DC pushes the snow panic button
The GCN Lab's Trudy Walsh says some cities have champion sports teams; D.C. has its snow panic.
NASA plans live video feed from space
NASA plans to stream live video from the International Space Station and broadcast it on the Internet beginning Feb. 1.
NASA's space tweets are part of a larger conversation
The first real-time tweet from space said very little, but the software upgrade that made it possible is pretty impressive.
Search me: AKO enhances search, jumps tech hurdles
Col. Earl Noble, project manager of Army Knowledge Online and Defense Knowledge Online, discusses new AKO capabilities, technical challenges associated with creating a federated system, and objectives of the newly implemented business process management capability.
2020 vision: 10 things you'll see on the Web in the next 10 years
By 2020, you'll have one device for all uses, proximity networking will take hold, and spam just might be brought under control, says IDC senior analyst Shawn McCarthy.
GSA CIO tweets from endangered plane
The story of General Services Administration CIO Casey Coleman's harrowing flight, during which a passenger attempted to open an exit door in mid-air.
IBM goes mobile
GCN Lab Director John Breeden notes that IBM is scoping down from servers and supercomputers to the world of handhelds.
UK launches Data.gov counterpart
The United Kingdom's version of Data.gov puts the U.S. effort to shame, according to some technology reports.
White House launches iPhone app
The White House has joined in the application frenzy with a free download for the iPhone and iPod Touch.
IBM previews social networking for Lotus Notes
IBM expanded its vision for bringing social networking to the enterprise with a preview of new technology, Project Vulcan, at Lotusphere 2010, taking place this week in Orlando, Fla.
Agencies harness social media for Haiti relief efforts
Social media, satellite communications spring into action to help earthquake-devastated nation.
10 technologies to watch in 2010
Government policies on information sharing, mobility, more efficient networking and, of course, security help define the technologies that will be hot this year.
A mash made in heaven: Agencies mix data with social media
Improved user interfaces, standardized components and robust security in mashup software are making it easier to pull service-enabling components from multiple resources.
Got USPS mail? There's an app for that!
A free iPhone app from the Postal Services helps users find post offices and track mail via mobile phones.
Social media provides new ways for agencies to listen
Organizations should use social media to broadcast messages and to listen to what the public has to say, an expert says at Consumer Electronics Show.
Security issues to fear in the New Year
An increasingly complex and networked world poses new threats; cloud computing, social networking and mobile platforms claim the attention of security prognosticators for 2010.
The ’00 7: The decade’s most important tech advances
We select seven technologies that changed the game during the unofficial decade of 2000-2009.
Tremors generate tweets in new USGS earthquake program
The Twitter Earthquake Detector (TED) program is an exploratory effort intended to gather real-time earthquake-related messages, by having people who actually feel a tremor or observe its effects to tweet their observations.
Hackers with political agenda bring down Twitter
Twitter says attack on site's Domain Name System redirected users to a cryptic anti-American message from the "Iranian Cyber Army."
Microsoft admits to purloined Plurk code
Microsoft confirmed on Tuesday that one of its software vendors copied code from a microblogging application called Plurk
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