Incumbent vendor wins Geospatial One-Stop revamp
ESRI will redesign the Geospatial One Stop portal that it created under a new five-year, $2.4 million contract.
PTO puts trademark application files online
The Patent and Trademark Office is now making official trademark application files, including decisions by trademark examining attorneys, available online.
Army launches buy for knowledge management systems
The Army has issued an RFP for a single integrator for its Army Knowledge Online portal.
Sensitive DHS briefings leaked through Energy system
Because of an apparent security glitch at the Energy Department, dozens of sensitive Homeland Security Department documents have been available on a public Internet site for several days.
NARA Web site harvest yields 75 million pages
When the caretaker of the government's history took recent snapshots of agencies' Web sites, it found hidden among 75 million pages evidence of one federal employee's obsession with a word search game and another's partiality for hangman.
New tool for open-source Web scripting language
Zend Technologies has released new software to simplify administration of Web pages created with the PHP scripting language.
Will new IPv6 devices drive 'New Internet'?
Networked cameras, voice over IPv6 wireless phones and other new peripherals could drive the need for more addressable space.
Digital archives look back, forward
Google.com has compiled 800 million Usenet messages into a 20-year archive of <a href="http://www.google.com/googlegroups/archive_announce_20.html">firsts</a> in computing history up to December 2001.
Virtual Space: True shock and awe'
NASA established the Earth Observatory Web site as a free online destination for satellite imagery of everything from volcanic eruptions to dust storms in the Gobi Desert.
Draft report suggests end for FBI's case management app
The FBI's Virtual Case File project'on which the bureau has spent almost $170 million since June 2001'won't succeed. That's the conclusion the Justice Department's inspector general has reached.
Cost pressures speed back-office consolidations
Tight budgets will accelerate back-office systems consolidations this year.
GSA to charge fee to access buying data via the Web
The General Services Administration late last month set a one-time fee of $2,500 for vendors and the public to receive a direct, continuous Web feed from the new Federal Procurement Data System-Next Generation.
CFOs get their own Web site for metrics
Need to figure out how a government program measures up financially?
Mozilla's Firefox rings in 2005 as the year of the alternative browser
It doesn't take a crystal ball to see that 2005 will feature a renewed Internet browser war that will cost Microsoft Internet Explorer a lot of users ' including us in the GCN Lab.
DOD develops a road map for getting to IPv6
Military networks will have to prove that they can run securely and reliably under IP Version 6 before receiving approval to use the new protocols.
Power User: Avoiding Java's jolt
Am I the only person who thinks Java doesn't work very well?
GPO seeks tools to harvest overlooked documents on the Web
The Government Printing Office is looking for IT products and services that will help it find, harvest and review documents from federal Web sites.
IRS predicts electronic tax filings will pass 50 percent mark
The IRS anticipates that more than half of all taxpayers will file electronically during the 2005 tax-filing season that begins today.
OMB creates single policy document for Web requirements
The Office of Management and Budget has issued 10 online marching orders that agencies must meet by the end of next year.
AFFIRM details top CIO challenges, critical technologies
Federal CIOs are struggling to align IT and agency mission goals, and to use technology to improve customer service.
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