VisualRoute 7.1
Maintaining maximum network performance means more than just updating all your machinery with the latest fixes and patches. Networks and Internet connectivity can slow down even if you run a tight ship.
TravelPower Case 1300B
The TravelPower Case is the pocket protector for the new breed of tech geeks.
Microsoft MN-500
If you operate mostly in a Microsoft Windows XP environment and want to use wireless connections in your network, Microsoft Corp. offers an option.
ButterflyBoard
Sometimes a complex problem has a simple solution. The ButterflyBoard, from Metamorphosis Ergonomic Computer Furniture and Accessories of Atlanta, is basically a piece of wood with two wooden feet. When assembled, which takes about a minute, the board provides a slightly angled surface for anything sitting on it.
How to close the gaps in your wireless network
We've all heard the proverb: Play with fire and sooner or later you get burned. In the IT world, getting burned can mean losing important data or, worse, compromising sensitive information.
Lawyers say FAR revisions could fetter software purchasing
Proposed changes to federal software-buying rules could make it difficult for agencies to adopt commercial software licenses, a Boston-based law firm warns.<br>
DARPA awards $146 million for supercomputing R&D
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded three computer manufacturers contracts totaling $146.1 million to design new kinds of high-performance computers for national security needs.
The lowdown on projectors
<b>What's big this year?</b> Little'as in tiny projectors, albeit at a big price, or normal projectors at a tiny price. At one end of the projector spectrum, the $999 projector is causing quite a stir. You can get a whole projector for about half the price of an entry-level model last year, and with quality features.
Into the light
Projectors are going small in a big way. In the next five years, 'projector shipments are supposed to triple from 1.7 million units shipped worldwide to 5.2 million,' said Jennifer Gallo, an analyst who covers the projector and flat-panel display markets for International Data Corp. of Framingham, Mass.
OPM weighs options on Recruitment One-Stop project
The Office of Personnel Management has said it will decide by July 21 whether to recompete the contract for its Recruitment One-Stop project.<br>
Report says personnel shortage hinders biodefense efforts
A shortage of scientific and medical personnel is jeopardizing the ability of federal biodefense agencies to fend off a biological attack, a government reform group says.<br>
SCO's lawsuit could slow the march of Linux
With the SCO Group suing IBM Corp. for alleged infringement of Unix copyrights in Linux, and NetWare vendor (and Unix patent holder) Novell Inc. disputing SCO's claims, government IT managers must wonder what to do with that alleged unauthorized derivative known as Linux. SCO's discomforting advice: Get a lawyer. That's what it warned in a letter to 1,500 large companies.
The lowdown on Linux
<b>What's new?</b> Variety. The emergence of Linux has spread the field over the past several years, with a variety of commercial versions. And Unix-makers are dipping a toe into the desktop-PC pond, with OSes for Intel machines. Meanwhile, Apple continues to upgrade Mac OS X as a viable server OS, though its strength is still as a desktop OS for graphics-intensive applications.
OS roundup
You used to have only two or three real choices in operating systems for government PCs. You ran Microsoft Windows on desktops, and Unix on engineering and design workstations, and maybe Mac OS for graphics. You wouldn't dare put anything but Unix on servers.
GAO prods DOD to fine-tune financial consolidation plan
The General Accounting Office thinks the Defense Department's road map on how it will consolidate 2,300 disparate business and financial systems and build an enterprise architecture needs better directions.<br>
FBI gets on the case
After getting along for years with antiquated systems, some of which might have been recognizable to old TV FBI agent Efrem Zimbalist Jr., the FBI is making quick work of modernization.
Race between USB, FireWire
Even if you have a combo Universal Serial Bus 2.0 and IEEE 1394 FireWire hard drive enclosure, you still have to choose between them.
The lowdown on external removable hard drives
<b>What are they?</b> External removable hard drive enclosures are equivalent to a PC's original drive and can be plugged directly into the computer, requiring little or no effort to set up.
DHS weighs seeking delay on U.S. Visit deadline
The Homeland Security Department may seek to delay one of the key milestones in its entry-exit system project.<br>
Council hires former fed to run management programs
The Council for Excellence in Government has tapped Judith Douglas to oversee leadership and performance initiatives. <br>
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