When programmers ruled, everyone lived by the code
Turn the clock back 30 years and you encounter a very different work force in government computing.
The business end of IT drives change
Mirroring the drive to transform government, the federal IT work force is undergoing its own transformation.
Briefing: Sound strategy key to successful IT procurements
A market research company says many government technology procurement efforts fail to deliver optimal value.<br>
The work force transforms, creating new challenges for federal managers
The federal government's IT work force is moving from short sleeves and pocket protectors to button-down shirts and pocket PCs.
NMCI team hires security subcontractor
The Navy-Marine Corps Intranet contractor has picked a network security management vendor to assist in protecting the Navy's legacy networks during transition to NMCI.<br>
Congress sitting on 2003 funds for U.S. Visit
Committees are deciding whether to release the bulk of the fiscal 2003 funds for the Homeland Security Department's U.S. Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology system.
Army to buy more rugged Unix notebooks
The Army will order more rugged Unix notebooks under a follow-on contract to lighten up battlefield hardware.<br>
Strategist urges protection for wireless infrastructure
The nation's wireless infrastructure is 'one of the most important and least protected parts' of its communications capability, according to a technology strategist.
TeraGrid adds four Linux clusters
he National Science Foundation's grid-computing project is getting four new Linux clusters for distributed computing.
The lowdown on the wireless network
<b>What is it?</b> The newest standard for wireless networking, approved in June, IEEE 802.11g operates on the 2.4-GHz frequency band at a speed of up to 54 Mbps.
11g
Two months ago, the Standards Board of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers issued its final standard for 802.11g wireless networks, which adds speed and a layer of security to WiFi devices.
WinDVD 5 Platinum
In the old days, watching a video required knowing only whether you had a Betamax or VHS player'before VHS eliminated even that problem. Now you also need to know the medium'CD, DVD or hard drive?
FreeStyle
If you rely on your computer for audio as well as text data, you've got to have good speakers. Bose Corp. of Worcester, Mass., famous for high-end home speaker systems, has come out with a 300-watt computer speaker system with subwoofer and two external speakers.
T-Mobile Pocket PC
If you're looking for a personal digital assistant and a cell phone but are not looking forward to carrying both in your pocket, buy one that's married.
Grokker 1.0
Among a new category of data visualization tools is Grokker 1.0 from Groxis Inc. of Sausalito, Calif.
The lowdown on flat panels
<b>What's hot this year?</b> Well, it's cool prices, for starters. You can get some 15-inch, flat-panel monitors for under $300'a good price for a display that is at least one-third the weight of a traditional CRT display.
Flat panels on the rise
If the computer-and-CRT-on-a-desk typified the government office of the 1980s and 1990s, will the flat-panel LCD screen be the emblem of the new millennium? And since a preference for LCDs seems to be the way the market is going, will prices make IT managers weak at the knees?
Looking for extras?
The following list includes vendors that offer software development kits and speech recognition engines.
The lowdown on speech recognition
<b>What is it? </b>Speech recognition lets you give commands or dictate to your computer. It also forms the core of telephone voice response and directory assistance systems. Some Web applications already benefit from the addition of speech recognition tools.
Speech recognition
For 20 years developers have been promising that someday we would communicate with our computers so effortlessly through speech that the keyboard would become a secondary input device.
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