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Marketplace Web Extras
Back from the Brink Apple 'Thinks Different' With New Announcements By Joshua Dean Apple Computer Inc. recently unleashed a string of new product offerings, many geared toward computer lab clusters of users and workgroups. The Cupertino, Calif.based company made it clear on a recent product tour t
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Public Safety Net
Being involved in a traffic accident is nobody's idea of fun, but if it has to happen, your best chances may be in San Antonio. That's because the Texas city is home to a bleedingedge marriage of communications and public safety technologies that could make it one of the world's most advanced cent
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Bad behavior is inexcusable
A federal employee recently learned the hard way that yelling at your supervisor in front of others is not very clever. The case involved Jeri Lewis, an employee of the Department of Veterans Affairs who was removed from her GS7 position as a certified respiratory therapy technician at the Philade
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California: Leveraging Resources
Audit offices always have been operational islands, cut off geographically and culturally from other state field sites.
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Soloway tapped to head Defense Reform Initiative
In a move designed to solidify a culture of reform throughout the Defense Department, Defense Secretary William Cohen recently shifted responsibility for the Defense Reform Initiative to the office overseeing the Pentagon's acquisition reform efforts. The organizational change places Stan Soloway,
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Captive soldiers lacked critical GPS radios
The Army last week acknowledged that the three U.S. soldiers captured by the Yugoslav army were not outfitted with a specially designed radio that could have provided their rescuers with accurate information on their location. A spokesman for the Army confirmed that the three soldiers patrolling in
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Roster Change
Arnold Bresnick, associate chief information officer at the Agriculture Department, will retire from government June 3. Bresnick also is chairman of the Information Technology Resources Board. Rep. Tom Davis (RVa.) last month received the Electronic Industries Alliance's first Congressional Techno
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PC Docs upgrades management suite
PC Docs Group International Inc. next week will announce an upgrade to its document management product suite that is designed to make accessing documents easier. Version 3.0 for each of three products would enable users to run a PC Docs system across multiple servers, allow offline use of the syste
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Serbs launch cyberattack on NATO
Unidentified Serbian computer hackers last week successfully denied public access to the main World Wide Web server supporting the public affairs apparatus of the United Statesled NATO operation in Kosovo, rendering the server virtually inoperable for several days.
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A Lesson From the 'Goose Egg Five'
On Dec. 29, 1998, Oregon's Statewide Year 2000 Project Office took its first Year 2000 hit. It had nothing to do with a computer malfunction. It had everything to do with a communication malfunction. That day The Wall Street Journal published a lengthy article headlined 'Year 2000 Problem Is Bearin
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DOJ inks deal for records access
The Justice Department last month inked a deal with ChoicePoint Inc. to provide federal investigators with online access to a wide array of public documents, which should make it easier and faster to track down suspects and solve cases. The DOJ contract, worth an estimated $5 million a year over th
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Work needed to effect true reform
Last month's revelation that pilots are flying dangerous missions over Kosovo without the benefit of some information technology that could save lives should serve as a strong reminder that procurement reform is a work in progress. As reported by Federal Computer Week, retired topranking military
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U.S. Army failed to issue systems that may have aided captured soldiers
The Defense Information Systems Agency today awarded Motorola Inc.'s Government Systems Operation a $219 million contract for equipment and accessories to support Defense Department communications through the Iridium LLC satellite network.
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Virginia Governor Ignores Internet Tax Lawsuit, Sets June Meeting
Defacto leader of a new 19member Advisory Commission on Electronic Commerce, Gilmore is charging forward with plans to hold an initial meeting of the group, which will ultimately set the pace for future taxation of Internetbased commerce.
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DOD taps Motorola for Iridium gear
The Defense Information Systems Agency today awarded Motorola Inc.'s Government Systems Operation a $219 million contract for equipment and accessories to support Defense Department communications through the Iridium LLC satellite network.
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United States, Australia create WAN during exercise
Innovative use of satellite technology has tied four Royal Australian Navy ships into a widearea network that spans the Western Pacific Ocean, allowing the ships to exchange essential data with the joint Australian/U.S. staff aboard this command ship.
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Micron program will ease fed PC buys
Micron Electronics announced this week a new PC management program, called Mpower, that is designed to allow government agencies to trade in old PCs for credit on new purchases, set up a comprehensive leasing program and offer to dispose of old PCs in a safe recycling system.
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Y2K czar declares feds will be ready for 2000
The Clinton administration today announced that 92 percent of the federal government's 6,123 missioncritical systems have met the selfimposed March 31 deadline for all systems to be Year 2000compliant.
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Serbia launches cyberattack on NATO
NATO's World Wide Web server has been rendered virtually inoperable as a result of a denial of service attack launched by an unknown number of cyberterrorists from an undisclosed location deep within Serbia, NATO officials announced today.
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