Two months ago, Google filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Interior Department after the department picked Microsoft for a new e-mail system. Now, a federal judge in DC has issued a preliminary injunction in that case preventing the selection of the Microsoft system and ordering Interior to investigate and correct deficiencies in the bidding process. [...]
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Googles Whines About Being Left Out of USDA Cloud Procurement
This week, Microsoft says it signed a deal with the U.S. Department of Agriculture to provide online email, web conferencing, document collaboration, and instant messaging to the 120,000 USDA employees. The deal, worth $27 million over three years, is part of a GSA Schedule contract with Dell (which bid the Microsoft Online Services solution in [...]
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ICE Goes All Homeland on 82 Web Sites
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) seized 82 domain names of commercial websites allegedly engaged in the illegal sale and distribution of counterfeit goods and copyrighted works. Sites like cheapscarfshop.com and mydreamwatches.com. But Number 80 on the list has drawn some attention, as torrent-finder.com supposedly did not actually host this kind of content. [From ICE.gov]
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SIPRNET Way Cooler Than Internet
NOT SO SECRET DAILYCRUD 000001 SIPDIS E.O. 12958: DECL: 12/01/2010 TAGS: WTF SUBJECT: PSST, DONT TELL ANYONE ABOUT THIS WikiLeaks press-released a pending leak of 251,287 U.S. diplomatic cables fetched from SIPRNET, probably via USB-based memory stick. Only 220 of those cables were available at the time of this post, but many more have been [...]
All GSA Staff Social Security Numbers Accidentally E-mailed Out
A GSA employee accidentally sent the names and Social Security numbers of the agency’s entire staff of over 12,000 people to a private e-mail address. GSA notified employees of the breach via security alert e-mails, “which employees said they received frequently and often ignored.” Sounds like a strong culture of information security at GSA! Casey [...]
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Fast Customs Immigration at Dulles Airport
The U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency has rolled out their Global Entry program to speed up the customs process at some U.S. airports. To join the program, you pay $100, pass a government background check, and get fingerprinted. Then, you can use a kiosk instead of waiting in line for a customs agent. At [...]
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Dial "O(bama)" for Wake Up Call
Our POTUS revealed to Ryan Seacrest that he gets a hotel-style wake up call every morning instead of using any of that new-fangled alarm technology. [Via Politico]
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Dept. of Interior Asks for Microsoft Cloud, Gets Lawsuit from Google Cloud
Google and Onix Network Corporation (of Ohio) have sued Uncle Sam, specifically the U.S. Department of the Interior, complaining of the department’s limited source RFQ that demands the Microsoft cloud for messaging and collaboration services. The request for quote (RFQ No. 503786) specifies the Microsoft Business Productivity Suite – Federal (called BPOS-Federal, because you know [...]
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