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By now, many federal webmasters are catching the fallout from the General Accounting Office's privacy study released last month. Are federal Web sites' privacy and security really as bad as the report made them sound?
Microsoft case goes back to district court
SEPT. 26—The Supreme Court today declined to hear the Microsoft Corp. antitrust case, instead sending it back to the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia circuit.
AFFIRM elects Ira Hobbs president
SEPT. 25—The Association for Federal Information Resource Management recently elected Ira L. Hobbs as president.
Firstgov.gov goes online
SEPT. 25—The General Services Administration's technical staff worked on Internet time—24 hours, seven days a week—to bring the Web portal to life, said Sally Katzen, deputy director of management at the Office of Management and Budget. She said the site will not track where users go and will not plant cookies on their systems.
Like a good scout, this subnotebook's prepared
The rugged Scout2 subnotebook PC might be small, but it's not delicate. And at 5.5 pounds, the 2.8- by 6.5- by 9.2-inch unit from Melard Technologies Inc. is easy to carry.
Systems chiefs bid VA's Gracey farewell
Tech gurus meet to sing the praises of recently retired longtime fed
NSF funds basic IT research
The National Science Foundation has funded $90 million worth of grants for information technology R&D.
PTO avoids pushing paper
The Patent and Trademark Office has implemented a new workflow system using software from Software Performance Systems Inc.
Coast Guard plans for disaster
The Coast Guard will get a preliminary design for its next-generation emergency response network from Motorola Inc. under a $7.8 million contract.
Wireless LANs
Old-timers'that is, those who recall the days before CDs, cassettes and even 8-track tapes'had hi-fi, a reference to high-fidelity sound.
Base automates tool tracking
Whiteman Air Force Base, Mo., home of the nation's B-2 bomber fleet, has adopted a bar code inventory management system that runs under Microsoft Windows to automate the monitoring of its massive tool and manual inventory.
Veterans Affairs sweats under security spotlight
SEPT. 22'Reports from the Veterans Affairs Department's inspector general and the General Accounting Office yesterday revealed computer security holes at the government's largest civilian agency.
Barr to leave IRS, join Dell
SEPT. 21'Robert Barr, whose three-year stint at the IRS resulted in a dramatic increase in the level of electronic filing, said he will leave the agency Oct. 6 and join Dell Computer Corp. as director of federal marketing.
Microsoft database gains C2 certification
SEPT. 21'The most recent version of Microsoft Corp.'s SQL Server 2000 database has earned C2 certification, company officials announced this week.
Try accurate MAPublisher'it will grow on you
Where are we? Where are we going? How do we get there?
Snap Server 4000 is a quick storage fix at $2,999
The Snap Server Model 4000 quickly adds 120G of storage to a network. Few devices offer so much growth potential in so little space.
LAB NOTES
Win 2000 security. Users of Microsoft Windows 2000 are vulnerable to a 'local security policy corruption' weakness that can boot them off their networks. At worst, the weakness might deny network access to all users in a given domain who haven't downloaded a 530K patch.
Carleton to be GSA's chief information officer
Sept. 20—Michael W. Carleton will take over as chief information officer for the General Services Administration, replacing Bill Piatt, who will leave the agency on Oct. 20 to take a post in the private sector, officials announced Tuesday.
ThinkPad weighs in as best notebook
First impressions don't usually count for much when it comes to the newest information technology products. But sometimes an initial gut reaction holds true.
Devices have heavy-duty features, but they won't weigh you down
Thinness and portability continued to make inroads on the PC market with last month's introduction of the 4.9-pound Gateway Solo 5300 notebook PC and Compaq Computer Corp.'s iPaq BlackBerry wireless e-mail device.
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