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Low-cost Internet app
End users at participating federal agencies download and install the Java application on their desktop PCs.
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Candle keeps tabs on apps
Candle Corp. last week unveiled a new version of its ETEWatch product, a tool designed to help IT managers measure endtoend response times of applications for a single user or an entire enterprise.
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E-FOIA firm acquired
Metastorm, an e-business software developer, announced last month that it has acquired Software Systems Group Inc., a software consulting and development firm with customers in the federal government.
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GAO hits satellite navigation plan
It is not clear that the benefits of a satellitebased navigation system being developed by the Federal Aviation Administration are worth the costs, according to a General Accounting Office report released last week.
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Rosetta Stone
One benefit of the State Department's FEDS/www system is its modular architecture.
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DOE on hunt for funding
In the wake of the latest security breach at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, the Energy Department is seeking hundreds of millions of dollars in its fiscal 2001 budget to dramatically increase security at its major facilities.
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The Circuit
With all the angst over missing computer hard drives at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, Rep. Bart Stupak (DMich.) was quick to point out that his public library is better at keeping track of library books than the government is at keeping track of nuclear secrets.
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Report: Measuring IT's impact on society
The National Science Board's biennial report to the president recommends a large agenda for future research on the impact of new IT on society
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Hill revives FBI project
An ambitious FBI project that will give its agents the ability to share and sift through information on active investigations is back on track, after a new World Wide Webbased strategy persuaded Congress to infuse it with money.
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IBM equipping schools nationwide
A private company that manages 108 public schools nationwide has chosen IBM Corp.'s hardware and software to equip its K-12 network.
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Agencies seek security metrics
As if creating information security programs is not hard enough, most government agencies are now realizing that they have no way to measure the effectiveness of those programs.
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Cookies: Trick or treat?
The Internet 'cookie,' like an urban legend, has been around for years, but the topic resurfaces periodically to strike fear in the hearts of the uninitiated. The cookie, unlike most urban legends, is rooted in fact, but it is not necessarily as scary as it's made out to be.
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FAA security office opens for business
The hundreds of facilities and the thousands of systems and personnel at the Federal Aviation Administration can look like Mount Everest to someone in charge of information security.
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Toshiba refreshes notebook line
A notebook computer equipped with desktop processing power and interactive esupport is among the Toshiba's new releases
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SilverStream smooths Web site workings
Agencies that plan to build World Wide Webbased transactional applications will want to include SilverStream 3.0 as part of the evaluation process
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Xerox beefs up printers
Xerox Corp. today launched five new members of its Document Centre family of digital copiers/printers
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Producing holographic movies
Making a featurelength, threedimensional, holographic movie will require fixing numerous images on one crystal and rotating the crystal as the images are being read, creating an effect similar to traditional film making in which rapidly displaying images gives the appearance of movement.
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The Customs crisis
The agency's ailing import system shows how old ways of funding put IT infrastructure at risk
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