Tag: USGOVERNMENT

Google filed a complaint against the US government late last week, accusing the government of anti-competitive practices because only Microsoft products were considered for the Department of the Interior's new all-in-one hosted email and messaging solution. The Request for Quotation, the document that outlines the government's requirements for potential bidders on the project, specified that the ...

There's been quite a few sensational headlines cropping up around the Web lately about a new bill that's abuzz in the Senate. The title of that bill is Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act of 2010, or PCNAA. It's a pretty big piece of legislation for the Internet as a whole, but nowhere inside it will you find mention of an Internet "kill switch." At least, not in so many words. The ...

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_news/80_of_Federal_Agencies_Flunk_E_FOIA_Test'; According a report published today by the National Security Archive at George Washington University, only one in five government agencies complies with the 1997 law that requires them to make much public information available on the web and clearly post procedures for obtaining information and making so-called ...