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DHS wants to make your cell phone a 'smell' phone
Army e-mail consolidation first step in enterprise efforts
System errors lead SSA to issue replacement cards in error, IG says
House bill targets Internet censorship
VA has prototype of Aviva EHR system
OFPP administrator attempts to draw clear lines
Federal News Radio
Bureau of Labor Statistics responds to federal pay in the media
OMB's Zients touts better hiring, retention of feds
GSA ready to move on to non-Networx work
House passes bill to pay furloughed DoT workers
State Dept. to launch internal social site
Technology, workforce advances key for OMB
Government Executive
The Earlybird: Headlines and Blog Posts
From Nextgov.com: Industry sees promise in open government contests
Congressional panel seeks broad Defense acquisition overhaul
Senators seek clean FAA bill
Fighter jet's costs jump more than 50 percent
Senator showcases exemplary feds
White House Blog
Your Healthy App Ideas
Competing on the Global Playing Field in the 21st Century
The Master Recovery Act Transportation Map
Celebrating International Women's Day: From Kabul to Washington, DC
A New Era of Partnerships: Advisory Council on Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships Presents Final Report of Recommendations
When Health Insurance Companies Attack
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Getting Outside the Four Walls of Washington
Watch, Discuss, Engage at 12:30: Secretary Locke on the National Export Initiative
Cracking Down on Waste and Fraud
InformationWeek Government
Startup Sheds Light On Virtual Machine Network Traffic
Opera Intros Mini 5 Browser For Android
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Five Reasons To Pre-Order The iPad
Global CIO: What's IT Worth? Northwestern Mutual Life CIO Knows
GDC: Sony Unveils PS3 Motion Controller
Google Debuts Product Inventory Search, Apps Macros
Wipro To Boost U.S. Hiring
GDC: Microsoft Surface Plays Dungeons & Dragons
Microsoft Aids IT Training In California
Washington Technology
Army e-mail consolidation first step in enterprise efforts
ManTech names its main man for NSA
CACI gets down to business at Defense Department
Countdown to the launch of NASA's $4B IT consolidation
10 flaws with the data on Data.gov
With social media, should DOD go to the people, or should the people go to DOD?
Procurement panel slams price reduction clause for services
SAIC secures $625M Navy award
Federal court gives HUBZone program priority
Customs at odds with DHS IG over report on small-biz goals
Federal Times
VA investigating new data breach
Obama gets high marks for transparency push
Mexican drug cartels step up efforts to corrupt U.S. border officials
Group seeks injunction to halt changes to procurement database
Zients: Cut hiring time in half
House bars earmarks to for-profits
168,000 DoD employees may transfer to new pay systems by September
USPS should engage public more when closing offices, PRC says
House OKs bill to repay furloughed DOT employees
Agencies finding it hard to follow through on open government order
Government Technology
Healthy Kids Apps Competition Offers Super-Sized Cash Prizes
Iowa Gov. Chet Culver Signs IT Consolidation Bill
Veterans Affairs Planning to Automate 'Agent Orange' Claims
States Bring Purpose-Driven Social Networking Tools to Schools
Microsoft Giving Free Technology Training to Thousands of Californians
Briefs: Edmonton, Alberta, Embraces Open Government; White House Mulls Contest Platform
Can the Library of Congress Be Downloaded in Seconds?
Miami 311 Goes Online, Keeps Phone Calls
Federal Cloud IT Platform Slow to Rise as Cloud Environment Evolves
South Carolina Redesigns State Web Portal, Adds Features
GCN
Army e-mail consolidation first step in enterprise efforts
Malicious systems of a feather flock together
NIST sets clock to stay accurate for billions of years
Many agencies are still anti-social media
With all-in-one PCs, one size doesn't fit all
NASA launches mission simulator Web site
With social media, should DOD go to the people, or should the people go to DOD?
