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Microsoft Executive Sees ‘Cloudy’ Future for Government Computing

The future of the Internet is in the cloud, and it has implications for every sector of our society, especially government and business. On Wednesday, Jan. 20, the Brookings Institution hosted a discussion on cloud computing including a keynote address from Brad Smith, senior vice president and general counsel of Microsoft Corp. Smith unveiled a [...]


Plethora of Social Media Tools, but not Twitter, Launch with Apps.Gov

Scribd, SlideShare and 19 other social media tools are featured on Apps.gov, the General Services Administration’s new government cloud computing Web site that launched today. U.S. Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra announced the site, writing in a post on the White House Blog: Apps.gov is an online storefront for federal agencies to quickly browse and [...]