PEBES online waits in wings
The Social Security Administration will not make Personal Earnings and Benefit Estimate Statements available online again until secure privacy tools are available, an SSA official said.
Interview
John R. Dyer has been the Social Security Administration's principal deputy commissioner and chief information officer since January 1996. As CIO, Dyer leads SSA's efforts to meet goals in disability re-engineering, system investments and strategic planning. He also is chairman of the agency's Management Oversight Council and oversees the Fraud Control and Prevention Oversight Committee. GCN talked to Dyer about SSA's past, present and future challenges.
INTERVIEW: Col. Philip E. Vermeer, Guard's network scout
Col. Philip E. Vermeer is chief of the Information Systems Division Directorate at the Army National Guard Readiness Center, a job he began in March after working as the organization's director of strategic initiatives.
ENTERPRISE COMPUTING NEW PRODUCTS
Cibon, a Java workflow framework for customer service applications, supports Microsoft Outlook, Windows and Web browser clients.
Court rules Intel has no license for Clipper patent
Intergraph Corp. won a round in its legal wrangle with Intel Corp. Federal district Judge Edwin Nelson ruled Intel does not have a valid license to use Intergraph's decade-old Clipper RISC caching circuitry in the Pentium architecture.
Tool eliminates software defects caused by requirements creep
Display of so-called requirements creep is new in the client-server Caliber-RM 2.0 requirements manager from Technology Builders Inc. of Atlanta.
Vendors vie to set electronic forms standard
JetForm Corp. of Ottawa has asked the World Wide Web Consortium to include part or all of its XML Forms Architecture (XFA) in developing an electronic forms standard for the Extensible Markup Language.
Good ideas do not guarantee a good subnotebook
Size matters, and when it comes to mobile computers, smaller is better. But small size does not make the MetroBook SLT a winner.
PhotoDraw opens a mixed bag of illustration tricks
The mouse becomes even mightier than the pen under Microsoft PhotoDraw 2000, although the pen sometimes works faster.
Flat displays are where it's at, at a price
The CRT monitor is the biggest space hog on a desk, and most users would jump at the chance to replace the bulky tube with an elegant LCD'but only if they didn't have to spend a lot of money or sacrifice image quality.
Organizations use hacker tools to find weaknesses
Depending on the network manager's viewpoint, two remote administration and monitoring tools announced at last month's DefCon hackers convention in Las Vegas can be used for either good or evil.
Researchers merge IP, frame relay services
Internet telephony, now in its infancy, is only one of several ways large organizations can get more value out of their networks.
IMC Networks multiplexer connects several nets in a building
Each port supplies more than 1.5-Mbps T1 bandwidth that administrators can allocate per port
NSA approves first products for secure remote access
The National Security Agency has approved the first commercial products for its Remote Access Security Program. Government users have NSA's OK to transmit data at the secret level with the RASP Secure Access suite from Kasten Chase Applied Research Ltd. of Toronto.
INTERNAUT
I recently served on the steering committee of GetNetWise, a new online children's safety resource.
Researcher charts Net growth
NATO's recent bombing campaign against Yugoslavia literally changed the map of the Internet.
Letters to the Editor
I basically agree with David Jackson's review of Microsoft Project 98, Milestones Etc. 5.0 and FastTrack Schedule 6.0 [GCN, July 5, Page 23].
With add-on, you can convert QMS printer into copier-scanner
The QMS SC-200 digital copier and scanner add-on from QMS Inc. of Mobile, Ala., attaches to a QMS Magicolor printer's parallel port, turning it into a color copier and scanner.
POWER USER
With luck, most GCN readers have headed off possible year 2000 problems in their office PCs and software. Even so, it's important to keep track of last-minute changes, which seem to be surfacing quite often.
System will link health data
An interagency project to share military and American Indian health records will have a Web search system on top of a distributed-object backbone.
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