Bandwidth wranglers
Ethernet has surpassed all other networking technologies in speed, scalability and ease of implementation.
Sliding into the right place
Human capital management starts with the idea ? radical to some ? that workers have value.
E-records Solutions evolve ? as do the demands
As the business of government, like that of the rest of the world, increasingly is done digitally, managing official records becomes more important. It isn't only the volume of information that's changing; oversight required to manage electronic records also is also increasing.
Government warms up to wireless
For several years now, wireless LANs have proved viable for consumer use as a cheap and easy way to set up a home network or to get on the Web at a public hot spot.
Tuesday's special
The second Tuesday of every month has become a red-letter day for computer security professionals.
Spies & snoops
The question is simple: Does any information pass through your computer that you wouldn't want posted on the Internet?
Build a case for success
Government performance initiatives, including such measures as the President's Management Agenda, in recent years have focused on IT both as a means to an end and as a cost center that must be brought under control.
No rocket science here
To believe a certain series of television commercials designed to promote a "videoconference phone," setting up a full-blown videoconference is about as easy as planning a trip to Neptune.
Vigilance is rule as viruses keep up attack
The past year has seen unprecedented consolidation in the IT security field, especially in the antivirus business, where big companies have gobbled up innovative small companies.
Baby steps are best when switching to 64-bit
The best thing about migrating to 64-bit computing might be that you don't have to do it in one great leap.
Open-source software comes of age in the gov't market
At the 1999 LinuxWorld Expo in San Jose, Calif., Linus Torvalds joked about his goal for the operating system he started: "Total world domination."
Web services boost data security, efficiency
Government agencies are turning increasingly to Web services to speed application development, share data and conduct transactions more easily.
Handhelds rival laptops ?but choose carefully
Who would have thought the day would come when laptops would seem too big, and phones not useful enough?
More power to you
When I last wrote about super PCs, I set these criteria for a super PC:
Second life
Voice over IP almost didn't survive its overhyped debut in the last decade.
Color my world: Printers take on a new hue
Printers have come a long way since the days when lumbering impact printers attached to mainframes, and non-networked PCs pumped out ASCII text symbols on reams of paper that jammed almost as often as not.
It's RAD, dude
While Web-based applications solved the problem of how to get applications to users and centrally maintain them, they presented new technical challenges for the rapid application development tools needed to build and deploy them.
Buyers have varied choices for operating systems
Desktop and server operating systems always have been the black holes of the software world. They tend to absorb useful utilities, technologies and practical applications of day-to-day computing.
Little tweaks can mean big problems with Section 508
Since the first President George Bush signed the Americans with Disabilities Act, agencies and businesses have been under pressure and progressively tighter regulations to make goods, employment and services available to the disabled.
It's easy to make your PC super
A mere 10 years ago, it would have been impossible to buy or build a machine as powerful as today's low-end, off-the-shelf PC.
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