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Millennia Lite contracts awarded
The General Services Administration awarded the first information technology support services contracts under the Millennia Lite program.
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U.S. preps GPS defense
The United States is gearing up to protect its turf at the upcoming World Radiocommunication Conference next month. At the last conference in 1997, it nearly lost hold of the radio spectrum used for satellite navigation systems.
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NSF pins hopes on security pilot
The National Science Foundation will begin testing electronic signature technology next month that could remove the last impediment to its paperless proposal process.
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NSF's electronic signature pilot: How it works
The National Science Foundation is working with the Federal Demonstration Partnership to conduct an electronic signature pilot for processing research proposals and awards.
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Navy lobs assault on DMS
The $1.6 billion global Defense Message System the military has spent years constructing is no improvement over its decadesold message system, contends a senior Navy official who wants to study whether the messaging system can meet military requirements.
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Fed portal lures IT execs
A federal information technology company plans to launch a World Wide Web portal next month that will provide information to government employees. Plans for planetgov.com may also include ecommerce applications.
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Teen arrested for Web attack on CNN.com
Confirming suspicions that the attacks on popular Web sites in February were the work of 'script kiddies,' officials have arrested a 15yearold Canadian who allegedly bragged about perpetrating at least one of the attacks.
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Free Linux software blocks hackers
Certain electronic intruders will have to find a new way to wreak havoc thanks to free Linux software released Thursday by Lucent Technologies' Bell Labs
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Politics, high-tech mix at Comdex
A day after Bill Clinton became the first U.S. president to address a technology trade show, a group of Republican congressmen discussed legislative topics with industry representatives
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JetForm unveils "Jaguar"
The product, in beta tests with several federal agencies and state governments, automatically detects the browser type being used and presents the Web forms in the best way possible
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Senate committee approves $1 billion in research grants
The bill dedicates money to reduce Internet access costs in rural areas and asks the National Academy of Sciences to study the impact of geography on Internet access
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Experts give geography lesson
In the future all government information will incorporate geographic information systems, industry experts say
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Bluetooth spec booming
Bluetooth, a global specification for wireless technology that lets devices communicate with each other, has become the fastestgrowing technology standard ever
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N.C. announces IT grants for schools
Schools can get up to $10,000 in matching grants to buy hardware to establish networking programs
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PerfectDisk 2000 covers the bases
New disk defragmenter handles range of Windows systems
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PictureTel forms ASP subsidiary
PictureTel Corp. is forming 1414c, an application service provider that can supply IPbased communications to agencies
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Engine promises precise XML searches
Xdex, which ships this week, is the first offtheshelf indexing engine for XML and promises to deliver highperformance, contextsensitive searches
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