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GAO rules against homeland security contract
The decision could be significant for agencies reevaluating their IT programs in the wake of Office of Management and Budget reviews launched last year.

Satellite firms pitch the government on off-the-shelf com...
The offers follow the release of an Obama administration policy urging agencies to avoid building satellites from scratch.

Demystifying Virginia's redistricting
Virginia lawmakers tasked with drawing new boundaries for all state legislative and congressional districts have a vested interest in preserving the status quo. But new open-source software is demystifing and democratizing the process, with poli-sci professors and students claiming that they've got

Verizon Wireless to start selling first 4G phone
NEW YORK -- Verizon Wireless says it will start selling its first phone capable of using its new, faster "4G" data network.


Sorry, older folks, but by some business strategies, you'...
The end of the D.C. telephone weather line is just another example of the contempt the young show for the old.

Bypassing the big guys to get broadband
For Fauquier residents overlooked by telecom companies, a local man has come up with a way to bring broadband to his neighbors.

'Net zero' house to be built in Maryland should produce a...
It sounds like an idea out of a sci-fi novel: a house that can produce as much energy each year as it uses. But most buyers aren't interested in houses from a sci-fi novel, and they aren't much interested in paying extra for them, either.

Lego contests put minority students on a mission
A small but growing number of predominantly African American student groups are coming to Lego robotics competitions.


Unemployment rate slipped in Md. and Va. in January, held...
The unemployment rate fell slightly in Maryland and Virginia in January but remained steady in the District, according to Labor Department data released Thursday. The data show strong job growth in D.C. and Virginia but losses in Maryland.

U.S. funding tech firms that help Mideast dissidents evad...
The Obama administration may not be lending arms to dissidents in the Middle East, but it is offering aid in another critical way: helping them surf the Web anonymously as they seek to overthrow their governments.

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