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RSS defense in newsOasis forms ODF support committee
News The ODF Interoperability and Conformance (OIC) committee will comprise representatives from Belgian Fedict, Google, IBM, Novell, Oracle, Red Hat, the South Africa Department of Science and Technology, Sun, the US Department of... [05 Nov 2008]
Ex-BT CEO to head up Alcatel-Lucent
News In addition to Verwaayen, Alcatel-Lucent's board of directors also approved the appointment of Philippe Camus - previously co-CEO at European Aeronautic Defense and Space Company (EADS), among other roles - as... [02 Sep 2008]
Don't forget to secure your BlackBerry, companies told
News He added: "If you look at probably our largest and most paranoid customer in North America - the United States Department of Defense - they publish about a 125-page configuration guide for BlackBerry… That's the extreme... [10 Mar 2008]
How the good guys fight the security arms race
News During his career as an US Air Force officer he was assigned to the National Security Agency where he helped create the Department of Defense Trusted Computer System Evaluation Criteria (Orange Book) and was co-author of... [15 Feb 2008]
German beats Colossus codecracking computer
News Ada is used for military systems and was created by the US Department of Defense in 1980. In an ironic twist, a team from the UK operating a World War II codebreaking computer has been beaten in a cipher-breaking contest... [19 Nov 2007]
Open source gets own legal pow wows
News Attendees will focus on building a legal defense structure for Linux and policies designed to support intellectual property rights within open development. The Linux Foundation, custodian of the Linux trademark, has... [13 Sep 2007]
No open door for Microsoft's Office Open XML
News US government bodies were split, with the US Department for Homeland Security backing Microsoft and the US Department of Defense voting against. Microsoft has failed by one vote to get the backing necessary for Office... [14 Aug 2007]
In-brief: iPhone rival launches, military RFID, Berners-Lee gong
News The US Department of Defense has awarded a $28m one-year follow-on contract to Unisys to continue work on an RFID programme that will provide almost instantaneous visibility into the location of supplies and shipments... [14 Jun 2007]
Jobs plays options brouhaha for laughs
News Apple's board of directors has been under fire from corporate-governance organisations such as Institutional Shareholder Services over its defense of Jobs' actions concerning stock option backdating at Apple. [11 May 2007]
Hackers strike at the heart of the internet
News Multiple root servers saw a traffic spike but the "G" server, run by the US Department of Defense, and "L", run by Icann, seem to have bourn the brunt of it, Ramzan said. There are signs hackers attacked key parts of the... [07 Feb 2007]
Darpa robot race gets prize fund boost
News The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has approved prize money for the first three finalists of its 2007 Urban Challenge after a confusing twist in the government agency's right to grant monetary awards,... [11 Dec 2006]
Heathrow to run biometric security checks
News A consortium of technology companies, including Accenture, IER, Raytheon Systems, Sagem Defense Securite and airline IT body Sita, has provided the technology for the trial. Biometric fingerprint and iris scans will be... [06 Dec 2006]
Sun dropped from Darpa supercomputer project
News The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) will continue to fund petaflop-class supercomputer projects at Cray and IBM but Sun Microsystems is out of the running. Darpa, which funds computing and... [22 Nov 2006]
Nasa hacker's extradition gets Reid's rubber-stamp
News McKinnon was accused of one of the biggest military hacks ever, when he hacked into a series of sites belonging to the US Air Force, Army, Department of Defense and, most famously, Nasa. Gary McKinnon, the so-called... [07 Jul 2006]
Microsoft's 'eye in the sky' to watch over national security?
News Microsoft is collaborating with the US National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), a division of the Department of Defense, on its Virtual Earth technology. While the NGA refers to itself as "a major combat support... [19 May 2006]
