Modernization

Why Are Digital-Privacy Apps So Hard to Use?

Protecting your data usually means navigating a miserable user experience.

Modernization

Patent office restores service

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has its systems back online after an outage shut down agency apps over the Christmas holiday.

Digital Government

Do You Answer Emails After Work? If So, You Should Be Getting Unlimited Vacation

Without the distraction of stifling rules, employees can be more focused and productive.

Modernization

Is there a federal CIO playbook for a militia takeover?

The armed invasion of a remote Fish and Wildlife Service building in eastern Oregon's high desert may not be a disaster for the agency's IT operations, but it could point to a gap in IT contingency planning, CIOs say.

Modernization

IG blasts DOD CIO for lack of cloud metrics

The Department of Defense doesn't know whether it is getting cost savings from cloud computing, and may be inviting security risks in the process, according to the Pentagon's inspector general.

Modernization

Apple Wants to Let You Make Payments Through Texts, Phone Calls and Emails

The tech giant filed a patent for the technology earlier this month.

Modernization

How the Internet of Things Limits Consumer Choice

A recent dustup over smart light bulbs illuminates a larger problem.

Modernization

More Americans Use Mobile Devices to Access the Internet

Roughly 33 percent of Americans today do not have broadband service at home.

Modernization

What to make of OMB's software licensing initiative

While most of the IT community was Christmas shopping, the Obama administration unveiled a plan that could radically reshape IT acquisition.

Modernization

GSA plans one-stop shop for Salesforce

Aiming to centralize government-wide professional services procurement for Salesforce support, the General Services Administration is launching a new, six-business-strong contract vehicle.

Ideas

Resolutions Government CIOs Should Consider in 2016

The emerging trend among modern CIOs is to think bigger and have goals beyond lowering costs and increasing efficiency.

Modernization

Coming in 2016: Cloud legislation

The New Year will bring a bill designed to streamline the way agencies fund, acquire and approve the move to cloud computing.

Modernization

Bank of America Loads Up on Bitcoin Patents

Bankers may not think bitcoin will ever go fully mainstream, but they clearly believe there is value in the technology that powers such cryptocurrencies, known as blockchain.

Modernization

FedRAMP issues last call for comments on high-baseline standards

Comments are due Jan. 8 on security standards that would cover sensitive unclassified data.

Modernization

Truly committing to innovation and the cloud

Government's success is enabled by using contracting practices that reward rather than discourage new ideas and approaches.

Ideas

5 Cyber Risk Trends for 2016

These are the top themes CIOs and CISOs should have on their radar in the new year.

Modernization

How Mobile Carriers Skirt Net-Neutrality Rules

“There’s something stomach-twisting about a company offering free video streaming but charging for filling out an online job application.”