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Lately, I’ve focused quite a bit in the government technology space. With the new administration and the apparent focus on open technologies and dialogue with the public, it is clear that government is going to become more transparent and will likely adopt (and maybe re-engineer) some of the technologies that the private sector has taken advantage of over the last five years.

Dan Mintz, formerly the CIO for the Department of Transportation reiterates my assertion, in an interview with ExecutiveBiz, that the Government knows that no one is an expert in this area but is willing to work with competent individuals and companies who are willing to partner in learning the space:

No, it’s not just you. We have a lot of server stuff happening on the b5 cluster right now. We lost one of our main servers to a hardware malfunction so the other two are valiantly trying to keep up with the increased load. Unfortunately, they aren’t doing too well. In the long term, we [...]

According to the AP, the President is preparing a possible GPS system shutdown. What remains unclear is if there is an actual threat or if it is just another item in a list of other contingency plans in case of national emergency. However, the fact that the national GPS system would shut down huge [...]

Here’s a novel idea. Setup an API to the internet that would allow cell phones to get VoIP technology. It would eliminate some of the crazy roaming fees that some of us encounter.
Enter Excelis, the company who is making this leap in technology. The way it works? Well, I have Cingular/AT&T. I also have free [...]

In a long awaited press release, MySQL has finally released MySQL 4.1 as it’s recommended version. Finally, there are enterprise-level features available in the popular database platform:

Subqueries and Derived Tables
GUI and Configuration Wizards for Windows and Linux providing an easier mechanism for optimization.
OpenSSL encrypted transport protocols.
Smaller memory footprint.
New GIS spatial field type for geographic [...]

It’s sort of a little oasis of 1999 in a desert of 2004, if you feel where I’m coming from. It’s wall to wall tech folks from Dot Coms and their lives revolve around this fact. Take, for instance, Jeremy Zawodny’s story
I headed up to San Francisco last night with Mark (another Yahoo) to Meet [...]