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Risk assessment for voting systems
Election Assistance Commission assessment to create benchmark for new voluntary guidelines.
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Engravers design coins in 3-D
The U.S. Mint is creating coin designs using a 3-D modeling technology that enables engravers to design coins using haptic capabilities, allowing interactivity in real time with virtual objects.
GCN announces Agency Award winners
Government Computer News has selected 10 agencies whose IT initiatives are being recognized as the best of 2008.
Standard-issue security
Certification and accreditation process for national security systems to extend to the rest of government.
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Tech Briefs
Google search for government
Boost eLearning offers training in Google search to government, non-profits and others.
Panasas updates storage offerings
Cloud computing for government
Layer 3 support for PDAs
Undelete 2009
GCN Tech Blog
Privacy and sensor networks
The proliferation of sensor networks will yield a gaggle of privacy issues that must be addressed.
The BPM and SOA marriage
Spy vs. spy on display at State
IT consolidation best practices
Searching for the best government Web sites
GCN Lab Review
No-nonsense printing
Xerox Phaser 3250DN laser printer falls short at printing graphics and text over graphics.
Tech Trends
Paul Scheihing | DOE wants more of less
The technology manager of the Energy Department’s Industrial Technologies Program discusses the government’s current and future energy-saving plans.
GCN Interviews index
Secrets of optimization
How a few well-placed tweaks can greatly improve database performance.
SQL Server 2008 makes performance tweaking easier
SQL Server administrators optimizing their databases will have some new tools when Microsoft releases SQL Server 2008 next month.
Networked prints
The Army has installed a centralized system to control access to buildings and networks at Hunter Army Airfield and Fort Stewart in Georgia.
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Next generation
GCN honors this year’s Rising Stars award winners in the world of government information technology. More
XML: The good, the bad and the bloated
Reap the benefits of XML tagging while keeping bloated files to a minimum. More
Striking the public-private balance
For providers of essential public services, private profit must sometimes take a back seat to public policy. More
GCN Lab Review: MapInfo Pro 9.5
MapInfo Professional 9.5 is a serious geographic information system that lets you map layers of transportation data, school districts, landmarks, water features, topography, and many other data sets.
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Acer’s Aspire X3200 desktop PC
LaCie's d2 Quadra hard disk
Print server cuts the cord, adds security
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From A to Z: VA's IT Data Center consolidation
Government Computer News presents Charles J. De Sanno, executive director of Enterprise Technology and Infrastructure Engineering for the Veterans Affairs Department, in this recent InSight eSeminar, where he discusses the progression of the VA’s IT Data Center consolidation.
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The Kanguru Eco Drive is green in more ways that just its color. It uses less power than a normal drive and is made of environmentally neutral materials. But how does it perform? Come check out one of the first entries into the world of environmentally friendly computing to see if it can save files and the planet.
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Mitigating the risks of Web intrusion
Tune in to this recent GCN InSight eSeminar and learn the essential practices to mitigating those risks from one of the government’s long-standing advocates of network security practices, Edward Meagher, deputy chief information officer of the Interior Department.
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