3G is still on hold
Imagine a videophone that fits in your shirt pocket or your purse, one with a mobile data pipe big enough to let you download a movie trailer and order tickets while offering directions to the nearest theatre as well.
DOD seeks standardized billing and payment apps
Citing difficulties in processing payments to contractors, Defense Department procurement director Deidre Lee last month told Defense agency chiefs and acquisition officials to avoid errors and inconsistencies.
@Info.Policy: Enough with FOIA-weakening bills
I am tired of seeing bills to exempt company information from the Freedom of Information Act.
A California county goes nuts for Galaxy storage app
In Fresno County, Calif., the nation's top source of apricots, grapes and nuts, data storage used to be as scattered as crops across the valley.
Air Force team tests network of blade PCs
An Air Force medical clinic in Utah is testing more than just blood pressure and eyesight.
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Significa
As IT matured in the 1950s and 1960s, Soviet computer science was held back by the usual culprits: opposition to Western ideas, few market incentives and secrecy. Soviet data processing specialists routinely adopted Western systems, some swiped from U.S. government research. To run the software, in 1967 they built mainframes such as the BESM-6, the Bol'shaya Ehlektronno-Schetnaya Mashina, or Big Electronic Calculating Machine.
Broadband?
I'm about to break one of my own rules: Never write an editorial when you're mad.
NIMA picks Northrop to make mapping app
The National Imagery and Mapping Agency has chosen a team of contractors led by Northrop Grumman Corp. to develop a commercial joint mapping toolkit for the Defense Information Infrastructure Common Operating Environment.
Who uses notebook PCs? Four of five managers
Government users are going whole hog for notebook PCs. In a recent telephone survey, 82 percent of IT managers GCN talked with used a notebook.
It takes a gorilla to drive change
You remember Jim Champy. Or at least you remember business process re-engineering, the movement'or fad, depending on your viewpoint'spawned by his 1993 bestseller, Re-engineering the Corporation: A Manifesto for Business Revolution, co-authored with Michael Hammer.
FBI names new CIO
FBI director Robert S. Mueller III has named Darwin A. John as the bureau's new CIO. John follows Robert Dies, the agency's former CIO who retired earlier this year, and information resources manager Mark Tanner, who served as acting CIO.
DREN work is up in the air again
Two telecommunications companies have lodged protests that ask the General Accounting Office to stop the Defense Department from proceeding with a $450 million deal for WorldCom Inc. to build a high-speed research network.
The week's top stories forJuly 1 through July 5
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The lowdown on Wi-Fi
<b>What are they?</b> Wi-Fi network interface cards are a major component of wireless LANs. Those listed in the chart are PC Cards that reside in notebook and desktop PCs, and are equipped with tiny built-in antennae for sending and receiving radio signals.
Faster wireless standards wait in the wings
Two new standards for wireless LANs are emerging. Products compliant with the IEEE 802.11a standard operate on the 5-GHz spectrum and have maximum throughput rates of 54 Mbps, though 22 Mbps is more typical.
Wireless is in the cards
If you want to move about your workplace freely but still need to download e-mail, send messages or grab files from a network server without dragging a stream of cables behind your notebook PC, here's some good news: Wireless networking has come of age.
Minolta DiMAGE 7i, Sony Mavica a contrast in styles
Two digital cameras introduced in recent months from Minolta USA Inc. and Sony Electronics Inc. take significantly different approaches to digital image capture and storage. They also provide a nice snapshot of where this fast-moving technology stands at the moment.
The lowdown on digital cameras
<b>What is it?</b> A digital camera records photographic images onto a memory card, which can then be loaded into a computer for editing, manipulation and printing.
Sharp shooters
Digital cameras are in the fast lane of price-to-performance development. Steady advances in digital technology have cut in half the cost of high-quality imaging in the past two years, while bringing more of the features of professional-class single-lens reflex (SLR) film cameras within the price range of government users who need more than point-and-shoot pictures.
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