Modernization
Video: How to Run Android Apps on PCs and Macs
A helpful tool to take you from smartphone screen to big screen.
Modernization
Do Encrypted Phones Threaten National Security?
A legislator compares manufacturing devices with strong, end-to-end encryption to dumping toxic waste in a stream.
Emerging Tech
FCC Wants to Operate 100 Percent in the Cloud by the End of 2017
FCC is going all-in on cloud computing and is currently in the middle of a “lift-and-shift."
Modernization
Google Wants to Make Your Cellphone Screen Disappear
The phones of the future might look very different.
Emerging Tech
Pentagon’s Bring-Your-Own-Device Project on Hold Until Fall
The pilot project will include some 10,000 users.
Modernization
Supercomputer centers, drone privacy and intel desktops
News and notes from around the federal IT community.
Digital Government
Video: The Booming Business of Baby-Boomer Tech
Some valuable apps for those reaching their golden years.
Modernization
How To Break Into the CIA’s Cloud on Amazon
Looking to steal America’s spy data from Amazon? Hope you’re up for a challenge.
Emerging Tech
Justice Department Plans Major Office Tech Upgrade
DOJ envisions an “office of the future,” which would revamp much of the technology agency employees use.
Emerging Tech
Video: 5 Ways to Improve Your Facebook Experience
It's the social network nearly everyone uses. Here's how you make the most of it.
Emerging Tech
New York City Turns Garbage Bins Into Free Wi-Fi Hotspots
Solar-powered Bigbellies offer enough bandwidth to power a startup.
Modernization
Sandia seeks to commercialize unclonable ID tech
The lab is looking for industry help to turn its research into practical authentication solutions.
Modernization
DOD CIO: We Need to Consider Legal Issues Around Mobility
Access to new technology has infused organizations with tools that increase productivity. That’s great for employers, but not so much for mobile-device-wielding employees.
Modernization
Pentagon Not Ready for Bring-Your-Own-Device Just Yet
DOD Chief Information Officer Terry Halvorsen said the initiative has been delayed as other business got in the way.
Emerging Tech
The Secret Lives of Hackathon Junkies
I spent three days on a bus with a bunch of hackers. Here’s what I learned.
Modernization
IARPA wants a quantum leap
The intelligence community's research shop has released an RFP to help it make quantum computing a practical big-data solution.
Modernization
DOE's new data-management tool aims to tame LHC data
Dubbed Big PanDA, Brookhaven National Laboratory's workload management system seeks to maximize Department of Energy supercomputer resources.
Modernization
DHS funding, election-season API, spectrum sharing and 'secure enough' mobility
News and notes from around the federal IT community.
Modernization