Currently viewing the category:
"Government"
It’s Connecticut Beer Week and local brewers will be joined with tourist officials and state legislators will be rolling out an app to help people find their way along the CT Beer Trail.
The press conference will be held in Room 1B of the State Legislative Office Building at 11 [...]
The State’s Attorney General is asking Living Social for information after last week’s disclosed theft of the personal information for 50 million customers.
LivingSocial.com is a daily deals website that is partly owned by Amazon.com. According to AllthingsD.com, the company disclosed the data breach in an email to [...]
We email, upload and look at massive volumes of information on the web. Who is taking care to protect your information online in a government inquiry? The Electronic Frontier Foundation’s third annual report on privacy and transparency is out and you might be surprised at it’s findings.
The EFF judged companies on [...]
There was plenty of talk last year after stories surfaced about employers asking for job candidate’s social media passwords. Washington state legislators were among many who proposed a bill to prevent that from happening.
The bill has passed the state Senate and was amended in the state House. Now it goes back to the Senate.
[...]
More than 40 firms from the Connecticut manufacturing and technology sectors will have exhibits on display at the state capitol next month.
The exhibits will be open from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday, May 15th, in the North Lobby of the Capitol building in Hartford.
The Connecticut Business and Industry Association [...]
If you are driving, stop. Stop reading, not driving. That leaves another 659,999 people who are texting, driving or other wise distracted at this very minute.
That’s according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. The NHSTA study said a population roughly the size of the city [...]
The Securities And Exchange Commission announced yesterday that publicly traded companies can announce news on social media sites in addition to traditional media.
The decision stems from an incident last year when Netflix CEO Reed Hastings said on his Facebook page that online viewing has gone over 1 billion hours for the first [...]
Six firms received funding from Connecticut Innovations this week. The state’s quasi public agency works with technology start ups to help them grow.
Ancera LLC (Branford, Conn.) $150,000
Green Life Guides LLC (New Haven, Conn.) $100,000
Pattern Genomics LLC (Madison, Conn.) $150.000
P2 Science Inc. [...]
The Wallingford Board of Education was presented with a draft social media policy Monday night.
An article in the Meriden Record-Journal said the draft proposal was created after consultation with the Connecticut Association of Boards of Education and the American Civil Liberties Union.
Students can be disciplined for using social media [...]
The state of Connecticut is investigating creating a new definition of renewable energy that would include low or non emission sources such as hydro electric power.
An article in the Hartford Business Journaldescribes how the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection is studying ways to bring more renewable energy production into the [...]
- -- ADVERTISEMENT --
Digital Happenings in Connecticut
May 2013 M T W T F S S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Recent Comments
- jason farr on Living Social Information Breach Investigated By AG
- evan on Study: Connecticut In Tech Top 10 Among States
- bessy on Did You Change Your Profile Pic To Support Same Sex Marriage?
- linda on Did You Change Your Profile Pic To Support Same Sex Marriage?
- Paul on Did You Change Your Profile Pic To Support Same Sex Marriage?
- -- ADVERTISEMENT --