Tech briefs
The Interior Department has embarked on a program to integrate and modernize its resources for managing map and geospatial data.
Broadband still a local concern
GCN Insider | Municipal governments will have to fend for themselves when establishing a broadband infrastructure.
Ride with the tide
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has developed a sensor-fed, real-time reporting system that makes shipping ports safer and more efficient.
BlackBerry glitch explained
Research in Motion says the interruption in e-mail service to BlackBerry devices was a problem with an internal data routing system upgrade.
Flash forward
As solid-state drives catch on, Nano RAM promises a big advance.
New OGC measurement encoding standard
OpenGIS(r) Observations & Measurements Encoding Standard provides an XML schema for describing what data means.
Browser wars wind down
With Netscape's passing, few challengers to IE remain.
ODF gains ground
The ODF Alliance claims increasing momentum for the Open Document Format, an open-source format that competes with Microsoft's Extensible Markup Language format.
OGC seeks proposals for sensor data networks
The Open Geospatial Consortium is soliciting proposals for the 2008 round of the Empire Challenge Pilot to test the effectiveness of applications using OGC standard interfaces to collect and manipulate sensor data.
Document Detective 3.0
Product spotlight: ManTech International has released a security tool that prevents the disclosure of hidden data in classified documents.
OMG updates payment standard
The Object Management Group announced approval of the new Conversion Models for Payment Message Standard.
Ultralight encryptor earns certification
The National Security Agency has certified General Dynamics' TACLANE-Micro (KG-175D), which the company touts as the industry's smallest and lightest in-line network encryptor.
Lancope wins patent for profiler
Lancope gets a patent for its port-profiling invention, a method for detecting unauthorized network use.
SEC seeks input on taxonomies
Agency's Office of Interactive Disclosure seeksr public comment on computer labels that will help companies make their financial disclosures more useful for investors and analysts.
Authentication in the blink of an eye
SRI International takes a step toward nonintrusiveness with an iris-identification system that can verify iris scans of people at a distance.
NOAA to track GPS satellites
Project is aimed at ensuring the accuracy of global positioning system data used by the public and private sectors.
Video pays off twice at VA
Case study: Regional conferencing system connects with Veterans Affairs' psychiatric patients ' and the agency's budget watchers.
NASA wraps up its year of technogifts
Space agency highlights its top 'spinoff' technologies of 2007.
NIST gives nod to on-card biometric matching
Smart cards that perform on-card matching of biometric data without having to be swiped in a reader, as well as meet FIPS 201 requirements for security and speed, are on the horizon.
NIST finds nano clue to better semiconductor
Researchers have identified one of the obstacles on the road to smaller, more efficient transistor gates in microprocessors.
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