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Who Gets Their News from Twitter?
Twitter news consumers are standing out as younger, more mobile and more educated in a new report by the Pew Research Center. Nearly one in 10 U.S. adults get news through Twitter, compared with 30...
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Microsoft Ups Ante in Cloud Security
In Microsoft's quest to be the government’s preferred cloud application provider, the company offered a potentially powerful security incentive to swing officials its way. On Oct. 14, Microsoft signed...
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Silicon Valley Programmers Fill in Gaps Left by HealthCare.gov
Three startup founders came up with a new website they hope will ease some of the frustration felt by users of the glitch-ridden federal health insurance portal. Amid finger-pointing hearings and...
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5 New Approaches to Government Procurement
Traditional public-sector procurement processes have been criticized for being slow, inflexible, and limiting the size of the vendor pool that government can fish in. While challenges in government...
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State and Local Leaders Discuss Building Toward the Future
Reducing reliance on fossil fuel, extracting value from public assets and widening the public conversation about our shared future emerged as the three key themes of a day-long discussion in San...
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Governments Recover $11 Million in Fraud Settlement
Ten governments will receive an $11 million windfall following the settlement of allegations that CA Technologies engaged in fraudulent software maintenance renewal practices from 2001-2009. CA...
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5 Ways Government Can Engage Small App Developers
Mobile apps abound by the thousands, populating our pockets with the latest in digital shortcuts and simple entertainment. And yet, beyond their colorful glow, it’s easy to overlook the talented...
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Does the HealthCare.gov Launch Make the Case for Open Source?
The IT troubles of HealthCare.gov have baffled the public. After all, the U.S. government has had access to industry experts from the start and, as of Oct. 30, has spent more than $174 million on the...
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FDA Shows How to Cut Costs and Reduce Paperwork
What would bureaucracy be without miles and miles of paperwork? The U.S. Food and Drug Administration intends to find out. On Thursday, Nov. 14, at Amazon’s Web Services conference, FDA Chief Health...
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Who Invented the Hackathon?
The first recorded hackathon was a group of 10 OpenBSD developers who met on June 4, 1999 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Incidentally, a group of Java developers met at the JavaOne conference just a few...
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Terry Bledsoe Retires as CIO of Catawba County, N.C.
Terry Bledsoe retired as the CIO of Catawba County, N.C. on Oct. 31 after serving more than seven years in that role. He began his tenure on Feb. 2, 2006 and played a part in multiple technology...
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Communication Tools Make Monterey’s CERT Self-Sufficient
Monterey is one of the most beautiful coastal cities in California. Originally the state capital, the city’s diverse topography also makes it vulnerable to a wide variety of natural disasters....
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App Takes on Emergency Alert Duties in Mississippi
Natural disasters can be hard to predict and devastating to the affected. That’s why the Mississippi Department of Health is looking to gain a potentially life-saving edge using technology. On Oct. 4,...
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Why Does London Want Its Own Domain Suffix?
London will join New York City (.NYC) and Las Vegas (.Vegas) next year as one of the first cities to get its own Web domain suffix: .London. On Nov. 15, it was announced that the Internet Corporation...
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Cops Like What They See with License Plate Readers
We all know that feeling of dread when a police car appears out of the blue on the side of the road and we’re driving too fast. Instinctively, we slow down, hoping that the officer doesn’t pull us...
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Mobile App Tracks Emergency Volunteers
Community emergency response teams (CERT) have a new mobile app at their disposal to help track the locations of fellow volunteers and key points of interest during a deployment. Called Deploy Pro,...
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Lawmakers Clash Over Mobile Medical App Regulation
Some lawmakers are attempting to put the kibosh on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) plan to regulate some mobile medical apps. The U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Energy and...
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Dreamforce Conference: Products and Protests
Gray skies and scattered rainfall weren’t enough to discourage the thousands of attendees at Salesforce’s Dreamforce conference in San Francisco this week. The event, that goes from Nov. 18-21,...
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San Francisco Entrepreneurship in Residence Finalists Announced
Organizers of the San Francisco Entrepreneurship in Residence program are one step closer to the grass-roots solutions they hope will solve government problems across the nation. On Nov. 20, the San...
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Government Talks Cloud and Data at Dreamforce
As Dreamforce hit its third day, it could be said that San Francisco is now well aware of the conference's attendees. Sponsored by data management company Salesforce, Dreamforce 2013 saw notable...
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