Slimmer XML is faster XML
Trimming the size of your XML documents saves not only in storage costs but in processing as well.
Single standard needed for reporting data breaches
A survey for the RSA Conference eFraud Network Forum shows that professionals want more information, and they want it quicker when personal information is breached.
U.S. at risk of losing its status as leader in computer-simulation technology
A government study concludes that, as high-powered computer simulation becomes more important and more common, the United States needs to devote additional resources to advancing the state of the science and preparing researchers to use it.
Universal Imaging Utility streamlines the task of giving users identical systems
The Universal Imaging Utility can resolve problems before you copy image files from a master system to new clients.
Arkansas tracks stimulus funding with dashboard technology
The Arkansas Department of Education plans to track its spending of federal funding grants with dashboard technology from IBM.
Thin clients are in season at Park Service
Zion National Park replaces some of its desktop PCs with thin clients, reducing power consumption when in use, allowing the machines to be shut down for half the year and cutting down the IT workload.
Soy, the other black ink
Soy toner, which is less expensive than some traditional toners and more environmentally friendly, could catch on in office use.
Unified messaging systems can make efficient use of your communications
Agencies can save time and money by combining e-mail, voice mail, faxes and videos onto a single platform.
Agencies tap online channels to spread the word on swine flu outbreak
CDC is using interactive Web tools and channels such as RSS feeds, Twitter and other social-networking sites to meet the growing demand for up-to-date information on the outbreak of the deadly new flu strain
Keith Nelson | In a world of online surveys, Paperwork Reduction Act is an absurdity
How do government Web managers stand a chance of creatively using modern technology tools if they can’t solicit feedback in timely and regular intervals?
SmartPro UPS is made for shallow spaces
The SmartPro Shallow-Depth Rackmount UPS System performs as well as you would expect from a 2200VA UPS, but has a slightly different form factor to help it fit better into some shallow server racks.
BlueCat Proteus 5000 keeps IP addresses in order
GCN LAB REVIEW: The Proteus 5000 gives administrators a clear look at all of a network's IP addresses, and a lot of flexibility in managing them.
DHS studies music's effects on first responders
The Science and Technology Directorate is studying a form of neurotraining that uses music to help responders sharpen their reflexes or relax when off-duty.
Amazon rehosts Census data for cloud users
Staging the data in Amazon's Elastic Block Storage platform makes Cenesus information more easily accessible than getting it from Census, which offers the material in ZIP files via FTP.
Survey: Public-sector IT pros out of the loop on recovery funding
A Dell.com survey of 662 IT professionals in government, education and health care found that most are in the dark about American Recovery and Investment Act funding, and few expect recovery funds to have an impact on their budgets.
Cost overruns, lack of oversight threaten DOD space programs, panel told
DOD’s space-based communications and intelligence gathering infrastructure is troubled with outdated procedures, bloated goals and inadequate oversight, resulting in canceled programs and billions of dollars in cost overruns, House panel is told.
NIST demonstrates method for reducing errors in quantum computing
Experiments at NIST labs in Boulder, Colo., demonstrate the feasibility of a technique to reverse errors in quantum bits before the number of errors grows large enough to become a problem.
Fingerprint identification goes higher-tech
Crime scene investigators may be able to accelerate latent fingerprint identification with new automated identification technology.
ARIN again warns of IPv4 address depletion, encourages IPv6 adoption
A letter from the American Registry for Internet Numbers states that the organization expects the IPv4 address pool to be depleted 'within the next two years.'
Online dashboard would track recovery act spending
Government officials and private citizens could soon be able to track stimulus funding expenditures through an information dashboard that taps into data on Recovery.gov.
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