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- Six years after 9/11, state emergency systems still a hodgepodge
- In 2009, the nations broadcasters are required to switch over to digital signals. That frees up a huge swath of analog frequency, which the agency will auction off shortly. Under the current plan, thd FCC will set aside $1 billion of the take for states to fund communications systems for...
- Tags: Homeland security, Government technology
- Blog posts 2007-05-04
- First Presidents club: Clinton, Bush go wireless
- Only in America?Two directly competitive former Presidents of the United States from opposing political parties join together on a business conference stage in a for large fee inspirational talk to expo attendees: William Jefferson Clinton and George Herbert Walker Bush.What’s more: One of the retired Presidents’ son is the sitting...
- Tags: Wireless, Self-Promotion, Mobile, Cell Phones
- Blog posts 2007-03-30
- Clinton 'double-team' in race for campaign millions
- Digital Markets Blog presidential campaign 2008 special series on what I am calling “User Generated Politics”“Women for Hillary” held a “power” luncheon yesterday, a “lunch hour Web chat with supporters” of Hillary for President.Hillary has turned to one of the most powerful men in the world, however, to bring her...
- Tags: Digital Markets Blog, Digital Markets
- Blog posts 2007-03-29
- Tech Policy Summit: Solving the energy problem
- Floyd Kvamme kicked off the Tech Policy Summit, which is advertised as a non-partisan conference attended by tech industry insiders, investors, policymakers, non-profit leaders, regulators and legal experts to "examine critical policy issues affecting technology innovation and adoption in Silicon Valley and beyond."Floyd Kvamme, partner emeritus at Kleiner Perkins...
- Tags: Green Tech, General
- Blog posts 2007-02-26
- The New Yorker looks into HPGate
- Worth reading: James B. Stewart, most recently the author of DisneyWar, investigates HPGate, Hewlett-Packards misguided pursuit of boardroom leakers, for the The New Yorker. He doesnt shed much new light overall on HPGate in his article, to be published tomorrow, but provides some perspective and fresh details, such as on...
- Tags: General, Legal, Berlind, Hewlett-Packard, Hewlett-Packard Co., Patricia Dunn
- Blog posts 2007-02-11
- Today's Thanksgiving Links: George Bush's turkey, 1621 feast, 108 million menus
- THANKSGIVING EVE 2006: President Bush and "Flyer" the turkey, The original 1621 Thanksgiving menu, 3 million tons of sweet corn...“Today’s Links” is an eclectic round up pointing to noteworthy news and worthy analysis from all around the World Wide Web.President Bush and the White House "turkey," Whitehouse.govPresident George W. Bush...
- Tags: George W. Bush
- Blog posts 2006-11-22
- TechNet: 'Nuclear world is a green world'
- TechNet, a bipartisan, political action group of high tech senior executives that promotes the growth of technology and innovation, hosted a dinner last night in Palo Alto to discuss some of its agenda items, which have included stances on education, patent reform, stock options and broadband and Internet policy. The...
- Tags: Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulatory compliance, Regulations, John Doerr, Floyd Kvamme, Microsoft TechNet
- Blog posts 2006-11-15
- Cry the beloved country!
- I’m writing this as I leave South Africa – sitting in an airport lounge on WiFi (iPass via South Africa’s Internet Solutions) at the end of my fifth trip here over a span of six years. I’m a member of the President’s International Advisory Council PIAC on the Information...
- Tags: I&rsquo, m, President&rsquo, s International Advisory Council
- Blog posts 2006-09-07
- New life for eGov, eTravel programs
- The Senate moved to develop the governmentwide eTravel system, which had been put on the House chopping block last summer, this week by meeting President Bush's request for $5 million for the E-Government Fund, Federal Computer Week reports. The House had slashed the request to $3 million. ...
