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 <title><![CDATA[GIS files elude efforts to meet 508 standards]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The will is there, but the way hasn&#146;t been found yet to make digital maps accessible to visually impaired federal workers. There are still techincal problems with the GIS images, says Amy Berger, a blind USGS 508 coordinator.]]></description>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>28</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[GSA: Expect squeeze on travel apps]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The General Services Administration is warning agencies that they should expect funding for in-house online travel systems to soon dry up.]]></description>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>28</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[New Pentagon offices get Gig-E]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Most of the workers displaced by the terrorist attack at the Pentagon a year ago have moved back into new offices with a more sophisticated IT infrastructure than they had before.]]></description>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>28</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[VOICE of the future?]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Depending on who&#146;s talking, Internet telephony is either a genuine technological revolution or a nonessential fad.]]></description>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>28</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[The lowdown on IP]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[What is it? An IP gateway converts analog voice signals to digital, compresses them and transmits them across a data network. In most cases, similar hardware is required at the other end to reverse the process, making the digitized signals intelligible to listeners.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_28/19976-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>28</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[People on the Move]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[A software tool developed by Michael Aftomis and John Melton of NASA Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, Calif., and Marsha Berger of New York University&#146;s Courant Institute has won NASA&#146;s Software of the Year award.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_28/20012-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>28</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[IRMCO sweetens the mix with chocolate, real kisses]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The 41st Annual Interagency Resources Management Conference earlier this month gave attendees a lot to chew on, with a smorgasbord of plenary sessions, two days of provocative dialogues on everything from CRM to XML, and a dangerous amount of available chocolate. Then, before it wrapped up, fitness guru and guest speaker Richard Simmons came in to try to get everyone back into preconference shape. Fat chance.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_28/20022-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>28</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Marines unravel disparate systems to reknit them for interoperability ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[CAMP PENDLETON, Calif.&#151;In a row of room-sized, camouflaged field enclosures on a windy, seaside plain, Marines diligently chip away at a massive systems integration project.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_28/19973-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>28</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[App speeds turnaround time for Army&#146;s security clearance process ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Army Central Clearance Facility has automated the service&#146;s security clearance process.]]></description>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>28</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Pa. builds &#145;powerhouse&#146; for data]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[One of Pennsylvania&#146;s nicknames is the Keystone State. A keystone is the wedge-shaped piece at the crown of an arch that locks the other pieces in place.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_28/19949-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>28</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Major programs in Pennsylvania]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Justice Network. JNet uses the Web to connect the state&#146;s criminal justice databases. Since 1998, JNet has delivered 9,000 electronic alerts to criminal justice officials.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_28/19950-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>28</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[VA signs $225m software task order with HP]]></title>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>28</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[FAR councils: Heed capital planning rules ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[A new Federal Acquisition Regulation rule requires agencies to pay more attention to capital planning rules under the Clinger-Cohen Act.]]></description>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>28</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Navy awards contract for 4-D imaging system]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Office of Naval Research this month hired Orincon Corp. International as system architect and integrator for the Navy&#146;s Theater Undersea Warfare program.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_28/19994-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>28</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[N.C. unholsters new handgun permit system]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Three years ago, North Carolina CIO George J. Bakolia, then CIO of the state&#146;s Justice Department, faced an IT crisis. Several experienced employees were nearing retirement and only they understood the inner workings of the state&#146;s data infrastructure.]]></description>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>28</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[OMB looks at Web standards for all agencies]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[HERSHEY, Pa.&#151;The Office of Management and Budget is drafting a recommendation that calls for federal Web sites to have a similar look.]]></description>
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 <volume>21</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Survey finds public supports Web scrubbing]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[A majority of Americans support scrubbing data from government Web sites to thwart terrorists, according to a recent survey. But respondents were divided over whether scrubbing would make much of a difference.]]></description>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>28</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[GAO questions competitive sourcing plans ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Neither the Bush administration&#146;s efforts to open some federal jobs to competition from the private sector nor Congress&#146; plans for competitive sourcing meet the recommendations of the Commercial Activities Panel, the comptroller general has concluded.]]></description>
