Modernization

America’s Most Profitable Company Per Employee Makes Your Phone Work—and it’s Not Apple

InterDigital has developed many of the technologies critical to our wireless world.

Cybersecurity

DHS Awards Contractors $6 Billion for Agency Network Surveillance

Booz Allen Hamilton and 16 others earn spots on the continuous monitoring project.

Modernization

DHS talent management getting cloud consolidation

The Department of Homeland Security is ramping up a cloud make-over for its enterprise talent management system.

Modernization

A New App Takes Government Contracting Mobile

Hōrd allows vendors to get alerts about opportunities and to track their competitors.

Modernization

DISA plans analytic cloud; looks to NSA's model

DISA's planned 'Acropolis' cloud environment will provide situational cybersecurity awareness, data analysis to detect threats.

Modernization

Prepare for the Coming Deluge of Digital Currencies—and Meet the People Who Would Control Them

Watch out for Litecoin, the silver to Bitcoin's gold.

Modernization

City of London Halts Recycling Bins Tracking Phones of Passers-By

The tracking technology sparked an outcry of privacy concerns.

Modernization

Finding new ways to manage in a virtual desktop world

Virtual desktops have gone from an interesting idea to a technology agencies embrace in increasingly large deployments. To move to virtual machines, however, requires a fresh look at security, standardization and the skills of your IT employees.

Modernization

There’s Apps in Them Thar Hills

A new mobile app will guide tourists around the Klondike Gold Rush site.

Modernization

This Recycling Bin Is Following You

The startup Renew has outfitted recycling bins with gadgets that track smartphones.

Digital Government

White House Unveils CIO Council 2.0

New structure for chief information officers should be more agile and efficient, officials say.

Emerging Tech

Tackling the Greatest Digital Divide

The Internet is leaving America’s elderly behind and we’re all paying the cost.

Modernization

US Firms Worry Edward Snowden Is Wrecking Their Business, but the Patriot Act Was Already Doing That

Reports show the U.S. cloud industry could suffer due to government surveillance.

Modernization

If You Want to Make Money From Apps, Forget About the App Store

App store sales and advertising together count for a less than a quarter of all revenue for developers.

Modernization

For many in federal IT, the cloud remains hazy

Federal IT shops are still struggling to implement broad mobility, security and cloud services and solutions – and that's all after overcoming the multiple challenges of acquiring those kinds of technologies.

Modernization

The price of NSA surveillance for cloud providers

Europe is looking to cut into the dominance of American companies in supplying cloud computing services. Revelations about the NSA's surveillance program may help them do that.

Modernization

IBM intervenes in Amazon cloud case

Legal maneuvers in disputed CIA cloud contract demonstrate the importance of the deal.

Modernization

Is the US Government an IP Hypocrite or Just in Love With Apple?

Obama's recent Apple decision is the first time a President has overruled the ITC since 1987.

Modernization

Why data centers are hard to count

A reader suggests that the difficulty with data center consolidation is a matter of definition.