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Microsoft Defends Enterprise Turf With Big Pentagon Deal January 07, 2013 
Microsoft announced last week it will provide its latest software, including Windows 8, to the Department of Defense in a $617 million deal that the DoD said will help streamline costs and foster inter-agency collaboration. Under the three-year deal, the Air Force, Army and Defense Information Systems Agency will have access to software including Microsoft Office 2013, SharePoint 2013 Enterprise and Windows 8.
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New GSA Program Steers Federal IT Buying to Small Businesses January 03, 2013 
Small businesses often find it challenging to gain access to the federal information technology market, despite efforts by government agencies to smooth the procurement process for small companies. In a move to provide more opportunity for small businesses, the federal General Services Administration has awarded a bundle of IT contracts to small firms under the National Information Technology Commodity Program.
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Bill Loosens Rules for Sharing What You've Watched on Netflix December 28, 2012 
Legislation that would allow services such as Netflix to facilitate "frictionless sharing" of a user's viewing history via Facebook or other online services is awaiting President Obama's signature. The U.S. Senate passed the update to the 1988 law late last week; the same bill cleared the House days earlier.
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Feds' Data Center Reduction Requires Spending Now to Save Later December 28, 2012 
How much do federal agencies need to spend on data center consolidation investments now, in order to save money later? It could be quite a lot. The U.S. Department of Labor, for example, figures that $60 million or so will do the trick in meeting its data center consolidation goals.
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Uncle Sam Prefers to Receive Than to Give Security Information December 27, 2012 
The White House last week released its National Strategy for Information Sharing and Safeguarding without much fanfare. The document attempts to address a common complaint lodged against government when it comes to information sharing with the private sector: Uncle Sam likes to receive, but isn't so keen on giving.
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Report: Europe May Have Scuttled Google's FTC Deal December 20, 2012 
The postponement of Google's deal with the Federal Trade Commission may have been caused, at least in part, by Europe's tough stance with the company. As of a few days ago, reports suggested that Google was close to hashing out a deal with the FTC, but that the European Commission's two-year antitrust investigation was far from resolved.
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EU Sets January Deadline for Google's Antitrust Response December 19, 2012 
The European Union gave Google a January deadline to devise detailed proposals to resolve a two-year antitrust investigation into whether Google used its market dominance to thwart rivals. The Union's antitrust chief, Joaquin Almunia, issued the deadline Tuesday in Brussels to Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt.
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Federal Agencies to Slash Number of Data Centers December 19, 2012 
The U.S. government's program to consolidate federal data centers presents an opportunity for improving IT management that goes well beyond the objective of just trying to tidy up data center operations and save a little money. As a result of the Federal Data Center Consolidation Initiative, the number of government data centers will shrink sharply from its current level of about 3,000 centers to about 1,800.
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FTC Asks Data Brokers What They're Doing With Your Info December 18, 2012 
The Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday announced that it has demanded nine data brokerage companies explain how they collect and use consumer data. The nine are Acxiom, Corelogic, Datalogix, eBureau, ID Analytics, Intelius, Peekyou, Rapleaf and Recorded Future. These sites offer information on just about anyone, in most cases for a fee.
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Google in Talks to Resolve Antitrust Issues in Europe December 18, 2012 
While Google is poised to agree to changes in the way it displays search
results and skirt an antitrust investigation in the U.S., things are still unresolved with the European Commission. Google is reportedly still negotiating with European Commission antitrust chief Joaquin Almunia.
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UK Won't Prosecute UFO-Hunting Hacker McKinnon December 17, 2012 
Gary McKinnon, the British man who hacked into U.S. government files to search for evidence of UFOs, will not face prosecution in the United Kingdom. In October, UK officials rejected the United States' extradition request in the decade-old case. The UK's most recent decision will apparently end the McKinnon controversy.
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No Honor Among Multinationals When It Comes to Taxes December 17, 2012 
Google avoided about $2 billion in worldwide income taxes in 2011 by shifting close to $10 billion in revenues into a Bermuda shell company. Bermuda, along with a handful of other locales, is notorious for providing offshore solutions to multinationals eager to structure cash flow operations to their greatest benefit.
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US Leads Internet Freedom Fighters in Treaty Resistance December 14, 2012 
The United States, the United Kingdom and Canada are among the countries refusing to sign a United Nations treaty on telecommunications and the Internet. Trouble at the World Conference on International Telecommunications began earlier this week when many participants took issue with the way a proposal to encourage governments to expand Internet access was put to vote and then approved.
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ICE Thaws Over BlackBerry 10 December 13, 2012 
RIM is getting some positive government attention for the yet-to-be-released BlackBerry 10 platform. Just months after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced it would abandon its longstanding use of the BlackBerry system and give its employees iPhones instead, the agency has decided to give RIM another try.
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Dish Network Gets Down to Earth December 13, 2012 
The Federal Communications Commission approved a proposal from the Dish Network that would allow it to convert spectrum currently allocated for satellite service into airwaves that could support a land-based wireless network. Dish did not lay out specific plans for its next step with the spectrum, saying only that it would "consider its strategic options and the optimal approach" to putting it to use.
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Taxing Authorities' Internet Cat-and-Mouse Game December 12, 2012 
The fact that the Internet has no boundaries of time or geography has changed the way businesses operate forever. One feature of the Internet is that it has allowed creative businesses to avoid, or at least minimize their tax liabilities. In particular, Google's business success means that it has to manage its operations if it wants to minimize its tax burden.
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Less Panic and More Savvy Will Help Fed IT Avoid Fiscal Cliff December 11, 2012 
"If you can keep your wits, when all about you are losing theirs, maybe you just don't understand the situation." That often-cited spoof of a Rudyard Kipling poem comes to mind as the doomsday scenarios of the federal budget Fiscal Cliff begin to mount. Maybe cool heads won't prevail. Maybe panic is the right way to go.
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FCC to FAA: Let's Get Real About Device Use on Planes December 10, 2012 
The FCC is interjecting itself into a long-standing argument over the safety of using electronic devices during flights. Chairman Julius Genachowski sent a letter to Michael Huerta, acting administrator of the FAA, calling for an expansion of the permitted use of tablets, e-readers, and other portable devices on flights.
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Apple Maps' 43-Mile Mistake Could Strand Travelers in Outback December 10, 2012 
Apple's new map system on iOS 6, which replaced Google Maps, has drawn plenty of criticism from pundits. Now, it's the subject of a warning by Australian police. Officers in Mildura are warning drivers to be wary of Apple's new maps system, which shows their fair town as being in the middle of Murray Sunset National Park.
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Cops Seek Law Requiring 2-Year SMS Storage December 10, 2012 
A number of law enforcement groups are lobbying Congress to add provisions to a bill revamping the 1986 Electronic Communications Privacy Act that would require wireless carriers to archive text messages for as long as two years. There may be reasons for companies to archive messages -- but simply functioning as a record-keeping arm for law enforcement is not one of them, privacy advocates maintain.
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