E-mail & groupware
Defining groupware is slippery business because it's tough to find the common denominators that constitute a category. E-mail is at the core of all groupware, but other features such as workflow, group scheduling, threaded discussions, chat, data conferencing, document management voice conferencing and videoconferencing are usually included in various proportions.
Army Legal Services Agency moves to Gigabit Ethernet
The Army Legal Services Agency boosted its WAN performance by more than 75 percent by upgrading from 10Base-T Ethernet to Gigabit Ethernet with minimal disruption when it relocated recently, officials said.
Software puts HR paperwork on Web
Two companies have Web-enabled software to help federal, state and local agencies deal with the mountain of paperwork for hiring new employees.
Army delays logistics rollout
Army officials have delayed by four months the rollout of a new logistics system.
Intel leaps past AMD with new 1.13-GHz chip
SANTA CLARA, Calif.'Although Advanced Micro Devices Inc. beat Intel Corp. to market last year with a 1-GHz desktop processor, Intel has now leapfrogged with a slightly faster 1.13-GHz Pentium III.
BRIEFING BOOK
Sync it. As they prepared for the Fourth Infantry Division to field new systems this fall, Army command, control, communications systems (3CS) officials have found that using relational database management systems certified under the Defense Information Infrastructure Common Operating Environment does not ensure interoperability of database and message exchanges.
COMMUNICATIONS: NEW PRODUCT
A SecureLogix Corp. product called TeleWall acts as a telephone line firewall against unauthorized modem access into a data system.
Online marketing to feds gets creative
Two online resellers are trying different but novel tactics to lure agency buyers to their commerce portals.
IBM extends messaging
The wireless trend has reached enterprise middleware in IBM Corp.'s recently released MQSeries Everyplace secure messaging software.
New software protects Microsoft Web server app
Entercept 2.0 intrusion protection software from ClickNet Security Technologies Corp. of San Jose, Calif., runs under additional Web server operating systems and extends its protection to Microsoft Internet Information Server.
Court adds video via phones
The U.S. District Court for New Hampshire has brought video into its courtrooms without adding a lot of infrastructure.
INTERNAUT
The sprawling online music site and search service built by Napster Inc. may not survive legal challenges, but its real significance lies in its remarkable peer-to-peer search technology.
CYBER EYE
Marcus J. Ranum, security guru and chief executive officer of Network Flight Recorder Inc. of Rockville, Md., has been making enemies lately by calling for more accountability among hackers, especially those who produce so-called toolz'freeware used to expose and exploit security vulnerabilities.
ServerVault offers data center outsourcing
ServerVault officials said they will have the first commercial data center built to Defense Department standards when their high-security facility in Dulles, Va., goes online August 28.
Web service reels in savings
The National Marine Fisheries Service has dived into electronic commerce by issuing its tuna fishing permits via the Web.
POWER USER
Microsoft Windows and its applications spawn temporary (.tmp) files at a prodigious rate.
LAB NOTES
Computer hash. It has nothing to do with illegal drugs but a lot to do with security and digital signatures'hashing protects electronically transmitted messages against tampering.
Army names new DMS chief
As the deadline for shuttering basic AUTODIN access looms, the Army has appointed a civilian to run its Defense Message System rollout.
Itanium OSes get ready to roll
Hewlett-Packard Co.'s 64-bit operating system for the Intel Itanium processor will have a last-minute addition: a Linux run-time environment that lets Linux software binaries run under HP-UX 11 for IA-64.
Clinton signs DOD funding bill
Military personnel will receive a 3.7 percent pay increase under the Defense Department fiscal 2001 appropriations bill, HR 4576, which President Clinton signed into law this month.
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