POWER USER
When I needed a computer in a hurry recently, I decided to buy online and had quite a surprise.
Simply put, Harvard Publisher makes desktop publishing easy
In offices with modest publishing requirements, packages such as Adobe PageMaker or QuarkXPress from Quark Inc. of Denver are overkill. On the other hand, the layout options of Microsoft Word or other word processors might not quite meet expectations.
Smart but slow word processor anchors the Lotus SmartSuite Millennium Edition
This review is part of an occasional series about individual programs within the recently released major office suites: Corel WordPerfect Office 2000, Lotus SmartSuite Millennium Edition 9.5 and Microsoft Office 2000.
Installing Linux is not for the timid
This is the first of two reviews about Red Hat Linux 6.1. This part discusses installation of the operating system. A follow-up will detail how to run applications under the OS.
@INFO.POLICY
I have been involved in online activity continuously since the mid-1980s, but it was only a few years ago that I developed my own Internet rule: The first place to look for any information or document is the Internet.
FEDERAL CONTRACT LAW
If there is ever a remake of Peter Sellers' classic comedy 'The Mouse That Roared,' the Small Business Administration would be my nominee for the title role. Its new regulations on contract bundling are more aggressive than I have come to expect from this relatively meek agency.''
Registries are booster for health
To help track childhood vaccinations, many state and county health departments are setting up automated immunization registries.
COUNTY LINES
No denying. Prompted by events preceding fashion designer Gianni Versace's murder, the Miami-Dade County Police Department created a system to receive pawn transaction data online from pawn shops.
IAFIS processes 7,000 prints Day 1
The FBI's Criminal Justice Information System recently launched the Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System at its Clarksburg, W.Va., facility.
Buying successes put states online
Over the next six months, Massachusetts will move its Multi-State EMall from an online procurement pilot to a full-produc- tion buying system.
THE 50 STATES
A GUI THING. Huntsville Utilities has traded in its IBM 3270 dumb terminals for PCs running a graphical user interface from ClientSoft Inc. of Hawthorne, N.Y., to access customer records. The system has cut service request input time by half, management information systems supervisor Kerry Williams said.
Analyzer tool checks Microsoft products for year 2000 readiness
Microsoft Corp. takes year 2000 issues seriously. I know of no other software company that offers an application to analyze its own products for rollover readiness.
Fast NICs
The fast lanes of network connections are getting faster'and just in time.
Sun Microsystems sets a challenge by giving away StarOffice software suite
It's faster than the speeding Lotus SmartSuite Millennium Edition, easier than Corel WordPerfect Office 2000 and cheaper than just about any Microsoft product.
OnStream PC tape backup is affordable but slow
When a new PC comes standard with a 12G, 18G or 36G hard drive, its backup requirements overflow the usual 8G tape.
IT helps NYC medics battle fever
It sounds like a Hollywood thriller: A few cases of an unfamiliar illness appear in New York City around Labor Day weekend. At first city health officials think it's a domestic form of encephalitis.
Here's how four Windows-hosted development tools for Java stack up
Four Windows tools are useful for developing Java applications designed to access databases and work across multiple computers: Inprise Corp.'s Borland JBuilder 3 Enterprise, IBM VisualAge for Java 2.0 Enterprise, Microsoft Visual J++ 6.0, and VisualCafe Enterprise Suite 3.0 from Symantic Corp. of Cupertino, Calif.
Security boost for NT likely to delay moves to Win 2000
REDMOND, Wash.'Government security ratings for current Microsoft Windows NT operating systems will likely encourage some agencies with secure offices'especially those using Defense Message System services'to hold off on upgrading to Windows 2000.
Agencies create CKO posts to get in the know
Agencies are looking beyond chief information officers to take advantage of the reams of information stored in a multitude of systems. To meet the challenge, some agencies are creating a new post: chief knowledge officer.
QUtilities makes silk purse out of Win CE sow's ear
Compaq Computer Corp. has tackled substantial flaws in the Microsoft Windows CE operating system to make its Aero handheld computers more useful and usable.
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