GCN tech briefs
DRS Technologies has selected Intellitactics Security Manager to be the focal point of a security information and event management system designed for the Naval Sea Systems Command.
Diploma mill probed
Federal investigators have compiled a list of 9,600 names of people suspected of having purchased fraudulent high school diplomas and college degrees, including some who appear to work in government and the military.
Update: tech briefs
Toughbooks add Centrino 2 chips; Vizioncore updates management tools; Navy gets a new supercomputer.
Spreadsheet tips for Corel Quattro
Users of Corel Quattro, included in the company's Word Perfect office suite, can enjoy some capabilities not even found in Microsoft Excel.
Fujitsu ships nonstop drives
Fujitsu Computer Products of America is shipping a new series of 2.5-inch hard drives designed for nonstop operation.
Erdas releases beta of ImagineObjective
Erdas, formerly Leica Geosystems Geospatial Imaging, publicly released the beta version of Imagine Objective, a new tool providing object-based multiscale image classification and feature extraction capabilities for building and maintaining accurate geospatial content.
Sun builds AMD quad-core servers
Advanced Micro Devices announced that Sun Microsystems is offering eight new servers that use Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors.
Brocade offers new switches
Brocade launched a new family of data center fabric switches and host bus adapters that promise higher performance and simplified management.
The numerator
Here is a list of the cell phones that leaked the most'and the least'radio frequency energy based on their specific (body) absorption rate.
IBM releases FISMA add-on for Tivoli
Product spotlight: IBM has released a module for its IBM Tivoli Compliance Insight Manager that watches traffic for compliance with FISMA.
USGS' real-time water quality monitoring
GCN tech briefs: Few agencies are as well suited to take advantage of the geospatial capabilities of the Web as the U.S. Geological Survey. The latest example of that is the agency's new WaterQualityWatch Web site.
Call for nominations
Nominations are being accepted for this year's GCN Awards, which recognize agency information technology teams whose innovations and accomplishments during the past year have made a significant contributions to their agency.
Citrix launches new NetScaler line
Product spotlight: NetScaler devices offer a massively parallel multicore system architecture designed to significantly increase data center capacity.
Portage County gets tough with laptops
The Portage Area Regional Transportation Authority is putting Panasonic Toughbooks equipped with intelligent transportation software from Trapeze Group into its fleet of 56 buses.
Tools and techniques
The winners of this year's GCN Technology Leadership Awards used some of the most effective technologies and project management techniques available. Here is a brief primer on those approaches.
Technology visionaries
GCN Technology Leadership Awards recognize 10 individuals who earned the respect and admiration of their government colleagues and superiors for their ability to take innovative and sometimes risky new technology approaches and inspire their co-workers to follow their lead.
Post time for coders
The numerator: The 10 most heavily used programming languages worldwide.
OWC gooses portable storage
Product spotlight: Other World Computing's Mercury On-the-Go 500-gigabyte flash drive fits in your hand.
Virtualization
The numerator: Most federal IT employees see virtualization as important, though only a minority use it in their daily operations.
U-blox counts in nanoseconds
Product Spotlight: The U-blox LEA-5T is a precision-timing GPS module accurate to within 15 nanoseconds.
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