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  Feds look beyond LightSquared to set GPS interference standards

  A high-ranking federal official and aviation industry leaders called on Wednesday for rules to prevent future interference with GPS, looking beyond a proposal by would-be hybrid mobile operator LightSquared that may be doomed by broad opposition.

  By Stephen Lawson | 09 February, 2012 12:57

  Tags: U.S. Department of Transportation, Telecommunication, satellite, Regulation, LightSquared, GPS, government, consumer electronics, 4g

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  Obama's H-1B answer in forum may haunt him

  WASHINGTON -- Until President Barack Obama responded to a question about H-1B visas during an online forum last week, the administration had said little about the controversial program.

  By Patrick Thibodeau | 09 February, 2012 09:06

  Tags: Regulation, it management, Gov't Legislation/Regulation, Gov't Legislation, Government/Industries, government, careers

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  EU to stengthen its cybersecurity watchdog

  A push by European authorities to strengthen the European Union's cybersecurity watchdog has been given a green light by parliamentarians.

  By Jennifer Baker | 09 February, 2012 03:22

  Tags: Regulation, legal, government, European Network and Information Security Agency, cybercrime

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  NBN to deliver virtual English tuition to new migrants

  The Federal Government will introduce a three-year trial of virtual English classes via the National Broadband Network (NBN) to new migrants in regional and rural Australia.

  By Diana Nguyen | 08 February, 2012 09:31

  Tags: National Broadband Network (NBN), government, elearning, education, Chris Bowen

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  LightSquared asks FCC to regulate GPS receivers

  LightSquared wants the U.S. FCC to set standards for commercial GPS devices to prevent what LightSquared calls interference with other wireless services.

  By Stephen Lawson | 08 February, 2012 10:13

  Tags: U.S. Federal Communications Commission, Telecommunication, satellite, Regulation, LightSquared, government, Carriers, 4g

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  Auckland council saves with SaaS docs management

  Auckland Regional Council (ARC) has eliminated costly outsourcing of document production by implementing a SaaS solution that handles collaboration and change management.

  By Rodney Gedda | 25 February, 2010 14:28

  Tags: objective, New Zealand, government, document management, collaboration

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  NSW Office of State Revenue CIO reflects on five successful years of open source

  NSW Office of State Revenue CIO David Kennedy looks back on the challenges and achievements the government agency has had with open source technology and offers advice to CIOs on developing a successful open source strategy.

  By Rodney Gedda | 01 October, 2009 08:28

  Tags: open source, NSW Office of State Revenue, government, CIOs

• Lost hard drive and other government data blunders

  The U.S. government says it's lost - yes, lost - an entire hard drive full of sensitive data. The external drive, stored at the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, held personal data from the Clinton era, including information about White House staff and visitors and electronic storage tapes from the Executive Office of the President.

  By JR Raphael | 21 May, 2009 10:16

  Tags: government, hard drives, lost data, storage

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  Eight ways technology has shaped the US elections

  Technology has played a particularly prominent role in the 2008 US elections -- and it isn't just the typical silliness over whether a candidate really claimed to have invented a key piece of technology. Throughout the year we've seen technological advances used both for good, such as using Short Message Service to announce a vice presidential pick, and for bad, such as hacking into another vice presidential pick's private e-mail account. In this story, we'll take a look at the eight techiest moments of the 2008 presidential race, including YouTube debates, viral videos and e-voting controversies.

  By Brad Reed | 16 October, 2008 08:16

  Tags: Blackberry, cybercrime, e-voting, government

Whitepapers about government

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  A Roadmap to the Virtual Data Centre: Accelerate Your Journey to the Government Cloud

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  NZ Government selects HP as panel print supplier for All-of-Government contract