- Tags: eTravel
- Blog posts 2006-08-02
- Compromise on NSA spying pretty one-sided
- Sen. Arlen Specter's (R-Pa) "compromise" bill PDF with the Bush administration over NSA domestic spying is getting roundly criticized by leading newspapers. The bill would allow the government to request that any lawsuit that attacks the legality of classified surveillance programs be transferred to the secret FISA court system. And...
- Tags: FISA Court
- Blog posts 2006-07-18
- Inadequate Internet protocols and slow R&D spending point to potential Web catastrophe, says Akamai chief scientist
- Read the full text transcript of the podcast.There's a looming threat to Internet commerce and general Web usage the world over. The underlying protocols that the modern Internet is built upon are inadequate to the task of providing secure and reliable packet traffic.Phishing and pharming are only the tip of...
- Tags: Akamai Technologies Inc., Tom Leighton, Internet
- Blog posts 2006-06-29
- Competitiveness Initiative moves forward
- The House Appropriations Subcommittee on Science, State, Justice and Commerce accepted President Bush’s budget requests for basic research programs at the National Science Foundation and the Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology, reports Inside Higher Ed. The move gives a green light to fully fund the the...
- Tags: House, National Science Foundation, Bush&rsquo, s
- Blog posts 2006-06-15
- Bipartisan legislation supports NSF role
- The House Science Committee approved legislation Wednesday that resurrects the National Science Foundation's Math and Science Partnerships program, after President Bush slated the program for huge cuts and eventual extinction in his 2007 budget, Inside HigherEd reports. Under the president’s budget, the Department of Education would take over the...
- Tags: National Science Foundation
- Blog posts 2006-06-08
- E-gov panel: Don't measure efforts by page views
- How does government evaluate if their Web efforts are hitting the mark? The metrics that are used for commercial sites - page views and unique visitors - are bound to prove inadequate, according to Karen Evans, administrator of e-government and IT for the Office of Management and Budget. Speaking at...
- Tags: GovBenefits, portal
- Blog posts 2006-05-01
- Tech educators slam Bush budget
- If America has a pressing need for improved math and science education, as apparently we do, then why does the 2007 budget trash education technology programs? That's what the International Society for Technology in Education wants to know. The organization developed the National Educational Technology Standards. In a press statement...
- Tags: education technology, ISTE
- Blog posts 2006-02-14
- Welcome to the Soviet-style Internet
- Cybercast News Service, in the first of a two-part report, has the story of five current and former National Security Agency employees who have been smeared and intimidated by the agency when they disagreed with superiors and talked about it. It's a tale that could have come out of...
- Tags: NSA
- Blog posts 2006-01-25
- More assaults on privacy in electronic communications
- The Financial Times reports that former Bush advisor Paul Wolfowitz, who led the Iraq War planning and was appointed last year to head the World Bank, may be giving political operatives the tools to conduct witch hunts by intercepting World Bank staff emails. The story follows a disturbingly...
- Tags: World Bank, Mr Wolfowitz
- Blog posts 2006-01-22
- DHS failing on cybersecurity front?
- The Register reports that Peter Tippett, a recent member of the President’s Information Technology Advisory Committee, said that the Dept. of Homeland Security is failing to effectively combat cyberattacks. Tippett, who is now chief technology officer with managed security firm CyberTrust, compared Homeland Security's...
- Tags: Peter Tippett
- Blog posts 2005-10-14
- March 2006 deadline looms for implementing enterprise architecture
- Writing in Federal Times, Karlu Rambhala of Avineon notes that OMB will start assessing agencies' enterprise architectures starting in October. They'll be done by March 2006. Here are the points they'll be judging. Does the architecture: ...
- Tags: agency, enterprise architecture
- Blog posts 2005-09-14
- Dear Mr. President: Vote for computational science
- You've seen the movies. Scientists with Zeus-like powers in their secret labs using super powerful computers make discoveries that change the world...for good or evil. Over decades and millennia, the future of society and the planet depend on scientific discoveries, enabled by current and future technology, especially high-performance computing. The...
- Tags: computational science, PITAC
- Blog posts 2005-06-20
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