NIST out to ensure security products comply with vulnerability assessment language
Information handcuffs: Counterterrorism IT needs support from the top, Congress told
White House memo: Public contests can drive innovation
Defense Systems
Army e-mail consolidation first step in enterprise efforts
DOD business arm embarks on software upgrade
Burroughs to direct Navy PEO C4I
DOD's outdated acquisition system hinders mission success, panel says
Navy awards C2 software development contract
Marines take automated logistics to next level
Air Force wants to fuse C2 across domains
DOD social media policy fails to answer security questions
VA may restore access to DOD medical record systems soon
Navy orders additional shipboard Internet terminals
DefenseNews
RAF Accepts 1st Nimrod MRA4
South Korea's Utility Helo Makes Maiden Flight
DoD: F-35 to Breach Nunn-McCurdy Limits by 50%
Indian AF To Buy 12 AgustaWestland AW101 Helos
NATO Transformation Chief: Budget Cuts Less Severe Than Expected
U.S. Army Requests Permission To Modify Strykers
USAF: We're Sticking With Tanker RfP
MoD Postpones Search for New U.K. Materiel Chief
MoD Wants Cross-Gov't Effort for DIS: Drayson
Swedish Arms Exports Rose 7 Percent in 2009
DoD Social Media Hub
What the DoD New/Social Media Policy Means
DoDLive Bloggers Roundtable on the DoD New Media Policy
DoD Official Policy on New/Social Media
Army Technology Live debuts free iPhone app
Media Gone a Twitter
Social Networking and Foreign Policy
Facebook enables new privacy controls
From the top down, social media boosts internal communication
H1N1 Flu and the Danger of Creative Spammers
Business Week
Japan’s Nikkei 225 Rises on Yen Optimism; Nippon Mining Falls
China Bonds May Return 6% on Buying by Banks, Harfor Fund Says
Indonesia Raises 2011 Economic Growth Forecast to 6%-6.5%
Malaysia’s Anwar Targets Ruling Party Stronghold in Johor
Yen Erases Losses on Bets China to Take Credit-Tightening Steps
JPMorgan, Citigroup Helped Cause Lehman Collapse, Report Says
Yellen Said to Be Obama’s Pick for Fed Vice Chairman (Update2)
Quake Shakes Pinera’s Plan to Spur Chile
Experts Talk Trade Gap, Claims, China's Inflation
Obama’s Trade Goal Fights Clean-Energy Plan
CNET
GDC 2010: Scaling the summits of gameplay
A peek at Unreal Engine on Palm Web OS
Google makes its local shopping move
Thunderbird beta 'Lanikai' released
Report: Verizon 4G handsets out by mid-2011
CNET overhauls its Blu-ray player reviews
Lithium or hydrogen bike? Choose your steed
Computer algorithm, MRI used to tap memory
Mozilla aggressively asks older Firefox users to update
CNET News Daily Podcast: Sony busts a move
Computerworld
Cisco tries to expand video calling with IME
Easily Switch Between External Displays in Windows 7
Update: Security industry faces attacks it cannot stop
ZeuS botnet code keeps getting better…for criminals
Security industry faces attacks it cannot stop
RIM's future strong despite BlackBerry outages and outraged users
NY set to replace IT consultants with state workers
Apple's iPad pre-sale begins Friday
FCC launches broadband test site for consumers
ICANN president criticized for remarks on DNS security
Politico
AP: American terrorism suspect arrested in Yemen worked for nuclear plants
The Black Lung Buy Off?
