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Battery Failure, Human Error Still Cause Most Data Center Outages
Data center outages remain common and three major factors — uninterruptable power supply (UPS) battery failure, human error and exceeding UPS capacity — are the root causes, according to a new study...
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Is Privacy Dead? Gavin Newsom Thinks So
Last week, California Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom spoke to a small audience at UC Berkeley about how modern technology changes how citizens interact with government. The Center for Information Technology...
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Tracking System Helps County Keep Tabs on Stormwater
Technology won’t stop the fury of Mother Nature, but it’s helping officials in Chesterfield County, Va., keep a closer eye on the drainage repairs and stormwater reports needed in her wake. The...
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Most Apps Are Developed Beyond U.S. Borders, Study Says
In the tech race to the top, the U.S. falls short on app creation. A new study reports that as of June 2013, only 36 percent of total apps worldwide were homegrown, down from 45 percent last year and...
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Tech Neutrality Among 7 Online Sales Tax Principles
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte released an outline Wednesday of how he thinks online sales tax legislation should proceed, signalling that the issue could once more gain momentum....
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Low Tech Solution Helps Indiana DOT Solve Serious Traffic Hazard
Repeated instances of large, fast-moving vehicles colliding with bridges that cross multiple interstates is certainly cause for alarm among transportation officials and motorists – especially those...
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Open Data’s Road to Better Transit
Data is everywhere. It now costs less to capture, store and process data than ever before, thanks to better technology and economies of scale. And more than ever, the public expects government to use...
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Best of New York Honors Top Achievers in IT
Excellence in public-sector IT within the state of New York was recognized today at the annual GTC East Conference. Held in Albany, this year marks the 25th anniversary of the event. Honorees were...
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Notarizations Go Digital in North Carolina
North Carolina standardized a new process that allows for notarization to be completed electronically. Some state officials are calling the program the first and most robust move to e-notarizations on...
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Securing the Digital Home Front
Online security breaches continue to be a serious and growing problem for public agencies. In April, the U.S. Department of Labor website was hacked, while just a couple of years ago, Anonymous...
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Does Your Cloud-Based Data Need Forensic Protection?
A new startup company, Threat Stack, hopes to be the first of many cybersecurity companies to provide advanced forensic protection for cloud-based companies and government agencies. The company was...
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Why Do We Still Use Passwords?
Laziness, carelessness, stupidity, ignorance, naiveté — what do all these have in common? They’re all reasons passwords don’t work and also the reasons we’re still using passwords. People and...
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Stiff Resistance to State Technology Taxes
As the nation moves from a tangible goods-based economy to a service-based economy, a few states are trying to keep revenues robust by taxing technological services such as software upgrades and cloud...
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Earthquake Early Warning System Looks for Funding
Death and destruction are great motivators. In late September, California Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill that opened up the possibility of the state getting an earthquake early warning system similar...
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Will Your Site be Hacked on Nov. 5?
The clocks are ticking down and the masks have been gathered for Nov. 5, a day now unavoidably associated with the hacker group Anonymous and their momentary but memorable acts of civil disobedience....
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Sebelius Apologizes for Obamacare 'Debacle'
WASHINGTON -- In her first appearance before Congress since the botched debut of the federal health-care website, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius on Wednesday apologized for the...
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Driver Cited for Wearing Google Glass May Be First in California
SAN DIEGO — With every technological advance, society must answer certain questions. One of those questions may have been answered Tuesday night on a busy freeway in San Diego County. Yes, you can get...
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Why Wasn't Healthcare.gov Load Tested?
As the government tries to fix federal health-care portal Healthcare.gov, politicians and spectators have tried to identify how things got to this point. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen...
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Tech and Homeless Vets to Improve County Transportation
A new intelligent transportation system and a team of homeless veterans could soon rewrite the book on bus travel efficiency in Berkshire County, Mass. The Berkshire Regional Transit Authority (BRTA)...
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Kansas City Measures Performance through Online Dashboard
To follow through on its commitment to provide more visibility into city performance, Kansas City, Mo., launched KCStat Dashboard on Oct. 22, an online tool that displays progress on city goals and...
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