Senior civil servants feted
The Senior Executives Association's Professional Development League recognizes 62 senior civil servants for sustained, extraordinary accomplishments.
GCN Lab Review | HP Color LaserJet 4700n
The HP Color LaserJet 4700n would be just as comfortable in a small- to medium-sized workgroup as it would be with a more active, large set of users.
GCN Lab Review | Kyocera Mita FS-C5030N
The FS-C5030N is ideally suited to offices where almost all the printing is in color and details matter a lot.
GCN Lab Review | Lexmark C920n
Although slightly more expensive than the average printer in this review, the C920n combines advanced features and top-notch quality to help justify the cost.
GCN Lab Review | Oki Data C7350n
The Oki Data C7350n is relatively easy to set up and has a small footprint. It's also a quiet printer, which is nice. But this is probably not the color workgroup printer for you.
GCN Lab Review | Sharp AR-C360P
When the Sharp AR-C360P arrived at the GCN Lab, the size of the unit made us think perhaps it was a higher class of printer than we wanted to review.
GCN Lab Review | Xerox Phaser 6350DP
Don't blink when you print a document on the Xerox Phaser 6350DP or else you might miss it. The printer is blazingly fast in both color and black-and-white printing.<br><font color="CC0000"><b>|GCN Lab</font> Reviewer's Choice|</b>
GCN Lab Review | Battleship gray no more
If there's one thing our latest foray into color workgroup printers taught us, it's that you can overpay for decent output'but you shouldn't. Any gulf between high-volume color printing and, let's say, small workgroup printing has started to disappear.
Inside the project: IT Asset Management
CHALLENGE: When the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau became a standalone entity in 2003, it didn't have its own IT infrastructure. The following year, it had to build one from scratch. But with just five full-time IT professionals, TTB needed an efficient, cost-effective way of managing its brand-new assets.
A bang for its buck
The Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau has a $100 million operating budget, yet it generates revenues of between $13 and $14 billion a year. That's an impressive return on investment. When the agency became its own entity in 2003 (it was broken off from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms under the Homeland Security Act) TTB wanted to get the same kind of ROI from its IT infrastructure.
Tech brief: Chilled out
Workstation shoppers might consider Alienware Inc.'s new Aurora ALX computer, which includes the new Liquid Chilled Quad Nvidia SLI Graphics subsystem.
Tech brief: Gateway's new Profile
The Gateway Profile 6 is the latest in the company's successful all-in-one line and it tackles an issue that normally hinders adoption of sealed systems'serviceability.
Tech brief: Sigaba gets Common Criteria
Sigaba Inc. of Reston, Va., last month said its SigabaNet Authentication Server and Key Management Server products had received Common Criteria Evaluation Assurance Level 2 certification from the National Information Assurance Partnership. SigabaNet solutions are used for secure messaging, including e-mail and instant messaging.
Tech brief: Space-saving desktop
MPC Computers Inc. of Nampa, Idaho, has unveiled its new ClientPro 212 all-in-one desktop computer.
GCN Insider | Welcome your new data overlords
Categorically defining data as structured, semistructured and unstructured will increasingly become irrelevant, predicts Robert Markham, principal analyst at Forrester Research Inc.
GCN Insider | Quick, protect that 10-Gbps network traffic
Unless you work at a government lab, or some other high-performance-requiring agency, you might not have a 10-gigabit network. But chances are you will; it's just a matter of when.
GCN Insider | HSPD-12 with a single-sign-on twist
Single sign-on is one of those security technologies that makes perfect sense but always seems to play second fiddle to more pressing concerns.
Nation's first health IT coordinator resigns
David Brailer, the first national coordinator for health IT, will leave his post next month.
FEC experiments with utility computing
The Federal Election Commission is dipping its toe into utility computing, in which IT services are provisioned from a pool of resources rather than from a dedicated infrastructure.
INTERNAUT: A problem in search of an IT solution
Controlling labor costs and tracking worker time and productivity is a big challenge for any office, including government offices. But tracking worker hours and controlling overtime budgets in particular has becomea major hot-button issue for local government agencies.
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