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BoxTone 5.0 - Track and Control iPhones in the Enterprise

In an effort to extend its mobile user management solution to manage, track and control iPhone-, Palm Pre-, Windows Mobile- and other ActiveSync-based smartphones, BoxTone has released BoxTone 5.0. The company is known for handling management, monitoring and support solutions for BlackBerry customers. BoxTone claims ...

19 October 2009
09:34 GMT

UK Government Official Releases Thorough Twitter Guide

It's not just countless blogs that are writing Twitter guides anymore. Last week the company itself revealed Twitter 101, a guide to the microblogging service for businesses. But even that pales in comparison to the 20-page guide a UK government official has released, covering most aspects of the medium. While e...

28 July 2009
09:55 GMT

Utah Becomes the First State Government to Offer iPhone Applications

Residents of the state of Utah are getting the first iPhone applications developed by a state government in the US. Utah.Gov, the official Web site of the state of Utah, has announced the release of the two free iPhone applications, immediately available through the iTunes App Store – Utah.Gov and Utah Professi...

14 April 2009
03:55 GMT

British Parliament Praises Successful Video Games

The gaming industry doesn't have the brightest record with many politicians, as a lot of them blamed it for violent children and for corrupting the minds of young people by promoting indecent behavior. But every once in a while, local and even national authorities do realize the importance of having successful g...

9 April 2009
11:11 GMT

US Conspiracies and Lies Documented by Historian

University of California in Davis (UCD) history professor Kathryn Olmsted has only recently published her new book, “Conspiracy Theories and American Democracy, World War I to 9/11,” the third in a series of works created to let people know of the lies, deceit and conspiracies they were subjected to by th...

17 March 2009
10:28 GMT

NASA Seeks to Rejuvenate Its Ranks

Despite being the leading such structure in the world, the American space agency currently finds itself in a very awkward position, mostly because 80 percent of its workforce is comprised of people who are over the age of 40. And while this is normal, up to a certain point, because older individuals have accumulated ...

17 March 2009
04:37 GMT

How Sarah Palin's E-Mail Account Got Hacked

A media storm started as the e-mail account of Alaska Governor and republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin got hacked yesterday. Lots of sites reported that a group of hackers got access to the account and posted samples and screen shots of the content online. By other accounts, a single person was respons...

18 September 2008
04:15 GMT

Security Vulnerabilities Could Cripple US Economy

A recent report released by the General Accountability Office (GAO) warns US officials about the seriousness of a cyber attack on North America's electrical grid. It appears that the organization that oversees North America's electrical grid is not doing enough to ensure that a future hack attack won't...

23 May 2008
03:59 GMT

Hacker Takes Down Zimbabwe's Herald

A Zimbabwe newspaper website has been shutdown by hackers for three days, since this last Saturday. The Zimbabwe Herald newspaper has reported and admitted to the incident yesterday. The Herald has become unavailable after a hacker, calling himself "r4b00f", has hacked the newspaper webpage.It appears that the hacked...

13 May 2008
06:29 GMT

Personal Data of Six Million Chileans Available on the Internet

Security of personal data is an issue with which all major institutions must deal. With an increasing number of phishing frauds available on the web, the users' personal data are not that safe anymore. A recent incident demonstrated that the people of Chile are among the most vulnerable. According to the El Merc...

12 May 2008
08:20 GMT

Common Criteria Tools 10.5 Released

Apple has released Common Criteria Tools 10.5. The tools are targeted mainly towards governmental institutions. Common Criteria Tools is the standard set of security tools designed to provide a reliable evaluation of the security capabilities of IT products. Using it, customers gain confidence in the security of IT p...

25 April 2008
06:02 GMT

IBM Gets Cleared for Government Contracts

The United States Environmental Protection Agency has cleared IBM from the one-week interdiction of seeking new contract opportunities with the US Federal Government. Although the suspension lift means that the company can get back into business, the EPA investigating is still ongoing.The decision of lifting the ban ...

8 April 2008
03:39 GMT

IBM Gets Red Light For Government Contracts

US-based conglomerate IBM has been reportedly suspended from striking new agreements with the United States federal government for an indefinite period of time. According to a post on the General Services Administration's website, the company is now blacklisted by the Environmental Protection Agency as of March ...

