The transition team's ready to lend IT hand
'To the victor belong the spoils' is still true more than 160 years after New York Sen. William L. Marcy said it in support of President Martin Van Buren's patronage policies.
PTO starts e-government shift
For the first time since 1790, the Patent and Trademark Office is forgoing paper documents from inventors applying for patents.
PACKET RAT
The Rat hates the latest phase of the new economy. It generally inspires wailing and gnashing of teeth as the ill-gotten gains from the first phase get sucked down the drain.
Three agencies zoom in on Web metrics
As agencies gear up their Web sites for an electronic-government workload, they are hiring a new breed of consultant to help them measure their progress.
PROFESSIONAL CALENDAR
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HP goes wireless with OmniBook
The 3.5-pound OmniBook 500 from Hewlett-Packard Co. will have one of the first Bluetooth PC Cards for wireless access to LANs, WANs and personal-area networks.
At Comdex, if it's portable, it's hot
LAS VEGAS'When is a palm device no longer a palm device? That question puzzled visitors at the Comdex trade show last week.
9 agencies get kudos for IT innovations
At the GCN banquet in Washington this month, nine agencies received honors for systems programs that are helping them accomplish their missions:
Pesachowitz and Koskinen enter IT Hall of Fame
Two former federal officials, Alvin M. Pesachowitz and John A. Koskinen, were inducted into GCN's Information Technology Hall of Fame this month.
Former fed DiPentima wins second GCN honor
Renato A. DiPentima is no stranger to winning honors for his work in government technology.
13th Annual GCN awards gala
Before an audience of more than 1,000 federal and industry systems executives at the 13th annual GCN awards gala in Washington earlier this month, the Army's David Borland and the FBI's James J. Jasinski accepted agency executive of the year awards.
All U.S. patents available online
Patent history is a few simple clicks away.
Agency broadens its use of XML
The Patent and Trademark Office is replacing its longtime proprietary markup language with more current technology.
Bureau of Land Management gains ground on IT development
The Bureau of Land Management's process for managing its information technology is slowly growing up.
Energy will use PKI to secure Rocky Flats
NOV. 17—The Energy Department will use smart-card technology and a public-key infrastructure to secure the soon-to-be-shuttered Rocky Flats Environmental Technology Site near Denver.
NASA uses diagnostic tools to manage the shuttle
Anyone who has connected a couple of computers in a home network knows it won't work unless a dozen parameters are precisely configured. Adding more computers does more than add variables, it also multiplies the number of possible errors.
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NOV. 17'The Energy Department will use smart-card technology and a public-key infrastructure to secure the soon-to-be-shuttered Rocky Flats Environmental Technology Site near Denver.
DOD online study eyes absentee voter process
Defense Department officials are conducting a routine survey to determine whether the absentee ballot process can be improved, but for the first time respondents can complete the poll via the Internet.
Wireless products dominate Comdex
LAS VEGAS—Feeling disconnected? A wave of wireless connectivity products might persuade network administrators to cut the cord linking their users to LAN servers while still giving them Ethernet-speed access.
Florida's election Web site installs new servers
Florida's State Department Division of Elections' Web site, at election.dos.state.fl.us/index.html, got about 200,000 hits per hour from Internet users checking for the latest presidential election ballot counts shortly after the presidential election this month.
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