Power User: The Windows XP SP2 bell finally tolls
As you stalk the aisles of FOSE this week, something may be stalking you back at the office.
Also this week at FOSE...
Cisco Systems will demonstrate a pair of continuity-of-operations products that the company says is aimed at addressing Federal Preparedness Circular 65. Cisco's VirtualCOOP and MeetingPlace Crisis Management products are designed to keep agencies running in the event of a disaster.
Chip giant touts wireless nets
This week at the FOSE trade show in Washington, Intel's next CEO Paul Otellini will deliver one of the conference's keynote addresses.
State and local IT spending on the rebound
A growing demand for outsourced technical services will drive increases in state and local IT spending over the next five years, according to an Input forecast.
Whither research?
What is the direction of future government research? With the deficit looming overhead, Congress and the White House will have to make some tough choices over which new technologies to fund in the 2006 budget.
Government R&D dollars pay dividends
Look under the hood of almost any new information technology product, and chances are good you'll find traces of government R&D funding.
GCN INSIDER: Trends and technologies that affect the way government does IT
Even if Cray Inc. never sold another supercomputer (unlikely given the seven orders it says it's taken for the new X1E, introduced last month), the company deserves credit for continually arguing the importance of high-performance computing.
Application management
Packeteer Inc. of Cupertino, Calif., is pushing the high end of its application traffic management tools with the PacketShaper 10000, a full-duplex 1-Gbps box targeted at large enterprises, such as government installations, and service providers.
Show & tell
Products exhibited at the FOSE trade show in Washington this week run the gamut from a new electronic voting system to tools that help systems administrators leverage open-source technology.
Editorial Cartoon
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Letters to the editor
I wanted to respond to your good article, 'Cold Case,' concerning the FBI's Virtual Case File system.
EDITOR'S DESK: Time to confront the elephant in the room
At a recent conference, an industry executive made a surprisingly frank comment about the state of systems development under federal contracts.
Major programs within Hawaii
<b>Disaster Recovery Center</b>: Hawaii is building a backup site on Maui for its data.
E-gov gets a Hawaiian punch
Aloha isn't just a tradition in Hawaii'it's the law.
Security wars move to new turf
Andy Purdy, acting director of the National Cyber Security Division and U.S. Computer Emergency Response Team since April 2003, is the Homeland Security Department's lightning rod for preventing, responding to and recovering from electronic attacks.
Forecast sees federal IT spending on the rise
Federal IT spending will remain on the fast track through the end of the decade, according to a forecast released today by Input.
Navy centralizes buys for mobile devices and services
The Navy has issued a policy mandating use of either the Navy-Marine Corps Intranet or contracts held by the Fleet and Industrial Supply Center in San Diego to buy cell phones and other mobile devices and services.
NMCI survey finds most users satisfied with portal
Is there a slow-moving sea change happening in how users view the Navy-Marine Corps Intranet?
Incoming
<b>Army down-select</b>: The Army has tapped 17 companies to compete for a piece of its $20 billion enterprise IT buy.
Defense mapping group takes GIS kit commercial
The push to boost commercial product use in government has a champion in the secret world of spies.
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