Modernization

'Bring Your Own Bandwidth' Means a Future of Ultra-Cheap Calls

Republic Wireless is selling a phone that will carry out all of its functions over WiFi.

Modernization

How to Avoid Getting Spear-Phished by China's Hackers Who Cracked Apple

Chinese hackers have used the spear-phishing tactic on everyone from the Defense Department to Facebook.

Emerging Tech

GSA Releases Guidelines to Measure Social Media Impact

Agency also unveils an open data stream of all government social media posts.

Modernization

IRS Faulted for Wasteful Aircard and BlackBerry Purchases

Auditors tell CIO to do a better job monitoring which employees have business needs.

Modernization

Forest Service Seeks Online Storefront for Digital Maps

The vendors may also digitally enhance Forest Service base maps to make them more interactive.

Modernization

Why Google Pays Apple $1 Billion a Year

As of March, something like 80 percent of Google's phone-search profits came from Apple devices.

Modernization

Defense and the intelligence community pursue conflicting cloud plans

Roadmaps for shifting computer work to collaborative online environments follow different construction designs.

Digital Government

New York's Real-Time Snow Plow Map to Get its First Major Test This Weekend

With a foot of snow in New York City all but assured by Saturday morning, PlowNYC is about to hit the big time.

Modernization

GSA Seeks Governmentwide Mobile Device Management Contracts

The government hopes to save on MDM and other mobile services by buying in bulk.

Cybersecurity

How Can a President's E-Mail Get Hacked?

A hacker known as Guccifer got into "at least six separate e-mail accounts" of Bush family members.

Digital Government

Government Culture Inhibits Shared Services

The will and technology are there but silos and limited risk tolerance are a hindrance, CIO Council official says.

Modernization

BlackBerry Z10 has not sold well in home-market Canada

Despite lackluster sales, analysts remain cautiously optimistic.

Cybersecurity

Somebody hacked the Fed during the Super Bowl

During the hack, information was obtained by exploiting a temporary vulnerability in a website vendor product.

Modernization

White House to host Open Data Day Hackathon

Administration officials want clever programmers to improve the API that drives the 'We The People' petitioning system.