Category: Events

July 10, 2015

Virginia is challenging the public to find new ways to use the state’s open data. (Data.Virginia.gov) Virginia is putting its big data in the hands of its citizens. The 2015 Virtual Datathon Challenge, spearheaded by Governor Terry McCauliffe in association […]

July 10, 2015

T-Mobile CEO John Legere on Thursday shared preliminary results showing that 2.1 million customers were added in the second quarter of 2015. As a result, he predicted T-Mobile will displace Sprint as the nation’s third-largest carrier, bumping Sprint to fourth. […]

July 8, 2015

Fiber optic cable (Creative Commons – Bidgee) The FBI is asking Californians for help in catching a mysterious cable guy – or crew – responsible for severing fiber-optic lines 11 times in the last year. The incidents have disrupted Internet, cable […]

July 3, 2015

Jupiterimages/liquidlibrary/Thinkstock Summer is here, which means it is time for the biggest holiday of the summer—Fourth of July! Independence Day is a happy time of year: BBQs, picnics, pools, sunshine and fireworks. Of course, the foundation of our celebration is […]

June 26, 2015

Amazon Web Services is out to recognize the power of innovation in U.S. cities, with the launch of its second City on a Cloud Innovation Challenge. The innovation challenge, announced at the company’s Government, Education and Nonprofits Symposium in Washington, D.C., will recognize local and […]

June 22, 2015

SAN FRANCISCO — In his remarks to more than 300 mayors on June 19, President Obama called for political support of two tech initiatives: a White House-led tech training program and his Trans-Pacific Partnership Trade Deal with Asia. Obama voiced […]

June 16, 2015

In a surprise decision, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg has ruled that the Estonian news site Delfi may be held responsible for anonymous and allegedly defamatory comments from its readers. As the digital rights organization Access […]

June 16, 2015

Whether it’s about municipal reinvention, investment opportunity or collaboration, the inaugural City Innovate Summit aims to deliver a host of lessons in urban ingenuity when it debuts in San Francisco this week, June 17-18. Organized by the City Innovate Foundation […]

June 15, 2015

European Union member states endorsed a sweeping overhaul of the 28-country bloc’s data protection laws on Monday, bringing a web of national laws into one set of rules that could see companies fined when they break them. The new data […]

June 11, 2015

Google CEO Larry Page just announced the launch of Sidewalk Labs, an “urban innovation company” that hopes to improve city life through the use of technology. Page says the new company will be “developing and incubating urban technologies to address issues like […]

June 10, 2015

Within a few years, every single student in the San Francisco Unified School District will be studying computer science, at all grade levels.The city’s Board of Education unanimously approved the measure during its weekly meeting on Tuesday evening. “Information technology […]

June 10, 2015

Mark Weatherford, the former deputy undersecretary for cybersecurity at the Department of Homeland Security, says the Office of Personnel Management neglected to take several basic steps that might have helped to prevent a breach that may have exposed the personally […]

May 18, 2015

Solution providers need to move beyond the superintendent and IT director and engage players in the classroom in order to get new technology successfully adopted and implemented in schools. That was the message from a panel of educators at Synnex’s […]

May 12, 2015

BM’s Andy Thurai didn’t quite put the words into former RSA CTO Deepak Taneja’s mouth, but did prompt him by asking at the start of a TIE Startup Con panel in Cambridge, Mass., earlier this month whether Internet of Things […]

May 8, 2015

The first two participants in Google’s new Government Innovation Lab say they hope to attempt nothing less than completely re-imagine local government services. “We don’t know what the end product is going to be — just like in a hackathon,” […]

May 8, 2015

The recent Demo Traction event showcased a host of young companies that are gaining market momentum. Each gave their pitch and then answered to a panel of judges. If it is important for you to stay on the up and […]

May 5, 2015

Each year, GCN canvasses the government IT community for outstanding federal, state and local government IT projects that have made a significant impact on agency performance and returned real value to agency IT managers and the wider public. The GCN […]

April 29, 2015

For only the third time in its history the National Association of State Chief Information Officers honored a state governor as its yearly technology champion. Ohio Gov. John Kasich, a Republican, received the award Tuesday at NASCIO’s midyear conference. The […]

April 28, 2015

It’s been said that the larger the turnout at an IT security conference, the more it indicates that the bad actors are winning most of the battles. Well, the hackers certainly must have the upper hand because RSA Conference 2015 […]

April 23, 2015

The future of software security may be revisions so frequent that attackers don’t have time to figure out where the vulnerabilities are before the potential attack surface has morphed to something else, RSA Conference 2015 attendees were told by CISO […]