Day archives: April 23rd, 2011

GeoEVSE Forum: government-industry collaboration committed to establishing a repository of public electric vehicle supply equipment

DOE: The GeoEVSE Forum is a government-industry collaboration committed to establishing a repository of public electric vehicle supply equipment (EVSE) location data for use by consumers and industry. A network of public charging stations, or EVSE, gives plug-in electric vehicle drivers alternatives to home charging and can extend driving range. Recognizing that these drivers need …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

Report on Major Outage Impacting Cloud Computing Services

NYT: “As technical problems interrupted computer services provided by Amazon for a second day on Friday, industry analysts said the troubles would prompt many companies to reconsider relying on remote computers beyond their control…Amazon set up a side business five years ago offering computing resources to businesses from its network of sophisticated data centers. Today, …

Subjects: E-Commerce, Internet

Tracking Citizen Whereabouts Using SmartPhone Logs

Declan McCullagh,Chief political correspondent, CNET: How police have obtained iPhone, iPad tracking logs “Law enforcement agencies have known since at least last year that an iPhone or iPad surreptitiously records its owner’s approximate location, and have used that geolocation data to aid criminal investigations. Apple has never publicized the undocumented feature buried deep within the …

Subjects: Congress, Cybercrime, E-Commerce, Privacy