Microsoft is warning that the extended support phase is ending for Windows 2000 (server and client), on July 13, 2010.…

The Washington Post is reporting that President Barack Obama will soon name a former official in the George W. Bush administration as the U.S. cyber-security coordinator. According to unnamed sources, the newspaper says Obama's choice…

I received quite a few comments this past week following the publishing of California IT Policy Letter 10-01
which formally establishes "the use of Open Source Software (OSS) in California state government as an acceptable practice."  While…

The day after Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger delivered his final state of the state address, the California Office of the Chief Information Officer codified another small part of the Administration's legacy -- an official position on the use of open…

By combining their leading-edge capabilities, Schurz Communications and DigitalBridge will be able to offer customers, in markets where Schurz Communications operates, affordable 4G mobile broadband service, as well as local content delivered…

 Photo: George Monbiot Every newspaper should have someone like George Monbiot on hand. He's the affable and intelligent UK based Guardian columnist (and the author of Heat - How to stop the planet burning) who keeps readers up to date on the…

At the heart of a performance-driven culture for city government is a "Citizen Relationship Management" (CRM) model that provides a single environment to integrate departmental systems to capture, analyze and answer constituent-driven requests. It…

This week, I was deeply honored to be named as one of the Top 25 Doers, Dreamers and Drivers of 2010 according to Government Technology magazine. Truly I am very excited to be in a group that has such talent and leadership in government…

  Seattle just became the latest City to start posting its government data on the Internet in an open format. Open Data publishing may very well transform not just government, but Democracy, as well. Data.seattle.gov has been live for a couple…

Photo: Setting up Broadband access to the African people - in this case Liberia.That the global financial crisis has hardly dented the growth of use of ICT globally is a common knowledge by now. So is the fact that ICT prices have been crashing…

Google today announced plans to work with a community to build a for 1 gigabit fiber to the home network.  Video announcement by Google's James Kelly can be viewed on youtube or at the main Google project page.  Information on the project…

Have you heard of Mingleverse? It's one of the newest Media 2.0 trends.Mingleverse Laboratories Inc. (www.mingleverse.com) is a multiple award winning start-up company providing participants with the newest form of online and mobile…

Not that the question has been keeping me up at night, but how is the Russian Digital Citizen faring these days? Well, according to a very informative blog by Gregory Asmolov on Global Voices the Russian Internet inroads show no sign of slowing…