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Monetizing Social Media Users Is Getting Easier; Adding New Ones Is Getting Harder
What are the teenagers up to?
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Air Force headquarters transitions to enterprise email
The USAF move follows the Army's migration to the program, completed in August 2013.
Emerging Tech
Bitcoin Is Broken—Here's a Simple Plan to Fix It
It doesn't work as a currency, but it could help build the financial architecture of web payments. Here's how.
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Fed IT transformation a no-brainer? Not so fast
Juggling competing priorities makes agency IT overhauls an often overwhelming exercise.
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Why the Land Line Is About to Die
FCC's coming decision will shape how we communicate for decades to come.
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The big switch
Telecom carriers are eager to see federal agencies get moving on the changeover to IP-based networks.
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How the speed of technological change can be an opportunity
Former USDA CIO Chris Smith, now AT&T's vice president of technology, says government is coping reasonably well but could do more to lead.
Digital Government
Patriot Act Architect: No More Spying Unless My NSA Reform Bill Passes
Sensenbrenner says officials risk losing all spying authorization next year if his Freedom Act doesn’t pass.
Emerging Tech
U.S. Schools Get $2 Billion Infusion for High-Speed Internet
The FCC will double its investment in fast connections for schools.
Modernization
The Energy Department Wants to Make Your Phone Charger More Efficient
DOE estimates that new standards will put close to $4 billion back in the pockets of American consumers.
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A new goal for data center consolidation?
The latest figures on data center closures will be made public the first week of March.
Emerging Tech
Commerce Seeks a Single System to Manage Its Citizen Services
Similar private-sector platforms allow customers to have a single profile across different divisions of a company.
Modernization
Why Google Just Sold Motorola to Lenovo for $3 Billion
Google originally bought the company for $12.5 billion in May 2012.
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Have Presidential Speeches Gotten More 'Tweetable'?
Not really, but the speech is but one piece of the spectacle of the State of the Union.
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Why Free Games Are Increasingly the Most Profitable Apps
The most downloaded apps are games.
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How Will the Government Regulate the Phones of the Future?
The FCC is about to study its regulations.
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What federal agencies can learn from the Super Bowl
The public safety cloud that supports security at the event serves as a case study in connecting numerous disparate groups and people to identify and mitigate risks.
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Survey pinpoints data-storage concerns
Data security and downtime are two of the major worries for IT decision makers.
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Rockefeller blasts private-sector metadata storage plan
The retiring chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee said he was “concerned any change of our current framework will harm both national security and privacy.”
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