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 <title><![CDATA[VPN pays off for Army]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[To keep gaming and cash machines running at 120 Army recreational centers throughout Europe and Asia, an Army IT team is linking them via a virtual private network with remote-control software.&#147;Our work force is small, yet we&#146;re monitoring a huge number of systems,&#148; so remote control via a VPN makes sense, the Army&#146;s Mike Kuiper says.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[OMB snaps purse closed for new IT]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Bush administration is pulling in the IT security reins on 18 agencies, requiring them to fix weaknesses in existing systems before developing new ones or upgrading old ones.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[On-the-fly systems pass first real test in Senate]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Senate Governmental Affairs Committee press secretary Andrea Hofelich grabbed a handful of folders, her cell phone and her BlackBerry before hurrying out of her office in the Russell Senate Office Building.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[A cut above]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Blade servers have come on like gangbusters in the last year, for two good reasons&#151;they can save you space and money. According to a report from International Data Corp. of Framingham, Mass., blade servers make up fastest-growing server market segment, expanding 763 percent from year-to-year. It estimates that blades will account for more than one quarter of the total server market by 2007.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[The lowdown on a blade server]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[What is it? A blade server is a proprietary rackmount chassis in which many ultrathin server blades share centralized resources such as management modules, Gigabit Ethernet network switches, hot-swap power supplies and fans.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[People on the Move]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[John Osterholz, the Defense Department&#146;s director of architectures and operability, will retire next month. Known for his initiatives to fuse information and for spearheading the Quantum Leap experiment last summer, Osterholz will go to work for BAE Systems North America of Rockville, Md.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Five project teams net awards for .gov efforts]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Five agency IT projects took home top prizes this month in the form of Excellence.Gov awards presented by Industry Advisory Council&#146;s eGov Shared Interest Group and the CIO Council at an E-Gov conference in Washington. The winners were chosen from among 25 finalists.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[White House honors NSF FastLane system]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The National Science Foundation&#146;s program to electronically collect and manage research and education data recently received kudos from the White House.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Reader Survey: Navy users sound off on NMCI problems]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Is the Navy-Marine Corps Intranet, the Navy Department&#146;s $6.9 billion networking project, on the right track at last? Users at the ground level understand the purpose of NMCI but don&#146;t think the program is living up to its promise&#151;at least from their point of view&#151;and they feel left out of the configuration planning process.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Online extra: Readers respond to NMCI]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[In your opinion, what can be done to improve the rollout of NMCI?]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Franks credits technology with decisive wins]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Army Gen. Tommy Franks watched ground forces advance toward Baghdad on dozens of high-definition, flat-panel plasma monitors.On one screen, the former commander of the Central Command observed a blue icon representing friendly forces moving across a plasma television, far ahead of its squadron and approaching enemy territory.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Incoming]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[On the radio. The Defense Department is edging closer to delivering new DOD-wide digital radio systems.This month, the Joint Tactical Radio System Joint Program Office expects to release Version 2.2 of the JTRS software communications architecture.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[SPAWAR adopts identity management]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[A Navy battlegroup and five shore bases in the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command are communicating more securely by using a system that next year will be rolled out Navywide.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[USDA brews up plan for coffee trade e-receipts]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Agriculture Department has OK&#146;d the use of electronic warehouse receipts for coffee trades.James Little, Farm Service Agency administrator, earlier this month announced the use of the Electronic Commodity Operations and Processing System, or eCOPS.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[DHS unveils its top eight 2004 IT priorities]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Homeland Security Department&#146;s IT team earlier this month identified eight priorities for their 2004 to-do list. DHS chief technology officer Lee Holcomb said&#151;at a meeting sponsored by the Washington Chapter of the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association&#151;that department brass must still bless the list but he expects few changes.