IBM has selected 24 cities around the world to award its Smarter Cities Challenge grant.  Over 200 cities applied and out of those, 8 US cities were selected, one of them being New Orleans.  The Smarter Cities Challenge was created by IBM in 2010 as a competitive grant program that focused on helping metropolitan areas [...]

One of the mysterious of Google Maps is when they are updated.  No one knows for sure, but there are speculations that Google snaps shots every 6 to 9 months but no documentation has been found to prove this.  Updating Google Maps is one thing but what about Google Maps Street View?  Street View was [...]

We get a lot of Facebook questions, Twitter DM, e-mails and sometimes phone calls with tech questions.  Questions about hardware, software, websites, etc.  So we figured that we'd help out our community by offering a new service called: NOLA Tech Talk!  Starting on February 1st, you'll be able to submit your technology questions to us [...]

Since Mayor Landrieu took the helm of our unique city his administration has set sail with the mission of taking stock and fixing outstanding problems, including the online representation of the New Orleans. The mayor's office has been busy correcting backend server issues left by the previous occupants of the building on the corner or Perdido and [...]

With all the technology problems that New Orleans city government has had to endure lately, they now have another one.  According to Ariella Cohen, from The Lens NOLA, a city computer server crashed, resulting in the lost of e-mails and documents for many city employees.  The Microsoft Windows-based server was being utilized to store documents [...]