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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

NY governor sees net video as key to openness

New Yorks new governor, Eliot Spitzer, envisions a future of open government powered by online video, The Times Union reports. "One of the things we have done, and Im not sure if all the agencies have yet mechanically put things in place to move in this direction, is to...

Tags: INTERNET, Vertical industries, Spitzer, government, video

Blog posts 2007-03-14

Who owns Congressional video - public or C-Span?

Who owns video footage of Congress? The public or C-Span? It turns out, both. But this copyright question was clarified in typical Washington sniping. The issue exploded when Nancy Pelosi launched a blog, The Gavel, featuring video of House floor debate. As The New York Times reports, Republicans rushed...

Tags: Congress, Government technology

Blog posts 2007-02-26

NYC wants a YouTube: 911

Call it 911 2.0. Well, maybe thats a little awkward but the idea is right. New York City wants to change its 911 system so that citizens can upload digital photos and video, mostly from cellphones, Newsday reports. "If you see a crime in progress or a dangerous...

Tags: Government technology, Law enforcement, Web, Emergency, cell phone

Blog posts 2007-02-05

VA Dems bring out the video when GOP won't record votes

Partisan video-taping didnt end with the election. In Virginia, the state Democratic Party is dispatching cameramen to film House of Delegates committee and subcommittee meetings. And theyre being posted on liberal blogs. The cameras came out after Republicans refused to record votes on bills in...

Tags: Government technology, State &, Local Govt, Open government, Brian Moran

Blog posts 2007-01-26

Campaign 08: Internet video is at the center

You will hear a thousand times over the next two years that in 2008 the role of Internet video will be unprecedented. Not just because campaigns are posting videos of the candidates speaking their carefully written announcements into a camera. But because some campaign managers really get the power and...

Tags: Government technology, Elections, video

Blog posts 2007-01-22

Blogs, online video has big impact on MO elections

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that many of Missouris biggest stories were broke by blogs and websites, not the states newspapers. Newspapers statewide were scooped by a Democratic-leaning website, firedupmissouri.com, which first disclosed the details of Gov. Matt Blunts proposal to sell off the assets of the Missouri...

Tags: Elections, Government technology, State &, Local Govt, Claire McCaskill, blog

Blog posts 2006-12-29

Cops post vid on YouTube; suspect turns himself in

Is there anything YouTube isnt good for? If so, take crime identification off the list. Canadian police recently posted a surveillance video on YouTube, looking for help in identifying the shooter in a nightclub shooting, Reuters reports. Police in the Southern Ontario city of Hamilton said on Thursday that...

Tags: video, YouTube Inc., Law enforcement, State &, Local Govt, Government technology

Blog posts 2006-12-21

Cellphones, YouTube expose government abuse

YouTube is about more than exploding bottles of Pepsi, political gotcha video and segments from The Daily Show. Among the videos being shared are documentary evidence of police and other official misconduct and the speed with which Internet services like YouTube enable the dissemination of such evidence is providing an...

Tags: Government technology, International, Web

Blog posts 2006-11-15

IBM software gives instant alerts from digital surveillance systems

Many cities - as well as businesses - have installed video surveillance systems in subways, buses and city centers. Now IBM has started selling software that can analyze all that video in real time and send instant alerts of problems or security breaches, Reuters reports. The new product, dubbed...

Tags: Government technology, Security

Blog posts 2006-11-07

Additional Resources

Royal Navy gets creative in attracting engineers - develop online game

Engineering is not what it used to be.  There used to be only 10 or so basic engineering degrees one could graduate with. Now there are hundreds (some even argue it's triple that) of specialties. Most are in demand all over the world. The technology revolution is moving at a...

Tags: Talent, Facebook, Online Game, Tool, Technology Revolution, Navy, Professional Development, Games, Workforce Management, Productivity, Career, Personal Technology, Human Resources, Doug Hanchard

Blog posts 2009-11-18

Google hit again with Street View privacy concerns - in Switzerland

It is NOT up to Google to insure your privacy in public places. These are places it is perfectly legal to be in and take pictures of, then publish the pictures. Just because the pictures are taken automatically, does not suddenly make them illegal. If you want to restrict the...

Tags: U.S. Military, Google Inc., photograph

Discussion threads 2009-11-13

What Intel wants in health care

Video for Intel ReaderI enjoyed your story. I work at Intel and thought it might benefit from a link to view a video I shot in San Francisco showing how the Intel Reader works http://bit.ly/2s0CYy.Copyright violation possibilitesI foresee publishers complaining that this device can be used to read books...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Personal finance, Intel Corp., health care

Discussion threads 2009-11-12

It's a girl! (or Ed Tech, 6 years hence)

Regular readers and followers of my Twitter feed will know that yesterday was pretty eventful. My wife and I (well, mostly my wife, but I did make some moderate contribution) had a baby girl who currently remains nameless (we're leaning toward Penelope, but she was delivered by c-section so...

Tags: Web Application, Social Media, E-books, Semantic Web, Cloud Computing, Personal Technology, Internet, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-11-10

GOP will present a health care bill

Good startGood work Dana. This blog is not biased to the left (we'll see how you fare in the talkbacks though).There's of course still the question why you put politics on this IT tech site."ZDNet: Tech News, Blogs and White Papers for IT Professionals. Where Technology Means Business: ZDNet delivers...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Insurance, IT Pros, health care, No., Pelosi, GOP

Discussion threads 2009-11-03

ZDNet Government version of Throw out the Trash Day

More trash pleaseNice idea ... may I submit a similar one for the editor's consideration? Can we have 'trash of the week' by a ZDNET blogger. Serious ... with a touch of humour. Example follows.In Jason Perlow's 'The Vista is Dead' spoof mwagner@zdnet.com was moved to comment."Sounds like you didn't...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Performance management, Microsoft Windows Vista

Discussion threads 2009-10-30

MSFT versus GOOG - there's a big gap

Countering Google[i]At the current rate of Google?s revenue growth, 7 per cent, it would take it more than 3 years to reach Microsoft?s current quarterly revenue.[/i]The above is true if you assume MS will have no growth over the next 3 years. I don't think that will be the case....

Tags: Web browsers, Operational accounting, Strategy, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-10-23

News to know: Google, IBM; AMD; Apple

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Earnings wrap: Sam Diaz: Schmidt: Worst of recession is over; Google is hiring Larry Dignan: IBM...

Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Mary Jo Foley, Apple Inc., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Sam Diaz, IBM Corp., E-books, Desktops, Networking, Personal Technology, Hardware

Blog posts 2009-10-16

Net Neutrality vs. "do no evil"

6 of onehalf dozen of another. Like all extremists you paint a nice picture from one perspective. All these internet companies are so innocent and all they want is a fair shake . . . yeah right. In order to maximize profits, they purposely underbuilt their networks. They advertize high...

Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Regulations, regulation, Videotron, network, Internet Service Provider, Net Neutrality, Bush

Discussion threads 2009-10-03

Washington finally embraces tech; the benefits will be here soon

It's fitting that Washington's top IT administrator, U.S. CIO Vivek Kundra, would come out to Silicon Valley to announce one of the federal government's largest technology initiatives - a cloud computing marketplace for government agencies that's designed to reduce red-tape and allow faster deployment of money-saving, energy-efficient cloud-based software. ...

Tags: Silicon Valley, Washington, Benefit, Sergey Brin, Tech Industry, Government, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Federal Government, Internet, Hardware, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-09-16