Here's a SQL that beats the original

Improved Microsoft SQL Server is poised for enterprise tasks

SPI Dynamics takes aim at Web vulnerabilities

SPI Dynamics Incorporated has released two new products that automatically protect Web applications that use Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX), a popular new technology found in Google Maps and other applications.

Bush to nominate Norquist to be DHS' chief financial officer

President George W. Bush plans to nominate David L. Norquist to be chief financial officer of the Homeland Security Department, the White House said today.

ANOTHER VIEW: Missing data at the center of the storm

The quiet crisis at the center of the chaos following the natural disasters in the United States in 2005 was a total breakdown of already inadequate local data and information systems.

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EDITOR'S DESK: Hard target

The new year has barely begun and already agencies are feeling the pressure to meet the October deadline to roll out a new uniform identification system for federal employees and contractors.

CYBEREYE: IT managers are lost in the forest of security

Too many federal IT managers still appear to be grappling with security as a technology issue rather than a management issue, which might help explain the slow progress being made in information security.

In short

ESRI has introduced ArcWeb Services 2006, a set of application programming interfaces that will allow developers to add mapping and geospatial information to their Web applications.

Database happenings

Sleepycat Software Inc. of Lincoln, Mass., has released Version 4.4 of its Berkeley DB, widely used for embedded systems and other simple database chores.

Automated approvals

Compulink Management Center Inc. of Long Beach, Calif., released Version 7.1 of Laserfiche Agenda Manager.

Open-source app server update

The Apache Software Foundation released Version 2.2 of Apache Web server.

Battle of the giants

Speaking of movies, Peter Jackson's latest epic, 'King Kong,' reminded one GCN writer of the computer industry, with all the fleet-footed dinosaurs, sticky creepy-crawlies and that big love-struck monkey stomping about, battling for supremacy.

GSA to reopen eOffer bidding portal after repairs

The General Services Administration said it expects its eOffer electronic-bidding portal to be reopened for business later this morning after the agency corrects a security glitch.

Meru tackles communications security

Most wireless security schemes protect communication at the network level through such things as WiFi Protected Access (WPA) and packet encryption, but these still have enough holes that many government enterprises that need the highest levels of security prefer to ban wireless networks altogether.

The CIO and the developer

Although supposedly committed to Unix, execs at Sun Microsystems Inc. might soon be wedded elsewhere, seeing how quickly they're giving away all Sun's jewels.

Sure beats PowerPoint

We've been hearing much about the IT Infrastructure Library, a set of British best-practice recommendations and common IT definitions.

Love at first site

Agencies compete with Amazon.com, whether they like it or not. Here are five steps to making your users happy.

Vinton Cerf | The search continues

Vinton Cerf is sometimes referred to as the Father of the Internet, although he begs to differ. Today he's Chief Internet Evangelist for a company making more than its share of headlines'a little online search outfit called Google.

Incoming

Top regional military commanders and senior Pentagon officials gathered in Washington this month to begin putting the final touches on the upcoming Quadrennial Defense Review.

Made to order

Movement Tracking System taps satellite links to help logistics units resupply troops on the fly

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