1 April 2008
03:04 GMT

Extremism Landing Next to Child Pornography in Government's List

A very violent and definitive plan of action was laid off by British Home Secretary Jacqui Smith: "Where there is illegal material in the Net, I want it removed," she said in the keynote speech at a conference on radicalization and political violence, the Associated Press reports.However, her plan is not looking very...

21 January 2008
20:31 GMT

Government Blogging Team, Thinks Hillary Clinton

What do all the politicians do? Get it together, poll it amidst themselves and, after that, come up with the only possible answer. Yes, they misinform to say it in a polite manner. The real message is usually lost somewhere between the few ideas that the candidate really stands by and the rest of the yada - yada that...

9 January 2008
14:41 GMT

Chinese Corruption Site Hit So Hard It's on Its Knees

Corruption doesn't need any further explaining, everybody's met it at least once in his/ her life, the difference between people living in different corners of the world, regarding it, is that they have most likely lived under different regimes. At least this is the case between the West and the East and th...

19 December 2007
06:55 GMT

Google Lending Helping Hand to Senate

What's the solution if you have a specific inquiry about some government information that is supposed to be publicly available? You type in the exact URL of the site the information is on? Not likely, I doubt that government sites are the first thing on your mind every morning when you get out of bed, and if the...

14 November 2007
03:59 GMT

Motorola Brings Mobile E-mail for Federal Government

Motorola will take care from now on of the best deployment of Good Mobile Messaging Secure Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (Good S/MIME). This mobility solution has been developed especially for working best with federal government security policy requirements.Institutions such as the Navy, Army, Marine Corps a...

9 October 2007
10:12 GMT

Porn Has One Up On Arnold

What do you normally expect to find when you surf to a government website? Well, I for one, hope to find official statements, news about initiatives, things that concern a certain country and a lot of info on politics. I guess that everyone would expect to find the same things. Well, things are a bit different when t...

5 October 2007
14:41 GMT

Governments Weary of Web Threats - Taking Measures to Stop It

The web isn't what it used to be anymore, and now I'm thinking about the positive changes. If during the last century e-crime would most likely go unpunished, mainly because of the lack of laws, well, things are quite different now. Governments have finally opened their eyes and seen that cyber-crime is jus...

3 October 2007
04:13 GMT

Chinese Attacks Traced to Government Computers

Evil hackers are doing damage in two ways now. They've got to be insane to do this. Luckily, security experts know better. So, you're probably wondering what I'm yapping about. Well, hackers involved in phishing attacks have been using a Chinese government server, as the Inquirer informs. This is huge ...

28 September 2007
09:50 GMT

Aussie Government to Curb Internet Access

It has been recently reported by Deloitte studies that some countries and even whole areas from the globe suffer from low cyber-security. Australia is amongst them as well. But I guess that you already knew that - the news here is the fact that they are doing something to fight Internet crime.After their banks and im...

24 September 2007
05:13 GMT

New Zealand Government Computers Got Hacked

New Zealand has joined the list of countries that had their government computers attacked and hacked into by malicious users. This is becoming almost a trend nowadays. I guess hacker schedule is something like: Sleep, hack a bank, eat, hack a government, go to work, take down a site, eat, hack a government, go to bed...

11 September 2007
06:05 GMT

US Government Intelligence Community Is Interested in UFO Researchers

The X-Files are a science fiction television series that deepened the already spreading mistrust of governments, interest in conspiracy theories and spirituality, and the belief in the existence of extraterrestrial life.A well respected author, Gus Russo, published the results of an investigation that may sound like...

26 June 2007
08:22 GMT

US Department of Defense Is Building the Matrix!

Everyone who watched the Matrix trilogy was at least impressed by the complex virtual reality developed by sentient robots, if not by the many philosophical elements. The concept of artificial intelligence overthrowing or enslaving mankind had previously been touched on by hundreds of science fiction stories, but th...

25 June 2007
08:06 GMT

US Congressmen Have Robots on Their Minds

Robots are already growing in complexity and their use in industry is becoming more widespread. Humanoid robots are about to become reality sooner than you think, and as you would expect, they will feature superhuman characteristics, like heightened senses, physical strength and computational abilities.It seems even...

22 June 2007
04:16 GMT


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