SSA switches services to FTS 2001
The Social Security Administration has cut over its national toll-free customer service system from AT&T Corp. to WorldCom Inc., completing the transition of almost all voice services to the FTS 2001 contract.
CIOs work on wish list for next president
Information technology executives are looking beyond the Clinton presidency and developing wish lists for the next administration.
Digital signature bill gets OK from House
The House last week overwhelmingly passed a bill giving digital signatures the same legal weight as their handwritten counterparts.
Who's doing e-gov best?
The Industry Advisory Council of the Federation of Government Information Processing Councils has created a task force to study electronic-government initiatives.
ThinkPads will run Linux
IBM Corp. plans to begin selling its ThinkPad A20m and T20 notebook computers with the OpenLinux eDesktop 2.4 open-source environment from Caldera Systems Inc. of Orem, Utah.
NMCI award date slips
The Navy expects to delay award of its $10 billion data services outsourcing contract until late next month or early August.
USPS garners Web honors
The Postal Service recently received two awards at the 11th World Mail Awards 2000 ceremony in Paris.
Los Alamos stumbles again on security
Prompted by the recent disclosure that Los Alamos National Laboratory could not account for the disappearance of two hard drives containing top-secret nuclear data, the Senate last week voted 97-0 to confirm Air Force Gen. John A. Gordon as director of the new quasi-independent nuclear programs agency.
VA names Bubniak acting CIO
Robert P. Bubniak will serve as the Veterans Affairs Department's acting chief information officer until VA names a permanent replacement.
Tool acts as a file middleman
The SANStar storage engine, new from ECCS Inc., shares files between network-attached storage devices and storage area networks.
Which bugs bit the worst?
The Love Bug worm has been the most prevalent computer infection this year so far, topping the chart of the Top 10 list issued last month by antivirus vendor Sophos Inc.
SSA eyes IP for service tools
The Social Security Administration is working with CommerceNet to test ways of using the Internet to enhance customer service.
Government needs more research funds to keep up with IT, NRC study says
The federal government must increase its spending on research to match the pace of information technology development, a National Research Council report states.
Upgraded HCFA site gives users easier data access
The Health Care Financing Administration took its Web users into consideration when it decided to revamp <a href="http://www.Medicare.gov">www.Medicare.gov</a> site to improve ease of use and access to health care information.
INTERVIEW: Thomas S. Buchsbaum, Dell's teacher
Thomas S. Buchsbaum has been a player through much of PC industry history.
For the Deskpro EN, it's a case of the incredible shrinking footprint
Compaq Computer Corp. has given its Deskpro EN enterprise client computers their first face-lift in two years to accommodate the new Intel 815E chip set.
Air Force Superstore lets users click and compare IT products
The Air Force Standard Systems Group has added comparison shopping to its online Air Force Information Technology Superstore.
Think of privacy early and often, CIO Council tells agency buyers
When compiling that to-do list for a new system, don't forget privacy, the Chief Information Officers Council is urging.
VIEW FROM THE FRONT
At the Commerce Department, flowers are budding everywhere.
Human error caused e-mail loss, White House says
E-mail messages within the Office of the Vice President were not backed up between March 1998 and early April 1999 because the technician who set up a new operating system did not configure the office's server to do so, the Clinton administration recently said.
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