FAA plans draft RFP for telecom upgrade
The Federal Aviation Administration next month will release a draft request for proposals for a $1.9 billion upgrade of its telecommunications infrastructure.
US West completes 99 percent of Y2K systems upgrades
US West Inc., which provides comprehensive telephone service to three Energy Department facilities and local service in 14 Western states, has finished more than 99 percent of its year 2000 network upgrades.
Motorola application dials up digital radios
Motorola Inc. late this year will release a software suite for over-the-air rekeying of secure digital radios, eliminating the need to load new encryption keys manually on each radio.
PC ParaChute has automated backup, recovery to save system from hard fall
UniTrends Software Corp.'s PC ParaChute does automated backup and recovery of networked PCs.
Profiler analyzes the enemy
An innocent user whose system catches a computer virus envisions the virus creator as an antisocial malcontent with purple hair and pierced nose, living in his parents' basement.
INTERNAUT
Government Web sites are taking a cue from commercial sites and using banner or showcase ads to tout themselves, their services and their work products.
Sporting Pentium III, Toshiba's Equium line revs up to 600 MHz
Federal buyers can purchase Toshiba America Information Systems Inc. Equium 7100 series PCs with the latest 600-MHz Pentium III processor and hard drives as large as 20G.
SAN tool takes some of the backup, storage functions away from servers
Data General Corp. has built a new storage area network product with end-to-end Fibre Channel connections to simplify data replication and improve performance by offloading some storage and backup functions from LAN servers.
Bureau of Labor Statistics sets plan to ensure data is the latest
The Bureau of Labor Statistics has set up a strict quality control program for its computer hardware and software to ensure that economists have stable and up-to-date equipment to track key economic statistics.
Flat 17-inch CRT, touch-screen LCD are new additions to Compaq's monitor line
New in Compaq Computer Corp.'s monitor line are the 15-inch TFT5000 flat-panel display with touch-screen capability and the flat, square 17-inch V700 Corporate Value color CRT.
PTO takes orders over Web
The Patent and Trademark Office has begun taking document orders from the public over the Web through an electronic commerce application known as the Order Entry Management System, or OEMS.
POWER USER
My last column dealt with last-minute year 2000 software fixes. Here are some helpful Web sites for other types of last-minute fixes.
Meet it halfway: Here's GCN's index of '99 product reviews
Products reviewed by GCN this year through June appear alphabetically by manufacturer. Each product's name appears in boldface and is followed by the date and page of the issue in which the review ran. A searchable version of this list appears on GCN's Web site, at www.gcn.com.
Fireworks 2 blasts graphics directly to the Web
Art designed specifically for Web pages has taken on a life of its own.
Devices turn the page on how we read
Not even a die-hard computernik likes to curl up in bed with hardware. But two companies want you to do just that. They produce what are essentially read-only devices in booklike form.
Lab Notes
A poor excuse. Corel Corp.'s latest release of WordPerfect has an exceptionally annoying error, according to recent user reports. When a user tries to save something in Rich Text Format, a file format readable by other leading word processors, WordPerfect 9 sporadically prunes the file without warning.
THE BOTTOM LINE
'Honey, I'm home!' yells Spouse 1, coming through the door.
ONLINE BUYING
At its best, online shopping offers a broad range of choices for savvy buyers who cannot or do not want to look for bargains at local shopping malls. At its worst, online shopping can be risky and can compromise the personal privacy of buyers.
Growing the tree of knowledge
If we only knew what we knew, we'd all be better off.
FREE STUFF
Plug away. Sometimes, plug-ins and add-ons are the curse of the Internet world.
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