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Review: Symantec's firewall secure, but confusing
Norton Personal Firewall offers effective tools for agencies to protect remote units, but they're buried under a cantankerous interface
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Pennsylvania gives $1.3 M for IT projects
Selected projects help individuals, businesses and schools get connected
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Bid4Assets helps feds sell seized goods
The company plans to conduct an auction today for the U.S. Marshals Service involving auto loans obtained in the seizure of a Texas auto park
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GAO begs Hill for money
Without some assistance, GAO is 'not wellpositioned' to do its job in the future
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Roster Change
Bob Dies was named assistant director in charge of the FBI's Information Resource Division, which oversees the maintenance, upgrade and development of the bureau's information and communication systems, computer networks and records.
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Legislators seek to restrict use of Social Security numbers
Lawmakers are concerned that easy access to identification codes is contributing to the increase in identity theft
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HP's weapon in the paperless wars
While many government agencies have made strides toward going paperless, most still depend on one of the great paper producers of all times the fax machine for transmitting and receiving nonelectronic documents. And as long as the fax is still king of the office, it seems the paperless goal will remain a chimera.
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Big ideas, small steps
The federal government has rarely shied from trying to construct grandiose information systems that test the limits of technology
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Bumps along the road
Experts say the government must overcome several technological challenges before Digital Earth takes shape
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Digital Earth: A political sphere
As with everything else in 2000, presidential politics is affecting the course of Digital Earth. Given the current political atmosphere, there's no guarantee that Digital Earth will have the necessary support to go forward, even if Vice President Al Gore is elected president.
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Pendragon shows good Forms
Handheld computers have been perennial underachievers for federal departments and agencies interested in mobile data collection.
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E-learning standards lag
As the e-learning market takes off, so does the need to build standards that will integrate products in blended technology environments.
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Air traffic displays modernized
The replacement of old systems is the first step in the modernization of the enroute air traffic control system infrastructure
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Customs funding clears hurdle
A House appropriations subcommittee earmarked money last week to keep the U.S. Customs Service modernization program alive for another year
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Opening up GIS borders
HUD taps ESRI to make federal geographic data open to state, local governments
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Creating a digital Earth
A new project may transform how we find and view information online
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ACLU: Block FBI e-snoops
The American Civil Liberties Union appealed to Congress last week to protect Americans from unreasonable searches and seizures on the Internet in light of recent revelations that a new monitoring tool could enable the FBI to intercept the email of lawabiding citizens.
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Get credit for that old IBM PC, laptop
Federal agencies will be able to obtain credit toward the purchase of new IBM Corp. PCs and laptops by donating their old computers to charity via a unique governmentwide contract.
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The Circuit
The security problem that put former CIA Director John Deutch in hot water may soon be a thing of the past. Chief information officers at various agencies are looking into supplying Cabinet secretaries with secure systems in their homes so that they can work on classified documents in the comfort of their own living rooms.
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