price...

Tags: training, baseline, IT Management, Government technology

Blog posts 2006-12-07

IG launches in-depth review of DHS Advise program

The Department of Homeland Security is rolling out a $40 million plan to datamine to find terrorist threat information. Called Advise - which of course stands for Analysis, Dissemination, Visualization, Insight and Semantic Enhancement - the program is now facing intense scrutiny from the departments inspector general, Government Computer News...

Tags: Business intelligence, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, data mining

Blog posts 2006-11-15

Sony's 20GB PS3 to feature HDMI port

Sony's 20GB PS3 to feature HDMI portPretty niceI don't know if I am going to buy one, but I'd pick the PS3 over the xbox 360.http://opendomain.blogspot.com/For the moneysomebody else posted that the PS3 was the better value. Someone noted that to add on similar features to Xbox 360 you'd...

Tags: HD DVD, Game players, Games, Wi-Fi, playstation, Sony PlayStation 3, Sony Corp., HDMI

Discussion threads 2006-09-22

Gasp! Military Cost Over-Runs

Government Computer News reports that cost over-runs on software projects are a problem at the Department of Defense. Anyway, from the article:The problem is huge. In fiscal 2006, the Defense Department will spend as much as $12 billion on reworking software—30 percent of its estimated budget of $40 billion...

Tags: Project failures, Government projects

Blog posts 2006-08-24

Open source can be recycled

Open source can be recycledGoogle Code Library and Code re-useI read an article suggesting that google may index all the open-source code ever written. I can't remember the derivation.This does prompt a very interesting application: that all the code on the internet could be via a service model be...

Tags: Intellectual property, open source, Code Reuse

Discussion threads 2006-08-01

Open source can be recycled

I was reading a GCN story about the Defense Department and open source today, and getting bored, when something jumped out at me. “The business model of purchasing physical goods and services has served DOD well in the past; but it falls short when applied to software acquisition,” the report...

Tags: open source, software

Blog posts 2006-08-01

Google Notebook - the good, the bad, and the ugly

Google Notebook - the good, the bad, and the uglyclipmarksI'd certainly be one of those who thinks clipmarks has been doing for longer and better than google's notebook. Ok, i might be seriously biased...but i really believe it. Thanks for the mention!notefishYou should take a look at notefish....

Tags: Notebooks, notebook, Google Notebook, Google Inc., clipmark

Discussion threads 2006-05-16

Wi-Fi goes top gun

You'd be suprised where Wi-Fi is going these days. Like inside a fighter. Wi-Fi it is being used extensively in the military. One vendor, Telos, has installed Wi-Fi in 85 of the 108 Air Force bases, Government Computer News reports. “Primarily, it’s for maintenance and logistics operations, so we...

Tags: Wi-Fi

Blog posts 2006-05-01

Study: World's digital divide is narrowing

Study: World's digital divide is narrowingE-Rate RipoffsOne need only look at the E-Rate program under the Bush Administration to see how these programs are used by criminals. The FCC has documented how nonprofit organizations are utilized by vendors to milk tax payers of money collected from phone bill charges. The...

Tags: Litigation, E-Rate, E-Rate Program, FCC

Discussion threads 2006-04-26

DOD incubating IPv6 technologies

The Internet as we know it is the result of commercial products and services build to open standards. But it took the Defense Dept. a little longer to see what was going on. "The DOD was taken by surprise by IPv4," Chris Gunderson, executive director of the World Wide...

Tags: W2COG, U.S. Department of Defense

Blog posts 2006-04-10

Request for some help -PC buying stats

GCN ( http://www.gcn.com/print/25_7/40263-1.html ) is running an interesting series on desktop Linux. One of the many questions it raises, but doesn't address, is how big the market is. Does anyone have access to real numbers? for DOD, for larger contractors, for the federal gov't? for its agencies? (all US, of...

Tags: Linux, Desktops, PC

Blog posts 2006-04-09

Critical Defense IG report disappears from the Web

After a report in Federal Computer Week that the Defense Dept. IG faulted the Mission Defense Agency for serious security lapses, the report has disappeared from the IG's website, the publication says. Federal Computer Week published a Web article March 16 and a follow-up...

Tags: Critical Defense IG

Blog posts 2006-03-20

Who needs metadata anyway?

The government is infamous for deploying heavy-handed metadata regimes. But Google returns pretty darn good results from millions of pages that are largely metadata-free - they certainly boast no structured metadata. Perhaps, federal government managers wondered last fall, the government could save bazillions by jettisoning metadata costs entirely. OMB...

Tags: metadata

Blog posts 2006-01-11

Document security myths busted

Document security myths bustedSRK vs PKI6767 Old Madison PikeSuite 292Huntsville, AL 35806(256) 922-1555Data breeches, network hacking and fraud plague our digital data world today. For instance, 33,000 personnel records were recently breached within the Air Force GCN Online. Tutarus Corporation has developed a technology that provides encryption security that will...

Tags: Adobe PDF, Document security myth, Document Security, Secure Random Key

Discussion threads 2006-01-04

Utah may erase early but unused e-commerce law

Utah may erase early but unused e-commerce lawDigital SignaturesFrom the information in the article, the Utah law should be the Federal Law.SRK vs PKI6767 Old Madison PikeSuite 292Huntsville, AL 35806(256) 922-1555Data breeches, network hacking and fraud plague our digital data world today. For instance, 33,000 personnel records were recently breached...

Tags: Web technology, Authentication/Encryption, Digital security, E-business/E-commerce, Secure Random Key, Secure Random Key Infrastructure, e-commerce law, e-business

Discussion threads 2005-12-19

U.S. Navy orders Bill Gates to install SPARC/Solaris with Sun Rays

Between now and Dec 30th, inclusive, I plan to blog only every second work day unless, of course, something of unusual interest crops up. In keeping with Mr. Editor Person's interest in top ten lists, the six entries this will produce will have a common theme: "2005: the missing headlines"....

Tags: Navy, Microsoft Windows NT

Blog posts 2005-12-19

MicroSyntra Family Communications Portal 2.9.1 (Windows)

Video and voice chat with friends and family. Communicate on AIM, MSN, Yahoo and ICQ. Send and receive e-mail between members. Play games and draw together with friends. Share documents, music, and photos. Browse the Web, and listen to MP3s. Meet new people in the GCN Chat Rooms. Create and...

Tags: Friend, MicroSyntra, Portals, Microsoft Windows, E-mail, Corporate Communications, Web Technology, Internet, Operating Systems, Software, Online Communications, Marketing

Software downloads 2005-12-19