Category: Events

June 14, 2016

Apple kicked off its Worldwide Developers Conference Monday and announced a metric ton of new features for its products. Most of them target consumers, but there were several announcements that improve productivity and will benefit business users as well. Here […]

May 25, 2016

The Transportation Security Administration and the Social Security Administration are both speeding to implement an upgrade that could, they hope, spell the end of outdated operating system charges. “We’re planning for TSA to be one of the first, largest agencies […]

May 23, 2016

The Boston BSides conference is bursting at its seams and may have to find a new place to carry out its mission of providing inexpensive IT security training, educational sessions and informal networking where peers can share experiences and help […]

May 20, 2016

Why can’t privacy and security live together in perfect harmony? They might, with more talking and training. “There is no tension between the principles of privacy and the principles of security,” said Marc Groman, senior privacy adviser in the Office […]

May 13, 2016

WASHINGTON – Lawmakers and the Data Coalition, an open government advocacy group, held a Legislative Data Demo Day Wednesday to discuss details of the bi-partisan Statutes at Large Modernization Act (H.R. 4006), as well as some ways open and “successful” […]

April 14, 2016

5G wireless is coming, but it has a lot of challenges to overcome, and we’re not going to be enjoying its blazing speeds until 2020 at least. But, at cable industry group CableLabs’ InformED Wireless event on Wednesday in New […]

April 7, 2016

The Defense Intelligence Agency has picked Melissa Drisko, a career intelligence official with experience managing a big technology portfolio, to be the agency’s No. 2 official. Drisko has served as DIA’s director of science and technology and in several other […]

April 6, 2016

Jeff Immelt candidly told Boston’s business and political elite about what GE hoped to get from the company’s move to Boston. He said GE moved to Boston for two reasons: to win the Internet of Things and rethink how companies […]

April 6, 2016

Federal security chiefs don’t want a boss in the new federal chief information security officer. Instead, they want someone who is willing to collaborate, build on the ideas they’ve been developing and give them more of a voice in federal […]

February 19, 2016

IBM closed out its global partner conference Wednesday by encouraging its channel partners to sell a variety of hardware systems, anchored by Linux and hardened by a comprehensive security portfolio. Tom Rosamilia, senior vice president of IBM Systems, told attendees […]

September 8, 2015

Here’s what we know so far about the company’s upcoming media event, and what it will reveal for iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, and Apple Watch. At a media event in San Francisco, Calif., on Wednesday, Sept. 9, Apple is expected […]

August 13, 2015

North Carolina’s Innovation Center and Minnesota’s online permitting system were among the 44 initiatives selected as finalists for the National Association of State Chief Information Officers’ annual State IT Recognition Awards. Eligible projects and initiatives came from all 50 states, the District […]

August 6, 2015

Second-grade students from Piedmont City School District in Alabama work on computers. (Photo courtesy of Digital Promise) Chicago is going to be turned into an education innovation hub with the arrival of dozens of school district leaders, edtech entrepreneurs, researchers, […]

July 24, 2015

World Trade Organization (WTO) members finalized a deal on Friday to cut tariffs on $1 trillion worth of information technology products in a boost for producers of goods ranging from video games to medical equipment. The agreement to update the […]

July 17, 2015

Even on a “slow” day, NASA is a pretty cool place to work, but the cool factor gets cranked way up when the whole world joins in the adventure. That’s what happened this week when the New Horizons spacecraft arrived […]

July 15, 2015

  Amazon is throwing a big birthday bash for Prime subscribers to celebrate the service’s 20th anniversary, but Walmart’s trying to spoil the party with a super sale of its own. As tipped early in July, Amazon will celebrate its […]

July 15, 2015

Federal Chief Technology Officer Megan Smith said this upcoming Tech Day is just one of the initiatives she and her team are working on to make the government more tech-savvy. Read More

July 13, 2015

Walmart today announced its intentions to take the wind of the sails of Amazon’s upcoming “Prime Day,” a one-day event happening on July 15th which will offer Black Friday-like sales and savings for Prime subscribers in nine countries, including the […]

July 13, 2015

Nintendo Co Ltd (7974.T) Chief Executive Satoru Iwata died after a long illness, the company said on Monday, months after he led the Japanese video-game maker’s belated entry into mobile gaming following years of declining sales. He was 55. The […]

July 13, 2015

As if Uber needed more enemies. Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton will blast contractor-fueled companies for repressing middle-class wage growth in a speech tomorrow laying out her economic policies, according to an outline of the talk attained by Politico’s Michael Grunwald. […]