Modernization

Commentary: Would the Government Have Shut Down Without Twitter?

The echo chamber at the heart of Washington's problems.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Survey: Budget poses the biggest threat to federal IT

400 government IT decision-makers reveal their ambitions and worries for the coming year.

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HP to host ID management hub for USPS

The project is the federal government's first cloud-based identity management pilot.

Digital Government

Twitter’s IPO Avoids Delay: SEC Can Stay Open for Weeks Amid Shutdown

Twitter plans to make its IPO filing public this week.

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Furloughed Feds May Have to Turn in Cellphones, Other Mobile Devices

Law prohibits government employees from working outside the office in the event of a shutdown.

Digital Government

Government Social Media Feeds Will Go Dark During a Shutdown

Essential employees could post information to sites in the event of an emergency, officials say.

Modernization

What a Government Game App Should (and Shouldn't) Look Like

CDC’s Solve the Outbreak app makes the grade but NASA’s Comet Question doesn’t.

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Plastic With Invisible Images May Allow Swipe-Free Payments and Stop Someone From Stealing Your Car

Plastic manufacturers can embed information directly into the plastic.

Modernization

Long Before Navy Shooting, Military First Responders Complained of Bum Radios

Communications failures hampered emergency response.

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200 Million Women Are Missing From the Internet

Governments, telcos and device makers should figure out how to get their services to women.

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Shutdown would not endanger cloud environments

The personnel responsible for securing federal data in the cloud would likely stay on the job, experts say.

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Twins Burned by Facebook May Lose Out on Bitcoin Idea, Too

SecondMarket has announced today that it's launching a new Bitcoin trust.

Emerging Tech

Q&A: How City Governments Go Digital

The future of digital government will be about smaller companies and citizen security, GOV2.0LA founder says.

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Defense Readies Networks for Latest BlackBerrys

Despite almost exiting the consumer market, the smartphones’ manufacturer is outfitting military networks with software to support the devices.

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Feds tiptoe toward in-memory computing

The high cost and uncertainty of returns of in-memory computing platforms previously kept all but the most cash-flush organizations or agencies from exploring the technology, which allows rapid access to vast volumes of data.