Laptops

Bring your device, but don't forget security

A new survey finds that BYOD can expose agencies to security risks in a big way.

  • By FCW Staff

Swag: Who has it, what is it?

Executive order limiting agency 'swag' prompts a flurry of coverage.

  • By Michael Hardy

Scrutiny of IT spending: The new normal

The executive order limiting agencies' ability to provide mobile devices, among other things, is unlikely to be the last measure tightening the limits.

  • By Michael Hardy

Army plans 2012 release of major IT contract

The contract, ITES-3H, will support the Army’s requirements for commercial hardware and more.

  • By Matthew Weigelt

Why HP's withdrawal from tablet market should tick you off

Hewlett-Packard's unfortunate decisions caused the death-on-arrival of a tablet that could have been a great enterprise tool, says John Breeden, director of the GCN Lab.

  • By John Breeden II

The perils of a mobile-first IT strategy

Many FCW readers are not keen on the idea of mobile devices replacing their old-fashioned desktop computers.

  • By John Stein Monroe

Agency to standardize on mobile tech

The Federal Emergency Management Agency is standardizing its office environment to improve mobility, security and manageability.

  • By John Stein Monroe

8 agency-ready tablets

Government Computer News writes the book on tablet PCs.

  • By FCW Staff

Government IT products provider offers telework kits

New telework kits have all the gear needed to work remotely.

  • By FCW Staff

Digital Conflict: Bin Laden raid nets largest intell cache ever

The computer data seized in the raid on Osama bin Laden's hideout in Pakistan will take months to process, according to defense and intelligence insiders.

  • By Kevin Coleman

Digital Conflict: Bin Laden raid nets largest intell cache ever

The computer data seized in the raid on Osama bin Laden's hideout in Pakistan will take months to process, according to defense and intelligence insiders.

  • By Kevin Coleman

Osama bin Laden's technologies uncovered

The military searches for answers into a terrorist's thinking by devouring the technology found at the bin Laden compound.

  • By Alysha Sideman

Fiberlink's MaaS360 enables GSA telework initiatives

The General Services Administration is leveraging Fiberlink's "mobility-as-a-service" technology.

  • By FCW Staff

Would shutdown cut the digital tether?

If the government shuts down, employees must surrender their government-issued hardware.

  • By FCW Staff
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Are 'consumptive' tablets like the iPad just a fad?

A Microsoft exec basically called iPads a fad last week, saying there might not be "a persistent market" for "consumptive" tablets. The Mobile Platform asks: Is there really any such thing as a consumptive tablet?

  • By Dan Rowinski

The shadow teleworkers: How informal arrangements threaten security

Studies show the number of federal employees unofficially working remotely is outpacing the official estimates.

  • By William Jackson

Kundra's cell phone plan panned

Vivek Kundra’s idea to give feds a $2,000 smart phone subsidy prompted a sober-minded pushback from readers.

  • By John Zyskowski

Air Force reverses course on WikiLeaks guidance for military families

Air Force Public Affairs pulled the plug on its statement that family members of Air Force employees accessing WikiLeaks on a home computer may be subject to prosecution for espionage.

  • By Alysha Sideman

Counterfeit hardware poses security risk

Counterfeit computer hardware poses a significant security risk to private corporations and the military.

  • By Kevin Coleman

5 ways to ease desktop PC-induced pain

Check out these five ways agencies are trying to solve their love/hate relationship with PCs.

  • By John Moore

The trouble with truffles, and other airport security tales

In our recent stories on how, and how not, to take a laptop PC through airport security, we asked readers to recount their favorite tales of checkpoint complications. And they responded with gusto.

  • By Kevin McCaney