A new Cisco study estimates that public sector organizations could generate $4.6 trillion in value from Internet-connected objects over the next 10 years. State agencies could generate $682 billion in value by applying the Internet of Everything to public services and cities worldwide could also derive $1.9 trillion through the IoE over the next decade, Cisco said Wednesday. “With […] More

An Orbital Sciences cargo spacecraft launched from NASA‘s Wallop’s Flight Facility in Virginia Thursday to carry supplies to the International Space Station. An Antares rocket lifted off from Wallops and will transport 2,780 pounds of load including science experiments, crew supplies and spare parts to the ISS, NASA said Thursday. The mission is Orbital’s first contracted cargo delivery […] More

Jacobs has won a $7.6 million contract to redesign a NJ Transit rail yard to serve as a permanent location for storing and repairing state public transport system’s trains, NorthJersey.com reported Thursday. Karen Rouse writes work will involve extending the Middlesex County rail yard to connect with the neighboring Mile Run rail yard, which is […] More

The new website developed by the Northern Virginia Technology Council, the Consumer Electronics Association and Monster Worldwide to help veterans find work in the information technology sector is now live. USTechVets.org is designed with a skills translator to help users match their backgrounds with available jobs and built to contain a database of more than 800,000 […] More

Thales Group has signed a deal with East Japan Railway Co. to provide a communications-based train control system in order for the operator to manage railway traffic. JR East intends for Thales’ CTBC platform to replace the legacy system used to monitor the Joban rail line connecting the Japanese cities of Ayase and Toride, Thales […] More

The Bank Administration Institute has selected a cloud service run by XO Communications to manage data backup and disaster recovery processes. BAI intends for the XO Enterprise Cloud to help virtualize and replicate systems, as well as to reduce recovery time objectives to two days from two weeks, XO announced Tuesday. XO Enterprise Cloud is designed as […] More

Microsoft has sought to build its customer relationship management portfolio with a move to purchase cloud-based customer service software company Parature. The acquisition will see Parature’s customer self-service suite implemented as part of the Microsoft Dynamics CRM with a goal to engage users in an environment with large numbers of networks and connections, Microsoft said Tuesday. […] More

Richard Genovese, Ciber executive vice president and chief operating officer, will leave the company to pursue other opportunities after two years in the COO role. The company will release its fourth-quarter and full-year 2013 earnings results and host a conference call on Feb. 11, Ciber announced Tuesday. “[Genovese] has played an instrumental role in our […] More

Daryl Woodard, CEO of Tulsa, Okla.-based business and managed services provider SageNet, will also serve as chief executive of the recently-acquired Spacenet, a Washington-headquartered network services contractor. The transaction completed in December 2013 and both companies aim to complete their full integration in mid- to late- 2014, Spacenet announced Monday. Glenn Katz, outgoing Spacenet CEO, […] More

Synergy Research Group has released a new report on market performance of colocation providers in the U.S., Fierce Telecom reported Friday. Sean Buckley writes Equinix and CenturyLink‘s Savvis subsidiary are among the dominant players U.S. colocation market through continued surges in colocation and managed service earnings. Equinix generated $517 million in recurring revenues for colocation, […] More

IBM and Technicolor have partnered to introduce a cloud-based monitoring and management service for the consumer electronics market, IT Pro Portal reported Friday. Jamie Hinks writes the Virdata service is built for customers to manage Internet-connected objects and machine-to-machine services using device and application tools such as big data analytics stacks. Vince Pizzica, senior executive […] More

Exelis has partnered with live traffic video aggregator TrafficLand to produce real-time weather condition data for joint customers in the U.S. Exelis will consolidate its weather intelligence and imaging technology with TrafficLand’s network that covers more than 15,000 U.S. Transportation Department traffic cameras, TrafficLand said Monday. Lawrence Nelson, CEO of TrafficLand, said the partnership aims […] More