Roy Mark

The New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s IT department had a problem after creating a 4,500-page Web site that was less than the sum of its parts. The City of Seattle’s network was unable to successfully screen out spam. The District of Columbia’s network was, well, simply dysfunctional.All three government agencies ultimately turned to the cloud […]

Mobile push synchronization platform and service provider Visto acquired Motorola’s Good Technology Feb. 24. Motorola acquired Good in 2007 for more than $400 million in hopes of challenging Research In Motion’s dominance in the enterprise mobile e-mail market.Visto offers a full range of mobile messaging solutions for enterprises through mobile operators and OEM handset manufacturers. […]

NASA plans to launch Feb. 24 its first spacecraft solely dedicated to studying atmospheric carbon dioxide emissions, sending the Orbiting Carbon Observatory into low orbit to measure atmospheric carbon dioxide. The mission is to map the globe from space every 16 days for at least two years in search of human and natural carbon dioxide […]

NASAs Latest (and Greenest) Mission Focuses on Climate Change by Roy Mark Will NASAs Green Space Shot Sink? The Idea: A Space Hunt for Carbon Dioxide Sinks The Orbiting Carbon Observatory will study carbon dioxide sources (where it comes from) and sinks (where it is pulled out of the atmosphere and stored). Carbon dioxide is […]

Perhaps the $19 billion in the economic stimulus dedicated to health IT initiatives will move venture capitalists, but the much touted new health care economy is likely to be slow out of the blocks without a large increase in venture funding for health care innovation. Despite widespread consensus on the need for health IT reform, […]

With federal agencies poised to dispense the results of America’s largest spending bill ever, President Obama promises that the process of determining what gets funding and what doesn’t will be the most transparent in U.S. history. The White House has already established the Recovery.gov Web site, and on Feb. 18 the Office of Management and […]

While Verizon Wireless is using the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, to tout the 2010 rollout of its Long Term Evolution 4G network, WiMax providers and vendors are making every effort possible to remind the wireless industry that WiMax-the other 4G technology-is already up and running.Prior to the Mobile World Congress, the WiMax Forum […]

Verizon Wireless said Feb. 18 Ericsson and Alcatel-Lucent will be the primary vendors for the company’s initial LTE (Long Term Evolution) network deployments in the United States. With a target deployment date of 2010, Ericsson and Alcatel-Lucent will build the underlying infrastructure for Verizon Wireless to become the first wireless company to offer commercial LTE-based […]

Two New Jersey IT services firms allegedly used shell businesses in two small Iowa towns-Coon Rapids and Clive-as part of an elaborate H-1B visa fraud scheme that began to unravel Feb. 11 with the arrests of 11 individuals in seven states. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, the scheme involved hiring college-educated foreign workers […]

Nokia said Feb. 17 it plans to package an integrated Skype voice over IP client with the company’s flagship N series smartphone devices. Skype will first be incorporated into the Nokia N97 phone by the third quarter of this year. Nokia and Skype made the announcement at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain.Nokia N97 […]

Is Barack Obama the Most Tech-Savvy President of All Time? by Roy Mark Setting the Tone: George Washington The General, as even Martha called him, had an unabiding passion for science and technology—particularly if he could make a buck out out the deal—forever setting the tone for American innovation. His boldest venture was an attempt […]

Federal authorities have busted an alleged nationwide H-1B scam ring, arresting 11 people in seven states and bringing a 10-count indictment against a New Jersey IT services company. The indictment charges Vision Systems Group with one count of conspiracy and eight counts of mail fraud and seeks $7.4 million in forfeitures.The individual arrests were carried […]