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Undercover police used smartphones to keep tabs on protests in Tampa

Cell phones, tablets could be wave of future for police, firefighters.

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Sequestration could hurt cyber defense programs

Deep budget cuts will make it difficult for feds to press industry on cybersecurity.

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iPhone 5? Yawn. What will the 'phone' of 2022 look like?

A romp through the weird, scary, awesome future of mobile communications.

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Military commanders want to choose their own battlefield apps

The DOD attributes a drop in Afghanistan casualties to better intelligence, but some military commanders want to choose their own systems to reduce losses further.

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Republicans question feasibility of spectrum sharing

Lawmakers want to reserve space exclusively for commercial firms.

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Chinese tech companies to Congress: We're not spies

‘One person’s bug is another’s back door,’ Rep. Mike Rogers says.

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Could DOD’s ambitious joint information environment lead to iPhone-wielding warriors?

Hopes are high that DOD's cloud-based architecture will make a real difference for deployed soldiers, but some challenges still remain to be solved.

Digital Government

Study: On Facebook, voting is contagious

Large-scale study of more than 60 million users conducted during the November 2010 election finds social network has discernible effect on participation.

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Converged infrastructure: Is less really more?

IT shops across government are turning to standard technologies in pretested combinations to save time and money while still meeting expanding user demands.

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All the latest from Apple's big iPhone event

The bigger iPhone 5, prettier iTunes, and better iPods

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Agile development: A case in point

A CIO who came to government from the private sector turns to agile development to solve some thorny IT problems at DHS.

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The ever increasing iPhone sales expectations

The previous edition in the iSeries sold more than a million in the first 24 hours.

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How candidates are selling the hashtag election

The 2012 party conventions were a kind of coming-out party for Twitter as a political advertising platform.

Digital Government

Commission leaders call for emergency communications network

The attacks revealed the problems posed by a patchwork of emergency radio networks and devices that often do not work with each other.

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Feds reject counterterrorism reporting apps over privacy, security concerns

Some states, meanwhile, offer citizens smartphone tools for alerting authorities to suspicious behavior.