New site promotes commuting choices
A new interagency Web site at <a href="http://www.commuterchoice.gov">www.commuterchoice.gov</a> encourages employers to offer workers alternatives to the traditional automobile commute.
Accelio Web suite handles workflow
A software suite from Accelio Corp. automates workflow and lets workers access enterprise information via the Web and handheld devices.
Airport security measures will include biometrics
Within six months, the Federal Aviation Administration will start 20 tests of new technologies, including biometric sensors, to increase airport security.
IBM unveils four new workstations
IBM Corp. today announced four new workstations, three based on the Intel IA-32 platform and one on IBM's own processor architecture.
Cray, Dell ink deal to sell server clusters
Longtime supercomputer maker Cray Inc. of Seattle today announced a deal with Dell Computer Corp. to market custom-built clusters using Dell's PowerEdge servers and storage products.
New world order pits security against Web
Since Sept. 11, who decides what the public can view on government Web sites?
Now you see it ...
Here's what some agencies have scrubbed from their Web sites and how they determined what should be removed.
Smart Spaces
Pervasive-computing systems could make conference rooms brainy, according to the Smart Space Laboratory researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
Procurement apps will contain more data integration functions
American Management Systems Inc. will embed a data integration platform into several of its enterprise procurement applications for government agencies.
National Guard will test distance-learning standard
The Army National Guard will upgrade its nationwide distance-learning program to handle streaming video and other interactive lessons.
Massport tests wireless security checks at Boston airport
The Massachusetts Port Authority is letting some state police officers stationed at Boston's Logan International Airport query criminal databases through wireless handheld PCs.
IBM outsources NetVista desktop PC manufacturing
IBM Corp., prominent in the growth of personal computers over the last few decades, plans to outsource the manufacturing of its desktop PC line.
Security takes a pragmatic turn
Technology for homeland security will be as progressive as biometric identification, data mining and pattern matching. It also will be as prosaic as making the nation's health databases talk to each other to pinpoint instances of bioterrorism.
Science.gov tool will browse public databases
A one-stop Web portal for government science and technology information is undergoing usability and accessibility testing before its launch early this year.
Steering in Deepwater
A $12 billion, multiyear procurement generates lots of paperwork, but it won't swamp the Coast Guard.
DOD builds out its electronic mall
The Defense Logistics Agency is adding 30,000 new suppliers of off-the-shelf products to the Defense Department's EMall online procurement system. The expanded site, at <a href="http://www.emall.dla.mil">emall.dla.mil</a>, will go live at the end of January.
Feds are lax in record-keeping, NARA finds
Because many agency employees are unsure whether the electronic information they create constitutes official records, much of the data fails to make its way to the National Archives and Records Administration, according to a new report. Only records such as case files tend to be well-managed.
Professors hash out emergency response, cyberterrorism strategies
Although the potential for cyberterrorism continues to grow, terrorist groups now use the Internet more to distribute information about attacks rather than to carry them out, Georgetown University information security expert Dorothy E. Denning told a crisis management group yesterday.
Spreadsheet server spreads Excel data with a browser
Microsoft Excel spreadsheets can be shared by browser with Actuate Corp.'s e.Spreadsheet Server. Users can do their own data analysis of the browser-delivered spreadsheets, said Michael P. Thoma, vice president for marketing strategy at the South San Francisco, Calif., company.
Device stacks up to 12 units to supply RAID Level 5 storage
A host-independent, disk-based storage appliance uses an Ultra 160 SCSI channel to link enterprise networks to RAID Level 5 storage on 16-bit ATA drives.
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