Workgroup printer plays hide-and-seek with NT
A current radio advertisement in the Washington area has someone impersonating an Army officer saying that if Minolta Corp.'s PageWorks printers are good enough for the Army, they're good enough for you.
On New Year's Eve, he'll be at the epicenter of Y2K action
Retired Army Lt. Gen. Peter A. Kind increasingly finds himself in the year 2000 hot seat.
Andersen wins Education pact
The Education Department last week chose Andersen Consulting of Chicago to oversee the $200 million to $300 million modernization of its student loan systems.
Government CIOs get their own university
The school bell's ringing'for federal systems executives who want to take graduate courses but have few hours each week to spare.
In Corps, comm officers move up ranks
With one Marine Corps communicator-general celebrating the first-year anniversary of his promotion and a second selected for promotion, Defense Department officials are offering different takes on whether the communications career path has gained clout within the department.
PROFESSIONAL CALENDAR
September14-15 Building the Federal Work Forceof the FutureConference. Washington
Sprint's FTS vet joins Qwest, will lead government division
James F.X. Payne, Sprint Corp.'s government assistant vice president who helped land both the FTS 2000 and FTS 2001 long-haul communications contracts, has joined Qwest Communications Inc. of Denver to lead its government markets division.
Clinton creates council to protect nation's critical infrastructure
President Clinton last month signed an executive order creating the National Infrastructure Assurance Council, which will be a senior-level group working to protect the nation's critical infrastructure.
Koskinen will demonstrate how history repeats itself, Y2K-style
On New Year's Eve, time might actually fly, at least for the president's year 2000 czar.
Corel enhances its own version of Linux with an auto-installer
Corel Corp. has designed its own version of the Linux operating system around the Debian Linux kernel, the K Desktop Environment and other freeware applications.
Compaq enterprise systems come with a free upgrade to Win 2000
Compaq Computer Corp. is selling its enterprise client systems with free upgrades to next year's Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional release.
Navy sets PKI implementation test, will try smart cards during pilots
The Navy will implement a public-key infrastructure through several pilots of multipurpose smart cards.
NOAA team uses GPS to size up monumental task
New York's World Trade Center buildings: 1,758 feet. The Empire State Building: 1,454 feet. Chicago's Sears Tower: also 1,454 feet.
OS/390 release boosts e-commerce security
Release 8 of OS/390 Version 2, which runs on IBM's S/390 enterprise servers, will have new security features for electronic commerce applications.
Navy links satellite data to track titanic iceberg
The National Naval Ice Center is using an elaborate communications system to track an iceberg the size of Rhode Island that entered shipping lanes between Antarctica and South America two weeks ago.
CIO Council adds privacy to strategic goals
The Chief Information Officers Council has added privacy to its strategic goals and is fine-tuning new itineraries for its committees.
Treasury agency takes slow route to a new OS
A different kind of year 2000 issue is hitting one Treasury Department agency as it migrates to a new network operating system.
Alternatives to 2.4-GHz systems run into bandwidth, range and interference problems
In weighing your options on wireless LANs, it is important not to confuse them with wireless metropolitan area networks or cellular telephone networks.
WIRELESS LANS
Now might be the time to consider a wireless LAN for your organization. The industry is hammering out standards and settling interoperability problems. And more products become available every month as the market for wireless LANs, now at $ 1 billion, grows by 40 percent to 60 percent annually.
Domino gives war game participants a comm link
Although the Air Force has standardized on Microsoft Exchange for the Defense Message System, the service is showing there's room for Lotus Development Corp.'s rival product.
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