Technical concerns
The InterNational Committee for Information Technology Standards Executive Board, representing the United States, voted 'approve with comments' on adopting Office Open XML as an international standard for office documents.
Lessons learned: Authentication is the key
To acheive a 100 percent e-mail delivery rate for the FBI, GovDelivery partnered with Goodmail Systems, which provides a service that cryptographically certifies that a message is trustworthy.
Service oriented
GCN Lab Reviews: Entry-level servers can give your organization fast performance and can be adapted to many tasks. The Lab puts new models to the test.
E-mail archiving on a budget
GCN tech brief | Datacove archives e-mail, instant messages and digital communications.
Is the price right?
GCN tech brief | Price Systems launches TruePlanning 2007 to better estimate budgets and project costs.
Vista password reset
GCN tech brief | Lieberman Software's Account Reset Console now supports Windows Vista and beta versions of Windows Server 2008.
Seed money for innovation
GCN tech brief | New cash award will recognize scientists and system developers whose innovations are having a dramatic impact on the computing field.
Google desktop a security risk?
GCN tech brief | Survey shows considerable concern among government IT managers about potential security risks of Google's desktop search engine.
Partners ... and competitors
GCN tech brief | Microsoft and Cisco Systems will cooperate to ensure their products will work together even as they compete in other areas.
The numerator | Spending up, growth down
Yhe worldwide telecommunications market is expected to experience continued growth, but the annual rate of growth is expected to slow from almost 5 percent this year to less than 2 percent in 2011.
Twitter us skeptical
GCN Insider | We're more than a little skeptical about twittering.
A world where you're in charge
GCN Insider | Galaxiki lets you create your very own universe.
Pssssst! One word: Energy
GCN Insider | The word for the next decade or so could well be energy ' cleaner, more efficient energy.
Technique | Through the filter
The FBI uses an e-mail delivery service to handle its popular e-mail blasts ' and make sure they don't get snagged as spam.
Sharing the wealth
Rich Internet Applications add desktop-app power and cross-platform capability to programs that run on a browser.
The open question
Agencies have a lot to gain from the move toward open-source software, but don't think open source means free.
Your call may be monitored
The speech analytics technology used at call centers has made great strides in recent years, though agencies and vendors are awfully quiet about what they're doing with it.
Open XML voted down but not out
Standard falls short of certification, as some cite need for further review.
Technicalities
A biennial study by the National Cancer Institute reflects an overall trend, with the Internet an increasingly important source of health information and a growing medium for communicating with health care providers.
GCN at 25 | Green's salad days
Green computing is a hot topic that likely will become hotter ' in the interest of making things cooler ' in the next decade or so. But it's not new.
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