Maryland measures its e-gov readiness
Maryland Lt. Gov. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend yesterday announced results of a survey that shows that 64 percent of the state's households and 89 percent of its businesses have computers, and 42 percent of the businesses conduct transactions online. The eReadiness Maryland study found that most use dial-up Internet connections, whose speed drops from 52.6 Kbps down to 23.2 Kbps in some areas because of aging copper telephone wiring.
Hewlett-Packard makes 2.2-pound DLP projector
Hewlett-Packard Co. is broadening its portable product line to include one of the market's lightest digital-light-processing projectors, the 2.2-pound xb21. 'Projectors used to be specialized audio-visual purchases,' said North American marketing manager Anneliese Olson. 'Now they're shifting to the computer channel.'
Mobility and security share focus at FOSE
Since Sept. 11, agency network administrators are more willing to support users' mobile devices. And users are finding new ways to connect, in effect constructing a new, mobile e-government platform on the fly.
E-gov projects likely to end up in a bell curve
Progress on the Office of Management and Budget's 24 e-government projects likely will end up in a bell curve, according to Norman Lorentz, OMB's chief technology officer. A few projects will lead the way, most will come to fruition in the middle of OMB's 18- to 24-month time frame, and a few will have to be adjusted or scrapped altogether.
Polycom introduces voice-Web-video bridge
A multimedia bridge coming later this year from Polycom Network Systems of Atlanta will link up to 900 participants in online meetings via telephones and browsers.
Shipboard networks ask: How hot is it?
Handheld computers are reducing the need for sailor 'rovers' to walk around reading hundreds of thermometers in the hottest work areas of Navy cruisers, destroyers and amphibious vessels. The temperature-taking is now done by the automated Heat Stress Management Program, managed by physiologist Jay Heaney of the Naval Health Research Center in San Diego.
Feds discuss challenges of interagency projects
When e-government managers come knocking on the door for cooperation from the chiefs of federal programs and processes, the common response is, 'I have a way that should be the way.'
Spectrum Summit seeks peace in the air
How government divvies up the federal portion of the spectrum is the focus of intense interest.
Another try at broadband wireless
Carrier-based RadioRouters won't require the cell infrastructure build-out that bankrupted the first broadband wireless pioneers, officials of Flarion Technologies Inc. predicted last week in a demonstration at the Federal Communications Commission. Flarion calls its shared-media RadioRouter technology 'an extension of existing IP networks.'
MicronPC adds fingerprint safeguards to Pentium 4 notebook
The three layers of biometric security built into the new TransPort GX3 notebook PC are the direct result of federal interest in security, MicronPC LLC portable product manager Jay White said yesterday.
E-gov managers fight cultural resistance
The managers of the Office of Management and Budget's 24 highlighted <br>e-government projects are enjoying their newfound access to the chiefs of federal programs and processes. But getting real cooperation is like 'herding cats,' said John Sindelar, the General Services Administration's E-Gov task force project manager.
DOD office finds e-mail filter for classified info
Classified information embedded accidentally'or intentionally'in e-mail used to be an everyday headache at the Office of the Defense Undersecretary for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics.
Survival of the Fittest
High-profile federal systems projects got a bad name in the early 1990s.
STATE LINES
In absentia. Pennsylvania's Child Care Information Services maintained a faulty database of child care providers and as a result issued paychecks to persons who were in prison during the time they were thought to be watching children, according to the state's auditor.
Commerce sees online gold rush
A rush to conduct e-government transactions is being led by children, young adults and retired people who increasingly have broadband Internet connections, Commerce Secretary Donald Evans said this week in a report.
Spectrum summit will scope out macro level
A Commerce Department spectrum summit in Washington on April 4 and 5 will 'step back and take a 20,000-foot view' of the way the electromagnetic spectrum is divided among government and commercial uses, National Telecommunications and Information Administration head Nancy J. Victory said today.
It's a desktop, it's a notebook, it's a ' DeskNote
PC Wave Inc.'s new 7-pound DeskNote desktop replacement system has components like a desktop PC's'even a full 2.2-GHz Pentium 4 processor, not a mobile Pentium. But the AC power supply is external to avoid the battery heat buildup that plagues Pentium 4 notebook PCs, according to the Fremont, Calif., company.
Dell and Micron heavy up their low-end servers
The dual 1.13-GHz Pentium III PowerEdge 1500 SC server from Dell Computer Corp. costs about the same as a desktop PC'$1,399'but has a fast 1-Gbps data bus and hot-plug drives.
Manage existing bandwidth better, panel says
Some federal officials are skeptical about the wireless industry's pressure on the government to relinquish bandwidth. At the ComNet trade show yesterday in Washington, Andrew Levin, Democratic counsel to the House Commerce Committee, said third-generation wireless applications 'are not here yet. It's not necessarily true that 'if you build it, they will come'.'
Course offers training for enterprise architects
How a federal agency builds up its enterprise architecture has always been something of a mystery, and sometimes an accident. A 10-week Federal Enterprise Architecture Certificate course in Arlington, Va., sponsored by California State University at Los Angeles, will show feds how to define an architecture, write a statement of work, evaluate tools and build a model.
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