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Social Networking Lessons from the 'Biggest Little City'
<a href=http://www.reno.gov/> Reno, Nev.,</a> calls itself the "The Biggest Little City In The World," but although it has a population that's just a fraction of another Nevada casino destination, <a href=http://www.lasvegasnevada.gov/>Las Vegas</a>, it has about four times as many fans on Facebook.
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School District Settles Suit Alleging It Spied on Students
A suburban Philadelphia school district has settled a lawsuit that accused the district of spying on students by secretly activating their webcams.
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Tennessee Town Blocks Facebook From Employee Computers
The City of Cleveland, Tenn. is removing computer games and blocking social networking sites, such as Facebook, from city-owned computers.
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New York City Launches Apps Contest
Have a great idea for a mobile or web application using New York City data? Well it could win you a prize of up to $20,000.
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Parents Overwhelmingly Want Opt-in
Nearly 90 of parents nationwide would support a law requiring online companies get their opt in before using their personal information for marketing, a new poll has found.
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$1 Trillion Savings from Tech?
A group of corporate technology executives has developed a <a href=http://www.techceocouncil.org/storage/documents/TCC_One_Trillion_Reasons_FINAL.pdf>plan</a> that they say can reduce the federal deficit by $1 trillion over the next ten years while enhancing citizen services.
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Fighting Crime From Your Bed
Looking to help deter shoplifting right from your very own house? Now some people can.
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How Many CIOs Does It Take . . .
You would think with three chief information officers in a room, there would not be technology problems for a presentation. Yet, at a morning panel, "Green IT Strategies" at the Greengov symposium at George Washington University, the question was how many does it take to get their PowerPoint slides displayed. The answer? Greater than three.
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CIOs Not Into CyberScope
Although use of CyberScope, a mandatory new system for reporting on information security in federal agencies, is required by November 15, fewer than one in five federal information technology chiefs have tried using the program.
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Canada Launches Apps Contest
Canada's capital city plans to hold a contest for citizens to think up government services. But first someone should make sure the competition's website works.
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Google's Street View of Penguins
Watch out penguins. After <a href=http://techinsider.nextgov.com/2010/09/backlash_in_europe_over_google_street_view.php>raising privacy concerns</a> in Europe, Google Street View has arrived in Antarctica.
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Why Legacy? It Works
NASA has taken some hits for having decades-old computer technology running the shuttle program and the International Space station. For example, the space agency uses some technology that the moon programs relied on in the 1960s and the space station uses processors more than two decades old. Sounds like a typical government operation? Well, no, when you have scientists explain it.
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Wikileaks' OGov Lessons
What the ongoing furor over the WikiLeaks phenomenon has revealed, <a href="http://www.thenation.com/print/article/154780/wikileaks-and-hacktivist-culture">writes</a> Peter Ludlow, author of <em>Crypto Anarchy, Cyberstates, and Pirate Utopias</em>, "is that the media and government agencies believe there is a single protagonist to be concerned with--something of a James Bond villain, if you will."
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Europe to Google: Not in My Front Yard
Another European country has blocked <a href=http://maps.google.com/help/maps/streetview/>Google Street View</a> from taking pictures in their country, as some Europeans fight the program that provides panoramic views of locations from the street level.
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