MCI gets a busy signal
The General Services Administration yesterday suspended MCI WorldCom from competing for new federal contracts and also suspended four more former executives of the troubled FTS 2001 contractor. <br>
In search of the next big thing
Marc Andreessen and friends invented the first Web browser, Mosaic, while they were undergraduates earning $6.85 an hour at the University of Illinois at Champaign.
XML: Add Water, get Steam?
Agencies that jump into Web services and Extensible Markup Language without a thorough understanding are building a house of cards, said Mike Plusch, chief executive officer of Clear Methods Inc. of Cambridge, Mass. <br>
EPA to spend more on IT integration
The Environmental Protection Agency will invest more in IT integration to 'better use environmental data to make decisions, set priorities and achieve agency goals,' CIO Kimberly T. Nelson said.
Experts disagree on how to shore up cybersecurity
Software vulnerabilities remain a major threat to cybersecurity, but experts last week suggested opposing approaches to closing the loopholes.
Vendor declares spam war
<a href= "http://Symantec.com">Symantec.com<a/>, a leading site for help fighting Internet hazards and hoaxes, has gone on the warpath against spam, too.
Clarke advocates grass-roots action to protect critical IT
Calling the Homeland Security Department 'incapable of doing anything to save the civilian IT infrastructure,' former cybersecurity czar Richard Clarke called on users and buyers to set security standards themselves. <br>
EPA to spend more for analytics
The Environmental Protection Agency will invest more in IT integration to 'better use environmental data to make decisions, set priorities and achieve agency goals,' CIO Kimberly T. Nelson said. <br>
Hardware's fortunes brighten, architect says
Enterprise efforts promote hardware clustering, industry systems architect says.<br>
Sometimes a bit of spending is wise
After a 37-year Air Force career, four-star Gen. Alfred G. Hansen retired in 1989 and went back to work in the aerospace industry. Now president and chief executive officer of EMS Technologies Inc. of Atlanta, Hansen said his goal is to make EMS 'a billion-dollar company.'
Congress considers ways to can unwanted e-mail
A tidal wave of unsolicited electronic messages 'is on the verge of killing the only killer app we have''e-mail, says Federal Trade Commission member Orson Swindle.
What's inside the government's e-voting booth?
The world's newest voting booth is having its curtain wrinkles ironed out by the Defense Department's Secure Electronic Registration and Voting Experiment.
TSA's gaining ground on airport-HQ connections
With a funding impasse now behind it, the Transportation Security Administration's IT infrastructure project to connect 429 airports to TSA headquarters is getting off the ground.
SSA underbids industry, wins contract
A team of 36 Social Security Administration managers, programmers and analysts determined their costs for software validation to be less than any of four related contracts the agency had with the private sector and therefore won the agency's first competition for work under OMB Circular A-76.
SSA workers win A-76 competitive sourcing
A Social Security Administration team underbid several private-sector competitors in the agency's first sourcing competition under OMB Circular A-76.
Defense collaboration gets into Groove
<font color="CC0000"> (UPDATED) </font color> The Defense Collaboration Tool Suite, assembled from commercial sources for secure sharing of military video and audio conferences and applications, today got a new addition.<br>
TSA's colorful vision 'is coming to be'
The first stage of the Transportation Security Administration's IT infrastructure is now in place and communicating, Unisys Corp.'s Tom Conaway said today. <br>
DOD seeks to exploit intelligence
'Pain and duress.' Surely that's what Iraqi forces felt under the weight of the U.S. offensive in the recent war. But the phrase, along with 'tortured,' also applies to the difficulty U.S. forces faced in achieving interoperability of IT systems.
Spam canners can't agree on recipe
Federal Trade Commission head Orson Swindle today said the tidal wave of unsolicited e-mail messages 'is on the verge of killing the only killer app we have in <br>broadband''e-mail.<br>
NLM establishes public-domain XML suite for journals
The National Library of Medicine's National Center for Biotechnology Information has released comprehensive Extensible Markup Language document type definitions for exchanging and archiving articles electronically.
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