Hub safely shares power and data down the line
Not all power sources are equal for hooking up new remote devices to a network.Ideally, webcams, wireless hubs and IP phones draw power from the Ethernet they're connected to. But even if they are power-over-IP-ready, you still have to connect them through a device that puts power into the data cable, or else default to a separate power plug.
VA licenses medical consent software
The Veterans Affairs Department will use medical consent software from Dialog Medical in 162 VA hospitals and hundreds of outpatient clinics.
'Every day, make a difference'
Panel discusses what makes a leader.
The lowdown on 64-bit processors
<b>What is 64-bit computing?</b> A 64-bit processor has a word size of 64 bits, a requirement for advanced scientific and business applications. It handles twice as many bits of information in the same clock cycle as a 32-bit processor.
64-bit processors: A new bit for the network
The 64-bit processors from Intel Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. of Sunnyvale, Calif., could alter the landscape of high-performance computing.AMD introduced its 32/64-bit Opteron processor in the spring of 2003 as an implementation of the x86 instruction set with a 64-bit memory space. All versions of the Opteron let you run 32- and 64-bit applications and operating systems simultaneously, without sacrificing performance.
State lines
<b>Online journals</b>. Researchers at the Mississippi Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Stations and the Mississippi State Extension Service have access via the Internet to 70 agriculture science journals at the National Agricultural Library.
New York maps services for disabled
It started with family requests. Parents of disabled children asked the New York State Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities for an easier way to find services in their area.
Law enforcement network gets visual
In fighting crime and terrorism, connecting the dots is crucial.That's what law enforcement intelligence analysts say prompted them to adopt visualization software for Riss.net, the Justice Department-funded network that links state and local authorities with federal agencies.
Building a 'results environment'
OMB's Clay Johnson reminds federal IT managers 'the federal government is results oriented.'
Bill introduced to give employees A-76 protest rights
Senate bill would give federal employees protest rights in public-private competitions run under Office of Management and Budget Circular A-76.
Limited progress noted on DOD business architecture
GAO said the DOD still has no one responsible for the accountability and responsibility of directing, overseeing and approving the business enterprise architecture.
Incoming
<b>DFAS deployment</b>. The Defense Finance and Accounting Service has completed its deployment of an enterprise financial management system known as e-Biz.
NMCI program trains IT sailors
During Operation Iraqi Freedom, the Navy had more than 170 ships in the Arabian Gulf, Red Sea and Mediterranean Sea with one thing in common: They were connected to the Navy-Marine Corps Intranet despite being thousands of miles from the nearest Network Operations Center.
Oregon city builds mesh network
A meshed wireless data network in Medford, Ore., will give police cars, fire trucks and ambulances high-speed connections to the city's wired network.Funded in part with a $500,000 grant from the Homeland Security Department, the wireless network will let users do 'whatever you can do from a desktop system, but from any place in town,' said Doug Townsend, Medford's technology director.
Power User: Is start-up a drag? Windows has the tools to help
Ever notice how slowly your PC starts up? Does it seem less stable now than when you first turned it on? Don't bother answering. I already know the answer is yes. But don't just blame Microsoft Corp. or mythical bit-rot. If you run Windows, use Microsoft tools to make things better.
Trade data can yield crime clues
In recent months, Iraq has become one of the world's top five exporters of copper, though it has no copper mines. That anomaly reflects widespread looting of copper from the Iraqi telephone and electrical systems, according to sources in the copper industry.
Internaut: A quick trip through e-gov evolution
Government employees, media types and analysts hear electronic government bandied about so often that it has become ubiquitous background noise.
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The future of biometric authentication, as the past, lies in fingerprints, FBI experts believe.Monte C. Strait, chief of the FBI's Criminal Justice Information Services Division, said the bureau's Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System, with its 46.9 million digital prints of criminals, remains the nation's only large biometric repository.
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Does acupuncture have more widespread application? Ask the person who's been needled. That's what the National Institutes of Health's National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine is doing by soliciting the public's ideas for its research programs through 2009.
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