Air Force uses Crossroads site as family tie
Kate Dodd, the wife of an Air Force general, has heard the complaints and seen the frustration of new spouses ready to give up.
Customizable emulation app works via Web
WRQ Inc.'s Reflection for the Web terminal emulator has a customization service for Web-to-host interfaces.
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I have become a bit of an eBay junkie. I used it to buy some baseball cards, a 1980 Phillies World Series ring replica and this column. The column was a real bargain because I got the idea free while surfing <a href="http://www.ebay.com">www.ebay.com</a>.
DOD negotiates five-year cellular-service BPAs
The Air Force's 21st Contracting Squadron at Peterson Air Force Base, Colo., has awarded five-year blanket purchasing agreements to five wireless carriers.
CYBER EYE
The Bluetooth wireless networking standard is named for King Harald Bluetooth, who unified Denmark and Norway. A glance at a map of Scandinavia today will tell you that unification didn't take.
Fish Story
The National Marine Fisheries Service is developing several interactive Web applications, including one for people who might be affected by enforcement of the Endangered Species Act.
Calif. appointees scrutinize political practices on the Web
JULY 27—Gov. Gray Davis this week announced the appointment of three new members of the Bipartisan Commission on Internet Political Practices: L. Geoffrey Cowan, Conway H. Collis and Edward D. Hearst.
Feds: A-76 studies take time'and lots of it
While the Bush administration is putting the heat on agencies to conduct outsourcing studies under Office of Management and Budget Circular A-76, only 21 percent of federal information technology managers in a GCN telephone survey reported that their agencies had done any A-76 studies.
INTERVIEW: Larry Ellison, Oracle's ultimate salesman
Lawrence J. Ellison founded Oracle Corp. in 1977 after having held technical and marketing jobs at several companies, including Amdahl Corp. and Ampex Corp. of Redwood City, Calif.'not far from Oracle's Redwood Shores headquarters.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
With regard to the article 'Commander: Outsourcing cuts SPAWAR costs' [<a href="http://www.gcn.com/vol20_no16/dod/4479-1.html">GCN, June 25, Page 34</a>], the implication is that costs were cut at the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command by eliminating 42 percent of the 3,000 applications being run.
EDITORIAL
Back when TV sets were made with vacuum tubes, one manufacturer came out with a line of instant-on models.
AF computer thief caught via Internet tip
JULY 26—A senior airman who eluded Air Force authorities for 17 months was arrested this week in Luxembourg on charges that he stole more than $110,000 in computer equipment from the service and later sold most of it on the Internet.
Florida CIO under investigation for grand theft
JULY 25— Florida chief information officer Roy Cales was put on administrative leave with pay July 18 after the Leon County, Fla., sheriff's office confirmed he was under investigation for grand theft in connection with an incident that happened before he was the state's CIO.
OMB forming e-gov task force
JULY 25—The Office of Management and Budget has asked each agency to assign an electronic-government leader to a new e-government task force led by Mark Forman, OMB's associate director for information technology and e-government.
NMCI contractor adds storage software
JULY 25—The lead contractor for the Navy-Marine Corps Intranet has added storage resource management software to the contract.
FTS' Janice Mendenhall dies
JULY 24—Janice Mendenhall, assistant regional administrator for the Federal Technology Service in Atlanta and a longtime leader within the federal information technology community, died yesterday in Atlanta.
IRS taps Accenture and Qwest for Web site overhaul
JULY 24—The IRS last week awarded a $33.6 million, five-year contract to Accenture LLP and Qwest Communications International Inc. to revamp and host its Web site at <a href="http://www.irs.gov"> www.irs.gov</a>.
Georgia: Deal with Microsoft could save $15 million
JULY 24—Officials at Georgia's Technology Authority estimate the state will save more than $15 million over the next three years on software and support for 50,000 desktop computers and systems through a contract signed yesterday with Microsoft Corp.
Feds describe how wireless helps public safety officials
JULY 24—Although public-safety workers are increasingly using up-to-date devices, they are still hampered by low bandwidth, spotty access and fragile hardware, federal officials said at yesterday's Technology Excellence in Government seminar.
Code Red worm prompts DOD to block Web site access
JULY 23'The Defense Department has blocked public access to its Web sites until the Code Red computer worm virus no longer poses a threat.
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