Power User: You can get a commanding view in Windows 2000
Power users who miss the convenience of MS-DOS commands can still find them under Microsoft Windows 2000.
Sun seeks open-source ideas
Sun Microsystems Inc. is leading an effort to do for peer-to-peer computing what the Hypertext Transfer Protocol and HTML did for the Web.
USGS lab's system is good to the last drop
A customized commercial laboratory application is keeping test results in order at a Geological Survey water quality lab in Denver. USGS officials hope it will bring in more fee revenue by increasing sample loads.
Internaut: ICANN says, 'I can't, not any longer'
The federal government gave up managing the Internet Domain Name System root in 1999. Now the job may be handed back to the government or to an international body with multigovernment sponsorship.
Sign Language
Washington is about to become the first state in which employers can digitally sign their online wage reports to the Social Security Administration. Washington also is the first state to have its digital certificates accepted by federal agencies.
Editorial Cartoon
SOAP Simple Object Access Protocol: an XML protocol for exchanging information to allow access to services, objects and servers over the Web, regardless of platform or programming language.
ANOTHER VIEW
Government institutions and programs will emerge from the trauma of Sept. 11 much stronger than they had been on Sept. 10.
EDITORIAL
Surprise! Rep. Steve Horn's House Government Reform Subcommittee on Government Efficiency, Financial Management and Intergovernmental Relations has given agencies an F for computer security [<a href="http://www.gcn.com/21_5/news/18094-1.html">GCN, March 4, Page 9</a>].
INTERVIEW: Bruce Chizen, Adobe's picture painter
Bruce Chizen, president and chief executive officer of Adobe Systems Inc. since 2000, joined the company in 1994. He helped develop and market Adobe applications as vice president and general manager of the graphics professional and consumer divisions.
GSA awards FirstGov usability contract
As part of an overall plan to make <a href="http://www.FirstGov.gov">FirstGov.gov</a> more responsive, the General Services Administration Friday hired Userworks Inc. to conduct focus groups and perform usability studies over the next six months on the redesigned site.
OPM will fund at least one e-gov plan on its own
The Office of Personnel Management is making an aggressive effort to find money for its five e-government initiatives approved by the Office of Management and Budget. In weekly meetings with Mark Forman, OMB's associate director for IT and e-government, OPM is refining the goals set in the individual business cases submitted in December.
CIOS sleepless over security
In New York City yesterday, Veterans Affairs deputy CIO Ed Meagher spoke frankly about the federal government's need to outsource more of its IT tasks. 'At one meeting I kidded that everybody in the room had gray hair, except for the ones who were cheating' with dye, Meagher said. 'Government has been in a hiring freeze since about 1990. We don't have a choice about outsourcing. We can't do this alone.'
OMB soon to outline e-gov project action items
A report exposing the real guts of the Office of Management and Budget's 24 e-gov initiatives'outlining project specific goals, objectives and action items'is scheduled to be released by March 31, according to senior administration officials.
Online posting of Lincoln papers completed
The Library of Congress this month put the final pieces of the Abraham Lincoln Papers online.
Software for 508 'revolutionizes' Superfund reporting
Last May, the Environmental Protection Agency bought graphing software just in time to meet Section 508 requirements for making its systems accessible to disabled users. Less than a year later, the software has produced benefits agencywide.
OMB expands its e-gov team
The Office of Management and Budget has put the final pieces of the leadership puzzle in place for its 24 e-gov initiatives.
FTC eyes national do-not-call database
The Federal Trade Commission today issued a request for information for the creation of an electronic do-not-call registry for consumers.
IRS: More taxpayers use home computers to file returns
So far this year, about 4.8 million users have filed income tax returns with the IRS from home computers, a 40 percent increase over last year, according to the IRS.
Want to boost online user satisfaction? Try these tools
Agencies that want to improve customer satisfaction with their Web sites can take advantage of a Bureau of Labor Statistics laboratory and, soon, a pop-up software survey tool.
Another try at broadband wireless
Carrier-based RadioRouters won't require the cell infrastructure build-out that bankrupted the first broadband wireless pioneers, officials of Flarion Technologies Inc. predicted last week in a demonstration at the Federal Communications Commission. Flarion calls its shared-media RadioRouter technology 'an extension of existing IP networks.'
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