Don't go home without it
If you still need evidence of the importance of securing computers'both the PCs themselves and their data'you don't have to look further than the headlines from earlier this year.
Mobile Pentium 4 notebooks to start at 1.5 GHz
A mobile Pentium 4 microprocessor will be ready for notebook PCs in the first half of next year, Intel Corp. announced last week at the DEMOmobile conference in La Jolla, Calif.
Security to Go
If you still need evidence of the importance of securing computers'both the PCs themselves and their data'you don't have to look further than recent headlines. On July 18, the FBI admitted that 184 of its 13,000 notebook PCs were either missing or, in the case of 13 of them, stolen.
The eclectic slide
'As you'll see from the first slide ....' If that line sounds familiar, you are either a comedy writer or, more likely, the veteran'or victim'of one too many PC-generated slide presentations. They have become part of the fabric of the working world.
Navy opens second intranet support hub
SAN DIEGO'With more than 757 miles of fiber and copper cable in place to link network servers, desktop computers, data storage units and external connections, the second of two major hubs for the Navy-Marine Corps Intranet went online last week.
Navy opens second NMCI center in a month
Less than a month after the July 9 opening of the Navy-Marine Corps Intranet's first network operations center in Norfolk, Va., the Navy and contractor Electronic Data Systems Corp. flipped the switch yesterday on the project's newest center, at the North Island Naval Air Station on Coronado Island, Calif.
Drop the desktop model for handhelds, users say
PALM DESERT, Calif.—What users want in a handheld computer is toughness and ease of use, a Marine Corps officer said last month at the Mobile Insights '99 conference. It is time for users such as the Defense Department to stop retrofitting systems for the field, said Marine Maj. James C. Cummiskey, Camp Pendleton's mobile computing specialist. He spoke to an audience of mobile product users about an Army plan to buy 100,000 Nino 300 handheld devices.
RealPort Ethernet hits high note on quality scale
Some products you want for their glamour or status: a Louis Vuitton suitcase, a Tiffany & Co. diamond ring, a Patek Philippe watch. Other products have a reputation for reliability and durability: Levi Strauss & Co. jeans, for example, or Maytag washers. Then there are products whose cachet is based on their quality.
Modem/LAN PC Cards
PC Card devices provide a reliable solution for both systems managers and users. In the market for adapter cards? Be in-the-know before you go. Being a mobile worker—visiting five field offices in three days, working on that remote project for a month or just telecommuting from home because your office supports air pollution control efforts—ought to be easy, right?
In the market for adapter cards? Be in-the-know before you go
To make an informed purchase of a PC Card modem/LAN adapter card, you need to know some basic terms and facts about them. Both versions of Ethernet are shared-media LANs, where all nodes use the same bandwidth. Most desirable are modems that support the Group 3 standard, offering various levels of fax processing.
Logistics present DOD another year 2000 challenge
LONG BEACH, Calif.—The Defense Department is in the throes of a logistical revolution to deploy troops and materiel faster, a panel of Defense experts at the 21st Century Commerce 1998 exposition said last month. "One of the most critical challenges we face is reinventing logistics for the [next] century," said Lou Kratz, director of logistics systems re-engineering in the Office of the Secretary of Defense.
Enterprise distribution send client apps over the Net
Lucent Technologies Inc. has an enterprise software distribution (ESD) system with the same name as the Murray Hill, N.J., company's intellectual property business manager, Noel Terranova. Terranova Express—which runs under Microsoft Windows NT—orders, upgrades and distributes client applications via intranet. Its secure client and server software bypasses download hazards inherent in Web browsers and Internet protocols.
HP gives 2000-ready upgrades
Future servers will be able to host Unix and NT simultaneously. SAN DIEGO—Holding out both a carrot and a stick to HP 9000 server users, Hewlett-Packard Co. executives at the HP World '98 conference here early this month announced free upgrades for the HP-UX 9.04 operating system, which they said is not ready for 2000.
Navy eyes paperless purchasing process
"Knowing that I work for SPAWAR, I always look forward to going to work," Adriano said." SAN DIEGO—In June, the Navy ended a 60-year tradition by saying bell-bottom trousers for on-deck uniforms were out. In less than 60 days, another Navy tradition will tumble, as paper-based procurement processes give way to electronic trials.
PC Card modem handles ISDN and analog links
The first multifunction PC Card modem will make seamless links between an Integrated Services Digital Network line and the analog public switched telephone network. The MultiGear ISDN+56K+Phone card, from SysGear Technology Inc. of Rowland Heights, Calif., could be on the General Services Administration's Information Technology Schedule soon, SysGear vice president Mark Erickson said at a recent trade show.
New Navy ship would have made Grace Hopper proud -
SAN FRANCISCO--The new USS Hopper runs on a LAN. A portrait of the late Rear Adm. Grace Murray Hopper, mother of Cobol and a computing pioneer, hangs in the wardroom of the Navy destroyer. It was commissioned early this month to honor her as the Navy's first female admiral.
Post-FTS 2000 RFP won't be out until Nov.
It will be at least mid- to late November before the General Services Administration releases the solicitation for the Post-FTS 2000 procurement, the agency's top telecommunications executive has predicted. "We haven't settled exactly when it's all going to come out," Robert J. Woods, commissioner of GSA's Federal Telecommunications Service, told GCN last week. Woods said GSA is still talking with the Hill, the White House and others about the terms of the request for proposals,
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