Digital Government
Wireless Web needs work
Much has been made of the 'wireless revolution' and the possibilities that are unleashed through cellular phones and personal digital assistants capable of accessing the Internet.
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Archives clarifies its e-recordkeeping plan
To update its operating regulations for the Digital Age, the National Archives and Records Administration has proposed new rules that would permit document requests via e-mail and allow the agency to respond with electronic documents as well as paper photocopies.
Digital Government
FedCIRC offerings
The Federal Computer Incident Response Capability offers the following kinds of information to agencies:
Digital Government
Tech tools press cities to clean up
In Connecticut, a nonprofit has given people equipment to monitor the condition of city parks in hopes the information will prompt improvements
Digital Government
The Circuit
Although 34 million Americans filed their income tax returns online this year, most of them paid a fee to do it.
Digital Government
Simplifying streaming video
Pinnacle Systems' Studio DV knocks out simple, highquality streaming video projects quickly and with minimal expense
Acquisition
Groups push FedBiz site for buying
The government issued a proposed rule last week that would designate the FedBizOpps Web site as the single online point of access to governmentwide business opportunities.
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Rethinking the human factor
NSF project to develop systems that put people at ease with working together online
Acquisition
Defining government
Get ready for Government Inc. It's coming a lot sooner than you think. That's the gist of a memo sent out last month by Dan Porter, the Navy's chief information officer.
Digital Government
Letters to the Editor
I wish to vigorously disagree with your editorial [FCW, July 31], in which you called for federal programs and money to improve 'access' to science, engineering and technical education for women.
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Cohen: Superpower status has a downside
Cyberwarfare and other security threats simply come with the territory when your country is the world's only remaining 'superpower,' Defense Secretary William Cohen told a group of veterans last week.
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Intercepts
Final N/MCI Episode? Believe it or not, the Navy has one final box to check before the winner of the longawaited Navy/Marine Corps Intranet contract can be announced.
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CIO Council goes on offense
With time running out before the new fiscal year begins, the CIO Council plans to issue two memorandums within the next two weeks to agencies and Congress that urge putting in place policies that would better secure government computers.
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Autonomy Corp. to aid effort
Autonomy Corp., a provider of Internet infrastructure technology, has partnered with GRC International Inc. to help build FirstGov.
Digital Government
NTIS' continuing punishment
Here's a question for new Commerce secretary Norman Mineta: Why does the Commerce Department continue to punish the National Technical Information Service with a personnel hiring freeze?
Digital Government
Microsoft shifts gears
Next month when manufacturers begin to sell powerful PC servers to run the new Windows 2000 Datacenter Server software, the event will mark a significant shift in the way Microsoft Corp. sells and supports its most sophisticated operating system.
Digital Government
Giving the user better control
Rutgers University Multimodal Input Manager hardware:
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