Technology

  • Earlier this year , we told you that 1105 Media was selling its Government Health IT publication to the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS). HIMSS puts on the biggest health IT conference out…

    April 10, 2009
  • Looking at real threats in an ether-based world

    April 10, 2009
  • A few weeks ago, the Federal News Radio Book Club featured Jeff Jarvis’ What Would Google Do? The book is fascinating for many industries — there is a false but growing thought that Google has…

    April 09, 2009
  • Ed O\'Hare GSA April 9, 2009

    April 08, 2009
  • How secure are the 98,000 desktop and laptop computers at the Internal Revenue Service? Peggy Begg is the Assistant Inspector General for Security and Information Technology Audits with the Treasury Department. She joins us to…

    April 08, 2009
  • By Jason Miller Executive Editor FederalNewsRadio The General Services Administration added Sprint to the growing number of vendors offering secure Internet gateway services through the Networx telecommunications contract. Sprint, joins AT&T and Qwest, to offer…

    April 07, 2009
  • Whether the problem is a salmonella scare with pistachios or an earthquake in Italy, federal agencies are finding more ways to use Web 2.0 technologies for crisis communication. Michael Dumlao is a senior consultant at…

    April 07, 2009
  • Using grease from the nation\'s fast food joints to power military aircraft

    April 07, 2009
  • The Veterans Affairs Department is hoping high-fidelity video will add a personal touch for vets who don’t live near major medical centers around the country. Government Computer News reports a video-conferencing tool will allow clinicians…

    April 07, 2009
  • By Jason Miller Executive Editor FederalNewsRadio The Government Accountability Office April 3 set up a policy committee to provide advice on implementing electronic health records and other health information technology. GAO says in a release…

    April 06, 2009
  • The Office of Management and Budget on Friday published updated guidance for implementing the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act — we know it as the stimulus act. You can find the PDF here … or…

    April 04, 2009
  • GPS. It’s way more than mapquest. Companies worldwide use GPS to time-stamp business transactions, providing a consistent and accurate way to maintain records and ensure their traceability. Investment banks use GPS to synchronize their network…

    April 03, 2009
  • How do you strike the balance between safe travel and security? Biometric appears to be the way. Biometrics involves technologies that measure and analyze human body characteristics, such as fingerprints, eye retinas and irises, voice…

    April 03, 2009
  • Once again, the world of networked computers held its collective breath last week. Would the Confickr worm morph on April Fool’s Day into real malware? It did not. Why not? Probably for a couple of…

    April 02, 2009

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