Digital Government
Senator working on a privacy 'do-not-track' bill
Legislation would allow consumers to opt-out of having their Web activities tracked for advertising purposes.
Modernization
VA considers dumb computers to save money, tighten security
Thin clients could cut PC maintenance costs in half, but IT managers should be prepared for stiff resistance from clinicians, who won't warm up to them, say private tech chiefs who have made the move.
Digital Government
What Will Takai Do?
President Obama <a href=http://www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng_20100930_1811.php?oref=topnews>withdrew</a> on Wednesday the nomination of California Chief Information Officer Teresa "Teri" Takai for the Defense assistant secretary for networks and information integration, a job that currently includes the Defense CIO title.
Digital Government
Survey: FOIA Workers Need $$$, Tech
Federal employees who are responsible for administering the Freedom of Information Act say their offices are too short-staffed, underfunded and technologically inept to process requests as expeditiously as the White House wants, according to a survey conducted by the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.
Ideas
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.
Digital Government
Kaiser Donates Doctor-Talk Tool
Kaiser Permanente announced Wednesday that it is donating a translation-enabling technology to the International Healthcare Terminology Standards Development Organization.
Cybersecurity
BitTorrent Protection
<a href="http://www.bittorrent.com/">BitTorrent</a> users, a free, open source peer-to-peer file-sharing application, might be wondering how to protect themselves. It's quite difficult to know when a download is masquerading as something it isn't. And while some might associate the tool with those who download illegal music, movie and software files, it's also used in legal ways. For example, users quite frequently download Linux distributions, some of which exist in DVD, a form that can only be obtained via BitTorrent.
Digital Government
How to save energy and money through data center consolidation
NASA has discovered the benefits of two critical elements of data virtualization: power management and virtualization, which go hand in hand.
Digital Government
NIH builds a bridge to paperless processes
The National Cancer Institute and Bristol-Myers Squibb are using digital certificates to eliminate paper in a cancer therapy evaluation program, a trend that advocates hope will become more widespread in government.
People
Takai nomination for DOD CIO withdrawn
California CIO Teri Takai's nomination as defense CIO is dead at least for now; the job and its responsibilities are being shifted between Defense Department agencies.
People
Army Corps of Engineers caught in web of political wrangling
The Army Corps of Engineers has tried numerous times to reorganize, but lawmakers don't want to risk potential job losses at home, according to corps officials.
Modernization
Web clearinghouse for student loans not needed, GAO says
The Education Department would face numerous problems if it tried to create an online clearinghouse for public and private student loan information, report says.
Cybersecurity
Intell fusion centers need to set performance goals, GAO says
The intelligence fusion centers created for sharing intelligence information need to be evaluated on their performance, the GAO says.
Digital Government