PCI card makes phone calls
Quicknet Technologies Inc. of San Francisco late this year will release the Internet PhoneJack-PCI card to provide cell-phone voice quality over the Internet using analog telephone equipment.
Iridium cuts prices for feds
After seeking Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, financially troubled satellite communications provider Iridium LLC of Washington is offering the government cut-rate prices.
PTO says it is 2000-ready
The Patent and Trademark Office has verified that all its mission-critical computer systems will work in the year 2000 and beyond.
HP gears up for IA-64
Hewlett-Packard Co. last month made announcements that straddle the line marking the Unix-Microsoft Windows NT divide.
Army signs BPA with CA
The Army Communication-Electronics Command last month negotiated a blanket purchasing agreement with Computer Associates International Inc. for CA-Unicenter products.
DNS registration deal set
Internet registrar Network Solutions Inc. last week reached an agreement with the Commerce Department to recognize the authority of the cash-starved Internet Corp. for Assigned Names and Numbers and pay it $1.25 million a year.
IRS gets software Web store
IRS employees now have their own Web site for buying and downloading the most-used Microsoft Corp. software from online software reseller Beyond.com of Sunnyvale, Calif.
When it comes to IT security, CIOs say that talk is cheap
If government is to tackle systems security, Congress will need to put money where its mouth is, federal systems officials say.
NIH tries to find a happy medium in online debate
The National Institutes of Health has revised its plans for a comprehensive online biomedical publication'seeming to accede, at least halfway, to the objections of some of the nation's pre-eminent scientific journals.
In 2000, federal IT budget rises
As lawmakers wrangle over spending bills for fiscal 2000, a new study projects that federal information technology spending will increase to $33.6 billion this year despite an overall decrease in discretionary spending.
How would a merger affect FTS 2001?
Rumors of merger talks between FTS 2001 vendors Sprint Corp. and MCI WorldCom Inc. are raising concerns at the General Services Administration, which administers the multibillion-dollar telecommunications contracts.
PACKET RAT
Hurricane Floyd did have one positive effect: It liberated the Rat from corner-office hell and returned him to his native habitat, the lead-lined cubicles of his network command bunker.
Techies hold their own GIS Woodstock
The Open GIS Consortium last month threw a Web mapping party that Thomas A. Kalil, special assistant to the president for economic policy, called 'the Woodstock of geospatial information.'
Lotus PIM gets in sync with portable phones, handhelds
Lotus Organizer 6.0, the latest version of the company's personal information manager, can synchronize its information with most makers' portable digital telephones as well as with handheld devices.
Full-scale convergence is hot topic at trade show
ATLANTA'Convergence ruled at the NetWorld+Interop trade show.
PROFESSIONAL CALENDAR
National Information Systems Security Conference Conference. Arlington, Va. Contact the National Institute of Standards and Technology;
Special Navy comm unit supports the East Timor peacekeeping force
Navy Pacific Fleet sailors are providing a plug-and-play mobile communications system to the Australian-led peacekeeping forces in Indonesia's East Timor.
Army honors employee excellence in systems work
The Army and GCN recently honored employees in the Directorate for Information Systems for Command, Control, Communications and Computers for excellence in systems development, management and implementation.
PEOPLE ON THE MOVE
Ray Davis of Unisys Corp. has been promoted to vice president of integrated services for the company's federal systems organization.
GSA creates training program for IT workers to hone thinking skills
The General Services Administration next month will kick off its training program to help government information technology workers develop strategic thinking skills.
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