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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.
Letters to the editor
In response to the uninterruptable power system review, 'Power Protectors': Your reviewer has successfully misinformed your readers.Tripp Lite was informally asked to submit any UPS we so desired without being given the proper specifications for entry, test bed procedures or intent as to how the UPS review would be conducted. The only requirement was to submit either a tower UPS that could run three PCs or a 1U rackmount UPS that could run two servers. No volt-ampere (VA) or wattage requirements were outlined. Unfortunately, this produced a complete mix of incomparable products from all represented manufacturers. You were left to compare apples with oranges.
Serious on privacy
There's a scene in George Orwell's classic 1984 when protagonist Winston is asked how many fingers his interrogator is holding up (four). He is then asked, under grotesque duress, if the Party says 'four' is actually 'five,' how many then?
GCN Survey: For IT managers, it's patch-as-patch-can
Feeling a little overwhelmed by the flood of patches from software vendors? You're not alone.
Help wanted: States looking for new CIOs
Montana and Washington are looking for CIOs after their lead IT managers took private sector jobs.
Microsoft is promoting its anti-spam efforts
Microsoft Corp. says it will soon begin implementing new technology to help keep spam from ending up in your inbox.
Rule on state, local governments' IT schedule purchases in effect
A procurement rule that allows state and local governments to buy information technology products and services from GSA schedules went into effect today.
USDA focuses on consolidation
Agriculture Department CIO Scott Charbo has worked in the agricultural field since he graduated from college.Charbo grew up on a quarter-acre grass farm in rural south Florida, and he wanted to work in a field that would offer steady employment.
Wireless Priority Service expanding to new areas, carriers
The National Communications System is expanding its Wireless Priority Service to include new cellular carriers and new technologies.
E-gov progress on OMB scorecard shifts little
Even after two years of evaluations by the Office of Management and Budget, agencies still cannot meet the administration's goals for e-government.
Army selects software to upgrade its portal
The Army has upgraded its Army Knowledge Online portal that provides single sign-on access to roughly 300 Army applications and services.
GAO says VA, DOD e-health data interface lacks detailed plan
Veterans Affairs and Defense departments have failed to initiate a defined architecture and project management to develop a two-way electronic exchange of patient health data, GAO reported.
HHS launches WebMD health information pilot
The Health and Human Services Department has started distributing its consumer health information on a new HHS "channel" on popular online site WebMD.
GSA approves E-Travel systems
All three E-Travel vendors' systems were approved and certified as ready to make federal employees' travel easier, the GSA said Monday.
NIST doing crypto key exchanges at the speed of light
The National Institute of Standards and Technology is pushing the speed limit on cryptographic key exchanges on its new quantum communications test bed.
Capitol architect signs 10-year services contract
Avue Technologies Corp. has sold its workforce management services to the Architect of the Capitol in a 10-year deal worth more than $30 million.
Florida names Marstiller CIO
Simone Marstiller, an aide to Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, has been appointed the state's chief information officer.
Military health records contract awarded
The Department of Defense's Theater Medical Information Program awards contract to Lockheed Martin Corp. for software applications.
Packet Rat: In the big city, bandwidth is there for the taking
The whiskered one headed to New York over the weekend, staying with a cousin while he prepared for a site survey of his agency's Manhattan field office. But his plans got sidetracked on Sunday night when his bandwidth suddenly ground to a halt.
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