USPTO does its homework
2008 GCN Technology Leadership Award winner Deborah Diaz helps give agency's teleworkers the tools to collaborate.
RIM's Bold stroke
Research in Motion has developed the BlackBerry Bold 9000 smartphone, a potential competitor to Apple's iPhone.
Where GIS gets lost
COVER STORY: Agencies' use of powerful geospatial apps often hits a dead end when it comes to working together.
Toronto police struggle with GIS' success
23 Toronto police analysts use GIS to analyze crime, but the data is not as easy to access in the field and officers can't run queries against the data from the field.
EPA asks for data center data
GCN tech briefs'Environmental Protection Agency is working to develop an Energy Star rating system for data centers.
Too many cooks at Census?
Blame for aborted plan to use handheld devices in the 2010 census laid at Commerce Department's doorstep.
OGC approves KML encoding standard
The Open Geospatial Consortium has approved Google's Keyhole Markup Language'the language used for developing Google Earth'as an open standard.
SQL Server 2008 offers new strength
Microsoft's soon-to-be-released SQL Server 2008 offers new support for spatial data types that some analysts say should deliver a real boost to geospatial applications and data sharing at all levels of government.
Census ditches handheld units for 2010 count
After years of trying to develop a system for collecting data for the 2010 census using handheld computers, the Census Bureau is going back to paper and pencils.
Mobile computing gets academic
GCN Insider: It's a sign of having arrived when a new technology gets its own academic discipline.
Information technology as snake oil
Technicalities: Who is to protect the public from bogus IT products?
NOAA offers virtual tour
Web site lets visitors explore National Hurricane Center, other facilities.
Census abandons handheld devices for 2010 count
Commerce Secretary pulls plug on Field Data Collection Automation project.
Nanoparticles in 3-D
GCN tech briefs: NIST researchers have developed a tracking microscope that can monitor in 3-D the motions of nanoparticles in solutions.
Simulator open for development
Microsoft is moving its Flight Simulator program to the enterprise in the form of the Microsoft ESP simulation platform.
NIST to OK biometric labs
Biometrics Laboratory Accreditation Program would accredit labs to evaluate biometric ID systems and related IT.
NOAA completes tsunami alert system
Two tsunami-detection buoys deployed this week near the Solomon Islands are the final links in a chain of stations to provide accurate tsunami warnings for Hawaii and the West Coast.
Biometrics accreditation planned
The Homeland Security Department has asked the National Institute of Standards and Technology to develop a Biometrics Laboratory Accreditation Program that would accredit laboratories to evaluate biometric ID systems.
Study: All WLANS not created equal under 802.11n
Aruba Networks' testing of access points from three vendors ' Aruba, Cisco Systems and Meru Networks ' found that throughput ranged from 2 megabytes/sec to 169 megabytes/sec.
DARPA: 50 and still counting
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has contributed much to America.
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