HydroPoint Data Systems Partners With Belkin Echo Water for Smart Water Management; Department of Defense Selects Belkin Echo Electricity for Military Installation Demonstration

Belkin, a trusted leader of technology solutions for office, classroom, IT infrastructure, and mobile environments, today introduced Echo, an advanced sensor technology system for buildings that…

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I just blogged a new report from IDC, The Coming of Age of the Internet of Things in Government. 

The report concludes that:

“The Internet of Things is reaching a tipping point that will make it a sustainable paradigm for practical applications. The public sector’s use of the IoT is still limited but emerging…

This is the most blatant example I've seen about how a traditional business can adapt the internet revolution to increase value.

I sat down with a high school buddy, who for the last 40 years has run a specialty instrument company. These instruments, which are globally famous, are used by labs, hospitals, and research facilities - they are the clear leader of biological/electronic devices…

Cyber security is a hot topic among the private and public sector, especially as the consumerization of IT continues to grow as a trend and business tool. And although the Cybersecurity Act of 2012 failed to become a law, the need for strong cyber security measures, particularly within the federal government, has not diminished. If anything, the need has grown, particularly with the prevalence of the increasingly-mobile employee and BYOD.

This month kicks off the ninth year of…

The Internet of Things -- linking devices ranging from smartphones to cars' computers to industrial sensors via the same Internet that we use -- has been a technical reality since 2008 (more "things" than people are now connected), and by 2015 IBM predicts 1 TRILLION things will be linked. Yet it is impossible to find a single reference to the IoT on the White House web site or in Romney's economic plan. Contrast that to China, where the premier routinely refers to it in speeches and the…

How do you tackle a large-scale, complex challenge that evolves over time, involves thousands of stakeholders, and where there is no clear solution?  For example, is there a road map for how the Internet evolved? Could we do it again?

IBM Center author David Witzel examines the evolution of the Internet over the past four decades in a new report, looking for…

Face it, it has happen to us all...some internet connections are spotty and they doesn’t always work when we absolutely need them to!

Tell us a story about when your internet connection went out and you REALLY needed it to work; What were you doing? What were the pressures? How did it make you…

The Texas Tribune

Out of the Smoke-Filled Room and Onto the Internet

By REEVE HAMILTON

Published: October 6, 2011

The concept of crowdsourcing — soliciting information from a wide range of people responding to an open call over the Internet — is drawing some interest at the Capitol and could play a significant role in the way Texas lawmakers handle a key issue next…

Information is power. Actually, there is no power in information but in who creates it and controls it. That's the power of information --how it's used.  Did you know that local TV news is still the most popular source for local information in America? However, adults rely on it primarily for just three subjects: weather, breaking news and at a distant third, traffic.  And that…

The role of the Internet as a platform for collective action grows. A survey released this week by the Pew Research Center's Internet and Life Project shed light on the social side of the Internet. The results offered insight into the differences between the connected and the disconnected, revealing that Internet…

The point of this post: When looking at “success stories” in the adoption of new technologies, we have to think carefully about how repeatable they are.

“One of the most challenging things to figure out in the government space is which technology trends are fads versus real long-term trends,” said Green in an interview with ComputerWorld Canada.

Wise words. And they apply not only to technology.

I was thinking the other day…

The Census Bureau continues its 2010 population count, but it's not wasting any time with a plan to use the Internet 10 years from now in the next census.

Director Robert Groves told Federal News Radio the Bureau is already planning to test using the Internet using the American Community Survey (ACS).

"One of the things I'm committed to," said Groves, "is to using the surveys, especially the American Community Survey as a platform to test…

I was talking to a co-worker about our office’s reconfiguration plans, which involve merging divisions and training employees to handle a wider variety of customer needs. It’s a nice plan, and it is likely to benefit our customers by removing the layers they have to dig through to get to the services they need.…

I stumbled across a fantastic article in this weekend's Wall Street Journal that should be a must-read for those in the Gov 2.0 movement as well as anyone that has ever used the "Iranian Election" example when promoting the growing influence and importance of Twitter and other social networks.

The Digital Dictatorship, written by Georgetown University fellow Evgeny…