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 <volume>21</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Uncle Sam gets tough on rule governing info assurance buys]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Government agencies that buy computers to handle national security information have a new hurdle to jump beginning next month.]]></description>
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 <volume>21</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[At its core, a systems shake-up]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Seat management and outsourcing are emerging as the keys to transforming the systems of seven dissimilar agencies into the enterprise architecture envisioned by President Bush for his proposed Homeland Security Department.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_15/18975-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>15</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Who will take IT reins at new department?]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Whoever ascends to the CIO post at the proposed Homeland Security Department faces an unprecedented technical challenge.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_15/18976-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>15</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[People on the Move]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Army Brig. Gen. Marilyn A. Quagliotti is the new deputy director for operations of the Defense Information Systems Agency. Gen. Eric K. Shinseki, the Army&#146;s chief of staff, announced the assignment earlier this month.]]></description>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>15</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Army&#146;s Borland wins award at FGIPC conference; 13 intergovernmental projects get kudos for service]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Army&#146;s Dave Borland this month received the John Franke Award from the Federation of Government Information Processing Councils at the Management of Change Conference in New Orleans.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_15/19000-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>15</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[State, local and federal governments identify common e-grants goals]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Government, academic and industry officials gathered this month to focus on electronic grants processes.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_15/19003-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>15</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[After fits and starts, Defense Travel System is nearly ready for the road]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Air Force Col. Larry Schaefer inherited program management duties for the Defense Travel System about a year ago, when the Pentagon gave agencies permission to use the system to handle their travel needs electronically.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_15/18954-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>15</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[DOD fine-tunes its draft plan for foreign nationals holding IT jobs]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Defense Department has rethought plans to disqualify foreign nationals from jobs involving the use of sensitive but unclassified information technology.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_15/18957-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>15</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[SEC extends e-service to financial advisers]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Securities and Exchange Commission has launched a system that lets investment advisers nationwide register online.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_15/18932-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>15</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Major programs within SEC]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis and Retrieval system. The commission has completed the final phase of its EDGAR modernization, it will continue to make upgrades and changes to the system as user requirements demand. Through the modernization, SEC sought to reduce the filing burden on companies required to submit financial data to the government]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_15/18933-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>15</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Geography rules]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Geographic information systems were a public-sector staple for years before businesses got into the act. ]]></description>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>15</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Intergraph, MapInfo add new dimensions]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Two of the biggest makers of GIS software are releasing major upgrades of their flagship desktop PC products this month.]]></description>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>15</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[The lowdown on Geographic information system software]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[What is it? Geographic information system software captures spatial data and lets users display it graphically, such as by creating or overlaying maps.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_15/18961-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>15</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[HUD develops metrics to measure IT]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Housing and Urban Development Department is creating a set of standard metrics to evaluate its IT projects.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_15/18981-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>15</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[OPM will host second IT job fair in August]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Agencies liked the virtual IT job fair in April so much that they are calling for a second one later this summer.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_15/18982-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>15</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[GSA teams will help reorganize FTS and FSS]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The General Services Administration will likely make some changes based on four recommendations of Accenture LLP, administrator Stephen Perry says.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_15/18983-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>15</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Linux vendors unite to build a common OS]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Four distributors of the open-source Linux are joining forces to sell a uniform server version.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_15/18984-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>15</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Unisys to USPS: The check is in the mail]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[After a month of mediation between the Postal Service and Unisys Corp., the company earlier this month agreed to pay USPS $882,483 for an overbilling claim related to year 2000 date code repair work.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_15/18985-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>15</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Transportation drops plan to extend ITOP]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[After receiving a critical audit by the Transportation Department inspector general, the Transportation Administrative Service Center has decided not to seek an extension from the Office of Management and Budget to run its governmentwide IT services program.]]></description>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>15</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Two drop DREN protests]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Two of three losing bidders for the Defense Research and Engineering Network project have withdrawn protests of the 10-year, $450 million contract awarded in April to WorldCom Inc.