This backbone router will push switching capacity to 184 Tbps
A backbone router available from Pluris Inc. late this year has up to 184 Tbps of aggregate switching capacity and can be managed as a single system.
PTO system answers the call
Not only does the Patent and Trademark Office support itself on revenue it generates, it takes pride in returning money to the government.
INTERNAUT
It has been more than a year since the Federal Trade Commission issued its scathing report about online privacy, posted at www.ftc.gov/reports/privacy3/index.htm.'
Letters to the Editor
I found it interesting that your June 28 edition contained both an article in which the Defense Department's chief information officer, Arthur L. Money, referred to much commercial software as 'absolute crap' [Page 3], and an interview in which S. Tucker Taft talked about the undeservedly maligned Ada [Page 17].
Ready, set, hike IT pay
'Show me the money' is one of the more vulgar expressions of recent years, even though it expresses many people's most basic concern. Crass as it sounds, though, information technology workers and managers in the federal government might be tempted to utter that very expression, given how valuable their bosses say they are.
He investigates new ways to fight crime
When Mark Tanner took a tour of FBI headquarters when he was an accounting student at East Carolina University, little did he know the role he would ultimately play at the bureau. The tour guide mentioned that the FBI was looking for lawyers and accountants, so after Tanner graduated in 1978, he applied.
Stay linked and back up files with new products
Lotus QuickPlace is a Web-based team-ware application that lets managers set up an instant, shared workspace on either the Internet or their corporate intranet.
OCC app integrates database for bank examiners
It's nice to have the auditors on your side. This is the case with the bank examiners from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. Part of OCC's job for the Treasury Department is to charter and regulate the many national banks around the country, ensuring that they meet government standards and letting us all sleep well at night.
With PocketMail, e-mail access is phone call away
It was by chance that George Collins discovered PocketMail. In April, while shopping at Office Depot, the emergency manager of the Okaloosa County, Fla., Office of Emergency Management saw the Sharp TelMail TM-20 and read about its ability to send and receive e-mail via a phone service.
USDA inspectors improve communications by going Solo
They are the road warriors of safe food consumption, battling bacteria and unsanitary conditions on behalf of the millions of people for whom culinary pleasure is a hearty steak or tender drumstick.
Techie is in tune with mobile challenges
Name: William 'Bucky' BuchananAgency: Naval Computer and Telecommunications Station, Washington Navy YardTitle: Division headLength of service: 15 years: four at NCTS and 10 at the Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) as program manager for the Fleet Modernization Program Management Information SystemAge: 48Education: Bachelor's degree in music education, Indiana UniversityE-mail address: BuchananW@nctswash.navy.mil
Navy ship inspectors give palmtops a thumbs-up
Navy quality-assurance inspectors left their spiral notebooks at home this spring when they boarded the USS O'Kane at the Bath Iron Works in Maine. Instead, they took palmtop computers from 3Com Corp. of Santa Clara, Calif., to check shipboard equipment prior to the destroyer's maiden voyage.
Mobile and wireless computing
Defense Secretary William Cohen has gone wireless.
Recovery utility captures, repairs and relocates files lost during crashes
PowerQuest's Lost & Found utility follows the philosophy of doing one thing very well.'' Lost & Found specializes in recovering files from crashed floppy or hard disks. In my tests, the cause of the crash did not seem to matter, whether it was a physical defect or buggy software.
Sharp output, easy setup make printer a winner
Tektronix solid-wax printers have always had one main advantage over color laser and ink-jet printers: transparency output with wonderfully vibrant colors.
The flat Diamond Pro 900u is easy on the eyes
Mitsubishi's Diamond Pro 900u monitor sports a futuristically curved exterior, but the screen is perfectly flat.
Package passes mobile access chores to network administrator
Many government workers move around quite a bit, dialing in from one location or attaching to the network from somewhere else. How can they keep track of which settings go with which networks? One way is through Symantec Corp.'s Mobile Essentials 2.0.
Lab Notes
Access denied. Ah, the joys of market competition. Now that the Web browser wars of a few years ago have balanced out to an uneasy detente between Microsoft Corp. and Netscape Communications Corp., GCN Lab reviewers are rediscovering the advantages of having multiple browsers and versions installed.
GCN adds benchmarks to test arsenal
Reviews that rely on science and not art tend to forget the human in the equation. So what if a blazing-fast video card or hard drive makes one system perform better than others if you cannot get it onto the office network?
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The citizen-friendly e-mail capability you've spent years setting up can turn and bite your agency.
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