Take Notes
With IBM's Lotus Notes client on the front end and a Domino server on the back, agencies can have a robust enterprise collaboration platform that handles most office tasks'despite what Microsoft says.<br><font color="CC0000"><b>|GCN Lab</font color> Reviewer's Choice|</b>
Congress OKs $2.4b for port security
Port security legislation approved by the House Homeland Security Committee this week authorizes the award of $2.4 billion in grants to high-risk ports over six years.
Optimus to develop DOD logistics information system
The company's job is to replace an outmoded CD/DVD system for data distribution.
The great VPN debate
The saga of the Labor Department's attempt to outfit Mine Safety and Health Administration employees with remote access through virtual private networks serves as a minihistory of the technology.
HPC storage virtualization
Crosswalk Inc. of Westminster, Colo., has released the iGRid 5100, a gateway that can be used between servers and storage arrays to pool storage as a single entity.
Linux desktop
The nonprofit Open Source Development Labs has started a project to fuse the two dominant Linux desktop graphical user interfaces, the staid but consistent KDE and the more adventurous but buggier Gnome.
Intelligence as a service
Business Objects Inc. of San Jose, Calif., will offer its Crystal Reports business intelligence software over the Internet, at <a href="http://crystalreports.com">crystalreports.com</a>.
What's in an open-source name?
Trying to drum up buzz for the mapping software it recently open-sourced, Autodesk Inc. of San Rafael, Calif., created a bit of a muddle by naming its offering after a similar open-source program.
Multicore challenges
While Advanced Micro Devices Inc. of Sunnyvale, Calif., and Intel Corp. of Santa Clara, Calif., are championing multicore processors, the supercomputing crowd remains ambivalent, at least until these additional cores can be better exploited.
JBoss to wear the Red Hat
During a panel at the recent LinuxWorld conference in Boston, the always fiery JBoss Inc. CEO Marc Fleury razzed SugarCRM CEO John Roberts about why the Cupertino, Calif.-based CRM provider entered into a collaboration agreement with Microsoft Corp.
IRS modernization budget needs more funding
Two organizations that monitor the IRS agree that the tax agency's Business Systems Modernization should receive more funding than what the administration has proposed so the program can move forward faster.
CYBEREYE: Making sense of data protection laws
Despite election year distractions, it is beginning to look like Congress might pass personal data security legislation this year. Both the public and industry are clamoring for a federal standard for protecting personal data and at least one House bill, the Data Accountability and Trust Act, has made it out of committee.
OPM seeks wireless Internet at FEI campus
The Office of Personnel Management issued a solicitation for installing wireless Internet service at the Federal Executive Institute's campus.
E-voting technology gets a road test
Lingering questions about security and reliability could mean electronic voting is still not ready for the national spotlight. Still, one company is taking its technology out on the road in preparation for the big time.
Homes for copyright orphans
The Copyright Office is proposing legislation that would make it easier for libraries, universities and archives, including the Library of Congress, to digitize collections that contain 'orphan works.'
Catch a .wav
If you're on your third copy of the White Album or you can't find a phonograph needle to play your Elmore James 78s, you can understand the plight of the Library of Congress: A collection of nearly 3 million recordings in every format from wax cylinders, to disks and tapes, to CDs, most of them playable only on obsolete equipment.
Mike Wash | Government IT is becoming content-centric
The Government Printing Office has been a print-centric agency focused on printing and disseminating printed publications. But the demands of the information age have forced GPO to rethink its approach to creating and disseminating government documents.
EDITOR'S DESK: Meet the elite
This issue honors the elite of government career workers. The 12 profiled in this special issue have shown they can get things done. Important things that move the missions of their agencies and affect the lives of their constituents and fellow workers, done in an environment typically written off as impossibly bureaucratic.
Emily Murphy | After the storm
To say these are trying times at the General Services Administration would be an understatement. But for chief acquisition officer Emily Murphy, it is business as usual as she implements an ambitious program to better train and educate GSA's acquisition workforce'the lifeblood of the organization.
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