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_15/18988-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>15</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Mine safety&#146;s built on data]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The United States stands as the country with the largest, safest, most diverse and most productive array of mines in the world.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_15/18931-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>15</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[&#147;Did you hear...&#148; ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[You can be replaced. And not by automation&#151;by animation. It&#146;s happening as we speak to top Hollywood stars, according to a report from Netflix, the world&#146;s largest online DVD rental service. Last month&#146;s most-watched movies starred ghosts, robots and aliens instead of human actors, said Netflix of Los Gatos, Calif. We suspect even some of the animated characters are resorting to Botox to maintain their wrinkle-free glamour, however. Check out the young-looking Yoda in &#147;Star Wars Episode 2: Attack of the Clones.&#148; ]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_15/19004-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>15</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Packet Rat: The Rat lends a paw to the FBI]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[It&#146;s bad enough that he keeps getting ferreted out at the DefCon hackers&#146; convention during the popular &#147;Spot the Fed&#148; game. It&#146;s hard to hide when you have, er, distinctive good looks.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_15/19005-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>15</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Crossword Buy, Buy, E-buy]]></title>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>15</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Customs CIO: Architecture eases planning]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[S.W. &#147;Woody&#148; Hall compares an agency&#146;s enterprise architecture to a set of building codes.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_15/18964-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>15</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Federal Contract Law: Try these 7 steps to grief-free outsourcing]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[With competitive sourcing now a major goal of the administration, it&#146;s more important than ever that agencies get it right.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_15/18965-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>15</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Calendar]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[12-16 National Association of Counties Annual ConferenceNew Orleans. Contact the National Association of Counties; Web: www.naco.org/events.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_15/18966-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>15</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Senator&#146;s office is on paper diet]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[It didn&#146;t take long for Ngozi Pole to realize his vision of a paperless congressional office was unrealistic. But the IT director for Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) also refused to succumb to the endless paper shuffling that working on Capitol Hill usually requires.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_15/18922-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>15</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[FinCEN seeks terrorists&#146; money links]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network is testing a Web system that will help the Treasury Department agency track and defeat money laundering efforts by suspected terrorists.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_15/18923-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>15</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[IRS to begin database upgrade]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[After rolling out another part of its multibillion-dollar modernization, the IRS is ready to take on its biggest challenge yet.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_15/18924-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>15</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Tax agency requests deadline extension for electronic filers]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[To lure more taxpayers to file their returns online, the agency wants to extend the electronic-filing deadline from April 15 to April 30.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_15/18925-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>15</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[MAA management is slack, GAO concludes]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The slow shift to the General Services Administration&#146;s local telephone contracts has cost agencies millions in unrealized savings, the General Accounting Office says.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_15/18926-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>15</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Patterned on Ridge&#146;s Pennsylvania efforts?]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[As governor of Pennsylvania, federal homeland security director Tom Ridge oversaw an effort not dissimilar to the systems mandate proposed for the would-be Homeland Security Department.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_15/18977-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>15</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Challenge No. 1: Mesh disparate databases and apps]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The proposed Homeland Security Department&#146;s IT architecture must accommodate disparate databases and legacy applications, linking communities within and outside government via standards-based technology.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_15/18978-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>15</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Challenge No. 2:	Set an overarching systems agenda ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Federal IT executives are awaiting direction from the White House and Congress on how they would merge the systems of the agencies slated to comprise the proposed Homeland Security Department.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_15/18979-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>15</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Challenge No. 3: Decide who does what and why]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Information sharing, the centerpiece of the administration&#146;s quest for homeland security, falls apart at agency boundaries because of &#147;a lack of connectivity and interoperability,&#148; Randall A. Yim, the General Accounting Office&#146;s managing director for national preparedness, told a House panel this month.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_15/18980-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>15</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[PTO to start from scratch on e-filing]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Patent and Trademark Office has set its sights on building new and expanded systems for processing patents and trademarks electronically.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_15/18990-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>15</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Plan: Piggyback on EU system]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Patent and Trademark Office plans to work with the European Patent Office, based in Brussels, Belgium, to adopt epoline, an online system for filing and processing patent applications as well as making patent information available to applicants and the public.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_15/18991-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>15</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[FAA will run Transportation smart-card pilot ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Federal Aviation Administration will pilot the use of smart cards for Transportation Department personnel by distributing cards to 50,000 FAA employees and contract workers.