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Day care info mistakenly posted on Web]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[A database project turned into a privacy nightmare this month for Livingston County, N.Y.Personal records from the county&#146;s day care database&#151;hundreds of names, addresses and confidential information about low-income and foster families&#151;remained online for about two weeks. They included details about families&#146; daily routines, birthdays and which days a family member attends a treatment program.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[EDS halts all HITS transition work for HUD]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[EDS Corp. will suspend new transition work on the $860 million HUD Information Technology Services contract as a result of court-ordered negotiations earlier this month with incumbent contractor Lockheed Martin Corp.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Seattle settles on Gateway PCs as its standard ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Seattle has standardized on Gateway Inc. PCs after years of buying various brands.Over the past few months, the city has bought more than 9,000 Gateway machines, including 450 series notebook PCs, E-4100 series desktop PCs, RAID 5 array servers and tablet PCs, all running Microsoft Windows XP.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[DHS will be shopping at DOD&#146;s EMall]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Homeland Security Department earlier this month announced it will use a tailored version of the Defense Department&#146;s EMall portal to buy goods and services from existing DOD contracts. EMall will also carry items that can be procured through DHS contracts.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[DOD pulls plug on Internet voting overseas]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[After initially defending its Secure Electronic Registration and Voting Experiment against criticism that it was not secure enough, the Pentagon cancelled SERVE plans for this fall&#146;s presidential election.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Space panel seeks Web input]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The nine-member President&#146;s Commission on Implementation of U.S. Space Exploration Policy is collecting public comments online through a Web form. Drop-down boxes at www.moontomars.org specify state, country and approximate age, with a blank to fill in occupation.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Online extra: Contractors assemble U.S. Visit teams]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The U.S. Visit program as a whole has a fiscal 2004 budget of $364 million.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[What&#146;s your first line of defense?]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[As Oracle Corp.&#146;s chief security officer, Mary Ann Davidson is responsible for product security, corporate infrastructure security and security policies&#151;as well as evaluations, assessments and incident handling.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[&#147;Did you hear...&#148; ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[When the mail fails, try spam. Under the Can-Spam Act of 2003, the Federal Trade Commission wants to require all pornographic e-mail messages to bear the phrase &#147;Sexually-Explicit Content:&#148; as the first characters of the subject line. But FTC didn&#146;t trust the Postal Service to deliver the public&#146;s written comments on the proposed rule by the Feb. 17 deadline, 120 days after enactment of the Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act. FTC&#146;s deadpan notice said no extensions or time for rebuttal will be granted. The public, it said, would have to send paper comments by courier or overnight service, not postal mail. Of course, porn spammers didn&#146;t have to bother with all that. They could just e-mail their views to adultlabel@ftc.gov. ]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Packet Rat: The Rat seeks shelter from the storm]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The month&#146;s knockout round of Internet security threats bred a bunker mentality around the Rat&#146;s command cubicle. As most of his agency&#146;s users meandered through their workdays in blissful ignorance, the cyberrodent and his minions had been at their battle stations for weeks&#151;and the work showed no sign of easing up.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Personal space: Road warrior]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[On an 18-degree February morning, Stewart Carter heads for his job as an IT specialist at the National Emergency Management Response System, 14 miles from his White Oak, Md., home. &#147;I taught myself how to be a bike commuter in chaotic Washington traffic,&#148; Carter said. &#147;It only takes about 55 minutes this way compared with 90 minutes on the subway and bus.&#148;]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Army discipline applied to rules]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Army Recreation Machine Program doesn&#146;t track demographic data about its military gamers, but IT specialist Mike Kuiper said they include contractors and retired military personnel stationed or living abroad.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Putting play to work: Agencies find creative new uses for online games]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[At Army recreation centers overseas, a soldier can relieve tension with a few hands of poker on a gaming machine, but the service and other government agencies also offer electronic games for teaching purposes:The Army has fielded a popular computer game to teach potential recruits about military life.The Justice Department has contracted with a commercial game company to build a first-responder simulation for law enforcement.The Massachusetts Revenue Department has invited taxpayers to try to balance its financial ledger.NASA has helped develop a commercial space station game.Across all levels of government, organizations are borrowing techniques and tools from the commercial gaming industry, said Doug Lowenstein, president of the Entertainment Software Association.