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- DOD turns off access to YouTube, MySpace, Pandora
- Soldiers stationed overseas wont be watching their favorite YouTube videos anytime soon. The Department of Defense has announced it will begin blocking 12 popular websites in order to protect information and reduce drag on the departments networks, reports the Associated Press. "This recreational traffic impacts our official DoD network...
- Tags: Defense, Government technology
- Blog posts 2007-05-14
- In Cambridge, a city-wide network of sensors: Perfect for science and Big Brother
- Before too long, Cambridge, MA, will be a totally monitored city with 100 general-purpose wireless-sensor nodes mounted to telephone poles forming a network called CitySense, Technology Review reports. Researchers could use the data to see where and when pollution peaks, track weather more accurately and serve as a testbed...
- Tags: Science, State &, Local Govt, Mobile/wireless, Government technology
- Blog posts 2007-04-13
- Is MuniFi cropping up a loser? Disappointing signups point to a shift in strategy
- Is "MuniFi" living up to the hopes city managers and the companies that build the networks have held out for them? Is the public flocking to take advantage of the networks, are they good enough to compete with cable and telco offerings? Do they improve economics? GigaOms Katie Fehrenbacher...
- Tags: Municipal broadband, Government technology
- Blog posts 2007-04-10
- Arlington picks EarthLink for Wi-Fi
- Arlington County, Va., has chosen EarthLink to build, own and operate a Wi-Fi broadband network to cover the suburban Washington county. EarthLink said the network will provide service for the 26 square-mile Arlington County area. The deal includes net access to several nonprofit partners of the county, as...
- Tags: Municipal broadband, Government technology
- Blog posts 2007-04-05
- Doing Silicon Valley wireless right
- Government and technology leaders are engaged in a cutting edge experiment in building a massive wireless network across the entire Silicon Valley. Covering 1,500 square miles and serving 2.4 million people, the Joint Venture Wireless Project would be the largest public Wi-Fi network in the world. But how do...
- Tags: Government technology, Municipal broadband
- Blog posts 2007-03-07
- John Edwards goes crazy for social networks
- Noting criticism that John Edwards site goes overboard with so many links to social networking sites - 24 of them - David All at TechPresident praises Edwards "messy" website. John Edwards use of 24 different social networking tools is smart. And its given me 24 more reasons to visit...
- Tags: Government technology, Elections
- Blog posts 2007-02-20
- LA to go Wi-Fi
- Los Angeles will deploy a city-wide Wi-Fi network, likely to be the largest in the country, Mayor Antonio R. Villaraigosa announced on Tuesday, MuniWireless reports. "By giving every resident high-speed access, we will transform Los Angeles into a cutting-edge city across every neighborhood and every economic sector," Mayor Villaraigosa...
- Tags: Government technology, Municipal broadband
- Blog posts 2007-02-15
- Open Wi-Fi networks leave many places for criminals to hide
- Whats happening over that cafe Wi-Fi - maybe even over the very unsecured network you run in your home? Probably nothing. But on some networks people are downloading child porn, soliting kids for sex, and engaging in criminal conspiracies. The Washington Post points to a typical case: ...
- Tags: Government technology, Law enforcement, network, Wi-Fi
- Blog posts 2007-02-12
- DHS' Garcia: Network security is everyone's business
- On Between the Lines, Dan Farber reports back from the RSA 2007 Conference, where Greg Garcia, the Department of Homeland Security assistant secretary for cybersecurity and telecommunications, described the security problems inherent in a totally IP-connected world. "The next ten years there will be a single integrated IP network...
- Tags: Government technology, Homeland security, Network security, Greg Garcia
- Blog posts 2007-02-08
- Consultant: Gov apps, not public use, will pay Wi-Fi's way
- Writing on GigaOm, Katie Fehrenbacher writes that consultant Craig Settles has concluded that public use of municipal Wi-Fi networks are unlikely to pay the bills. Public workforce applications, he says, will be “muni networks’ big ROI generator.” “Public wireless access is good political sound-bite marketing, but the beef is...
