Energy lab restoring website, investigating attack
The Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility's website is being restored as the lab investigates a cyberattack that coincided with two others over the holiday weekend.
Swiss call to arms: PowerPoint must be stopped!
The Anti-PowerPoint Party will not stand idly by as students, government employees, marketers and other corporate apparatchiks are forced to fire up brain-deadening, resource-wasting slideshows.
USAID to help Afghan cell-phone users get news
Afghans will have easier access to newspapers, radio and other news sources on their cell phones thanks to a project by the U.S. Agency for International Development.
Memo to health IT planners: no need to reinvent standards
Columnist Mike Daconta helps clarify the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology's recommendation for a universal exchange language for health care information and explains why it is more than feasible today.
Double the power source, reliability with automatic transfer switch
The Structured Solutions uATS Micro Automatic Transfer Switch is the GCN Lab's pick for the July product of the month.
Microsoft opens up code used in Windows Phone tracking
The company released the source code for an app it uses to gather Wi-Fi, cell tower and GPS information and says it will end use of device identifiers in its location services.
Shoe-print database helps police run down criminals
Police in Florida can tap a database of shoes to identify the footprints that criminals leave behind at the scene of the crime.
A sensing probe in every car?
Sensors in new cars could track bad weather, pinpoint road congestion and prevent crashes.
The little tablet that could
The Motion F5v Tablet PC is perfect for medical-type uses, and it could probably find a home in places where the environment is less than ideal.
A bare-bones approach to rugged
Xplore Technologies' iX104C5 DMSR-MIL tablet strips out a lot of extra weight found in other rugged tablet models, but perhaps a bit too much.
NWS goes trucking for hard-to-reach data
The National Weather Service's MoPED – Mobile Platforms for Environmental Data – is part of a program exploring the use of vehicle fleets as a roving platform for remotely sensing weather data.
A monster performer that won't overheat
The Supermicro SuperServer X9 would do well as a dedicated web server in any agency, especially if a few extra drives were available to enhance its usability.
Texas can keep using paperless voting
The Texas Supreme Court ruled against a group that sued to stop the state from using direct-recording electronic voting machines.
Cyberattacks take two Energy labs offline
The Pacific Northwest National Lab and the Thomas Jefferson Laboratory National Accelerator Facility shut down e-mail and outside Internet access after a "sophisticated cyber attack."
'Sophisticated cyberattack' hits another Energy Dept. lab
The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has shut down its website and Internet access as a result of an attack that shows some similarities to one that hit Oak Ridge National Laboratory in April.
HP delivers a powerful workstation at the right price
HP's Z210 CMT fills the bill for users who need a little extra performance.
ThinkCentre desktop comes in a nice little package
The ThinkCentre M91p is an inexpensive, ultra-slim desktop computer that is quick to hook up but still strong enough to get the job done.
Dell's Vostro 330 has the right touch
The Dell Vostro combines a sensitive touch screen with a fairly robust back-end computer.
8 top tablets for the discriminating fed
Agencies should consider five criteria when buying a tablet. Here is how eight popular models, including the Apple iPad, BlackBerry PlayBook, HP TouchPad and Motion J3500, match up.
VA to allow iPads, Androids, other mobile devices on its network
The Veterans Affairs Department plans to allow employees to use mobile devices such as iPhones, iPads and Androids devices on VA networks by Oct. 1, CIO Roger Baker announced.
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