Modernization

Broadcasters Protest New Cloud-Based TV Recording Service

If the Supreme Court hears the case, the implications could be far reaching.

Modernization

How to reuse, repurpose and recycle IT

The Defense Department is learning that older hardware, no longer able to perform its original functions and destined for the scrap heap, can often be put to another use.

Digital Government

Who's to Blame When IT Systems Fail?

Lawmakers want to simplify lines of responsibility by redefining the role of federal chief information officers.

Emerging Tech

Get Ready For Data-Driven Romance

Or: How we’ll learn to stop worrying and let computers take the lead.

Modernization

IBM seeks stay on court's ruling over CIA contract

IBM wants to ensure AWS's latest triumph in the battle to build the CIA's cloud platform is short-lived.

Modernization

Website Connects Drunk People With Random Lawmakers

Want a solution to the government shutdown? Try drunk dialing Congress.

Modernization

NSA's $1.5 billion data center delayed

Unexplained power surges force postponement of planned opening.

Modernization

Supercomputing upgrade to improve big data at Postal Service

USPS has awarded a contract to expand the agency's already formidable high-powered computing capabilities.

Modernization

Obama Official Tweets Racial Slur, Apologizes

Dan Pfeiffer quickly deleted it and apologized for a 'horrendous typo.'

Modernization

Amazon Prevails in CIA Cloud Suit

IBM, which argued Amazon unfairly won the cloud contract, plans to appeal.

Modernization

AWS can resume CIA cloud project

Although IBM plans to appeal a judge's ruling, Amazon Web Services is ready to go back to work.

Digital Government

Obamacare Software Failures Confirmed

Healthcare.gov gets coding touch-ups after bugs and glitches in its first week.

Modernization

The 9 Ways That Twitter Could Fail, According to Twitter

Befitting any young, undeveloped, and unprofitable company, the list of risks is long and wide-ranging.

Modernization

Amazon-IBM dispute enters next phase

Oral arguments are about to begin in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims on AWS's appeal of a GAO decision that reopened the competition for a ground-breaking CIA contract.

Modernization

Contrary to What You’ve Heard, Android Is Almost Impenetrable to Malware

Less than 0.001% of Android apps can evade the system’s multi-layered defenses, data show.