Monthly archives: December, 2010

New GAO Reports: Aviation Security, Displaced Iraqis, FEMA Flood Maps, USPS

September 11: World Trade Center Health Programs Business Process Center Proposal and Subsequent Data Collection, GAO-11-243R, December 03, 2010 Aviation Security: DHS Has Taken Steps to Enhance International Aviation Security and Facilitate Compliance with International Standards, but Challenges Remain, GAO-11-238T, December 02, 2010 Displaced Iraqis: Integrated International Strategy Needed to Reintegrate Iraq’s Internally Displaced and …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

Facebook's plan – posed to be the web's virtual driver's licence

FT.com: Facebooks grand plan for the future: “This is a somewhat different Mark Zuckerberg to the one the public knew just a year ago. In recent months he has transformed from an awkward wunderkind with a preternatural ability to anticipate where the web is going, into an amicable executive unafraid of laying out his grand …

Subjects: E-Commerce, Internet, Knowledge Management, Search Engines

Global "Nuclear Fuel Bank Established with Buffett Endowment

Background via International Atomic Energy Agency: “A nuclear “fuel bank” – where the IAEA administers a nuclear fuel reserve…would assure a back-up supply for power reactors throughout the world on a non-discriminatory, non-political basis reducing the need for countries to develop their own uranium enrichment technologies at a time when concerns about nuclear proliferation are …

Subjects: Government Documents

Why the Library of Congress Is Blocking Wikileaks

Follow up to WikiLeaks Releases Secret US Embassy Cables, this news release: “The news media are reporting today, accurately, that the Library of Congress is blocking access to the Wikileaks site across its computer systems, including those for use by patrons in the reading rooms. I wanted to provide here the same statement weve been …

Subjects: E-Government, Internet

BLS: Unemployment rate edges up in November

Employment Situation November 2010: The unemployment rate edged up to 9.8 percent in November, and nonfarm payroll employment was little changed (+39,000), the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Temporary help services and health care continued to add jobs over the month, while employment fell in retail trade. Employment in most major industries changed …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

Verizon White Paper: Escaping from Microsofts Protected Mode Internet Explorer

Escaping from Microsofts Protected Mode Internet Explorer – Evaluating a potential security boundary, November 2010 “In Internet Explorer 7 and Windows Vista, Microsoft introduced a new browser security feature called Protected Mode. According to Microsoft, this mechanism significantly reduces the ability of an attack [against Internet Explorer] to write, alter or destroy data on the …

Subjects: Cybercrime, Internet, Microsoft, PC Security

U.S. DOT Proposes Rear View Visibility Rule to Protect Kids and the Elderly

News release: “The U.S. Department of Transportation today proposed a new safety regulation to help eliminate blind zones behind vehicles that can hide the presence of pedestrians, especially young children and the elderly. The proposed rule was required by Congress as part of the Cameron Gulbransen Kids Transportation Safety Act of 2007. Two-year old Cameron …

Subjects: Government Documents

Agencies issue final appraisal and evaluation guidelines

News release: “The federal financial regulatory agencies issued final supervisory guidance today on sound practices by financial institutions for real estate appraisals and evaluations. Financial institutions use reliable appraisals and evaluations to determine the value of collateral for mortgages and other loans; appraisals and evaluations are integral to institutions’ real estate lending. Institutions base credit …

Subjects: Government Documents

Federal Reserve announces new interactive graphics feature of Data Download Program

“The Federal Reserve Board on Thursday announced a new feature of its Data Download Program that allows users to create custom charts. Users will now be able to create and view interactive graphics of data packages from the program before downloading the underlying data and charts. The charting feature allows users to view multiple data …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

GSA First Fed to Choose Google Hosted E-Mail Service

Follow up to Google Files Bid Protest Against Dept. of Interior Over Hosted Email and Collaboration Services news that “the U.S. General Services Administration will become the first federal agency to use a hosted e-mail service, choosing Google, Unisys and others to offer the service.” GSA Becomes First Federal Agency to Move Email to the …

Subjects: E-Government, E-Mail, Government Documents, Knowledge Management

Federal Reserve releases detailed information about transactions conducted to stabilize markets during the recent financial crisis

News release: “The Federal Reserve Board on Wednesday posted detailed information on its public website about more than 21,000 individual credit and other transactions conducted to stabilize markets during the recent financial crisis, restore the flow of credit to American families and businesses, and support economic recovery and job creation in the aftermath of the …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

Federal Reserve Beige Book, December 1, 2010

Full Report – Beige Book, December 1, 2010 – Summary of Commentary on Current Economic Conditions by Federal Reserve District, and link to reports by Districts: “Reports from the twelve Federal Reserve Districts indicate that the economy continued to improve, on balance, during the reporting period from early/mid-October to mid-November. Economic activity in the Boston, …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

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