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Carrier IQ Invades Privacy

Android has been plagued by malware, security vulnerabilities, and now, privacy issues. It started with HTC’s logging application which over-zealously logged aspects of phone use in insecure ways which made that data accessible by any application, and more recently has come to a head with the discovery of the carrier IQ application. The Carrier IQRead… Read more »

World AIDS Day 2011

Today marks the beginning of the last month of the year, but it also is a reminder for us about the importance of bringing HIV/AIDS to an end. Today is World AIDS Day. A time for education and action regarding the disease that still is affecting many worldwide. Phil Wilson, CEO of the Black AIDSRead… Read more »

In a rapidly changing world, seconds count. You can’t miss this conversation.

It used to take years for revolutions to organize. The American Revolution took seven years; the Greek Revolution took eight years, and the French Revolution took ten years. Today, revolutions take only a few days. Consider the 82 day Orange Revolution; the 28 day Tunisian Revolution; and the 18 day Egyptian Revolution. In early November,Read… Read more »

World 2.0

Robert made a good point, “Why don’t we drop this 2.0 business?” We can’t, because there is something there, something that is fundamentally changing our world. Something that enormous is REALLY hard to understand, but we can see the effects of it every day. Clayton Christensen has some early definition with his disruptive innovation. YouRead… Read more »

Thoughts on this week’s Presidential Memorandum on Records Management

The White House on Records Management: ‘We Can’t Wait’ “Records management can’t wait,” President Barack Obama told the federal government agencies yesterday, via presidential memorandum. It’s likely the federal government could learn a lot from state and local government agencies who have already embraced records management. Maybe you can, too. The president hopes to transformRead… Read more »

An overview of MITA 3.0

Deltek Analyst Kate Tussey reports. A lot has changed in the Medicaid program since 1965. In the last few years alone, several legislative initiatives have changed the direction and policies of the Medicaid community, including (but not limited to): the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), the Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act (CHIPRA), theRead… Read more »

MTA kicks off 42 days of apps

The MTA is ask the public to vote on 42 applications submitted to MTA App Quest, which asked developers to improve the experience of the system’s riders. Original post

FedInsider: Intel Community Operative Builds Electronic Crystal Ball

FedInsider: Intel Community Operative Builds Electronic Crystal Ball Deep in the intelligence community, a project seeks to build a model for detecting the future. Its goal is to someday give analysts a way of knowing what technologies are gestating in labs and research houses. If analysts knew which ones would emerge as successful products, suchRead… Read more »