Government IT Trends, Policies, and Strategic Approaches

August 4, 2004

IBM has won the right to build a powerful Linux-based supercomputer for the Department of Defense that will be used to design and test weapons systems, the company announced Tuesday. Nicknamed "Stryker," the machine will run at a speed of 10 trillion calculations per second, placing it among the 20 fastest computers in the world...

Anti-Spam Bill Gains Support

April 11, 2003

The latest effort to reduce unwanted commercial clutter in consumers' e-mail inboxes has reached the U.S. Senate, bolstered by strong support from several high-profile online companies. The bill would require commercial e-mail senders to include an opt-out address in every message and would levy a f...

U.S.: States Might Be Hindering E-Commerce

July 18, 2002

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has announced it plans to examine whether individual states are acting in an anticompetitive way toward e-commerce. According to the FTC, the states' actions might be costing consumers as much as $15 billion per year. "There's no question that there is a pa...

FCC To Let Carriers Share Customer Data

July 17, 2002

The Federal Communications Commission has cleared the way for telephone companies to share customer data with associates that hawk communications services -- without first seeking customer consent. FCC Chairman Michael Powell defended the decision, but it was denounced by FCC Commissioner Mich...

U.S. To Seek Greater Control Over ICANN

June 11, 2002

Senator Conrad Burns (R-Montana) has announced plans to introduce a bill that would give the U.S. government more influence over ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), the overseer of Internet addressing and traffic. Rick Villers, vice president of Internet research at Forre...

U.S. Congress Hosts E-Signature Conference

October 5, 2000

With a landmark law authorizing the use of e-signatures having just taken effect, U.S. Congressional lawmakers hosted representatives of the budding industry in Washington, D.C. Wednesday and received hands-on demonstrations of the new technology.