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_15/18992-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>15</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Critics say STARS launch is too soon]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Federal Aviation Administration recently began using a full version of the Standard Terminal Automation Replacement System at two airports despite a new round of criticism from the Transportation Department inspector general and union officials. ]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_15/18995-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>15</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[How STARS serves up data]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Standard Terminal Automation Replacement System provides air traffic controllers with a single system to view air traffic and weather advisories.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_15/18996-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>15</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Can INS handle alien entry plan?]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Justice Department&#146;s plan to fingerprint and photograph aliens of national security concern, in attorney general John Ashcroft&#146;s words, has raised doubts about the ability of the Immigration and Naturalization Service to handle the job.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_15/18997-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>15</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Amid dispute, Calif. CIO resigns]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[California Gov. Gray Davis last week accepted the resignation CIO Elias Cortez, the latest casualty in the state&#146;s controversy over a software contract with Oracle Corp.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_15/18998-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>15</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Secrecy central]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Since the Bush administration took office, federal agencies have become less willing to reveal the most mundane information. Officials hide more behind public affairs flacks, information disappears from Web sites and routine facts about programs are difficult to pry out.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_15/18934-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>15</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Editorial Cartoon]]></title>
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 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_15/18935-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>15</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Letters to the Editor]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[I was alarmed by your product review of face recognition software, &#147;Look me in the eye&#151;or in the face&#148; [GCN, April 29, Page 30]. I don&#146;t mind if software does jobs that security guards do today; what scares me is the possibility, which face recognition software could make feasible, of tracking everyone&#146;s movements in public places and keeping a permanent record of where everyone has been.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_15/18937-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>15</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Significa]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[International travelers can use the Global Positioning System and technological assistance from smart-road programs. Meanwhile, NASA is paving the way for direction-finding by travelers on other planets.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_15/18938-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>15</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Rugged notebooks put the &#145;hard&#146; in hardware]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Standard computer equipment doesn&#146;t hold up in the harsh deserts of Afghanistan or in the trunk of a patrol car. In this issue, the GCN Lab takes a look at three rugged notebook PCs designed to withstand that kind of punishment.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_15/18963-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>15</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[XML forms help bring jobs to Utah]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Utah Incentive Funds, a division of the state&#146;s Business and Economic Development Department, last month began accepting business subsidy applications authenticated by digital certificates.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_15/18927-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>15</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Wisconsin zoo isn&#146;t monkeying around with app]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[It was like an episode of &#147;This Old Zoo House.&#148; The koalas were feeling crowded. The reptiles were plotting escape. The elephants milled about listlessly. It was high time that the animals in the Milwaukee County Zoo moved to tonier dwellings.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_15/18928-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>15</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[STATE LINES]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[No budget woes here. As many states and cities struggle to trim budgets, New York City&#146;s Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications could see a hefty boost. Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg sent to the City Council a request for a $7.7 million increase in the agency&#146;s funding.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_15/18930-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>15</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Data Cubes]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Steve Schreiner compares his data marts to Rubik&#146;s cubes. The Veteran Affairs Department computer specialist says their intersecting cells can mix and match data about almost everything in the VA Northwest Health Network, from lab reports to medications to finances.]]></description>
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 <volume>21</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Minn. drives queries to the Web]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Until last fall, the Minnesota Public Safety Department&#146;s Driver and Vehicle Services system had only an old mainframe green-screen terminal interface.]]></description>
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 <volume>21</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Dell, EMC improve storage management software lines]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Two large storage hardware makers, Dell Computer Corp. and EMC Corp. of Hopkinton, Mass., have upgraded their joint storage management software offerings.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_15/18943-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>15</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Power User: Who needs a Linux PDA? Sharp users, that&#146;s who]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The fight for market share among makers of personal digital assistants mostly involves Handspring Inc., Hewlett-Packard Corp.  and Palm Inc., but Sharp Electronics Corp. has a good claim to creating the first PDA. It&#146;s Zaurus even predates the Apple Newton.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_15/18945-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>15</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Internaut: These Net bills make sense&#151;really]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The thought of any Internet legislation on Capitol Hill makes many people nervous&#151;and rightly so.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_15/18947-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>15</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[IBM, Sun broaden Unix server lines]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Two enterprise server vendors have adapted their big Unix servers for the midrange market.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_15/18950-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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