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Aussie agencies accused of locking out open source
News Australian Democrat senator Brian Greig yesterday accused commonwealth purchasing agencies of maintaining a closed shop favouring proprietary software. The private members' bill that Greig foreshadowed in July and tabled in Parliament yesterday...
[September 19, 2003, 9:30]
NIOSH Provides Occupational Health Data to State Agencies With SAS to Augment Research
White Papers State agencies in charge of monitoring the well-being of workers once faced the daunting challenge of manually sifting through U.S. Census data and county death certificates to determine if, for example, coal miners were indeed at greater risk for...
[December 27, 2006, 0:00]
Knowledge Sharing Across Agencies and States Provides for Smarter Procurement
White Papers To eliminate redundant processes, retain knowledge, and save costs, the Illinois Department of Central Management Services created a Knowledge Management (KM) system that consolidates procurement resources from all agencies and other states into...
[January 18, 2008, 0:01]
US agencies want ways to spend $20bn on IT
News A recent report suggests that US government agencies still have plenty of money to spend on information technology projects as they approach the end of the federal fiscal year. In a report issued last week, consulting company FedLeads said agencies...
[September 3, 2003, 11:10]
Vontu Response to NIPP Framework: Vontu Data Loss Prevention Solution Enables Government Agencies to Demonstrate Compliance With DHS Directives
White Papers Vontu's Federal Risk Assessment Program and Data Loss Prevention software solutions help agencies prevent malicious and unintentional data breaches regardless of whether data is stored on the network or on a disconnected endpoint, as well as...
[August 5, 2009, 1:21]
An e-Government Cooperative Framework for Government Agencies
White Papers This paper presents an e-Government Framework that allows the cooperation among applications of different Government Agencies in order to supply new added value services (Event of life services) tailored to citizens and business needs.
[July 14, 2005, 6:00]
US agencies demand tighter software security
News Five federal agencies, led by the US Department of Energy, plan to discuss a new set of government contracting practices that hold software makers accountable for making their products more resistant to viruses and hackers.
[September 23, 2003, 11:14]
Rogue Letting Agencies in London
Talkback Reputable internet listing sites do not accept adverts from agencies that charge prospective tenants upfront fees before they've secured them accommodation. It is an unethical practice for agencies like Interlet to bill tenants a large admin fee...
[September 25, 2007, 12:52]
The Mobility Advantage: Improving Operational Efficiency and Accountability in Federal Agencies
White Papers Every day, employees in a wide range of agencies must make on-the-spot mission critical decisions to protect the nation's food supply, borders, and the health of the public, military personnel and veterans, as well as provide aid to disaster...
[August 4, 2009, 0:00]
State and Local Government Agencies Use VMware for Consolidation and Energy Efficiency
White Papers The attendee of this webcast will learn more about how state and local government agencies are using VMware virtualization solutions to consolidate datacenters, resulting in increased productivity and reduced energy consumption.
[August 1, 2009, 1:21]
New York City Agencies Reduce IT Costs by 67 Percent With E-Mail System Migration
White Papers The New York City Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications (DoITT) provides IT services for more than 65 government agencies. The agencies previously used a variety of messaging systems, including IBM Lotus Notes, Novell...
[September 28, 2007, 1:00]
Virginia DMV Enhances Decisions, Boosts Safety, Through Integration With Other Agencies
White Papers But that idea required integrating its computer system with databases at other state agencies - and the department's aging mainframe couldn't do that. The Commonwealth of Virginia's Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) wanted to see its data better...
[May 30, 2009, 1:19]
IT Consolidation for Government Agencies
White Papers Taming server sprawl and co-locating infrastructure resources are important steps in simplifying IT environments and decreasing TCO, but it can be a much tougher sell in government agencies, where red tape often surrounds purchase decisions.
[April 24, 2006, 16:03]
US agencies shun Windows Vista
News It is not unusual that agencies aren't rushing to install major software updates. In a statement, Microsoft said it is working with many government agencies to help them adopt its latest products. The US Department of Transportation (DOT) and the...
[March 14, 2007, 8:39]
US agencies demand tighter software security
Talkback What else can poor Microsoft do with OpenBSD, Linux and others just above Microsoft's head and America's National Security Agencies (NSA) "Security-Enhanced Linux" - http://www.nsa.gov/ - emerging from within the belly of a long time associate...
[September 23, 2003, 11:39]
Aussie agencies forced to consider open source
News The Australian Capital Territory has passed laws encouraging the use of open source by government departments, while federal parliament meanwhile considers the merits of passing similar laws nationally.
[December 11, 2003, 8:35]
Application of Data-Mining to State Transportation Agencies' Projects Databases
White Papers Data mining is a relatively new data analysis technique that has the ability to discover patterns stored within historical data and is now considered a catalyst for enhancing business processes by avoiding failure patterns and exploiting success...
[October 1, 2008, 1:01]
Child agencies lambast Yahoo! over chatroom apathy
News Two leading children's charities have lambasted Internet giant Yahoo! for the way it runs its Instant Messaging service and chatrooms. Following an investigation by ZDNet UK News, Nigel Williams, director of Childnet International, expressed...
[November 9, 2000, 15:41]
Gov't agencies fall short on data accuracy
News Most government departments lack basic data-protection and error-correction policies, responses to a series of Freedom of Information requests have revealed. Garlik, a UK company that helps people find which of their personal information exists...
[January 22, 2009, 16:09]
The IMPACT of ITIL, IT Service Management: A Best Practices Framework for Government Agencies
White Papers IT is being challenged to run as a service to the business it supports. The challenge facing most IT shops is how to best leverage ITIL and implement these best practices given they are maxed out just keeping things running as they are.
[March 14, 2006, 23:00]
