Rugged goes extreme
GCN Lab Review | The Olympus Stylus 770 is an amazing little camera that looks fragile but in fact took everything we threw at it, even taking photos underwater.
Toughing it up Kilimanjaro
GCN Lab Review | The GCN Lab sends a Panasonic Toughbook to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro with Senior Staff Writer Rutrell Yasin, putting both to the ultimate test.
Nortel, Tandberg combine forces
Tech brief | Nortel Government Solutions and Tandberg Federal have agreed to provide joint voice, video and data collaboration solutions for federal agencies.
Power LogOn vs. hackers
Tech brief | Power Logon Version 4.0 smart card allows users to assign, change and save as many as 100 secure user names and passwords.
AirMagnet wins FIPS certification
Tech brief | AirMagnet's 5020 and 5023 wireless intrusion-detection sensors have earned Federal Information Processing Standard certification.
Removable and rugged
Tech brief | CRU-DataPort has introduced the Data Express DE275, a low-profile, removable hard drive enclosure used to hot-swap hard drives mounted in workstations and servers
ISEing Encase
Tech brief | LTU Technologies has released Image-Seeker for EnCase Version 2.0.
A more open Russia?
Tech brief | Russia moving toward open standards and to evaluating the OpenDocument Format.
The Value of IT Professionals
The numerator | Global Knowledge Training sponsored a salary survey in the fourth quarter of 2006. Here are the results.
Fish gotta swim, wikis gotta fly
GCN Insider | Fishery agencies in Alaska rely on a wiki to manage technical information.
Sun launches data center initiative
GCN Insider | Sun Microsystems has suite of programs, services to help IT managers construct more energy-efficient data centers.
The joy (and profits) of hacking
GCN Insider | How much is the time of a hacker barely out of high school worth?
Colorado tax site eases e-mail burden
Technique | Colorado Department of Revenue seizes control of an avalanche of customer e-mails.
The power of one password
Single sign-on systems help IT managers tighten security, cut help-desk costs and keep users happy.
Active Directory to the limit
Microsoft's Active Directory authentication tool is proving its versatility as users migrate to the Web.
Case by case
Case management software is helping agencies simplify the work of increasingly complex recordkeeping operations.
Technicalities
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GCN at 25 | X marks the spot
Guessing what the dominant technology of the future will be is, at best, a precarious undertaking. In the June 24, 1991, edition, GCN reported that the Defense Department declared the X Window as the standard user interface.
R. Fink | Ignore those passwords on my cubicle wall
Commentary: Stolen-laptop stories make the Rat paranoid.
Michael Bechetti | Technical Difficulties
Editorial cartoon
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