Workflow / Collaboration
MIR3 adds response to notification app
MIR3 Intelligent Notification Inc. has added response recording capability to its line of enterprise notification features.
Study: CIOs emerge as strategic leaders
The 2008 CIO Leadership Survey finds that CIOs are increasingly leading change in their organizations.
Virtual meetings get real
Videoconferencing goes mainstream in government agencies, with key roles in distance-learning, disaster-recovery and telecommuting strategies. Could high-resolution telepresence systems be next?
City in the cloud
Washington, D.C., makes a gradual move to using Google Apps, in order to create an accessible, collaborative environment for its employees
Radio everywhere
The Arkansas Wireless Information Network incorporates legacy and new radios in a digital, interoperable system that works statewide.
New version of modeling tool
Alion announces Micro Saint Sharp Version 3.0 modeling software that offers visual features such as 3D animation.
Navy enlists Web 2.0
Tools that include wikis, blogs and Web feeds will give warfighters seamless access to important information, according to the Navy's CIO.
The Pentagon's new wiki
DOD Techipedia is designed to improve communications among stakeholders, and is similar to online encyclopedia Wikipedia and the intell communitys Intellipedia.
Cloud computing prompts new IT planning
Hurdles remain, but cost savings and service oriented architecture benefits offer incentives to test approaches.
NASA joins NSF research portal
NASA has become the second agency to begin offering information about its federally funded research projects on the research.gov Web site launched last year by the National Science Foundation.
Microsoft unveils plans for Windows 7
Microsoft today announced how it will bridge PCs and mobile devices with an extraordinary blitz of announcements.
Washington computing group celebrates 50 years
The Washington chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery has been revived after nearly closing its doors.
Authentication protocol standards finalized
The International Organization for Standardization standards committee has published key parts of a set of standards around authentication protocols.
Evans: No new IT guidelines from current administration
Instead, OMB is preparing for the transition of the next administration.
Harvest time
Five federal, educational and private archiving organizations have partnered to crawl the Web, gathering data from sites in the .gov domain to create an end-of-term snapshot for posterity.





