Navy Department to open e-business office
AUG. 8'The Navy Department will open an office within two months to help department officials identify their electronic-business capabilities and encourage organizations to work together to make their business processes more efficient, officials said.
OS alternative is causing all the buzz
The industry is abuzz about Linux alternatives to Microsoft Windows operating systems, but BeOS 5 deserves more than buzz'a lot more.
New Palm price slashed to $149
AUG. 7—The Palm m100 handheld computer, introduced today at a price of $149, seeks to neutralize rival Palm OS products from Handspring Inc. of Mountain View, Calif., Linux-based units from Transmeta Corp. of Santa Clara, Calif., and several devices that run Microsoft PocketPC.
New Palm price slashed to $149
AUG. 7'The Palm m100 handheld computer, introduced today at a price of $149, seeks to neutralize rival Palm OS products from Handspring Inc. of Mountain View, Calif., Linux-based units from Transmeta Corp. of Santa Clara, Calif., and several devices that run Microsoft PocketPC.
Clinton bypasses Senate, appoints Katzen OMB deputy director for management
AUG. 7—President Clinton last week appointed Sally Katzen deputy director for management of the Office of Management and Budget, circumventing a stalled Senate confirmation process.
Microsoft sells Datacenter Server only as one part of a package deal
You can't buy Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server in a shrink-wrapped box.
COUNTY LINES
Hold the phone. The Polk County, Fla., Sheriff's Office has implemented a communications system that will increase responses for the 2000 Census, help find missing persons and warn residents of impending natural disasters.
The sidewalks of New York will go digital
New York City spent most of the 19th century building the Brooklyn Bridge. Now the city needs a digital bridge to the 21st century, and fast. That translates to a pervasive web of fiber-optic cables.
THE 50 STATES
ALABAMA KEEP AT IT. The Division of Purchasing has extended the contract it has with General Electric Co. for microcomputer software through next month.
The Qbe Cirrus PC tablet might be handy, but it's also awfully heavy
The Qbe Cirrus Personal Computing Tablet has everything: a keyboard, a mouse, Universal Serial Bus and serial ports, a webcam, PC Card slots, a touch-screen, voice recognition, a CD-ROM drive and a smart card reader. But it can't defy gravity.
Troubled $12m Texas project set for overhaul
Texas' Teacher Retirement System has launched a thorough management shake-up of its system upgrade in the wake of a critical report from the State Auditor's Office.
Top 10 system security threats are familiar foes
The top 10 threats to computer security have been around for years despite frequent software upgrades, a panel of 43 government and industry security experts said recently in Washington.
Linux-based PDA, new OS versions on the way
AUG. 7—The LinuxWorld exposition in San Jose, Calif., next week will host the debut of a five-ounce personal digital assistant running Linux, plus the first appearance of several new versions of the open-source operating system, including one for real-time computing.
Will storage hold back high-performance computing?
The massive data sets from the government's high-performance computing programs will cause a storage crisis in coming years if storage transfer bandwidth doesn't increase, a NASA researcher warned this month.
Who says you can't take your printer on the road?
The world still runs on paper. Many people print e-mail messages. But when you're on the road, printing is generally not an option.
VA tests online training apps
The Veterans Affairs Department will run a six-month pilot to see if its employees benefit from online training.
V.92 standard will add speed, take phone calls
The microelectronics group of Lucent Technologies Inc. of Murray Hill, N.J., this fall will begin incorporating new V.92 features into its analog modem chip set to speed upstream data transmissions, establish Internet connections faster and let PC users accept telephone calls without dropping an Internet connection.
Treasury bureaus' services go to Web
Two Treasury Department bureaus are cozying up to the Web for financial transactions.
Sun says two new clients in its Sun Ray product line are the 'thinnest of the thin'
Two new clients in Sun Microsystems' Sun Ray product line are so thin they don't even have CPU cases.
Storage appliance uses tapes instead of disks
The StorNext family of network-attached storage devices from Advanced Digital Information Corp. of Redmond, Wash., uses tapes instead of hard disks to store up to nearly 24T of data, marketing director Stephen Whitner said.
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