Remainders: Target practice
Obama's "spiritual cabinet"
Remainders: Brief
Becoming Andrew Breitbart
Reid's wife, daughter seriously injured in car accident UPDATE
Cuomo steps aside
Reconciliation starts Monday
Reid defends reconciliation
Roll Call
GOP Picks Burns as Nominee in Murtha Special
Emanuel: Progress Being Made in Negotiations
Graham: Health Care Reconciliation Could Stall Immigration Reform
Obama to Press for Bipartisan Immigration Bill
Conservative Group Attacks Reid on Reconciliation in New Ad
Hoyer Confident Health Care Will Pass Without Abortion Changes
Reid's Wife and Daughter Hospitalized After Car Accident
Judge: Prosecutors Should Lose Access to Renzi Wiretap Information
Senate Democrats Told to Keep Quiet on Health Bill Concerns
Flake Will Revise Resolution on Ethics Committee's PMA Probe
The Hill
Parliamentarian's ruling deals blow to healthcare reform chances
House Republicans seek to trump Democrats on enacting earmark reform
Frank acknowledges dinner between Massa, Financial Services aide
Obama doles out $1.4 million in Nobel Peace Prize winnings to 10 charities
House Democrats' 'no' votes are piling up as healthcare reform moves forward
Behance Network
Wonkette
Peggy Noonan Hath Been Captured By Electronicks
Obama Gives Nobel Prize Money To Loser Charity Nerds, Women
Commies, Nancies Seeing Momentum
Sarkozy-Bruni Affair Story Another ‘Internet Thought Experiment’
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Drudge Retort
High School Cancels Prom to Bar Lesbians
Baseball Player Calls Latinos Black 'Imposters'
Number of Millionaires in US Rebounds
Senate Bill Would Curb Risky Banking Trades
Minority Births May Outnumber Whites
Corn: GOP Budget -- Rich Pay Less, All Else More
Kennedy: Media's War Inattention 'Despicable'
Granny D: Money is Stealing Our Democracy
How Corporations Hide Election Spending
AP Keeps Accused Rapist's Name Secret
Slate
Could GPS create a world without signs?
What would happen if people just refused to buy health insurance even if a law ordered them to?
The Green Zone reviewed.
What does whale taste like?
Please, Mr. Denton, will you restore full-text RSS feeds to Gawker Media?
The Slatest: Evening Edition
An interactive map of how every story in the news is related, updated daily.
Let's give contraceptive researchers their due.
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Slate's DoubleX Gabfest on Liz Cheney, Kathryn Bigelow, and why married people are too tired for sex.
Washington Post - Politics
Justices and politicians should boycott the State of the Union
Obama's ambitious export plan may rekindle free-trade battle
Republicans are urging new investigation of former congressman Massa
A frustrated caucus keeps complaints quiet
If Democrats ignore health-care polls, midterms will be costly
Justice Department picks ex-Brooklyn prosecutor to lead public integrity unit
GAO analyst says cost overruns, delays continue to plague F-35 program
Private companies, lobbyists seek to differentiate worthy projects from earmark requests
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Democrats move toward grouping health reform with student-aid bill
Salon
Life during wartime
Confessions of a call bear
Once-revered S.C. lawmaker freezes to death alone
GOP finance chief's background in dubious "charity"
ACORN gives up Ohio business license
Reid's wife breaks neck, back in car crash
Obama gives away $1.4M Nobel prize
Yemen holds N.J. man after al-Qaida shootout
Lesbian teen back at Miss. school after prom flap
Lindsay Lohan: Possibly not completely insane
Huffington Post
Jeff Danziger: Liz and the Justice Dept
Antonio Villaraigosa: Testifying on Our 30/10 Plan
Jim Luce: Juan Mendez on International Human Rights
Rob Cohen: The Most Important Moment From LAST Week's Lost
Israel's Gaza Blockade Criticized By UN Humanitarian Chief
'Robin Hood' Gambler Wins Money In Vegas, Gives It All To Those In Need
Candy Spelling: Today's New Vocabulary Word Is "Crowdsourced'
John Gardner, Chelsea King Suspect, Broke Parole Multiple Times, Remained Free
Karl Rove Terms Al Gore "One Angry Dude," Claims Missing Florida Ballots From 2000 Election Are "In His Garage"
Mashable Down? Mashable.com Readers Report Problems Accessing Site
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The Register
Steve Jobs Flash rant put to the test
TSA worker tried to sabotage terror database, feds say
Microsoft plants Bing on Google-free Chinese Androids
One-third of orphaned Zeus botnets find way home
Super Micro to launch AMD render cloud
Jesus Phone to exhibit holy gift of bilocation
BT rolls out new, 'competitive' consumer deals
Erstwhile Sun openista gets April Fool director job at OSI
Koobface gang refresh botnet to beat takedown
BBC might pay for Tory broadband promises
eWeek
Vycon Demos Clean Energy Storage Systems for Hospitals
How Does IE8 Behave?
