This is not your grandfather's winter games. Every Olympic city makes large investments in technology, security and infrastructure in the 21st Century, and the Vancouver Winter Games are no exception. …

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…

The police appear divided on the volumes of information stored on databases coming their way. So, observes criminologist Samuel Nunn who has local Indianapolis police officers attend his class on crime and technology which he teaches every other…

Hot Spots of InnovationListen to the podcast    Follow ICF on TwitterRecently, we announced our 2010 Top Seven Intelligent Communities of the Year.  They were selected by an international academic team of analysts from among the…

On Wednesday, Jan 20th, the organization behind the Colorado state web portal issued an RFP "for web-based Collaboration, Office Productivity and Email functionality through a Software as a Service (SaaS) model." According to the state web…

On January 26th Admiral Jamie Barnett of the FCC spoke about the National Broadband Plan, which is now due out on March 17th (and I understand New York City, Boston and other cities with large Irish-American populations plan to have parades in…

Although IT didn't feature prominently at the Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen last month, a new initiative called GreenTouch might lead to significant ICT contributions to a greener world. Announced about two weeks ago, this new global…

The first Broadband Technology Opportunities Program awards have been announced.  The list of the first 10 can be found here.  More first round awards will be announced through February 2010.  I am hopeful that the next round of…

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…

We're all familiar with the online purchase options: nowadays they are major credit cards or PayPal (mostly).   The problem with any of these is the overhead fees that the vendor (bank or PayPal) charges which normally amounts to a fixed…