President Barack Obama met with an impressive roster of chief executives this morning to talk shop about the economy and job creation. “I am looking forward to getting good ideas from them,
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When federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra laid out the government’s plans for federal IT management reform last week, industry leaders took note. And many have reacted with optimism about the plans,
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The Federal Communications Commission will likely take up the hot-button issue of net neutrality at its December meeting. Politico reports the meeting, scheduled for Dec. 15, has been pushed back a week
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“Rock star” Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra is living up to the hype that emanated from many quarters—not least of all, Silicon Valley—when he was appointed the nation’s first CTO in April
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Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, along with President Barack Obama, Commerce Secretary Gary Locke and White House Cybersecurity Coordinator Howard Schmidt, recognized the winners of the National Cybersecurity Awareness Challenge
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Sen. John Kerry, chairman of the Commerce Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet, and Olympia Snowe, senior member of the Commerce Committee wrote a letter to the Federal Communication Commission requesting
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The FCC has made a step toward a nationwide interoperable network. The agency yesterday granted approval of 21 petitions from different states, counties and cities seeking construction of interoperable wireless broadband networks
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Deputy Defense Secretary William J. Lynn III arrived in San Diego, Calif., yesterday to visit with service members and to discuss with leaders from high-tech companies the asymmetric threats the United States
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After facing months of obstruction to administration nominees, President Barack Obama last week announced his intent to appoint 15 nominees to fill key positions, including vacancies on the economic teams and on
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Healthcare IT News has compiled a list of 10 breaches of unsecured protected health information that were reported to the Health and Human Services secretary per accordance with the HITECH Act. The
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