Server app has Web calendar
A new version of an e-mail server application comes with a Web calendar and Secure Sockets Layer authentication.
Will intranet software eliminate the webmaster?
Document management used to be a mix-and-match systems integration project.
CIA funds pilot for GIS utilities
A pilot funded by In-Q-Tel Inc., the CIA's venture capital arm, has demonstrated a suite of interoperable geographic information system services.
INTERNAUT
Instead of vacationing this month, network administrators are coping with worm infestations'now the most common way that PCs are attacked.
POWER USER
The biggest problem a power user faces with dial-up connections isn't so much their slowness, it's the way they always seem to go bad about two-thirds of the way through a big download.
Carriers need more time to develop ways to find, map 911 call locations
Nearly a third of all 911 emergency calls today come from wireless phones, said Thomas J. Sugrue, chief of the Federal Communications Commission's Wireless Bureau.
User-centric
Like politics, services for the disabled are local'and the next federal Web site for accessibility will put that into practice.
Editorial Cartoon
The FBI recently admitted that it has had systems gear misplaced, lost or stolen. Keeping track of information technology assets is no easy task'especially as they get smaller and more portable.
ANOTHER VIEW
Federal procurement of information technology is suffering from a serious problem: over-reliance on prime contract awards that put winning primes in a position to make decisions that can benefit themselves at the expense of the taxpayer.
EDITORIAL
Ever notice how scientific advances have made so many ordinary things better in recent years?
IT goal is a quicker, tougher Army
How many information technology transformation goals does it take to change the Army?
INTERVIEW: Terrence W. McCaffrey, USPS' stamp dispenser
Terrence W. McCaffrey, the Postal Service's first full-time designer, has had a hand in USPS graphical productions since 1970.
Gigabit Ethernet switches hit LANs
Is there a Gigabit Ethernet LAN in your future? If you go by the numbers, there probably is.
Compaq dumps 64-bit Alpha line in favor of the Itanium chip
Compaq Computer Corp. will phase out the 64-bit Alpha processor line that it inherited in 1998 from Digital Equipment Corp.
Software shapes up for the office of the future
Every administrator knows that a network is only as good as its software. Most users are painfully aware of it, too, especially when they must cope with old or homegrown programs that don't function well within a modern network.
FirstGov adds access to 50 states, D.C.
NEW ORLEANS'The General Services Administration recently relaunched its FirstGov portal with the added capability for searching and linking to 16 million pages from the 50 states and the District of Columbia.
CIO OUTLOOK
South Dakota recently awarded a contract for a statewide VHF, digital, trunked radio network. We are one of 28 states developing such a network. The state is working to replace the patchwork of radio frequencies used across agencies or even within a given public safety agency.
EDITORIAL
As associate editor Trudy Walsh details in this month's cover story, the job of delivering computers to classrooms has advanced so far that the education establishment can declare the public schools' digital divide nearly closed.
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THE 50 STATES
LIVE FROM MONTGOMERY. The state Senate decided to allow live audio broadcasts of Senate proceedings from the Legislature's Web site at <a href="http://www.legislature.state.al.us">www.legislature.state.al.us</a>. Several senators had said the live audio would lead to posturing and slow the legislative process.
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