Government Computer News
Regional communications system takes shape
Fourth regional public safety network launched in Northwest, final networks expected to be in place in a matter of weeks.
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Glitch tarnishes Chrome browser
The release of Googles Chrome browser this week has been dampened by the discovery of a security risk.
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Looking to balance Internet scale
Larry Roberts, a co-founder of ARPAnet, discusses the network developed by DARPA that later became the Internet.
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Economic indicators for security industry are looking up
The beginnings of a turnaround might in sight for at least the security segment of the IT industry.
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Data storage compromise
The Air Force Center for Engineering and the Environment chose the ONStor Bobcat NAS gateway to connect servers without requiring a dedicated server.
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CUNY, Red Hat launch open-source lab
The City University of New York has partnered with with Red Hat and Intel to create a lab that will allow the city government to test open-source software.
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NSF, chip industry to fund multicore processor research
National Science Foundation and Semiconductor Research Corp. will join forces to support academic research on multicore chip design and architecture.
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Plug-and-play network protection
Network Integrity Systems' Interceptor protects networks by monitoring the fibers in network cabling and detecting any movement.
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Performance anxiety about 2010 census
Recent GAO report concludes Census needs better metrics on the performance of the handheld computers that will be crucial in developing detailed address lists used in the 2010 decennial head count.
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Whither Internet Explorer?
Enterprise use of Microsoft's Internet Explorer is on the decline. But just how far has the mighty Web browser fallen?
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Reconstructing the collapse
NIST studies of World Trade Center take computer modeling to extremes.
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Google's Chrome is latest Web browser release
Just days after Microsoft released the second beta of Internet Explorer 8, Google unexpectedly released its own Web browser.
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Hurricane Gustav spurs FCC system activation
The new portal provides an online link for carriers to report sensitive information on network conditions.
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The push to talk
Standards, emerging technologies get emergency crews closer to unified communications, but a lot of static remains.
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One vision of unified communications
Inglewood, Calif., looks to bridge the gaps among emergency teams.
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FEMA sends Gustav alerts
FEMA e-mails updates to Gulf residents to let them know what the government is doing to prepare for Hurricane Gustav.
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Hurricane-resistant sentinel set up by NOAA
NOAA last week dedicated the first of four massive hurricane-hardened stations to measure storm tides off the Gulf coast of Mississippi.
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Microsoft goes public with IE 8 Beta 2
Microsoft releases Beta 2 of Internet Explorer 8, which includes several new browsing features but also, for the moment at least, a few compatibility issues.
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Experience Army life at the mall
The Army gives visitors to a Philadelphia mall the chance to try on soldier life via interactive computer simulations at the Army Experience Center.
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Store more with less
All agencies face similar storage challenges: Store more data in a smaller space while keeping it easily accessible. Disk arrays provide one way to solve that puzzle.
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