What's New Now
In the coming year, the big technology developments will center on letting workers tap their agencies' enterprise applications from nearly anywhere.
Small and wireless are hot trends
LAS VEGAS'The computer industry's annual tribal gathering at Comdex last month was decidedly low-key, but the industry slump hasn't stopped innovation.
NEC shows off environmentally friendly PC
NEC Solutions Inc. showed off its new ecologically friendly, eerily quiet PC yesterday at Comdex. The computer has no cooling fan that would contribute to noise pollution. <br>
Tablet PC boasts 12.1-inch screen
At the Comdex trade show, representatives of Motion Computing Inc. tossed the M1200 tablet PC back and forth to demonstrate its ruggedness. The system suffered no damage inside a magnesium-alloy case.<br>
Gates: Originality, work with government will revive industry
Microsoft chairman Bill Gates, the opening keynoter at the Comdex trade show in Las Vegas, said the computer industry could get its momentum back by innovating in new areas, as Microsoft Corp. has done with its Xbox game console. <br>
New Dell and MicronPC designs debut at Comdex
The Comdex trade show opened in Las Vegas today with the world's newest handheld computer, the Axim X5 from Dell Computer Corp., which will compete with both Palm OS and HP Compaq iPaq handhelds. <br>
Beta tablets a bitter pill
Tablet PCs could revolutionize computing and become the leading format within five years, as Microsoft Corp. chairman Bill Gates has predicted. Or they could vanish like their predecessors, notably 1993's Apple Newton MessagePad.
What keeps the up in uptime? UPS
Network users take electrical power for granted, like oxygen, until the supply suddenly shuts off. Then a reliable uninterruptible power system, like a full scuba tank, becomes supremely important.
Tablet PCs: An early test drive
Nearly two dozen PC makers have been awaiting today's release of Microsoft Windows XP for Tablet PC Edition to start selling tablet hardware. <br>
Phantom makes data invisible
If you want to hide data so that even supersleuths can't find it, check out a PC with Phantom Total Security software preinstalled.
Paper pushers put through paces
If your office pushes a lot of paper, a speedy network printer probably matters to you as much as the ink in your ballpoint.
Wireless signals seep onto streets
Agencies ignore the security risks of wireless networking at their peril.
Tools to cut the cord
When the Internet was new, the rush was on to get every office wired. But now, the explosive growth of the Web and e-mail has left many organizations tethered to tangled, intricate Category 5 webs of their own mad creation. Today, a rush is on again'this time to get rid of the wires.
Satellites route e-mail'and spam'through space easily
Navigators of yesteryear relied on the stars when crossing oceans and prairies. These days, they get their data'and voices, too'from a closer source: satellites.
Heads are turning for SpinScape digital photos
Sometimes spinning in circles gets you nowhere. But the SpinScape-I robotic control system spins a digital camera exactly where you want it to go.
PDAs and cell phones unite
The road warrior's beltful of computer devices is headed into history. The two most popular portables, the cell phone and the personal digital assistant, have been merging for the last couple of years.
Why not DVD-R?
When the GCN Lab set out to review storage drives, we planned to include both CD-recordable and DVD-recordable types.
Rewritable drives burn bright
The 1.44M floppy drive is an endangered species largely because its primary predator, the CD-rewritable drive, can store up to 700M per disk and costs only about $100.
Cstation offers users fat and thin computing
The hybrid Cstation has some of the advantages as well as some of the limitations of thin-client architecture.
To ensure the tightest security, look over what's been overlooked
'When exactly did we lose control?'This was the question I asked in the GCN Lab a while back, when a secure network integrity test seemed to spiral out of control. Nasty viruses shot across an overlooked bridge between the test bed and the secure network core. A thin-client system was mistakenly connected to both the test bed and the secure network, forming a path our management software missed.
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