http://www.baselinemag.com Government - RSS Feeds en-us Sat, 04 Jul 2009 16:45:37 -0400 Sat, 04 Jul 2009 16:45:37 -0400 Fri, 19 Jun 2009 10:55:48 -0400 http://www.baselinemag.com/c/a/Government/Understanding-Governance-Risk-and-Compliance-226237/?kc=rss - ...]]> http://www.baselinemag.com/c/a/Government/Understanding-Governance-Risk-and-Compliance-226237/?kc=rss Fri, 19 Jun 2009 09:57:18 -0400 http://www.baselinemag.com/c/a/Government/Virtualized-Bureaucracy-370897/?kc=rss - ...]]> http://www.baselinemag.com/c/a/Government/Virtualized-Bureaucracy-370897/?kc=rss Wed, 22 Apr 2009 17:34:16 -0400 http://www.baselinemag.com/c/a/Government/Community-Service-301888/?kc=rss - The Department of Defense (DOD) is using technology solutions to serve communities of interest. These communities need ways for their officers to manage semantically complex streams of communications-based data, as well as to get the many databases that are related to their mission to interact in a ...]]> http://www.baselinemag.com/c/a/Government/Community-Service-301888/?kc=rss Thu, 16 Apr 2009 18:07:39 -0400 http://www.baselinemag.com/c/a/Government/Iowas-IT-Integration-657095/?kc=rss - For any government agency, a paradox has always existed when it comes to transactions involving contracted services: Vendors are owed payment for work delivered, but some of those same vendors owe money to their government customers, for various taxes, fines and fees. In the case of state governme...]]> http://www.baselinemag.com/c/a/Government/Iowas-IT-Integration-657095/?kc=rss Mon, 13 Apr 2009 11:56:08 -0400 http://www.baselinemag.com/c/a/Government/Governing-IT-in-Government-854726/?kc=rss - When it comes to the business of government, budgets remain as squeezed as those in private industry. But agencies arent abandoning the concept of pursuing advances in IT. In fact, state, local and federal customers are seeking the latest IT products and services that can help them save or make mill...]]> http://www.baselinemag.com/c/a/Government/Governing-IT-in-Government-854726/?kc=rss Mon, 19 Jan 2009 17:57:31 -0500 http://www.baselinemag.com/c/a/Government/Presidents-and-Technology/?kc=rss - Now that President Barack Obama is settling into the White House, how connected from an IT perspective - will he remain? During his run for the presidency, Obama was clearly a tech-savvy campaigner, who used e-mail and innovative Web 2.0 technologies to stay in touch with his staff and supporters....]]> http://www.baselinemag.com/c/a/Government/Presidents-and-Technology/?kc=rss Mon, 01 Dec 2008 13:17:49 -0500 http://www.baselinemag.com/c/a/Government/US-Entered-Recession-December-2007/?kc=rss - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The economy slipped into recession in December 2007, the National Bureau of Economic Research, the prestigious private research institute that is regarded as the arbiter of U.S. recessions, declared on Monday. The NBER's business cycle dating committee said its members me...]]> http://www.baselinemag.com/c/a/Government/US-Entered-Recession-December-2007/?kc=rss Tue, 25 Nov 2008 13:43:17 -0500 http://www.baselinemag.com/c/a/Government/Fed-Throws-Fresh-Lifeline-to-Financial-System/?kc=rss - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve threw a massive life-line to consumers on Tuesday with two new programs aimed at making it easier for them to obtain loans for homes, cars and on credit cards. Under the new mortgage program, the Fed will buy up to $100 billion of debt issued by govern...]]> http://www.baselinemag.com/c/a/Government/Fed-Throws-Fresh-Lifeline-to-Financial-System/?kc=rss Mon, 24 Nov 2008 14:27:22 -0500 http://www.baselinemag.com/c/a/Government/Settlement-with-ExAIG-Chief-Breaks-Down/?kc=rss - NEW YORK (Reuters) - Efforts to settle a long-running fraud lawsuit against American International Group Inc's (AIG.N: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) former chief, Maurice quot;Hank quot; Greenberg, have broken down amid the insurer's financial woes, a lawyer from the New York attorney gen...]]> http://www.baselinemag.com/c/a/Government/Settlement-with-ExAIG-Chief-Breaks-Down/?kc=rss Mon, 24 Nov 2008 09:09:24 -0500 http://www.baselinemag.com/c/a/Government/PresidentElect-Obama-Moves-to-Reassure-Market/?kc=rss - WASHINGTON/LIMA (Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Barack Obama moved to reassure an anxious world over the weekend even before he takes office, picking two respected policymakers to lead the fight against the global financial crisis and setting out his battle plan. Obama, who will inherit the wor...]]> http://www.baselinemag.com/c/a/Government/PresidentElect-Obama-Moves-to-Reassure-Market/?kc=rss Mon, 24 Nov 2008 08:42:23 -0500 http://www.baselinemag.com/c/a/Government/US-Rescues-Citi-with-20-Billion-Capital/?kc=rss - NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. government has bailed out Citigroup Inc, agreeing to shoulder most of the potential losses on $306 billion of high risk assets and inject $20 billion of new capital, in its biggest rescue of a bank yet. Citigroup's rescue marks the latest government effort to conta...]]> http://www.baselinemag.com/c/a/Government/US-Rescues-Citi-with-20-Billion-Capital/?kc=rss Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:51:47 -0500 http://www.baselinemag.com/c/a/Government/Democrats-Set-December-2-Deadline-for-Automakers-Plan/?kc=rss - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate and House Democratic leaders at a news conference: * U.S. Senate Democratic leader Reid says quot;the sad reality is that no one has come up with a (auto) plan quot; that can be passed by house and senate, signed by president. * Reid says will give automakers anoth...]]> http://www.baselinemag.com/c/a/Government/Democrats-Set-December-2-Deadline-for-Automakers-Plan/?kc=rss Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:33:03 -0500 http://www.baselinemag.com/c/a/Government/Auto-Execs-Set-for-More-Grilling-on-Aid-Plan/?kc=rss - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Auto executives headed to Capitol Hill for a second day to argue their case for a $25 billion aid package in the face of mounting political opposition to another huge government bailout. The Wednesday hearings are slated to start at about 10 a.m. before the House Financial...]]> http://www.baselinemag.com/c/a/Government/Auto-Execs-Set-for-More-Grilling-on-Aid-Plan/?kc=rss Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:12:26 -0500 http://www.baselinemag.com/c/a/Government/Auto-Executives-Take-Case-for-Bailout-to-Congress/?kc=rss - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate Democrats took the first step toward bailing out the nation's crippled auto industry on Monday by proposing a $25 billion loan program, a plan that faces stiff political headwinds with millions of jobs potentially riding on the outcome. With the year's congressiona...]]> http://www.baselinemag.com/c/a/Government/Auto-Executives-Take-Case-for-Bailout-to-Congress/?kc=rss Mon, 17 Nov 2008 11:29:11 -0500 http://www.baselinemag.com/c/a/Government/Lawmaker-Plans-Bill-on-Web-Neutrality/?kc=rss - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A senior U.S. lawmaker plans to introduce a bill in January that would bar Internet providers like AT amp;T Inc from blocking Web content, setting up a renewed battle over so-called network neutrality. Sen. Byron Dorgan, a North Dakota Democrat, believes a law is essentia...]]> http://www.baselinemag.com/c/a/Government/Lawmaker-Plans-Bill-on-Web-Neutrality/?kc=rss