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Author Photo Can IT Help New Cancer Screening Guidelines?
Nov 23, 2009
Posted by Marianne Kolbasuk McGee

New recommendations from a federal task force last week about breast cancer screenings have infuriated many cancer survivors as well as medical professional organizations, including the American Cancer Society. The guidelines were based on data analysis of the risks and benefits of mammograms for women under age 50.

Author Photo The Million-Dollar Google Maps API
Nov 20, 2009
Posted by John Foley

The U.S. government's Apps.gov Web site provides new visibility into what federal agencies pay for cloud-based applications and commercial software, with offerings from vendors such as Hewlett-Packard, Jive, Microsoft, and Salesforce.com. One of the priciest products on the site: Google's Maps API, which lists for nearly a million dollars.

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Online Secure Web Application Development Awareness (SWADA) Course
This ANSI accredited, 4 hour, live on-line course reviews all of the OWASP Top-10 vulnerabilities and covers best business practices associated with secure web-application development. Upon successful...

Best Practices for Migrating from Lotus Notes to Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint
Is your business planning a migration from IBM Lotus Notes to Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint? Many companies are for a number of reasons: Microsoft’s rich and varied features, the business value of...

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Microsoft Lands UK Cloud Deal

November 24, 2009
CSC will support 30,000 U.K. postal service employees using cloud versions of Exchange and SharePoint.

Why Jaguar Land Rover Chose Google Apps

November 12, 2009
A customer success story spotlights the pitched battle among online apps.

Government Use Of Windows 7 Hinges On Security Spec

November 12, 2009
The Federal Desktop Core Configuration, which defines 300 PC settings for improved security, has yet to be finalized for Windows 7.

Government Technologist: Vivek Kundra's Data Center Problem

November 4, 2009
The number of data centers belonging to the U.S. government has more than doubled in the past 10 years. Can Federal CIO Vivek Kundra put a stop to the trend?

Microsoft Drops Prices Of Cloud Apps

November 3, 2009
Exchange Online's monthly price drops from $10 to $5, and storage increases to 25 Gbytes, matching Google Gmail.

Q&A: CIO Ross Philo On 'Post Office' In Your Home

November 2, 2009
In a tough business environment, the U.S. Postal Service is delivering new capabilities for home PCs and smartphones and new services for high-volume mailers, says its top IT executive.

White House Uses Open Source To Open Government

October 26, 2009
The Whitehouse.gov site now runs the open source Drupal content management system, which includes social networking tools that can be used for communications and participatory government.

CIA Invests In Social Media Monitoring Technology

October 22, 2009
Investment arm In-Q-Tel is funding Visible Technologies, making its online brand analysis capabilities available to U.S. intelligence agencies.

Government Technologist: Energy's $32 Million Cloud Experiment

October 21, 2009
The Department of Energy has embarked on an ambitious project to see how cloud computing can be used by scientists at its national labs. Is it taking on too much, too soon?

NASA's Next Mission: The Tweetup

October 14, 2009
The space agency plans to host 100 Twitter users at Kennedy Space Center for next month's launch of the Space Shuttle Atlantis.

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