Modernization
Video: Meet Buddy, the Robot that Will Help Protect and Connect You
A lot of high-powered tech, wrapped up in an adorable package.
Modernization
GSA enters quiet mode on telecom RFP
The rest of the month will be spent making final changes to the RFP, so GSA will not be responding to additional inquiries.
Modernization
Interior renews support for obsolete tech
Microsoft declared Windows Server 2003 dead in July, but the Interior Department's Bureau of Reclamation is buying custom support for 100 licenses.
Cybersecurity
2 Easy Steps to Improve Privacy Policies
OK, they’re not so easy. But they would save us from the eternal amend-then-freak-out cycle
Modernization
Video: Geronimo Is a Cooler, Faster Way to Read Your Emails
A flick of the wrist takes you to the next email.
Emerging Tech
DISA Issues Pentagon-Friendly Cloud Computing Guide
The guide is aimed at DOD “mission owners” planning to move an existing information system from a physical environment to a virtualized cloud environment.
Modernization
Prioritizing authentication, GitHub attacked, Carter back to Silicon Valley and more
News and notes from around the federal IT community.
Modernization
Future Technologies Must Be Designed to Free Us From our Screen Addiction
Every digital experience is self-aware, tweaking and customizing itself to be better, more enticing—to suck users further in and increase its all-important “active users” metric.
Modernization
The new RFI: Request for innovation
The natural tendency of RFPs and RFIs to protect outdated architectures must be overcome if FITARA is to succeed.
Modernization
Shadow BYOD Runs Rampant at Federal Agencies
Many federal employees may be ignoring the rules around using personal devices for official work, according to a new poll.
Modernization
In search of virtualization
Responding to calls from Congress and the Pentagon, several Defense Department components are seeking better virtualization technologies.
Ideas
US Effort to Grab Data from Microsoft in Ireland Should Frighten All Firms Using the Cloud Overseas
A legal battle pitting Microsoft against the Justice Department raises fundamental questions that all CIOs should pay close attention to.
Modernization
A Digital Rat Brain Could Power Future Smartphones
Rather than a traditional computer, these computer chips are designed to work like neurons.
Modernization
ICANN handoff officially delayed
It will be at least another year before Internet domain naming and addressing functions are handed off to a global, multi-stakeholder body.
Modernization
Is the IRS thinking about a switch to off-the-shelf CRM?
A recent sources sought notice indicates the IRS might be looking to a commercial customer relationship management tool as a way to lower the cost of taxpayer contact.
Emerging Tech
QTS Sets Eyes on Federal Market with Carpathia Acquisition
The Kansas-based company, which already services many federal customers through 12 nationwide data centers, spent $326 million acquiring the cloud services provider.
Modernization
State Department Looks to Outfit Workers with 'the Most Contemporary' Mobile Devices
This is no small task considering the agency currently provides 36,000 mobile devices to its employees stationed in almost every country in the world.
Digital Government
How Phone Companies Used 'Supercookies' to Track Customers' Web Browsing
AT&T and Verizon continued tracking users' unencrypted traffic for months after backlash over the practice erupted in November 2014, researchers found.
Modernization