PDF finds its place in e-government
Placing the electronic document at the heart of e-government, a leader of Adobe Systems Inc. said today that there's plenty of room for Portable Document Formats in what he called the "most significant IT transformation for government."<br>
Desktops add biometrics to their lineup
Seeing a demand from federal agencies, PC makers said they are increasingly launching new desktops that boast of biometric authentication, either embedded in the hardware or added as a separate scanner.<br>
Soldiers can SMS loved ones from overseas
From an Internet-equipped computer in Iraq, a new service lets soldiers broadcast text messages that could, at once, print out on thousands of cell phone screens across the world.<br>
Sharing information still a pipe dream?
Experts agreed that information sharing across government still calls for process, not necessarily technology, improvements. But some wonder whether government leaders have weighed down that process with too many new rules.<br>
Videoconferencing network gives big picture of battlefield
Central Command is using Web conferencing to communicate in minutes with warfighters in Hummers, displaying inside the vehicles video feeds of the terrain around them, said a contractor who sold the backbone of the system to the U.S. Army.<br>
No pain, no gain with performance based contracting
Agencies that want to see "green" - the highest rating in the President's Management Agenda scorecard - must first learn that effective performance-based contracting takes major management shifts beyond the mere contracting officer.<br>
New center is IT hub for global disease probe
A new emergency branch of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has become the global IT hub for investigating Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome.
Help desk suite speeds response
UniPress Software Inc. credits its General Services Administration schedule with a 20 percent increase in public-sector sales of its FootPrints Web-based help desk system since 2001.
PeopleSoft portal has single sign-on access
A new release of the PeopleSoft Government Portal suite is entirely Web-based, letting users plug directly into internal applications after a single sign-on.
OMB official cites progress on e-gov business cases
Agencies have made progress in developing e-government business cases, but an Office of Management and Budget official said today that there is still room for improvement.<br>
Healthy Records
The Veteran Affairs and Defense departments have mapped out a new route to interoperable health databases and applications, more than five years after they first conceived the plan.
Federal approach to IT spurs growth, researcher says
The government's push toward homeland security and e-government is driving the federal IT market, according to the chief of a federal market research firm. <br>
Disability sites put one face forward
A single online query can mine for answers from five federally funded groups that provide information about disability topics.<br>
How to bet on the right technologies
Good technology solves problems. It doesn't make new ones.Sound simple? It's not. Anticipating which technologies will last and which won't is, at best, something of a guessing game. And making the best guesses requires a depth of technical knowledge and an amount of time that government CIOs can't always fit into their schedules.
DOE releases software quality improvement strategy
The Energy Department has issued an implementation plan to improve the quality of safety software at defense nuclear facilities.<br>
Safety measures will be added to software improvement model
Federal officials are working to attach new safety and security practices to existing models to boost agencies' software capabilities'an important goal, considering current international hostilities.<br>
Future software will shift weapons' directions in midair
Software allowing instantaneous communications makes the war in Iraq unlike any other in history, a federal executive said today.<br>
S.C. agencies set to test wearable PCs
A dozen public-safety agencies in the Charleston, S.C., metropolitan area will begin testing wearable computers this spring.
XP for tablet PCs will run apps in eight languages
A forthcoming beta release of Microsoft Corp.'s multilingual software for tablet PCs lets users log on and run applications in multiple foreign languages.
Xerox demonstrates copier software for the blind
Xerox Corp. today showed off new software that lets visually impaired users work the company's digital copiers through a connected PC and voice commands. <br>
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