Baby-Faced Bombers

http://www.homelandsecuritynet.com/HSN/2012/02/baby-faced-bombers/ Afghan police recently arrested four suspected insurgents in the process of smuggling 41 children to Pakistan from eastern Afghanistan’s Kunar province. According an Interior Ministry spokesperson, the insurgents were planning on using the children said to be between 6 and 11 years of age, as suicide bombers, saying: “We strongly believe that the childrenRead… Read more »

GovBytes: Obama Creates Bill of Rights for the Information Age

The White House Thursday made a push to protect the privacy of online users by announcing the voluntary Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights (CPBR). The bill is designed to give consumers more control over the information they share on the Internet. Obama is calling on the Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration to workRead… Read more »

Internet privacy–the debate that won’t go away

Http://LeonardSipes.Com (social media and PR for government, associations and nonprofits). See summary of Pew Internet research on privacy and related media coverage regarding new legislation below. Article: If you listen to Leo Laport’s TWIT network (http://twit.tv/) you will find the finest audio and video offerings and insights on technology. TWIG (This Week in Google;http://twit.tv/show/this-week-in-google/) offersRead… Read more »

Please join us for the FOSE DC Conference, 3-5 April in DC

Come to the FOSE conference for some great talks and networking The FOSE conference is an annual conference in DC that combines offers novel approaches to government technology solutions. Come meet some great government technologists, hear success stories and get excited for the next wave of public and private technological innovations. Find FOSE on theRead… Read more »

Montgomery Blair HS Science Program Extends Work Of Galileo, Newton, Einstein, Mendeleyev, Lovelace, And Some Famous Scientists As Well!

Jim Disbrow has been a Science Judge with the Junior Academy at the Washington Academy of Sciences for almost as many years as he has been a presenter at the Professional Development Institute (PDI) hosted annually by the Virginia Association of Science Teachers (www.VAST.org ). Props he lent were from his collection of PDI discrepantRead… Read more »

Move Over MPG, There’s a New Way to Measure Efficiency

Wh/kg is the new way to measure efficiency for vehicles; well, EVs and hybrids at least. Wh/kg stands for watt hours per kilogram, and it is a measurement of energy density. Essentially, the higher the Wh/kg number, the more energy-dense the battery. Energy-dense batteries can be smaller and lighter, and thus hold great potential forRead… Read more »

The best way to sell a product is to hear from current customers

HP Software has a robust portfolio that is very impressive. But what is the best way to communicate our portfolio for all to know? Join HP and your peers at the HP Software Customer Forum to discuss strategies to help IT perform better. The HP Software Customer Forum is a customer-led, best-practice sharing event focusingRead… Read more »

Open-Source Alternatives to Proprietary Enterprise Software

I’ve said in the past, that open-source’s lack of adoption in the enterprise space is due, at least in part, to the lack of “focus-group tested ammunition“. Today, I hope the community can help even the odds with this collaboratively edited list of open-source alternatives to typical government and enterprise software needs I was thrilledRead… Read more »