How to Migrate Unstructured Data to the Cloud
Coyote Point E650GX Balances Virtual Machine Loads
Barnes and Noble Will Create E-Reader App for Apple iPad
Opera Mini 5 Beta Available for Google Android
Growing MSI Mobile Portfolio Challenges Dell, HP, Acer
How to Optimize Business Process ROI with Unified Communications
Microsoft Will Be Asked to Alter EU Browser Choice Screen Yet Again
10 Reasons Why Microsoft Bing Is Gaining on Google
Governing
New Smog Rules Target Rural Counties
Are Wind Farms a Health Risk?
The Price of Moderate Politics
Boston's Hip, New Chief of Staff
Targeting Public-Sector Unions
Can Green Technology Propel Economic Development?
Using Performance to Deliver Promises
Growing Alaska's Legislature
Philadelphians Withhold Billions in Taxes
Keeping Government Green
MSN News
Deal reached on ground zero health claims
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Notre Dame upsets Pitt to keep madness going
Georgia Tech ensures N. Carolina won’t dance
Man convicted of murdering Broncos’ Williams
Dutch nurses’ union: Care does not include sex
Crash leaves Reid's wife with broken neck, back
Teacher found dead; wolves to blame?
Woods out at least until Masters, sources says
Man who called for Elton John’s death arrested
Google News
Obama's ambitious export plan may rekindle free-trade battle - Washington Post
Harry Reid's wife, daughter hurt in car accident - Los Angeles Times
Cuomo Hands Paterson Case to an Ex-Judge - New York Times
Democrats Struggle to Finish Health Bill - New York Times
Aftershocks a reality check for Chilean President Sebastián Piñera - Washington Post
PA fears East Jerusalem building will make it look weak - Ha'aretz
Obama picks charities to which he'll donate Nobel prize cash award - Washington Post
Board's Decision to Close 28 Kansas City Schools Follows Years of Inaction - New York Times
Ayad Allawi accuses Nouri al-Maliki's group of fraud in bid to retain power - Times Online
Concerns on Iran in US Rights Report - New York Times
Yahoo News
NYC to pay up to $657M to settle WTC health cases (AP)
NJ: Terrorism suspect didn't breach nuke plants (AP)
US slams rights abuses in China, NKorea and Iran (AFP)
Betty White to host 'Saturday Night Live' (AP)
AP sources: Woods likely to return at Masters (AP)
Lesbian teen in prom flap sues, returns to school (AP)
Sen. Reid's wife, daughter injured in accident (AP)
Democrats block investigation of possible Massa cover-up (AP)
Fed. appeals court upholds 'under God' in pledge (AP)
Obama says he's committed to immigration overhaul (AP)
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White House Blog
Your Healthy App Ideas
Competing on the Global Playing Field in the 21st Century
The Master Recovery Act Transportation Map
Celebrating International Women's Day: From Kabul to Washington, DC
A New Era of Partnerships: Advisory Council on Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships Presents Final Report of Recommendations
When Health Insurance Companies Attack
625
Getting Outside the Four Walls of Washington
Watch, Discuss, Engage at 12:30: Secretary Locke on the National Export Initiative
Cracking Down on Waste and Fraud
OMB Blog
Taking On Earmarks
Show-Me Savings
Salary Statistics
No Gimmick
Education: The Wind at America’s Back
Welcoming the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform
OIRA Dashboard Goes Live
A Short History of Deficit Reduction
A Dialogue on the Recovery Act
Introducing the 2011 Budget
Dipnote - Department of State Blog
Assistant Secretary Posner Highlights 2009 Annual Reports on Human Rights
Annual Report on Human Rights
Public Diplomacy: Strengthening U.S. Engagement With the World
U.S., Indonesia Collaborate on Pandemic Preparedness
International Women of Courage Awards: Watch Live March 10
Secretary Clinton Meets With Haitian President Preval
Safeguarding the Seaways: Increasing Cooperation Means Decreasing Success for Pirates
Women Can Drive Agricultural-Led Growth
Engaging Communities on Foreign Affairs
Pathways Envoy Engages Entrepreneurs at Costa Rica Trade Ministerial
DHS Blog: Leadership Journal
Deepening DHS Engagement with Tribal Partners
International Information Sharing: Advancing Security and Protecting Privacy
The DHS Open Government Initiative
Making Progress on Enhancing Aviation Security
New Measures for Aviation Security and Information Sharing
Honoring Our Veterans
Operation ATLAS: Targeting Illegal Cash Couriers Worldwide
U.S. and EU Agree on Data Protection Principles
Still Time to Contribute to a GreenGov
Securing America Against the Threat of Cyber Attack
TSA Blog: Evolution of Security
Advanced Imaging Technology: "Radiation Risk Tiny"
Live Aviation Security Chat with Secretary Napolitano on Facebook 3/9/10
Backscatter Advanced Imaging Technology on Its Way to First Eleven Airports
What Ever Happened To The Shoe Scanner Idea?
