SSA's upgrade paves way for IPv6
Agencies have until June 30 to meet the Office of Management and Budget's mandate to get their network backbones ready to handle IPv6 traffic. The Social Security Administration achieved that goal six months ago.
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Highlights of recent online news stories from GCN and its sister publications, Federal Computer Week and Washington Technology. For the whole story, go to GCN.com and enter the Quickfind number in the search bar.
The numerator
Here is a list of the cell phones that leaked the most'and the least'radio frequency energy based on their specific (body) absorption rate.
Smart phones as thin clients
Here's a thought: Why not do the application development on the server side and deliver it to a thin-client application on the portable device?
OSD delves into HR archiving
The Office of Personnel and Readiness Information Management at the Defense Department has learned to save time and money by digitizing frequently consulted documents.
Wanted: ECM the easy way
Enterprise content management systems remain too difficult for most office workers to use, which is hampering full use of their data, according to a new report.
Brain drain?
The Internet has been rife with discussion lately about whether the nature of information exchange on the Internet is hurting the way the human mind works.
Supercomputing superpower
The U.S. continues to be a supercomputing powerhouse, accounting for slightly more than half of the supercomputers on the biannual compilation of the world's 500 most powerful supercomputers.
A tablet (PC) that's easy to swallow
GCN Lab Review: The Motion Computing F5's semi-rugged design, good performance and security features suit it for the field.
Wi-Fi Detective uncovers hidden world
The Wi-Fi Detective from StarTech.com puts an end to the laptop-balancing act. You just turn it on, stick it in your pocket, go for a walk and detect accessible Wi-Fi signals.
A movable feast of computing
GCN Lab review: The laptop-like Raptor 4 is actually a portable server with impressive power and features.
Who's got the time?
As computer systems become increasingly precise, a conflict emerges between human and machine measurements.
Avoiding Outlook's twilight zone
Outlook is utterly dependent on the operating system for knowing what time it is. Microsoft Windows gets the Universal Coordinated Time from the Internet and offsets that time to the time zone the user sets, while also adjusting for any daylight saving time if necessary.
Pentagon tweaks MASINT methods
The Defense Department has issued new directives on how it builds Measurement and Signature Intelligence projects, which typically use advanced systems to glean data from merged sensor information.
Spreadsheeting to the max
The spreadsheet is more versatile than you might think. Here are tips on how to get more out of your programs.
Cooling off hot processors
Researchers at Purdue University are developing a miniature refrigeration system that can be used to cool the insides of laptop PCs.
NIST mulls algorithm for disk encryption
New algorithm has been submitted to the National Institute of Standards and Technology as a new mode of operation for the Advanced Encryption Standard.
Spreadsheeting: More resources
Links to resource pages for WordPerfect Office, OpenOffice, Google Docs and Microsoft Excel, as well as speadsheet design guidance.
OpenOffice offers macro alternative
The developers behind the open-source OpenOffice, and its commercial offshoot Sun Microsystems StarOffice, have been working on a spreadsheet alternative, called Extensions. OpenOffice Extensions are programs written to run within OpenOffice that customize the office suite.
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