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NewsIs data mining a civil rights violation?
The American Civil Liberties Union says Congress should limit government data-mining efforts because some techniques don't work and many raise serious privacy concerns. Timothy Sparapani, legislative Read more...
Department of Energy’s supercomputer breaks petraflop barrier
In
a historical first, a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) supercomputer has broken
through the landmark barrier of one petaflop - or one quadrillion floating
point operations per second. The feat
was Read more...
U.S. border laptop searches approved
A federal appeals court has made it easier for customs officials to search through the contents of a person's laptop. The decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit found that agents Read more...
H-1B visas top out
The IT community knew that nothing was changing this year for H-1B visas. And so it comes as no surprise that it took just a week for government authorities to announce that the number of visa Read more...
H-1B visa notices go digital
The U.S. Department of Citizenship and Immigration Services, which processes H-1B visas, is moving to the digital age. And you might say that it's about time. This year, for the first time, it plans Read more...
NSA off the hook for wiretapping suitThe National Security Agency should not have to deal with a lawsuit that challenges the propriety of secretly tapping into communications without court-ordered warrants. At least, that is the Read more... Department of Homeland Security discusses own vulnerabilitiesOn June 20, officials from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security will hold a hearing on Capitol Hill to discuss the agency's apparent problems in staving off electronic attacks and IT systems Read more... Google deficient at protecting privacy of its usersIn what will undoubtedly prove to be a controversial decision, Google ranked worse than any other Internet company when it comes to protecting the privacy of its users in an interim report by Read more... Case Study: One path taken toward SOAThere's been more than one prediction about Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and why its bound to take off in the next year or so. Yet there aren't very many real-life examples to learn from Read more... Education agency undergoes IT revampBringing about big change in IT is a challenge for any CIO, whether they're working for a private company or a public agency. Yet it's typically a bit more cumbersome for those in the public Read more... | Press ReleasesAMBER Alert Program Expands to FacebookANNOUNCEMENT COMMEMORATES THE 15TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE ABDUCTION AND MURDER OF 9-YEAR-OLD AMBER HAGERMAN WHAT: A press conference to announce that millions of Facebook users will be able to sign up Read more >> Healthland Electronic Health Records Solution Receives ONC-ATCB CertificationHealthland provides rural community and critical access hospitals with ONC-ATCB-certified EHR solution designed to meet Meaningful Use GLENWOOD, Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Healthland, America's market Read more >> Morpho Detection Receives Fourth TSA Order for Next-Gen Itemiser® DX Explosives Trace Detection SystemThousand-plus systems will bring to nearly 3,000 the number of desktop trace detection units supporting U.S. airport checkpoint, checked bag and cargo screening NEWARK, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Read more >> CSC Wins $33 Million Department of Veteran Affairs ContractFALLS CHURCH, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- CSC (NYSE: CSC) announced today that the company was awarded a task order under the General Services Administration’s Schedule 70 contract to provide software Read more >> ICSA Labs to Test Electronic Health Record SolutionsU.S. Department of Health and Human Services Designates ICSA Labs an Authorized Testing and Certification BodyMECHANICSBURG, Pa., Dec. 15, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Read more >> |