What Happens If My Hands Alarm During an Explosives Trace Detection Test (And other questions answered)
Four Year Old Boy In Philly Told To Remove Leg Braces
Explosive Trace Detection Usage Expanded: Give Us A Hand
Bollywood Confidential
TSA Haiti Evacuation Effort: A Federal Security Director's Perspective
Orlando Officer Arrested
NAVY CIO Blog
Top 10 in 2010
To Work or Not
Personal Information Must be Handled with Extreme Care
Measuring Success
Expanding the Dialogue
The Cyber/IT Workforce's Bright Future
Aim High, Fly High
The CIO in the Cyber Age
Time to Think
Web 2.0 in the DON
Flickr - Global
NASA: Executive Blog
Plant Growth Chamber Activity Challenges Students to Use the Engineering Design Process
Meet Us at NSTA
MY NASA DATA (e-PD announcement)
Making a Splash with Satellite Hydrology
Cooling with Sunshades: MESSENGER (e-PD announcement)
Plant Growth Chamber Design Challenge (e-PD announcement)
Buzz Aldrin: One small [dance] step for mankind
Earth Climate Course Web cast demonstrates science investigations for students
A Closer Look at Dust
Revisiting the Iris Effect
EPA Blog: Greenversations
In the Trenches: Moderation for OpenGov
To Catch Or To Kill (Part 2)
Capturar o matar (Parte 2)
Science Wednesday: Sustainability Is Our True North
Discussing the Discussion
CHILDHOOD OBESITY PART I: Healthy Diets
Question of the Week: When was the last time you fixed a leak?
Pregunta de la Semana: ¿Cuándo fue la última vez que reparó un goteo?
Faces of the Grassroots: Environmental Justice Video Contest
What does Open Government Mean to You?
GSA CIO Blog
Cisco Federal
Future Fed
Elevating America’s Veterans
The Future of the Cloud
Taking Control of Personal Health
Next Generation Data Centers
Women in Technology: Can Barbie Increase Participation in Technology Careers?
Secure Cloud Offerings for Government
CIO Summit 2010
Army Symposium 2010
Open Source Security – The Myth of “Many Eyeballs”
Super Bowl Security
CTO Vision
Cisco Carrier Routing System (CRS) and the Next-Generation Internet
More on Light Peak: Very high data rate from the grid to your computer
7 Differentiators of Notion Ink’s Adam Tablet
Wanted: World Class Best Enterprise CTO
Presentation at 2010 WIRe Conference
Enhancing IT Support to the Counter Terror Effort: Design Criteria
Enhancing IT Support to the Counter Terror Effort: The Challenge
A CTO’s favorite list of lessons from the Miracle of the 1980 Olympics
Twelve Principles of DoD Cyber Conflict
Oracle, Sun and the Enterprise CTO
DorobekInsider
DorobekINSIDER: Disconnecting from the grid with the Blue Footed Booby
DorobekINSIDER explainer: That Census letter announcing the Census form is coming
DorobekINSIDER: GSA’s Johnson on Williams: ‘I’m sad to see Jim go’
DorobekINSIDER EXCLUSIVE: GSA’s Jim Williams to retire from government after 30-plus years
DorobekINSIDER: The Federal News Radio Book Club book announcement: Drive by Daniel H. Pink
DorobekINSIDER: Kronopolus named GSA’s assistant administrator; Lantier takes acting deputy procurement role
DorobekINSIDER: Most read items from Feb. 29-March 6: DOD Web 2.0 policy, USPS reorg, Causey, and fed tax delinquents
DorobekINSIDER and the 03.05 Federal News Countdown poll: What was the big story of the week?
