Dozens of cities have considered imposing a tax on video streaming technology. But there's a push at the state Capitol to put an end to that possibility.
Will collocating government services with movie times and local restaurant ratings improve citizen-to-government engagement? Los Angeles aims to find out.
California is one of the most oft-threatened cybersecurity targets in the world, according to Eli Owen, deputy commander of the State Threat Assessment Center at California’s Office of Emergency Services.
There are seven major IT projects Sacramento County’s Technology Department is currently focused on, county CIO Rami Zakaria said during this week's Techwire Industry Briefing. Here's a summary of each of them.
Sacramento County CIO Rami Zakaria gave an 80-minute presentation during a Techwire Industry Briefing on Tuesday morning, during which he described how the county's IT department is divided into divisions working toward five key goals.
Economists and researchers gathered Thursday afternoon in Sacramento to discuss where tech could take the world generally and California specifically. The forum, Driving or Driven? California and the World of the Future, included an international expert, a state economist and a private-sector researcher. Each presented their version of hot topics for California's future.
Multiple state agencies gathered Monday at the CalData showcase to discuss how agencies are using data to improve operations. The goal of CalData is to eventually create a toolkit for training employees to use data effectively, getting more and more state employees engaged with available information.
SB 649, the Wireless Telecommunications Facilities bill, would define small cells according to a federal standard that describes the tech as a wireless object with antennas no larger than three cubic feet in area.
John Stone, formerly vice president of Apple Inc., was named chief operating officer for Fantag in February. In 1999 Stone helped secure $25 million in funding to begin his first venture, PowerSchool, which was later sold to Apple.
The city and county of San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors is scheduled to vote Tuesday afternoon on a $36.3 million contract amendment with Cerner Health Services that will support the transition to a new, unified electronic health record system.
The new system is being developed by by Xerox State and Local Solutions Inc. through a contract that will continue through July 2023 for a total of just over $1 million, according to information State Parks provided to Techwire.
The city of Los Angeles is now offering government information through Amazon Alexa, the online retailer's voice-activated digital assistant used across the company's apps and devices. The skill will allow Alexa users to verbally access information about the city.
Sacramento State launched a GPS map feature this spring that allows students to track the four shuttles that serve the campus. The university partnered with DoubleMap to create an embedded URL reached through the Sac State app. Software licenses and hardware cost less than $50,000.
California’s new school dashboard launched Wednesday, six months after it was approved, in response to the Every Student Succeeds Act’s federal mandate to develop a new performance metric.
Assemblymember Evan Low, D-Silicon Valley, was named 2017 Legislator of the Year by the Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association at a reception Tuesday evening.
Created in 2005, California’s Office of Systems Integration and the projects under it — the portfolio — have a current-year budget of $763 million and about 300 employees. Like many of the programs it manages, much of it is largely unknown to outsiders. So here’s a summary of the office and the projects it’s managing.
Caltrans, California’s Department of Transportation, continues to build out its QuickMap application for real-time traffic information. An iOS version of QuickMap was released in February, after an Android version was made available in 2016. QuickMap originally was a Web map created in 2011.
