Pocket PC does not yet match Palm OS' elegance
What once was Microsoft Windows CE is now Pocket PC.
Canada beats U.S. to the click on e-delivery
Canada Post is the first national postal service to roll out a secure electronic delivery service, developed jointly with the U.S. Postal Service and France's La Poste.
Infrastructure plan is a boon for Treasury
The Treasury Department estimates that its enterprise communications system will save $480 million by fiscal 2002.
DOD raises DTS red flag
Pentagon senior systems brass, concerned in part that the Defense Travel System's public-key infrastructure component might not mesh with other Defense Department PKI initiatives, have placed DTS on their watch list.
USGS creates a trainable bot to filter Web searches
The Geological Survey is spearheading a multiagency effort to glean biological information from the Web.
Future of printing is colorful and driverless, HP representatives say
BOISE, Idaho'Wouldn't it be nice not to spend so much time searching disks and Web sites for printer drivers?
IBM beefs up compatibility of its slim NetVista all-in-one computer
IBM Corp. has extended some components of its NetVista all-in-one thin computer to work with its notebook and handheld devices.
At NetWorld+Interop, OS makers make the case for interoperability
LAS VEGAS'Microsoft Corp. romanced Unix and open-source devotees at the NetWorld+Interop trade show last week, unveiling Windows Services for Unix 2.0.
SAIC to provide tech services for buoy network
The National Weather Service has awarded a five-year contract worth $32.4 million to Science Applications International Corp. to provide technical services to the National Data Buoy Center at Stennis Space Center in Mississippi.
SSA posts earnings histories and other data for retirement planning
The Social Security Administration unveiled an interactive Web program last month that lets users calculate their benefits online.
Project Matrix identifies how systems interact
Agencies are finding that some of their most significant cybersecurity weaknesses do not begin at home.
GSA plans financing to promote PKI initiatives within agencies
The General Services Administration will subsidize agencies' initial digital-certificate efforts in an attempt to jump-start public-key infrastructure development, GSA officials said.
Weather models, online comments shape NOAA's drought forecast
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration scientists are using supercomputer models and the Internet to help predict spring drought conditions.
FBI initiative helps fight Net child pornography
The FBI has dedicated $10 million annually for the past five years to battle online child pornography through its Innocent Images National Initiative, and the fight may be heating up further.
GAO information assurance chief offers security advice to agencies
The General Accounting Office's Keith A. Rhodes said, 'I told you so,' last week to the House Science Subcommittee on Technology.
Virus hits two classified systems, stalls e-mail access at Defense
The ILOVEYOU virus rapidly wormed its way into two Defense Department classified systems via e-mail attachments.
Love Bug took a bite out of agencies' e-mail systems
Government information technology administrators scrambled to respond to the ILOVEYOU worm that spread around the world this month. Despite a barrage of thousands of infected e-mail messages, they managed to avoid serious trouble.
Army program changes course on Dell BPA
In an about-face, the Army Small Computer Program is beefing up its own PC contracts rather than promoting a blanket purchasing agreement set by a Hawaii service unit.
IG, GAO again assail IRS on modernization
The Restructuring and Reform Act of 1998 has done little to alleviate problems at the IRS, but modernization efforts may prove more beneficial, federal officials said.
Energy says supercomputers, secrets are safe from inferno
MAY 12—Energy Department officials told GCN that the nation's nuclear secrets and two of the world's fastest supercomputers remain safe from the inferno that has forced the evacuation of two New Mexico towns near the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
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