DisplayMate eyes the screen
What's the 'best' LCD monitor? It depends on the eye of the beholder, but a scientific viewing approach makes it easier on that eye.
Looking for the best: GCN Lab ranks 11 LCDs
Like dieters, LCD monitor makers are constantly striving for thinness. Space-saving LCDs have other advantages over CRTs. They consume less power, last longer, generate far less heat and are generally more pleasing to the eye in prolonged use.
FBI to open five computer crime labs
The FBI plans to open five new Regional Computer Forensics Laboratories by the end of 2004.<br>
NOAA lab extends supercomputing contract with Raytheon
A National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration laboratory has given Raytheon Co. a three-year contract extension to manage its high-performance computing cluster.<br>
The lowdown on wireless networks
<b>What's the threat to wireless networks?</b> While IEEE 802.11 and other standards for wireless LANs have made it easier and cheaper to set up wireless networks, they have also made it easier for unauthorized people to find and use them'and abuse or attack them. Even a casual hacker can easily circumvent the base level of security on many WiFi networks. And networks that can't be hacked can be jammed or otherwise disrupted if attackers go undetected.
Air safety: wireless networking security
Wireless is perhaps the most rapidly growing networking technology, and certainly the most widely hyped. But its rapid growth has brought some serious security concerns'sometimes, ubiquitous and easy access to data networks isn't exactly a good thing.
DOD system will monitor battlefield health data
The Defense Department is building a Web system that will collect and store health data that can help explain mysterious illnesses such as Gulf War Syndrome. <br>
Army exec insists on data sharing to give soldiers 'full power'
During a trip to Iraq in August, Lt. Gen. Keith B. Alexander, the Army's deputy chief of staff for intelligence, observed an incident that illustrated the service's intelligence weaknesses.
Lawmaker: Intelligence will cut threat
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J.'A key step in preventing high-tech weapons from being used by terrorists or rogue nations is improving intelligence capabilities, Rep. Curt Weldon told an audience of Army chieftains last month.
House votes to restrict file sharing at agencies
The House today passed legislation that would require agencies to develop policies to protect government systems from threats posed by peer-to-peer file sharing programs.<br>
Product minds file-sharing and IM apps
SurfControl Inc. claims its Instant Message Filter can bring instant messaging and peer-to-peer file sharing to a halt on enterprise networks.
Oceanside, Calif., blocks the tsunami of spam
For three years, the city of Oceanside, Calif., has been using software from SurfControl PLC of Manchester, England, to keep viruses at bay.
PTO tool will go international
A patent official is developing a tool to harmonize the Patent and Trademark Office's business processes with those of its counterparts in Europe and Japan.
Weather model gets multiagency input
It may take a decade for the new Weather Research and Forecasting system to generate the forecasts that make the evening news, said Steve Lord, director of the Environmental Modeling Center at the National Centers for Environmental Prediction.
Internaut: Want to be a project manager? Take these courses
Installing any new database or network in a government office means that someone must be assigned to oversee the schedule, deliverables and budget.
Federal Highway Administration puts the brakes on pop-up ads
A recent federal court ruling declared pop-up ads legal and inevitable. 'Alas, we computer users must endure pop-up advertising along with her ugly brother, unsolicited bulk e-mail, as a burden of using the Internet,' wrote Judge Gerald Bruce Lee of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.
Worms inspire VA's in-house patch effort
The Veterans Affairs Department will begin an aggressive in-house software-patching program. Other organizations'the White House and Federal Aviation Administration among them'are also looking at setting up their own patching operations.
Power User: It's all security, all the time
Want to get a six- to 12-hour jump on new network security threats? Monitor Microsoft Corp.'s security bulletins directly.
Net-centric
The Joint Interoperability Test Command is working to forge new test methods for network-centric warfare.
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