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Southbridge, Mass., now has a way for citizens to submit crime tips anonymously and receive police notifications by downloading the free "Southbridge PD" app. Officials say crimes in progress still require a call to 911.
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Two-way communication during an emergency event is what public safety officials are advocating for with the so-called CodeRed program.
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Patrol officers will soon be able to issue citations and quickly file them with district courts from their cruisers.
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New data center in China will be six times larger than any that currently exists.
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Mission pivot means being more flexible with agency methods.
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Public agencies are still half a generation away from moving mission-critical apps into the cloud, officials said.
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Proposed legislation comes on the heels of an audit that uncovered confidential and personal information on computers marked for public auction earlier this year.
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‘Hack for Change,’ a 24-hour contest to develop Web and mobile applications for social change, will be held June 18-19, in San Francisco.
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Bill signed by Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin centralizes policymaking, procurement and decision-making into the CIO’s office in an attempt to streamline the state’s hardware, software and storage.
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The Public Technology Institute recognizes the Web 2.0 applications and social media tools of seven cities, five states, four counties and one city/county.
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Sixty-five percent of public-sector respondents indicated that there is confusion in their organizations about what constitutes cloud computing and virtualization.
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A partnership between IBM and Dubuque, Iowa, is affirming a widely held assumption: Real-time water data actually helps consumers reduce their consumption.
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The Hawaii Legislature has approved $1.2 million annually for the state’s new IT office, and the bill has been sent to Gov. Neil Abercrombie’s desk for his signature.
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Survey from network and key encryption provider also finds a third of 500 IT security specialists were confident their knowledge and access to encryption keys and certificates could bring a company to a halt with little effort.
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Michigan has been having a rough go lately, suffering two major computer outages in separate, unrelated incidents.
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Officials said the portal has two new features not found on any other portal: Text4help and an e-government services geolocation widget.
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Marysville, Wash., brushes up city employees on policy before relaunching Facebook and Twitter pages.
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Northrop Grumman has agreed to pay Virginia nearly $5 million in restitution for a widespread computer outage last summer that left 26 state agencies without service.
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The contract, valued at $1.2 million annually, will migrate the city and county’s 23,000 municipal employees onto Exchange Online
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New Jersey’s Enhanced Digital Driver License was adopted by all 39 Motor Vehicle Commission (MVC) agencies on May 11; Connecticut’s program, called SelectCT ID, will be phased in during the next six years in an effort beginning this fall.
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Neal Puff, the county’s IT chief since October 2005, has decided to accept a new job as a security architect with Verizon.
