Who tweets in government?
A surprising number of government officials are using Twitter.
Data reuse not possible without ontological work, group asserts
Data models are insufficient to enable widespread system interoperability, and organizations need to develop an ontology to explain how different data elements interact, according to the chairman of the Ontology Summit.
Transportation aggregates hazmat reporting
The Transportation Department unveiled a Web portal for pinpointing the locations of hazardous materials around the country.
FutureFlex tubes for fiber optics
FutureFlex tubes from Sumitomo Electric offer agencies one way to future-proof their fiber-optic plans, with a system of tubes within tubes that can be installed now and filled with fiber-optic cabling when needed.
Silverlight hot, Java not?
Java's presence on the desktop seems to be fading while a new contender, Microsoft's Silverlight, is on the rise.
Kundra courts the risk of innovation
Listening to federal CIO Vivek Kundra speak, two themes keep coming up: cloud computing and open government data. Both could help agencies do their jobs better, though both will require some upfront work.
W3C investigates possible e-Gov standards
The World Wide Web Consortium has started an effort to develop standards that governments could use to harness Web 2.0 and social networking technologies.
JITC approves Juniper gear for IPv6 use
DISA's Joint Interoperability Test Command has certified that a set of Juniper Networks' network gateway devices can work with other military-approved IPv6 products.
Virtualization standard released
The Distributed Management Task Force has released the first finished version of the Open Virtualization Format, a set of metadata tags that can be used to deploy a virtual environment across multiple virtualization platforms.
Standards body investigates C4I security tagging
NIEM, NATO models are considered as a multinational data-sharing standard.
Avoiding cloud lock-in
New technologies and working groups expand cloud interoperability
Hanging up on desktop phones
Gartner predicts that 40 percent of knowledge workers will have given up desktop phones by 2013.
In Best of FOSE awards, government wins
The winners of the Best of FOSE 2009 combine innovation and practicality to meet the needs of government agencies.
Agencies establish stimulus-focused sites
While the Obama administration and Congress have started tackling the economic issues facing this country, agency Web teams have been setting up sites that help carry out the goals of this stimulus work.
Polycom tool manages mixed videoconferencing systems
The company has introduced software administrators can use to manage all endpoints from one Web console.
Recrunching the numbers on Mac procurement
In some cases, an Apple Macintosh computer actually can be the lowest-cost choice.
DISA to open source administrative software
The Defense Information Systems Agency will open source a set of 50 programs collectively called the Corporate Management Information System that handle human-resource related functions.
Kundra created a buzz
Within a week, Kundra had government talking about opening more data and moving to the cloud.
Securely booting from strangest of places
FOSE vendors display a new crop of devices for booting from USB keys and portable hard drives.
Paperwork still rules the day
Paperwork, whether it is the dead-tree variety or the digital kind, is still the dominant chore of the average government employee, a recent survey shows.
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