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Google isn’t the only American technology company upset with policy in China. A number of tech associations are complaining that new Chinese procurement rules essentially lock American companies out of significant business opportunities with the Chinese government. In November, China instituted a catalog of products that receive significant preferences for procurement by Chinese government agencies. […]

The U.S. Senate plans a March hearing on technology companies’ business practices in Internet-restricting countries. Executives from Google and other tech firms, as well as administration officials, are expected to testify about their efforts to promote Internet freedom. The exact date of the hearing has not been set.As a prologue to the hearing, Sen. Dick […]

MeriTalk announced Feb. 1 a free online tool that allows federal agencies to quantify their potential cloud savings. The calculator provides agencies with a read on their various cloud model options-private, community and public-and the suitability and financial impact of their cloud model choice.The calculator is built to leverage federal agencies’ data inputs from their […]

NASA began the second day of its forget the moon campaign by introducing what the agency called the seven new pioneers of space, the private companies that are developing support transport of astronauts to and from low Earth orbit. NASA said it awarded $50 million in Space Act Agreements to the companies as one of […]

Southwest Airlines aims to complete the installation of Wi-Fi equipment on its full fleet of 540 airplanes within two years. Using technology from Row 44, Southwest plans to begin the installation in the second quarter. “We expect to install equipment on around 15 aircraft per month initially, with the goal of increasing that number to […]

President Obama used a YouTube appearance Feb. 1 to again state his support for network neutrality. Following Obama’s Jan. 27 State of the Union address, YouTube collected questions and votes on questions for five days. The crowdsourced interview was the first given by the president since his speech.A question involving network neutrality received more than […]

The Obama administration did its best Feb. 1 to put the best possible spin on its proposal to cancel the Constellation program designed to return Americans to the moon by 2020, but political opposition was still loud and vociferous.Released Monday to Congress, Obama’s 2011 NASA budget calls for increasing the space agency’s budget by $276 […]

With the space shuttle fleet currently scheduled for retirement at the end of the year, Endeavour begins the farewell tour with a Feb. 7 launch from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, headed to the International Space Shuttle. Five shuttle missions are planned in 2010; the last flight is currently targeted for launch in September.The flight will […]

The numbers aren’t adding up for the Highway Loss Data Institute. Comparing insurance claims for crash damage in four U.S. jurisdictions before and after bans on driving and using handheld phones, researchers found no reduction in crashes after the bans.“HLDI researchers calculated monthly collision claims … for vehicles up to three years old during the […]

The Obama administration has axed NASA plans to return to the moon by 2020. The president’s 2011 budget, to be released Feb. 1, includes no funding for the Constellation program, the controversial Bush-era plan to establish a lunar outpost for future space exploration.Instead, the administration proposes to keep NASA focused on extending the life of […]

Hospital data centers may not be ready for the demand that more patients and digital information will create, according to a survey of hospital IT executives at small and midsize hospitals in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, China, France and Germany conducted by HIMSS Analytics on behalf of Dell.The Healthcare Enterprise Survey showed that […]

Using Mayo Clinic analytics technology with collaboration from IBM’s Medical Imaging Informatics Innovation Center has proven a 95 percent accuracy rate in detecting aneurysms, compared with 70 percent for manual interpretation. The project has examined more than 15 million images from thousands of patients since the project began in early July. Traditionally, a patient suspected […]