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RSS us governmentUnderstanding Data Location Is Imperative for Data Loss Prevention
White Paper The federal government and over 35 states have enacted legislation to address these critical issues. Data Protection and Data Loss Prevention for PII are nothing new in the US. Both have been discussed... [12 Nov 2009]
Why the UK will never create a Google, Microsoft or Oracle
News David Supple, head of IT and creative services at Ecotec Research & Consulting, said the UK won't turn out the next software powerhouse "until the government puts a more supportive framework in place to help our creative... [03 Nov 2009]
Amazon's Kindle ignites legal upheaval
Comment The German government, for instance, has filed its opposition to the settlement, ignoring Google's claims that only US readers will benefit and stating that the proposed settlement will give Google an... [27 Oct 2009]
Barack Obama
AS Profile US President Barack Obama entered the White House with a pledge to use technology to transform government. Since then the BlackBerry-loving President has made a start on realising his promise to be one... [08 Oct 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Linking up with Barack Obama?
Comment We have seen industry and society transformed by technology with government generally out on a limb at the back of the pack. If politicians start to use online social networking in the same way as the rest of society and... [05 Oct 2009]
CoSign for 21 CFR Part 11 Compliance
White Paper Company XYZ operates in a regulated environment and is subject to compliance with numerous US government regulations governed by the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) and HIPAA. This paper is provided to... [02 Oct 2009]
Citizant Enhances IT Flexibility and Scalability by Creating a Virtualized Dell Infrastructure That Will Pay for Itself in 18 Months
White Paper Citizant's focus on providing superior customer service to its government customers has helped the company grow tremendously since the company's founding. In 10 years, the company has expanded from 2 to 130 employees and... [02 Oct 2009]
Dr Robert Atkinson
AS Profile Panellists hailed Atkinson and the Itif for arguing the case for the billions of dollars that the US government will pump into building broadband networks as part of its economic stimulus package. Dr... [01 Oct 2009]
Vivek Kundra
AS Profile Kundra also recently announced his commitment to cutting the $19bn that the administration spends on running its IT infrastructure each year by using cloud computing to share applications between government departments. [30 Sep 2009]
Tom Steinberg
AS Profile For silicon.com's panel Steinberg deserves credit for having "shown us how powerful web 2.0 can be for government". Steinberg still dabbles in the Westminster affairs, recently co-authoring The Power of... [30 Sep 2009]
Tim Berners-Lee
AS Profile The inventor of the world wide web (way back in 1989) was enlisted by government earlier this year to help "set free" the reams of public data locked away inside Whitehall. Berners-Lee said the... [30 Sep 2009]
Is open source software finding a home in Whitehall?
News The UK government may have been slow to adopt open source software but there are signs that the tide may be turning. There has already been quite a substantial use of open source… about half of the... [29 Sep 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: The turntable spins on
Comment So the industry better get to work on new business models, while government and regulators need to rethink their strategy and interest levels. What is obvious to most of us, but none of them, is that... [24 Sep 2009]
Dell buys Perot Systems in $3.9bn deal
News It has clients in health care, government and other commercial segments, from SMEs to large global institutions; it also has a large and growing base of customers and service-delivery capabilities in North America,... [22 Sep 2009]
White House looks to the cloud for IT cost-cutting
News The Obama administration on Tuesday announced a long-term cloud-computing policy intended to cut costs on infrastructure and reduce the environmental impact of US government computing systems. According... [17 Sep 2009]
