{"id":5707,"date":"2012-08-19T15:46:50","date_gmt":"2012-08-19T20:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=5707"},"modified":"2012-08-19T15:46:50","modified_gmt":"2012-08-19T20:46:50","slug":"u-s-department-of-state-cancels-large-kindle-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=5707","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Department of State cancels large Kindle contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The Kindle was identified as the only product that met the department&#8217;s requirements, according to the Justification and Approval (J&amp;A) for other than full and open competition. Apple&#8217;s iPad was rejected because it fell under the tablet or computer category rather than as a single-function e-reader, and had additional features that &#8220;are not only unnecessary, but also present unacceptable security and usability risks for the government&#8217;s needs in this particular project.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itworld.com\/government\/290085\/us-department-state-cancels-large-kindle-contract\">U.S. Department of State cancels large Kindle contract | ITworld<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kindle was identified as the only product that met the department&#8217;s requirements, according to the Justification and Approval (J&amp;A) for other than full and open competition. Apple&#8217;s iPad was rejected because it fell under the tablet or computer category &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=5707\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[370,765,115],"class_list":["post-5707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-ereader","tag-kindle","tag-tablets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5708,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5707\/revisions\/5708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}