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A Federal Mandate To Open Up

Agencies must increase transparency and engage the public in new ways. Here's how they're doing it.

Government Technologist: What's the ROI Of Open Government?

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Eric Zeman

Why Opera Mini On iPhone Would Be Awesome
Today Opera Software announced that it will be previewing a version of Opera Mini for the iPhone during the upcoming Mobile World Congress event. Whether or not Apple will approve the app is anyone's guess, but there's one big reason it should.

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George Hulme

Blackberry Users Vulnerable to Applications That Spy
In early December news broke about a security researcher who developed Spyphone, an application that uses the public iPhone API to grab data from other iPhone applications. This week a security researcher demonstrated a similar application that snoops on the Blackberry.

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Ed Hansberry

Boost Android Performance And Battery Life
Those of you running a device with the Android operating system can look forward to potentially boosting device performance up to 300% while at the same time increasing battery life. Sound too good to be true? Maybe, maybe not.

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Eric Zeman

Google's Buzz Skips webOS?
Today Google introduced a new social networking service called Buzz. Buzz works pretty well on the iPhone, Android, Symbian and Windows Mobile platforms. If you're a webOS user, however, you're mostly out of luck.

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Guerra On Healthcare: E-Medical Record Pros In Short Supply
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The economy (stupid). Absent more responsible and disciplined fiscal policies, the U.S. tech rebound will be a short-lived phenomenon.

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Practical Analysis: IT Managers Have Had Enough
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Government Technologist: What's the ROI Of Open Government?
Let's stop dancing around open government and evaluate it based on its hard returns.

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Server Den Q&A: Dell CTO Elucidates Efficient Enterprise
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Full Nelson: The Growing Threat Of Cyberwarfare
Many more casualities will pile up, but policy and agreements will prove meaningless against today's anonymous cyberwarrior.

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Global CIO: Why GM's Volt Electric Car Needs An iPhone App
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