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NYPD, Microsoft unveil all-seeing downtown surveillance system

The Domain Awareness System analyzes data from thousands of cameras, sensors and crime databases in real time, delivering a comprehensive view of threats and activity.

  • By Rutrell Yasin

NYC adds free WiFi to pay phones, making them useful again

The pilot program expands the city's public wireless access, with costs being covered by the pay phone providers.

  • By GCN Staff

Anonymous comments: Some NY lawmakers say no; what say you?

A bill in the New York legislature would eliminate anonymous comments posted online. Aside from First Amendment concerns for the general public, what would such a law mean to government employees?

  • By Donald White

DHS R&D program has a disconnect with first responders' needs, House panel told

The department has a program to help develop technology for first responders, but matching the money with state and local agencies' requirements has proved difficult.

  • By William Jackson

NYC to try replacing pay phones with touch-screen kiosks

An upcoming pilot program in New York City will test the feasibility of replacing pay phones with interactive information kiosks.

  • By GCN Staff

Big Apple in .nyc state of mind with plans for its own TLD

New York City is set to take advantage of ICANN's new rules allowing an expanded number of top-level domains.

  • By GCN Staff

Can simulated attack on NYC power grid bridge the partisan divide?

The demonstration for senators is designed to stress the urgency of passing cybersecurity legislation sooner rather than later.

  • By Kevin McCaney

New York sues big banks over mortgage database

The state's attorney general says Bank of America, Wells Fargo and JPMorgan Chase used MERS "as an end-run around" reporting requirements in pursuing foreclosures.

  • By Kathleen Hickey

Police testing long-range scanner to 'frisk' for guns on the street

The New York Police Department, which is developing the device with DOD, wants to use terahertz wave technology to detect weapons from as far as 80 feet away.

  • By Kathleen Hickey

NYC opens first high school for software engineering

City aims to help fill the need for programmers, whether the students go to college or not.

  • By Kathleen Hickey

One for 911: NYC puts police, fire, medical calls on integrated system

All of the city's dispatchers are for the first time on the same system, which can handle up to 50,000 calls an hour.

  • By Kevin McCaney

NY state to proceed with student database

New York's on-again, off-again bid to join a multistate database of students' academic information is back on.

  • By GCN Staff

'Largest' ID theft ring, trading in Apple products, busted in NY

A multiethnic identity theft ring in Queens used stolen and forged credit card data to buy and resell Apple electronics.

  • By Kevin McCaney

NYC police unit to track criminals via Facebook, Twitter

The city forms a new unit to track social media sites, where criminals have been known to announce crimes or brag about them afterward.

  • By Alice Lipowicz
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New York police use IT to detect 'dirty bombs'

A command center in Manhattan will monitor 2,000 mobile radiation detectors carried by officers around the city.

  • By GCN Staff

Cities could cash in by selling domain names

Municipal governments will be able to register their names as top-level domains and make money by selling second-level domains to businesses.

  • By GCN Staff

NYC holds app contest for people who can't write apps

A contest sponsored by the city of New York will pay $350 for the best idea-driven Web, desktop or mobile applications.

  • By GCN Staff

Hospital identifies, tracks patients with palm reader

Officials at NYU's Langone Medical Center say using biometric infrared scanning to create digital palm images is the most efficient, accurate way to ensure patients get the right treatment.

  • By Kathleen Hickey

AT&T to provide free hot spots in New York City parks

Users of the Wi-Fi hot spots in New York City parks won't have to be AT&T customers and there won't be ads. A log-in registration won't be required, but users must agree to terms of service.

  • By GCN Staff

NY CIO: In the future, states will share systems

Acting New York State CIO Daniel Chan is seeking ways to show IT's value to taxpayers by using cloud technologies and sharing systems among states.

  • By Paul McCloskey

To take the next IT step, agencies have to get creative

Governments will have to resort to some atypical financial and management techniques to acquire cloud services under current economic conditions.

  • By Paul McCloskey