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 <volume>21</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[City posts its faults ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Laguna Beach, Calif., has a long history of mudslides. In 1998, one person was killed and 10 injured when El Ni&#x00F1;o rains soaked the coastal city, causing several homes to collapse.]]></description>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>28</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Their job: Find the best fit for people in IT jobs]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Between them, Laura Callahan and Ira Hobbs bring more than 40 years of federal service to their positions as co-chairs of the CIO Council's Workforce and Human Capital for IT Committee.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_28/19948-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>28</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[&#147;Did you hear...&#148; ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Two bits&#146; worth about state quarters. &#147;Why are they so ugly?&#148; asks a recent posting at Slate.com, which calls the state coin project &#147;the most radical and democratic&#148; experiment in the Mint&#146;s history. Why? Well, the Mint only strikes the coins&#151;state committees design the artwork on the reverse. Slate slams the Maryland state quarter as &#147;designed by a politburo&#148; and opines that it should have featured a Chesapeake Bay crab instead of the Maryland statehouse dome. Hey, big spender, whaddya think? Are the quarters &#147;boring, timid and cluttered,&#148; as Slate claims? After all, the brand-new Euro currency merely depicts a few old bridges and buildings. ]]></description>
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 <volume>21</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Packet Rat: Rat turns a blind eye on peer-to-peer vigilantes]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Rat has been keeping a close watch on the peer-to-peer file sharing debate and the political maneuverings of the Recording Industry Association of America.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_28/20016-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>28</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Find a word Satellite speak]]></title>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>28</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[HUD site changes for users]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Government for the people is exactly how the Housing and Urban Development Department views its Web presence, which began with the launch of www.hud.gov in March 1995.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_28/19981-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>28</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Federal Contract Law: Competition is required even for task orders]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[It&#146;s no secret in federal contracting that task and delivery order contracts are hot. Contracting and program officials like the convenience of placing orders instead of competing entire contracts.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_28/19983-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>28</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Calendar]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[7-8 Enterprise Architecture: Your Blueprint for Transformation Conference. Washington. Contact the Digital Government Institute; phone: 202-624-1752; Web: www.joinup.org/digitalgovernment/secure/enterprisearch.asp.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_28/19988-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>28</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[OMB names Microsoft and IBM tools as e-gov platforms]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[HERSHEY, Pa.&#151;Slowly, a plan is emerging for taking the administration&#146;s 24 Quicksilver projects from ideas on paper to interactive online services.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_28/20000-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>28</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Bush brass will seek separate funding for architecture work]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[HERSHEY, Pa.&#151;The Office of Management and Budget no longer wants to depend on the CIO Council&#146;s money for its federal architecture work.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_28/20001-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>28</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[TSA vendor begins systems-building blitz]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Over the next three and a half months, contractor teams &#147;will hit multiple airports at the same time&#148; in a blitz to install servers, clients with a standard software image, notebook and handheld computers, IP telephones and other equipment for the new Transportation Security Administration.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_28/20002-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>28</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Prototype gateway will test authentication needs]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[By this time next year, Stephen Timchak expects to have rolled out a system to confirm the identity of authorized users of e-government systems.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_28/20003-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[DOD office RIFs  HR paper chores]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[When an employee in the Office of the Secretary of Defense gets an annual performance review, administrators spend a lot of time collecting documents needed to analyze the employee&#146;s work.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_28/20004-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>28</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Tools make dumb bandwidth smart]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[ATLANTA&#151;Network administrators need to work smarter&#151;not just harder&#151;at managing  bandwidth, speakers said last week at the Networld+Interop and Comdex trade show.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_28/20005-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>28</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Sprint promises to bolster 3G wireless security for feds]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[ATLANTA&#151;Sprint Corp.&#146;s president said he expects that government agencies will buy into the company&#146;s new 3G wireless network.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_28/20006-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[VHA looks to standardize its medical records]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Veterans Health Administration is looking to set data standards and is tinkering with the design of its national health data repository as it proceeds with the modernization of the nation&#146;s largest health information system.]]></description>
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 <volume>21</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[GSA mulls charging a fee to access some FedBizOpps features]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The General Services Administration is considering charging vendors a fee to use the advanced features of the FedBizOpps Web portal, the governmentwide repository of contract opportunities worth more than $25,000.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_28/20010-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>28</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Bandwidth booster cuts the repetition]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The SR-50 and SR-55 Sequence Reducer appliances from Peribit Networks Inc. monitor wide-area traffic to encode repetitive sequences. They can cut the load by as much as 80 percent for some applications.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_28/20011-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>28</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Keep it loose]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Ever been in one of those by-the-pound candy stores with scores of colorful bins filled with every imaginable type of candy? It&#146;s not just children who become overwhelmed by the possible combinations.]]></description>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>28</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Another View: Why does Army force contractors to count heads? ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Army secretary Thomas White has directed the reinstitution of the so-called Army Manpower Rule, which is designed to count the number of contractor employees performing work under Army contracts. White's policy memo says the data will help the Army manage better and that the Army must consider downsizing its contractor work force since it has already downsized its organic work force.]]></description>
