California city tracks workers' Internet use
The gateway to Napa Valley is American Canyon, Calif., which supplies water to nearby wineries. The city of about 12,000 uses another kind of gateway to block inappropriate Internet use by employees.
In New Mexico, troopers use GPS-ready radios
New Mexico State Police have joined federal civilian and military users of a two-way satellite data radio with Global Positioning System tracking, from EMS Technologies Inc. of Atlanta.
Navy gateway fosters career chats, learning
The new Navy Knowledge Online portal, at <a href= "http://www.nko.navy.mil">www.nko.navy.mil</a>, em-phasizes career learning and collaboration skills.
Sun teams with Aether Systems on Web services
Aether Systems Inc. and Sun Microsystems Inc. earlier this month said they will jointly market their mobile Web services software to the Homeland Security Department.
SBA, two states begin employer ID program
The Small Business Administration late last month announced the launch of the second piece of its Business Compliance One-Stop project.
GSA releases RFP for online travel system
The General Services Administration last week released the final request for proposals for an end-to-end online travel management system.
Ready or not
'We have to get it right in a real-time environment.'That's the charge'as described by Homeland Security Department CIO Steve Cooper'facing the IT chiefs of the 22 agencies that have been thrown together under the new department.
President overhauls his security teams
As part of the executive branch restructuring to create the new Homeland Security Department, President Bush has eliminated his Critical Infrastructure Protection Board.
On Ready.gov, HSD reaches out to public
To present its homeland security face to the public, the Bush administration turned to the Advertising Council to design a $100 million print, broadcast and online campaign about public preparedness.
House homeland committee creates cybersecurity subcommittee
The new House Homeland Security Committee has created five subcommittees, including one on Cybersecurity, Science and Research & Development, to oversee the nation's electronic preparedness.
Calendar
<b>1-2 Secure E-Biz Executive Summit</b><br>Arlington, Va. Contact ICHnet.org; Web: <a href= "http://www.SecurE-Biz.net">www.SecurE-Biz.net</a>; phone: 703-768-0400.
Microsoft: Trustworthy computing is years away
A year after Microsoft Corp. chairman Bill Gates called a companywide stand-down to focus on software security, chief technology officer Craig Mundie said it will take the rest of this decade to achieve trustworthy computing.
Federal Contract Law: Feds should use market research to refine IT plans
Government and industry have a lot to learn about market research for federal performance-based acquisitions.
After state parks complain, feds shift gears on approach to recreation portal
When the Interior Department started down the road of creating an all-inclusive Web site for citizens to find recreation information at national and state parks, project managers envisioned collecting and managing all the data.
HP 4300n emulates a laser printing press
Fine-tuning engines and recalibrating gears is what goes on inside a NASCAR garage. It also happens in printer makers' laboratories.
Millennia clients score high on lab benchmark
The latest 3.07-GHz Millennia desktop clients from MPC Computers Inc., formerly MicronPC LLC, are lightning-fast office workhorses.
Bush names Forman to head White House E-Gov office
President Bush yesterday announced that Mark Forman, the Office of Management and Budget's associate director for IT and e-government, will be appointed the administrator of the White House Office of E-Government.
Tungsten W can go wireless and Graffiti-less
After testing Palm Inc.'s new Tungsten W for a couple of weeks, I can tell you from long experience with Palm OS wireless devices that it's unlike the Palm VII and i705, and not merely because it incorporates a telephone.
Norton Ghost shadows your system
The ultimate backup is to have a mirror image of a system on a separate hard drive stored offsite.
Compatibility problems plague DVD
With drive prices less than $500 and capacities in the gigabytes, DVD is a tempting backup medium for small networks and individual client systems.
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