Senior Navy officer has harsh words for Microsoft
FEB. 11—The Navy's No. 2 civilian official yesterday launched a surprise attack on Microsoft Corp., threatening to take the service's business elsewhere if the company does not improve its products.
Customs to halt modernization pilot
FEB. 11—The Customs Service, citing a lack of funds, next month plans to shut down a prototype system it fielded for the National Customs Automation Program.
Easy to manage, Cisco stackable switches can pile up the savings
Fast-growing networks have made stackable switches a necessity, and now Cisco Systems Inc. has come up with an inexpensive way to stack them.
Know your network's backbone technology before deciding which access router to buy
Your choice of access router depends largely on the technology behind the WAN used by your organization. Here are a few key elements of WAN technology to keep in mind, courtesy of Intel Corp. and Engage Communication Inc.:
Florida puts inmate data online
The Florida Corrections Department gives the public a Web window into data and photos of its inmates, who last year numbered 69,000. It is one of just four states to do so.
Database gives free ride to transportation research
A new Web database, Transportation Research Information Service Online, offers public access to more than 400,000 records of published and ongoing transportation research.
COUNTY LINES
Computers, not guns. In 1997, three people per day were killed by gunfire in Los Angeles County. More than 50 percent of them were bystanders. The Sheriff's Department is trying to reclaim the streets from gang violence and drug-related crime'but not with guns.
Western governors will form tech council
At the Western Governors' Association's recent winter conference in Las Vegas, members agreed to create a technology council that would work to form strategic alliances among state governments, technology companies and universities.
Virginia program has telecom deals
Businesses in Virginia that join the new VirginiaLink Consortium will be eligible for the commonwealth's fledgling broadband telecommunications access program.
Commerce releases plan to go paperless
FEB. 10—The Commerce Department, after several delays, has released its Digital Department Initiative calling for a paperless environment by the end of 2002.
Supreme Court ponders electronic archiving lawsuit
FEB. 10—The Supreme Court could decide by Feb. 18 whether to hear a case concerning agencies' handling of electronic records and whether they can delete electronic records as long as they have made copies in some format.
DLA taps Arnette for expanded CIO job
FEB. 10—The Defense Logistics Agency has named a civilian from a fellow non-uniformed Defense Department agency as its new chief information officer under a restructuring plan that broadens and renames the post.
Multistate judicial network attracts federal government users
Six federal agencies over the past decade have joined a state and local alliance to tap information in the Western Identification Network's automated fingerprint identification system.
POWER USER
My column last month described my online adventures when I tried to order a computer for immediate delivery. Here's what happened afterward.
ESRI chief says geodata will be essential to planning
The future favors geodata as the next big thing, Environmental Systems Research Institute Inc. president Jack Dangermond says.
County library's open-door ethic thrives on Web
FYI, a division of the Los Angeles County Public Library, is following the library's ethic in providing information: It gives most research services to government agencies for free, although it does charge a fee to business customers.
NetWare 5.1 includes Web and security protocols
Novell Inc. released NetWare 5.1 last month.
SPSS scales its data analysis and mining software to server level
SPSS Inc. of Chicago has designed scalable, server-based versions of its data analysis and mining software that has run for years on agencies' desktop computers.
INTERNAUT
Is your information technology staff caught up in the best-of-breed systems frenzy? Be skeptical. Mixing, say, the best coffee with the best tea does not produce the best beverage.
Act 2000 groups and organizes contacts efficiently
Symantec Corp.'s Act 2000, though targeted more to corporate than to government users, can do miracles for users drowning in contact information.
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