Digital Government

New FCC Chairman: Regulating the Internet Is a 'Non-Starter'

Spectrum auctions will be the top line item on the regulator's agenda in 2014, Tom Wheeler says.

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Commentary: Now That the Obamacare Website Works. . .

HealthCare.gov mostly works for consumers now. Next it needs to work for insurers. And then healthy people need to sign up.

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HealthCare.gov Performs Well After Making White House’s Repair Deadline

Engineers have put many insurance seekers in an online queue to avoid overwhelming the site.

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Three more China observations

Back in Shanghai, Steve Kelman reflects on hostility to Japan, a pipeline disaster and how linguistics can shape politics.

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NARA looks to bring agency records into the 21st century

NARA's goal is to simplify the process for transferring agency records to the archive.

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Report: HIPAA is a hindrance to health care info sharing

Some of the problems with the health care privacy law echo complaints about the intelligence community in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks.

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Grunt With Me at the Bataan Memorial Death March

It’s the 25th anniversary of the commemorative march.

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HP Lovecraft on Big Data

"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents."

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Big data, Big Brother and you

Big data is a tool -- like a hammer or a gun or a car -- that can be used for good and ill alike.

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The Biggest News in the Healthcare.gov Report: Just How Bad It Was

In order to boast how far the federal site has come, HHS laid out how bad it used to be.

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GAO: NASA needs to reflect IT investments in EA

NASA officials said their failure to comply with the PortfolioStat directive does not translate to a lack of oversight.

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White House Declares Tentative Victory Over HealthCare.gov Woes

The site can now support 50,000 simultaneous users with response times under 1 second.

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White House Delaying Obamacare's Small Business Online Exchange for a Year

Businesses with fewer than 50 employees are still eligible to buy insurance through the exchanges, just not online.

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GSA’s Crowdsourcing Website Named Finalist for Innovation Award

Multi-agency distressed neighborhood initiative also highlighted among 600 applicants.

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Forget BYOD. Check Your Personal Email on Your Agency-Provided Gadget

It's called COPE - corporately owned, personally enabled -- and it could be the acronym of 2014.

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Death Toll of 2009 Swine Flu Outbreak Is 10 Times Higher Than Once Thought

A new study funded by the World Health Organization finds that the H1N1 virus claimed thousands more lives globally.

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Analysis: 'Big Data' Is the Most Overused Corporate Buzzword of 2013

The term has been mentioned during 841 conference calls and investor presentations.