OS UPDATE
Do Microsoft Corp.'s legal problems with the Justice Department portend a shake-up in the federal market dominated by the company's Windows operating system? Maybe. Maybe not. But managers have always had a choice of operating systems and, court findings notwithstanding, the reasons for picking one over another will remain largely the same.
Navy official decries DOD suggestion to ban accepted Web scripting languages
The Defense Department's plan to ban certain Web scripts drew an objection last month from a senior Navy systems official.
Army CIO says the service needs more bandwidth
Lt. Gen. William Campbell has simple needs: bandwidth, bandwidth, bandwidth. Paying for those needs, he is finding, is not so simple.
DOD faces intrusion worries
Defense Department security officials are concerned that the development of intrusion detection and firewall software is not keeping pace with network use within DOD.
BRIEFING BOOK
Missed deadline. By Dec. 2, all but 'a few cats and dogs''29 scattered units in the Marine Corps'had moved from Vines 8.5 and StreetTalk 8.5 from Banyan Worldwide of Westborough, Mass., to Microsoft NT Server 4.0 and Exchange 5.5, said Brig. Gen. Robert Shea, the service's chief information officer.
These four phones are Internet-ready and offer 150-plus minutes of talk time
A few next-generation, Internet-ready handsets have entered the market, but not all can function in every wireless service area.
Feds get wireless in a big way
By year's end, federal users of smart digital telephones will be exchanging e-mail messages and dialing up news headlines and other data via the Internet.
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.
For $1,900, Xerox packs a scanner, fax and laser printer into one unit
The WorkCentre Pro 16fx Digital All-in-One multifunction printer from Xerox Corp. combines a flatbed scanner, flatbed fax machine and laser printer in a $1,900 unit.
Former fed predicts big things for e-government
Online car registration will be one of the first electronic government successes, according to Oracle Corp.'s top government marketer, Jack Pellicci.
IT research is underfunded, president's board says
PORTLAND, Ore.'Members of the President's Information Technology Advisory Committee are gratified by increased federal funding for IT research, even though the increase was less than the panel recommended, the committee's chairman said recently.
Imagine 8.4 supplies customizable GIS classifications
The Expert Classifier, new in the recently released Erdas Imagine 8.4 mapping tool, has wizard processes to classify geographic information according to an organization's own criteria.
Dell premieres fast PowerEdge 2400 server
The PowerEdge 2400 workgroup server from Dell Computer Corp. comes with a 133-MHz front-side bus and a 64-bit PCI bus for faster throughput.
LSI Logic launches multivendor SAN project
LSI Logic Storage Systems Inc. is betting that the open-systems philosophy can work for storage area networks.
CYBEREYES
In 1996, 1997 and 1998, the General Accounting Office called the government's information security lax. Last year, GAO discovered the situation had gotten worse.
FedBens software calculates and displays retirement benefits for federal employees
Federal managers who counsel employees about retirement benefits have a custom tool at their disposal.
HCFA tests data warehouse
To replace a tape records system that takes weeks to answer queries, the Health Care Financing Administration plans to build a modern data warehouse for up to 16T of Medicare claims data.
POWER USER
It was just as the pundits predicted. After driving two hours in bumper-to-bumper traffic to get to the airport, I had to wait another three hours sitting on the tarmac. All flights had been canceled, and passengers weren't told anything.
SystemWorks 2000 is retooled, ready
Symantec Corp. has repackaged the same tools in its Norton utility suite so many times that it reminds me of a holiday gift that gets passed around again and again.
LAB NOTES
USB rules. Makers of so-called legacy-free PCs are not only eliminating cards and ports in favor of the Universal Serial Bus, they're also adding color to the chassis [GCN, Nov. 22, 1999, Page 1].
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