DorobekINSIDER: Northrop makes it official: Drabkin is the new director of acquisition policy
DorobekINSIDER EXCLUSIVE: GSA’s Drabkin to join Northrop
Secure Channel Blog
StillSecure Aims at Data Center Security Channel
Stimulating Advanced Security Through Credit
Cloud Security Reports Missing Critical Elements
Cisco Facing Increasingly Stronger Competitive Alliances
SynerComm Does Security Event Marketing Right
Vendor Sales Incentives Don’t Hurt Security
Balancing Current Budget Realities with Future Security Needs
Did Symantec Inspire Kaspersky's 2010 Channel Strategy?
5 Questions Kaspersky Partners Need to Ask
Are McAfee and Symantec for Sale?
Washington Post- Federal Eye
Justice Dept. picks new head for public integrity unit
Question of the week: Safety of federal workers
Use of private security guards under scrutiny
Featured Advertiser
Michelle Obama almost thanks 'President Clinton'
Suspicious package near Treasury investigated
Eye Opener: Threats against IRS workers continue
Astronaut families press NASA's case with administration
Relief for furloughed DOT workers?
Interior Dept. unveils new Ansel Adams photos
Washington Wire - WSJ.com
Coffee Break: Hanks, Spielberg Visit the White House
Sen. Reid’s Wife, Daughter Injured in Auto Accident
Barney Frank Says Staff Handled Massa Situation Appropriately
Obama Divvies Up Nobel Prize Money
Holder: In the Hot Seat, Again
Gregg to House Democrats: Don’t Trust the Senate
Moral High Ground: Parties Trade Jabs on Earmark Bans
Lovin’ It: Justices Offer Opinions on McDonald’s Fare
WIRE WATCH: Obama Addresses Ex-Im Bank; Clinton on Human Rights
Obama Says Most of Washington Thinks He’s an ‘Idiot’
NY Times: The Caucus
Timing of Obama Indonesia Trip Questioned
A Vote to Change Some Cocaine Sentences
Obama Gives Away Nobel Prize Money
Christians Urged to Boycott Glenn Beck
Republicans Call for Further Inquiry Over Massa Case
House Votes to Impeach Judge
Holder Failed to Disclose Brief on Detainee Policy
The Early Word: Health Care Huddle
A Fund-Raiser, Minus the Candidate
Democrats Looking to Flip 'Red to Blue'
Business Technology - WSJ.com
Apple: iPhone OS 4.0 Reportedly To Include Multitasking
YouTube’s Modest Proposal: Sports Online (Almost) Instantly
Digits Live Show: Seeking the Best E-Reader
The Internet: a Candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize
Map Strips a Bit of Anonymity From Chatroulette
China’s First Twitter Novel
Tech Today: H-P Looks to Recast Its Image; Europe Tries Book Scans
Where Tech Titans Stand on the Forbes Billionaire List
Battery Ventures Raises New $750 Million Fund
Target Targets Your Cellphone
The Hill Blog
Amend the Fair Housing Act to ban housing discrimination against LGBT people
President made right move on trade initiative (Rep. Bobby Rush)
The Big Question: Will the White House vs. SCOTUS tiff escalate?
The will to fix Senate rules (Sen. Tom Udall)
The will to fix Senate rules (Sen. Tom Udall)
The Big Question: Will the White House vs. SCOTUS tiff escalate?
Punting decisions (Rep. Campbell)
Punting decisions (Rep. Campbell)
Current Afghanistan strategy falls short (Rep. Michael Honda)
The American people understand that Obamacare will kill jobs (Rep. Paul Broun)