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 <volume>21</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Significa]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Antarctica lacks many things, such as sunshine much of the year and good opera, but it has federal computers. For example, McMurdo Station atop the volcanic rock of Ross Island has systems configured in a LAN, available for use all the time, and provided with 24-hour, seven-day help desk support, according to the U.S. Antarctic Program. USAP is part of the National Science Foundation&#146;s Office of Polar Programs and supported by Raytheon Polar Service Co.]]></description>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>28</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Editorial Cartoon]]></title>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>28</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Letters to the Editor]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[As an accountant, I am confused about computer applications and the systems world. ]]></description>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>28</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[PDAs and cell phones unite ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The road warrior&#146;s beltful of computer devices is headed into history. The two most popular portables, the cell phone and the personal digital assistant, have been merging for the last couple of years.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_28/19979-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>28</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Delaware eases highway congestion]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[With more than 11,000 miles of roads in a state that is only 1,982 square miles, Delaware transportation officials decided that building more roads was an unattractive option to relieve traffic congestion.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_28/19944-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>28</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Sunrise or sunset, parks district is online ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Sunrise Recreation and Park District in Sacramento County, Calif., offers the area&#146;s 156,000 residents more than 500 recreation classes and maintains 39 parks and three community swimming pools. This summer the district began letting users register online for classes and events.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_28/19946-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>28</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[State lines]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Payment made easy. Augusta, Maine, will start paying more than 1,200 vendors electronically through Paymode, a payment portal from Clareon Corp. of Portland, Maine. The portal processes transactions from contractors&#146; accounts-payable systems to the state financial management system and back to the vendors.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_28/19947-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Ask Elaws]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The next best thing to a live expert can be an expert system. That&#146;s the Labor Department&#146;s reasoning behind expanding its use of artificial intelligence to help 6.5 million U.S. businesses comply with labor laws and regulations.]]></description>
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 <volume>21</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Internaut: Spam nearly at the tipping point of 50% of Net traffic]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[In the next few months, the Internet will reach a most regrettable milestone: Spam will amount to more than half of all e-mail traffic on any given day. It&#146;s now at nearly 40 percent and climbing fast.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_28/19960-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>28</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Customer service site assesses itself with feedback from interested users]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The government Web site that encourages good customer service is now getting customer feedback of its own.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_28/19961-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Verity&#146;s knowledge app has taxonomic features ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Verity Inc. has updated its knowledge management platform with several new taxonomic features.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_28/19962-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Louisiana spices up security with fingertip log-ons]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Louisiana Public Safety Department has tightened its network log-in security by installing 1,100 fingerprint readers and software from Identix Inc. of Minnetonka, Minn.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_28/19963-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Itanium 2 chips appear in HP, Unisys servers]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The second generation of Intel Corp.&#146;s 64-bit Itanium processor has reached the server and workstation market, but it will not supplant IA-32 or other 64-bit CPUs for some time.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_28/19964-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[DARPA studies efficiency of spectrum use]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency wants software controls to get the most out of existing wireless spectrum.]]></description>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>28</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Power User: Does modeling hold the secrets of the universe?]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Mathematica 4.2, the latest version of one of my favorite problem-solving toolkits, came out this summer at the same time as the program&#146;s creator&#146;s book: A New Kind of Science.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_28/19966-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[NSA cryptologist to feds: Use the security that&#146;s there]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[NSA no longer stands for No Such Agency. National Security Agency agents came at least partway out of the closet to ask help from hackers at the recent Black Hat Briefings in Las Vegas.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_28/19968-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>28</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[NSF studies ways to show complex data]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The National Science Foundation&#146;s Digital Government Program is devising tools that visually represent complex statistical data sets.]]></description>
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