Web services ready for third wave
At meetings of the CIO Council's XML Working Group and other Extensible Markup Language discussions around Washington, Joseph Chiusano is a familiar figure.
Treasury issues phishing schemes alert, advice
Recent phishing e-mails have purportedly come from government agencies, financial-sector firms, Internet auction sites and electronic payment services.
Group wants input on vulnerability reporting guidelines
Organization for Internet Safety hopes to address issues such as whether the government should play a role in vulnerability reporting.
Weather agency goes first-CLASS
One of the world's largest stores of environmental data is now online at a dual-sited federal portal called CLASS.The Comprehensive Large Array-data Stewardship System in March began serving up more than 41T'that's terabytes'worth of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration environmental data collected from satellite and ground observations. CLASS operates out of the National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C., and the Office of Satellite Data Processing and Distribution in Suitland, Md.
SBA lends a hand with online loan app
The Small Business Administration gets more than 67,000 faxes a year from lenders seeking small-business loans that add up to more than $16.9 billion.SBA employees must manually enter the information, delaying loan decisions. But all that faxing, data entry and waiting will likely disappear as lenders begin using SBA's recently launched E-Tran online loan application.
NASA fly-by portal monitors rainforest
NASA administrator Sean O'Keefe last month inaugurated a 3-D visualization portal for fly-through surveys of Central America's data layers, captured by satellites.
NMCI program trains IT sailors
During Operation Iraqi Freedom, the Navy had more than 170 ships in the Arabian Gulf, Red Sea and Mediterranean Sea with one thing in common: They were connected to the Navy-Marine Corps Intranet despite being thousands of miles from the nearest Network Operations Center.
HHS launches WebMD health information pilot
The Health and Human Services Department has started distributing its consumer health information on a new HHS "channel" on popular online site WebMD.
Web tool speeds services for at-risk youth in Mich.
Web collaboration software is part of a move toward more-unified forms and documents for rural county.
NIST offers guidelines for securing VOIP
National Institute of Standards and Technology warns Voice over IP technology may introduce new security headaches.
DHS launches vendor Web site
The Homeland Security Department today unveiled a Web site for collecting information on IT products and services from vendors.
Sasser worms slowing the Internet
The Sasser family of worms appears to be slowing down Internet traffic, making some destinations unavailable.
NEA to use Transportation's Delphi financial system
National Endowment for the Arts selects the Web-ready Delphi Financial Management System, developed by the Transportation Department, for its new finance system.
HHS launches Medicare prescription site
Prescription site to let Medicare recipients sign up for discount cards and compare drug prices.
SBA launches online loan submission system
The Small Business Administration today made it easier for lenders to submit loan applications for its SBAExpress loan program.
SEC Web site bogs down on Google IPO filing interest
Google Inc.'s IPO plans push so much traffic to the SEC Web site yesterday that it may have significantly slowed down the performance of the agency's home page.
Services rendered
When Sun Microsystems Inc.'s Scott McNealy and Microsoft Corp.'s Steve Ballmer announced last month that the two companies had agreed to work on interoperability between their systems, they already had a good head start. That's because both companies already support Web services standards in their development tools.
Internaut: Justice XML effort is promising
One of the more interesting public-safety and homeland security efforts in recent months is a data reference model called Justice XML, officially known as the Global Justice XML Data Model.
Education, states team on school site
How do schools in Florida compare with those in Delaware in meeting the educational standards of the No Child Left Behind Act?A consortium of federal, state and private groups is posting answers to such questions at www.schoolresults.org, a Web site funded by the Education Department and a nonprofit group to make school performance data readily available and schools more accountable.
OASIS tackles modular documentation
A Web services standards body wants to make technical documents modular so they will be easier to update and reuse.
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