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Trudy Walsh

Trudy Walsh is a senior writer for GCN.

CA unveils new name and cloud products

CA Technologies unveils a new name and new cloud computing products and strategies at CA World 2010 in Las Vegas.

  • By Trudy Walsh

How to zip your laptop through TSA security

GCN Lab's Trudy Walsh usually checks her 10-pound laptop in her luggage when she flies. How has your laptop fared going through airport security?

  • By Trudy Walsh

University of Maryland honors faculty members elected to National Academies

The University of Maryland held a reception for faculty members who recently were elected to the National Academies of Science and Engineering.

  • By Trudy Walsh

Panasonic merges media, display and Toughbook operations

Panasonic consolidates its media, display and Toughbook operations into one company, Panasonic Solutions

  • By Trudy Walsh

Hands on with Army Go Mobile gear

The real potential of the Go Mobile program is in providing military personnel access to their AKO/DKO accounts wirelessly. The days of luggable laptops might be over soon, replaced in this case with smart phones that pack almost as much computing power.

  • By Trudy Walsh

Top products: The class of 2009

GCN Labs picks the best products from 2009, based on more than 150 product reviews and rigorous testing.

  • By Greg Crowe, Trudy Walsh and John Breeden II

i4i rebuts ‘each and every’ Microsoft Word defense

Plaintiff i4i files a responding brief in the Microsoft Word dispute, rebutting Microsoft’s defenses.

  • By Trudy Walsh

How you can get Internet Explorer 8

Three ways to get an updated version of Microsoft’s browser, Internet Explorer 8.

  • By Trudy Walsh

Air Force picks HP for enterprise IT

Hewlett-Packard will provide workstations and desktop PCs to the Air Force under the service’s enterprise IT purchase program.

  • By Trudy Walsh

A world without Word?

If Microsoft is barred from selling Word, agencies would find alternative products and workarounds, observers say.

  • By Trudy Walsh

Federal future cloudy for Microsoft Word

Agencies are wondering how a court's ruling banning Microsoft from selling Word will affect their procurement plans.

  • By Trudy Walsh and Brian Robinson
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Microsoft ordered to stop selling Word

Court rules that Microsoft stop selling flagship Word as a result of a patent dispute with Canadian company i4i.

  • By Trudy Walsh

Unisys achieves ISO 20K certification

Unisys' federal systems business has achieved ISO/IEC 20000-1:2005 certification for its desktop-management services line and programs.

  • By Trudy Walsh

Raytheon supplies BC3 with battle technology

Battlespace Command and Control Center, a system that manages U.S. and coalition air traffic in Iraq, is utilizing several Raytheon technologies.

  • By Trudy Walsh

Cisco, Harris team on SMArT-1

Secure Mobile Architecture Type 1 will speed wireless networks installation for federal intelligence and civilian agencies.

  • By Trudy Walsh

Growth of state budgets halts

Flying high two years ago, state budgets are coming back down to earth with a thud, according to a new report on state spending, revenue actions and year-end balances.

  • By Trudy Walsh

Bearingpoint to tune up Missouri vehicle system

BearingPoint won a contract worth up to $50 million from the Missouri Revenue Department to design, implement and maintain a new motor vehicle system.

  • By Trudy Walsh

EDS to modernize Ky. tax system

Electronic Data Systems has won a contract from the commonwealth of Kentucky to develop an automated tax system.

  • By Trudy Walsh

Something to celebrate

Project Bonfire at Hill Air Force Base streamlines systems and improves aircraft maintenance.

  • By Trudy Walsh

Skire to 'unify' Ohio agency, college software

Skire Inc. has announced an enterprise agreement valued at $3.5 million to provide its Unifier software to all of Ohio's state agencies, colleges and universities.

  • By Trudy Walsh