- Tags: Government technology, Municipal broadband, Wi-Fi
- Blog posts 2007-01-24
- Muni Wi-Fi can deliver speed, coverage if properly designed
- Weve heard a lot of anecdotal stories that municipal Wi-Fi networks are not living up to their billing, as users find the networks to be much slower than hoped and subject to weak coverage. But, compared to cell networks, theyre actually much faster and cover their areas almost as well,...
- Tags: Government technology, Municipal broadband, network
- Blog posts 2007-01-24
- NJ counties expected to get OK to pursue wireless networks
- New Jersey lawmakers are pushing forward legislation that would authorize counties to build and operate wireless networks for public use, NorthJersey.com reports. A bill in the state Assembly was voted out of committee and is heading for a floor vote soon, said a spokesman for Assemply Speaker Joseph J....
- Tags: Government technology, Municipal broadband, State &, Local Govt, network
- Blog posts 2007-01-19
- FCC: Build wireless emergency broadband network
- The Federal Communications Commission is proposing a national wireless, IP-based, broadband emergency network to be built by private companies, the BBC reports. "Earlier this year, I had an opportunity to hear local public safety personnel recount their experiences on the ground during the tragic events of...
- Tags: network, FCC, Government technology, Mobile/wireless, Emergency
- Blog posts 2006-12-22
- Hackers shut down student network at Naval War College
- Hackers attacked the computer network at the Naval War College in Newport, taking down the schools network for more than two weeks, including some e-mail services and the colleges Web site, AP reports. The intrusion was detected Nov. 16 on the unclassified network. No word on when the network...
- Tags: network, Defense, Security, Government technology
- Blog posts 2006-12-06
- The digital election: Even networks emphasize the Net
- Yet another way that the Net has changed the election of 2006. Increasingly, Election Night reporting will happen on the Web, The New York Times reports. And to some degree, bloggers, not what the networks say, is the story. This is because, after two elections of suspicious exit...
- Tags: Blogging, Web site development, network, blogger, blog
- Blog posts 2006-11-07
Additional Resources
- Remember IBM at $10.50 per Share? Oracle as a penny stock? Tales of Hope from the Great High Tech Depression of ‘89
- Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak …..October. Paraphrasing Edgar Allen Poe's The Raven seems somehow appropriate to this moment, when it seems that everything we've all worked and dreamed about is going up in smoke. And yet, having seen a version of this movie...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Recession, Stock, IBM Corp., Tech Stock, Investment, Finance, Joshua Greenbaum
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- My three cents: Verizon's text fee could cripple SMS services
- Verizon Wireless dropped a bomb today on companies that send content over SMS text messaging systems. Techmeme Effective Nov. 1, companies that send messages and other notifications to Verizon Wireless customers via SMS text message - that's everyone from Google to Twitter to startups like alerts.com - could be forced...
- Tags: Verizon Communications Inc., Text Messaging, Messaging, SMS, Verizon Wireless, Twitter, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Telephony, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Networking, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- The elephant in the room: SOA and the economy
- We've all been distracted by events in the economy over the past few weeks, and let's face it, it makes for a very large elephant in the room when we talk about SOA. All debates about REST, SOAP, Java, .NET, JSON, ESBs, WOA won't mean a thing...
- Tags: SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- US proposes DNS fix: digital signatures
- The Commerce Department is considering deploying digital signatures to make DNS less susceptible to hacking, ComputerWorld reports. Under the proposal, DNS records would be signed by DNSSEC Domain Name and Addressing System Security Extensions. There have been some commitments to the system for the following top-level domains:...
- Tags: Digital Signature, DNS, ICANN, Domain Names, Digital Signatures, Authentication/Encryption, Networking, Security, Internet, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Will Bush sign Pro-IP? Biz, labor, schools push for it
- There's no word yet on whether President Bush will sign the PRO-IP bill [ZDN] but big business and labor were united in favor of the bill that creates a copyright czar in the executive branch. The bill originally called for the Justice Dept. to prosecute copyright...
- Tags: Bill, President, IP, Justice Dept, Network Technology, Networking, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
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