Colorado agencies ride digital airwaves
During a 1997 flash flood, public safety officials in Larimer County, Colo., were faced with a situation best described by Strother Martin in 'Cool Hand Luke': What we've got here is a failure to communicate.
Latest version of Norton AntiVirus protects NT Server with up-to-date downloads, fixes
It takes a scorecard to keep track of the antivirus software industry, but Symantec Corp.'s Norton line is a long and, for the most part, successful breed.
Cisco's new router adds voice over IP capability
Cisco Systems Inc. has added voice over IP capability and three slots for voice or WAN interface cards to its 1750 modular access router for small and midsize offices.
SGI moves toward Linux OS in four-way server
SGI has made a strategic shift toward the Linux operating system in its new four-way Pentium III Xeon server, the SGI 1400.
BUY LINES
Federal expectations, and state and local expectations, are always caught in a delicate balance. A recent federal court decision tips the scales toward the feds and makes it more difficult for state and local entities'especially those of the activist variety'to impose restrictions on vendors that have some sort of socioeconomic or political basis.
CIO OUTLOOK
W. Wayt Gibbs, writing back in 1994 for Scientific American, delivered a landmark article on software development, 'Software's Chronic Crisis.' The article summary stated that 'despite 50 years of progress, the software industry remains years'perhaps decades'short of mature engineering discipline needed to meet the demands of an information age.'
Secretary's office bridges state miles with Internet
Wyoming doesn't have a lieutenant governor, so like many folks in this sparsely populated state, the secretary of state, Joseph B. Meyer, and his employees shoulder extra duties.
FROM THE EDITOR
What's the first thing that comes to mind when you hear 'Wooster, Ohio'?
The 50 States
The Human Services Department has signed a $2 million contract with Complete Business Solutions Inc. to implement a child care program management system.
INTERVIEW: David Bliss
Wyoming information technology officials face a singular challenge: They deliver government services to 460,000 citizens in a state where cows outnumber people by a 3-1 ratio. The conundrum is that Wyoming is the ninth-largest state in area, with 97,000 square miles of plateaus, sagebrush and ranches.
PhotoDraw is no longer Office 2000's weak link
Microsoft Corp. has taken what was a so-so illustration package and made it a winner.
Interview: Gloria Parker
When Gloria Parker became chief information officer at the Housing and Urban Development Department a year and a half ago, she knew she would be working on policy, but she did not realize she would have to build a CIO organization. That meant hiring staff and getting HUD to recognize the CIO's role.
Seagate improves hard drive
Seagate Technology Inc. has doubled the capacity of its newest hard drive to a maximum 17.2G by using double or triple disks in a single drive. The drive also comes in 13G, 8.4G and 4.3G capacities.
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.
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