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USAjobs.gov can't keep up with demand
by
John Moe
Oct 21, 2011
Monster.com used to run the official government jobs listing website. It did so for many years under a contract that has now expired and the...
Supercommittee says sell spectrum
by
Marc Sanchez
Oct 10, 2011
On Friday, Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.), Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), Rep. Xavier Becerra (D-Calif.) and Sen. Patrick Toomey (R-Pa.) - all members of...
The New Facebook and why Netflix split in two
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Steve Henn
Sep 23, 2011
How important is Facebook's push into digital media? It's huge. Reed Hastings, the CEO of Netflix, believes the social network could remake the w...
On-shoring is the new off-shoring (thank you FCC)
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Adriene Hill
Aug 5, 2011
Call centers are bringing jobs back to the United States. Julius Genachowski, chairman for the FCC, says call centers will hire about 100,000 pe...
House members want Internet Service Providers to keep track of your online activity
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Steve Henn
Jul 29, 2011
The bill is called Protecting Children From Internet Pornographers Act of 2011. Because who would want to vote against that? The bill passed in the...
New data security bill introduced in the Senate
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Steve Henn
Jul 29, 2011
I'm not sure how anyone in Congress has any time to do anything but try to figure out how to get a debt crisis deal done, but apparently, they do....
Rickrolling @whitehouse
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Steve Henn
Jul 28, 2011
The White House is holding "office hours" on Twitter during the debt ceiling negotiations. During yesterday's session, some Obama staffer...
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Tracking Anonymous
by
Steve Henn
Jul 27, 2011
The FBI has been raiding alleged members of the hacking collective Anonymous in recent weeks. This morning, Wired's Threat Level blogs unearthed...
NSA & cell phone tracking
by
Steve Henn
Jul 27, 2011
This guy say you don't need to join a hacker collective before federal agents can follow your trail in cyber space....
Head of country's cyber agency resigns
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Steve Henn
Jul 26, 2011
The Department of Defense doesn't want to talk about why Randy Vickers resigned as director of the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team. US- CERT...