R. Fink | Can't see the forest for the iPhone bills
Commentary: The other shoe ' measured by the ton ' drops with the iPhone bill.
William Jackson | E-voting machines still not reliable
Commentary: Electronic voting systems still have too many holes to be trusted.
Michael Bechetti | Technical Difficulties
Commentary: This week's editorial cartoon
Warren Suss | The most important IT decision
Guest commentary: The strategy for information technology outsourcing has become the most important decision facing federal IT managers. It's more important than enterprise architecture, a security plan and an infrastructure consolidation road map combined.
Wyatt Kash | The challenges ahead
Commentary: The key challenges facing government IT managers aren't changing, but how managers tackle them could.
Citrix goes virtual
GCN tech brief | Citrix to acquire XenSource, a provider of vitrualization software.
Dell wins $248M VA contract
GCN tech brief | Dell to be exclusive provider of desktop PCs for 200,000 VA employees.
NCOIC offers tools for system integration
GCN tech brief | Tools for the integration and compatibility of network architectures, apps.
Polycom earns FIPS certification
GCN tech brief | Polycom's VSX videoconferencing products are FIPS 140-2 certified.
MicroStrategy mobilizes business intelligence
Microstrategy has announced two new business intelligence products.
Laptop drive with onboard encryption
GCN tech brief | Seagate's new Momentus 5400 FDE.2 disk drive is the first laptop PC hard drive with native Advanced Encryption Standard encryption.
Cold Fusion 8 beefs up monitoring
GCN tech brief | Cold Fusion Version 8 includes a robust set of tools for monitoring servers to identify bottlenecks and tune performance
The numerator | Virtualization
87 percent of the respondents to a recent survey were looking at, testing or using server virtualization in some form.
Badges a la carte
GCN Insider | Your badge holder can be as important as your badge.
One more file format we can't trust
GCN Insider | Excel, PDF spam clutters inboxes
Your call may be monitored
GCN Insider | Call centers may slice, dice and examine your call to reveal a lot more than you ever imagined.
E-mail you can bank on
Technique | How the Conference of State Banking Regulators developed a secure e-mail system for its far-flung regulators.
The basics of biometrics
Biometrics can improve security and, if done right, even make life easier for users. But you have to choose carefully when deciding on a technology for your agency.
Core values
Multicore processors give you more power in the same amount of space and open the door to other efficiencies, such as virtualization. But beware the software licensing costs from companies that charge by the processor.
Getting a grip
As long as there are mobile computing devices, some of them will be lost. But the right technologies and policies can help you hold on to more of them and minimize the fallout when one goes missing.
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