What Is Net Neutrality
The ongoing battle to determine the role of ISPs has been hotly debated ever since the public-incarnation of the World Wide Web. Traditionally, ISPs have provided internet service in a relatively benign and neutral fashion. The entire concept of Net Neutrality really depends upon the context it is discussed in. The purpose of this article is designed to give a brief definition and an overview of the main issues surrounding the concept of Net Neutrality.
Google Fights for Autonomy in Europe and U.S.
As far as modern political struggles go, one of the most fiery has long been the battle on how much autonomy a business should have; with too little, they cannot grow or thrive, and with too much, they can overrun the market (becoming a monopoly, engaging in unfair practices, etc.). There are few places in today’s world where this battle is quite as visible as it is with Google.
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One Third Of U.S Federal Government Pass Open Technology Report
Open Source for America (OSFA) recently published a report card on open technology and open government across several U.S. federal government departments and agencies. Find out which departments scored the highest grades, and what your company can learn from them.
Are Legal Professionals Looking To Adopt Social Media?
Are you a professional services practice or law firm looking to explore social media to attract more clients to your practice?
One of the areas that you might start is building a company profile or hosting a special interest Group on LinkedIn to extend your visibility within the business community already networking online at LinkedIn.
The FCC Passes New Rules For ISPs
The Federal Communications Commission has approved new rules, which prevent your broadband ISP from blocking websites, but provides wireless providers with added clemency. Tim Conneally, a writer at betanews, has published the most clear-cut overview of what these rules are and what they mean:
FTC Proposes A Framework To Protect Consumer Privacy
FTC’s proposed a framework to protect the privacy of consumers. Part of this framework is a “Do Not Track” option that has raised a lot of questions among the web analytics and advertising community. Well since this is just a proposal at this stage nobody knows how it will finally pan out. At this point FTC has published the report to seek public comments. The report that FTC has put together is 122 pages long. I have extracted some important point from that report in case you don’t have the time to read the full report.
The basic building blocks of this framework are:
How SEO Works For Government Sites
It’s not secret that .gov websites get a healthy boost when it comes to search engine results. However, this one component of SEO isn’t a trump card either, and there are plenty of official government websites being pushed back to the second, third, or 437th page. It’s for this reason that Professor John McMillan, the Australian Information Commissioner (a recently created position) has urged government agencies to work on their search engine optimization tactics.
Government IT Spending Outlook Improves
State and local governments may be poised to spend a significant amount of money on hardware and software in the near future, according to a new report. Indeed, at least on a fairly short-term basis, it looks like a record or two might be set.
NIST Provides Practical Automated Combinatorial Tests
In accordance with the Federal Information Security Management Act of 2002, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has, for several years, worked with various academic institutions to apply the latest research in exhaustive combinatorial testing techniques to mathematically ensure different levels of software quality. Because it has been shown that combinatorially testing parameter sets that contain more than two parameters take more time to process than the benefits realized, combinatorial testing has been traditionally regulated to two parameters at a time and is generally referred to as Pairwise testing. Read More…
What Exactly Is Gov 2.0?
We’ve all heard the term but do we all really understand exactly what Gov 2.0 is {or anything 2.0 for that matter}? I recently stumbled onto an interesting slideshare presentation created by HP that showed off some of the findings of a recent Government IT survey. Of particular interest was the description of Gov2.0.