Emerging Tech

Stop robocalls and earn $50,000

FTC challenges innovators to solve annoying problem.

Modernization

Think twice before you click that dot-gov link from your cellphone

Symantec reports 15 percent of clicks on 1.USA.gov sites take users to bogus pages.

Modernization

FCC official downplays spectrum estimates from auctions

Incentive auctions were first proposed by the FCC two years ago in its National Broadband Plan as one of the ways to free up more spectrum for wireless broadband.

Modernization

In praise of the BlackBerry

Why the New York Times is wrong to dismiss BlackBerry users as "uncool" and "embarrassing."

Cybersecurity

Pacific Command repels hackers with cyberwar Xbox

Pentagon and allies practice protecting communications during simulated attack.

Digital Government

Defense-VA electronic health record stumbles at Chicago hospital

Prescription management problems created ‘unacceptable patient safety risks,’ IOM reports.

Emerging Tech

DARPA to shift away from applied battlefield tech

Agency should recommit to traditional mission of long-range research, director says.

Modernization

GAO blasts location-tracking privacy policies

Report says companies aren't providing consumers with clear information.

Cybersecurity

Panetta: Intruders ‘successfully gained access’ to critical control systems

The Pentagon is finalizing offensive rules of engagement to protect civilian cyberspace

Modernization

Your iPhone is tracking you again

Apple has implemented a new targeting system called IFA for the iPhone 5 and any phone running iOS 6.