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- Routine Corruption Case in D.C. Gets Attention Due to Connection with Obama
- Yesterday the FBI raided the offices of the District of Columbia's Office of the Chief Technology Officer OTEC. The acting chief security officer has been accused of conspiring with a contractor to defraud the city. The reason this case is getting so much publicity as the AP reports...
- Blog posts 2009-03-13
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- University of Maryland confirms Kundra's credentials after questions raised
- Widely distributed blog post questions the federal CIO's bio Challenging claims in a highly discussed blog post, University of Maryland officials told Federal Computer Week today that federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra earned undergraduate and graduate degrees from the university system. Kundra earned an undergraduate degree in behavioral and social...
- News items 2009-08-13
- White House Responds to Cookie Rumors
- Federal CIO Vivek Kundra denies the government is creating special exemptions for third-parties from existing privacy rules banning persistent tracking cookies.The White House pushed back back Aug. 11 at critics of the proposed policy change to allow federal websites to use tracking cookies. Since 2000, the government's policy on tracking...
- News items 2009-08-12
- 10 things about Microsoft's PDC 2009: The good, the bad and the ugly
- By Joe Wilcox , Betanews Microsoft's 2009 developer conference wrapped up yesterday in Los Angeles. Not since PDC 2003 has Microsoft talked so much and said so little. As I listened to the keynotes and have reviewed the sessions, words "series finale" repeatedly popped...
- News items 2009-11-20
- A Journalist Explores Obama's "Transparent" Government
- One of President Barack Obama's first acts after he assumed office was to lift what might be called the "Dick Cheney veil of secrecy" over government documents, by ordering all executive agencies and departments to "adopt a presumption in favor" of Freedom of Information Act requests. "The...
- Blog posts 2009-04-01
- Google to Serve the "Government Cloud"
- One takeaway from Richard L. Brandt's new book about Google's co-founders, Inside Larry & Sergey's Brain, is how deeply committed these men are to various political and social causes. Both come from progressive political families, both attended Montessori schools, and both share an idealistic vision for all the good their...
- Blog posts 2009-09-16
- ACLU Blasts Feds' Proposed Cookie Policy
- Civil liberties group wants more information on proposal to reverse a nine-year ban of cookies on federal websites. Federal CIO Vivek Kundra is backing the plan to change current policy on government web-tracking technologies.The ACLU American Civil Liberties Union is opposing an Obama administration proposal to reverse a nine-year-old ban...
- News items 2009-08-11
- FISMA reporting must use automated tool
- OMB requires agencies to use automated reporting tool, not spreadsheets, to submit FISMA data Agencies must use an automated reporting tool to show their compliance with the Federal Information Security Management Act this year, Obama administration officials have said. This year the Office of Management and Budget will only accept...
- News items 2009-08-25
- WIRED Disruptive by Design Conference: A Review
- Michael Ferrari submits: click to enlarge Monday, I had the privilege compliments of SeekingAlpha of attending the first WIRED Magazine Disruptive by Design conference, held at the wonderful Morgan Library and Museum in New York. The majority of conferences that I attend are usually research and/or...
- External links 2009-06-17
- Newly Appointed Federal CIO to Address FOSE 2009
- Vivek Kundra to Discuss Key Technology Priorities for Obama Administration FALLS CHURCH,...
- Research articles 2009-03-10
- Washington Embraces Technology
- Sam Diaz submits: It’s fitting that Washington’s top IT administrator, U.S. CIO Vivek Kundra, would come out to Silicon Valley to announce one of the federal government’s largest technology initiatives - a cloud computing marketplace for government agencies that’s designed to reduce red-tape and allow faster deployment of...
- External links 2009-09-16
- Washington vs. Washington: The Cloud Edition
- When I spoke with U.S. CIO Vivek Kundra last month, he outlined a pragmatic approach to the federal technology infrastructure that involved wanting to adopt a hybrid model of data centers and cloud computing solutions. Buying infrastructure as a service instead of banking solely on energy-guzzling data centers is a...
- News items 2009-08-09
- PDC 2009 Day 1, post-keynote: What are we learning so far?
- By Scott M. Fulton, III , Betanews What we're seeing evidence of today is a kind of Microsoft restructuring in progress -- a slow shift toward a future revenue model that actually began about two years ago. Rather than alert Dow Jones...
- News items 2009-11-17
- Best & brightest.(Neighbor)
- - Neelam Kundra of Schaumburg was awarded a master of human relations and industrial relations degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in May 2002. - Prasenjit Das of Schaumburg was awarded a master of business administration degree from the University of Illinois...
- Research articles 2003-07-16
- Federal Budget Hastens Cloud Adoption
- The Obama Administration's budget blueprint for 2010, a memo released Monday, looks like a wet dream for cloud computing companies. In keeping with these "stimulating" times, the Office of Management and Budget OMB plans to increase spending sharply in 2010, but promises this will result in significant cost savings in...
- Blog posts 2009-05-14
- Qualcomm Launches Open Source Center
- In a sign of the importance of the QulC, the company's board of directors named Rob Chandhok president of the innovation center. Chandhok is senior vice president of software strategy for Qualcomm CDMA Technologies. In unveiling the QulC Monday, Qualcomm said it had designated a group of...
- News items 2009-10-26
- Privacy Plan for Federal Web Sites Gets Mixed Reviews
- The Obama administration plans to ease rules that effectively ban the use of "cookies" to track people who use government Web sites, and the proposal is getting mixed reviews from privacy groups. The White House proposed the changes last month, as reported by our colleagues on the Gadgetwise blog. The...
- News items 2009-08-11
- PDC 09: Ozzie Shows New Tools for Azure, Announces Shipping Plans
- At this morning's Professional Developers Conference, Microsoft chief software architect Ray Ozzie said that the company's Windows Azure cloud computing platform will become a production server on January 1. This platform, which was announced at the PDC conference last year, will be free until Feb. 1, Ozzie said. The big...
- News items 2009-11-17
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