Justice will share data, fund states' battles against terrorism
Attorney General John Ashcroft today reinforced the Justice Department's attack on terrorists by ordering U.S. attorneys to develop by Dec. 1 communications protocols for disseminating information to government agencies and to appoint antiterrorist CIOs. He's backing up those orders with a $9.3 million pledge.
Handheld translator speaks four tongues
The Universal Translator-103, unveiled yesterday at the Comdex trade show in Las Vegas, can translate phrases from and into English, French, German or Spanish. The device from Ectaco Inc. of Long Island City, N.Y., soon will incorporate phrases from all European languages, and work on several Asian languages is under way.
Servers' power grows at almost every size
Server makers' new lines run the gamut from compact midrange systems to high-end supercomputers-in-a-box.
CYBER EYE
John Gilligan, the Air Force's deputy CIO, last month called on software developers to improve the quality of their products.
Cards on Wheels
The Defense Department is turning to mobile offices to finish issuing 4.5 million Common Access smart cards by the end of next year.
After standby, PCs wake up where they left off
The Environmental Protection Agency and Intel Corp. used the Comdex trade show in Las Vegas yesterday to kick off the IAPC program.
Share more leads, Ashcroft tells Justice bureaus
Attorney General John Ashcroft has recently made increased information sharing among federal, state and local organizations one of the Justice Department's top priorities.
Study estimates computers' energy consumption
Computers and telephone networks consume about 3 percent of all the electricity produced in the United States, according to a study commissioned by the Energy Department.
Justice awards $950 million contract for litigation services
The Justice Department has awarded a $950 million, five-year contract to four companies to provide automated litigation support services.
Agencies lay groundwork for Science.gov portal
Seven Cabinet departments and three independent agencies are preparing a one-stop Web portal to present government science and technology to a broad audience.
Idaho teachers will have to make the IT grade
All those computers in the classroom aren't much good if the teachers don't know what to do with them. That's one reason the Idaho Board of Education this fall approved a motion to require all teachers to pass an IT proficiency exam.
New CIO will direct e-gov
Wisconsin Gov. Scott McCallum named Xerox Corp. executive Rebecca Heidepriem the state's first CIO and secretary of the new Electronic Government Department. She pledged to reorganize the state's IT assets and speed the delivery of additional electronic services.
Before you mine data, refine it
Data mining is amazing technology. It lets you dig through mountains of information to turn up nuggets of previously unknown, but valuable, relationships in data.
CIOs labor over contracting crisis
After several high-visibility systems project failures, CIOs are grappling to find out why large IT contracts so often go awry. In a broad-ranging series of interviews, GCN State & Local probes the reasons why contracting has reached its current crisis stage, presents guidelines for avoiding IT project failures and describes how progressive IT organizations around the country are preventing failures and reinforcing success.
County taps CAD app to keep water lines flowing
Turn the tap, and water comes out in a reassuring whoosh. It's a part of daily life we all take for granted.
Jacksonville gets a free swing at testing wireless Web connection
The Jacksonville, Fla., government is piloting a wireless Internet connection for residents and visitors as part of a $2.2 billion economic development plan. The wireless system, at the city's Landing waterfront area, is the beginning of a potential citywide network.
States manage projects well with best practices, common applications
State technology officials increasingly are turning to project management tools to make sure IT projects are finished on time and on budget.
COUNTY LINES
The Sheriff's Office in Pinellas County, Fla., uses an 11-year-old VHF dumb terminal mobile communications system that badly needs an upgrade. So when Motorola Inc. asked the office to test an experimental 700-MHz voice, video and data communications system, officials signed up quickly.
County loses $1.1m in toll violators' fines
Freeloading motorists took a toll on Harris County this summer. Computer hardware problems prevented the Texas county's Toll Road Authority from collecting $1.1 million in fines this year.
Backup, storage units have a hold on data
The GCN Lab recently looked at portable backup and storage products for individual users. This review goes a step further, to enterprise storage and backup devices for midsize bureaus or field offices.
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