Software Suites
''It implements the new Office Registration Wizard, which causes problems for some users. The wizard, first included on copies of Office 2000 sold at a discount to students and educators, tracks the number of times you install Office 2000. After two installs, a user has to call Microsoft for a code to let the software run past 50 allowed starts.
Nifty Toshiba Tecra 8100 performs well but at a hefty price
A thin and light notebook PC, measuring a mere 1.4-inches thick and weighing only 5.4 pounds, the Toshiba Tecra 8100 from Toshiba America Information Systems Inc. as powerful as any of the heftier systems in this guide.
CIO Council launches security best practices Web site
MAY 23—The Chief Information Officers Council on Monday introduced a Web site that will contain a database of security best practices documents.
Air Force awards four workstation BPAs
MAY 23—The Air Force's central source selection organization has negotiated four blanket purchasing agreements for workstation products, officials announced.
Pesachowitz takes post with Grant Thornton
MAY 23—Al Pesachowitz, former chief information officer for the Environmental Protection Agency, will take a job with Grant Thornton when he leaves government next month.
Notebook Workstations
Using a notebook PC has often meant making do with less on the road and at home. But with new options available for notebooks, road warriors can take it all with them.
Army names candidate to take over CIO job
MAY 22—President Clinton last week nominated Maj. Gen. Peter M. Cuviello to become the Army's next chief information officer.
GSA awards smart-card contracts
MAY 22—The General Services Administration on Friday awarded five contracts for governmentwide smart cards.
More federal funding needed for IT research, study says
MAY 22—The federal government must increase its spending on research if the pace of information technology development is to continue, a new report from the National Research Council says.
With Windows' help, Corel suite runs under Linux OS
Yes, Virginia, leading PC applications can migrate from Microsoft Windows to Linux. But as with Santa Claus, the magic sometimes is not quite what it seems.
Intel finds it's a slow road to 800-MHz chip
Five years ago, Intel Corp. and Hewlett-Packard Co. conceived a utopian plan: Build a 64-bit processor that could handle both the reduced-instruction-set computing commands of 64-bit Unix and the complex-instruction-set computing commands of Microsoft Windows NT 5.0, as well as its 64-bit successor operating systems.
Y2K center closes; calls for IT security site go unheeded
The Office of Management and Budget this month is dismantling the Year 2000 Information Coordination Center despite the urging of security officials that the center be made a systems security facility.
Hill demands E-FOIA review
Concerned whether agencies are complying with the Electronic Freedom of Information Act, the General Accounting Office soon will begin a comprehensive study of its implementation.
Los Alamos IT crew creates Web link for workers
Nearly a week before Los Alamos National Laboratory managers met to decide how best to reopen the site in the wake of a raging wildfire, the lab's webmasters began keeping colleagues informed via the Internet.
PACKET RAT
Having mopped up the Love Bug and all its clones, thanks in no small part to the agency's sagacious migration last year to Linux for its workgroup servers, the whiskered one looked forward to a weekend of serious slacking.
Senators launch interactive Web site
Two senators last week launched a bipartisan experiment in interactive government with the unveiling of a Web site that seeks citizens' opinions on electronic-government topics.
Experts say research can fill gaps in IT
LOS ANGELES'Digital government is a great idea hobbled by inadequate technology in database access, data integration, security, and records storage and retrieval, but academic research can help bridge the technology gap.
PROFESSIONAL CALENDAR
HCIL 17th Annual Symposium. College Park, Md. Contact the University of Maryland's Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory.
SurfinGate scans Win 2000 certificates, filters Web sites, blocks malicious code
The latest release of SurfinGate content-filtering gateway software from Finjan Inc. of Santa Clara, Calif., can scan Microsoft Windows 2000's Authenticode digital signature certificates.
Agencies beta-test hardened open-source Unix OS
Government users of the FreeBSD Unix operating system now have some security reassurance from 2Cactus Development Inc., which this month released an initial version of SecureBSD.
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