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VA to allow access to commercial cloud collaboration sites

The Veterans Affairs Department is testing and will soon allow healthcare workers at VA facilities access to a commercial cloud product for document storage and information sharing services. Read more...

Baker: VA to have access to cloud info sharing sites by end of this summer

Veterans Affairs Department employees could have access to a cloud-based, end-user information sharing solution by the end of this summer, said VA Chief Information Officer Roger Baker while speaking Read more...

SPOTLIGHT: OpenID will make government websites more accessible

In just one more example of open government, the federal government will allow people to log onto government sites using personal accounts or other credentials from various websites, or OpenID. The Read more...

Tech titans being investigated for hiring practices

The Justice Department is turning a critical eye at some of the biggest tech companies in the world--Google, Yahoo, Apple, Intel and Microsoft. It is investigating whether these companies violated Read more...

Is a more searchable federal web around the corner?

Is it time for the federal government to bite the bullet, and get a better system that would make millions of its web pages more accessible? It might be way overdue, actually. A wide array of public Read more...