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[DHS cybersecurity czar sees some progress in preparing for attacks]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Three new federal organizations and the launch of new cybersecurity alert services are giving the Homeland Security Department&#146;s cybersecurity program some traction, DHS&#146; security chief says.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Davis: Use Ed. rules to spot bogus degrees]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Rep. Tom Davis thinks the government should consider using the Education Department&#146;s criteria for determining a school&#146;s eligibility for federal financial aid to spot employees using degrees from unaccredited educational schools.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[New law will curb offshoring of federal IT work]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Federal workers who face private competition from OMB Circular A-76 have one less worry: losing their jobs to foreign workers. A provision in the fiscal 2004 omnibus budget bill that President Bush signed last month bars companies that win federal jobs through A-76 competitions from shifting the work to other countries.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Census data could change affirmative action plans]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Minority workers got more computer and mathematical jobs during the 1990s, according to a preliminary analysis of Census 2000 occupational data. Women, however, saw their share of IT occupations drop.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[NMCI leaders point to progress ...]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Despite negative reviews from some of its users, the Navy-Marine Corps Intranet project has had some successes.The network went unscathed by the MSBlaster virus attack last summer, while some other government systems were affected, because the service had updated its antivirus software to spot malicious code.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Web portal, other initiatives lie ahead]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Navy-Marine Corps Intranet program office is considering several initiatives this year, including a portal that would give users access to the network over the Internet and research into Navywide application hosting at secure data centers.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[VA scampers to stay ahead of viruses]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Veterans Affairs Department networks successfully dodged the latest generation of computer worms that began crawling the Internet last month.&#147;You do it with a lot of hard work,&#148; chief security officer Bruce Brody said. &#147;A year ago we got hit pretty hard by Code Red and Nimda. We were able to avoid any disruption from MyDoom.&#148;]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[IRS turns up pressure on main contractor]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The IRS and Computer Sciences Corp. vow that they are making painstaking progress in righting the tax agency&#146;s massive Business Systems Modernization. But the IRS also has taken a new approach to holding its Prime contractor accountable for systems delivery failures by making good on its intention to look elsewhere for work on the project.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Online extra: States weigh offshore outsourcing limits]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Nineteen states are considering bills to restrict and regulate offshore contracting and call centers.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Limitations of IT]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Online voting and prewar intelligence might be widely divergent topics. But both have troubled recent histories and illustrate the limits of technology.Earlier this month, the Defense Department withdrew plans to let soldiers deployed overseas vote online for the coming presidential election. Just as stateside jurisdictions have found, security questions made the online voting effort too risky.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Another View: IT exchange program has potential for payoff]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Office of Personnel Management&#146;s planned IT Exchange Program will let federal executives at the GS-11 level or higher be detailed to an IT company for up to two years.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Editorial Cartoon]]></title>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Database dressing: Find a program tailored for you]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[In a perfect world, a database program would fit its user like a glove. It would export and import data effortlessly and reshape itself to fit new needs.But that hasn&#146;t happened yet. Database administrators often encounter program glitches they cannot resolve and must do a lot of extra setup work because the software is not intuitive. Anyone who doubts how frustrating this can be should read some of the cries for help on forums such as www.dbforums.com.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Now it&#146;s easier to ID the crooks]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[A biometric booking system that scans a subject&#146;s whole palm, not just the fingers, is lending a hand to Indianapolis police.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Feds hand out money for law enforcement]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The omnibus fiscal 2004 budget bill Congress passed last month offers these grants to state and local governments through the Office of Justice Programs:]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[State lines]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Online library. State, federal and other CIOs now can search for best-practices guides, issue briefs and other technology information through a new online resource library launched by the National Association of State CIOs.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Significa]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[As winter&#146;s icy blasts throttle much of the country, it&#146;s comforting to think that spring flowers soon will bloom. The horticulturists, gardeners and research scientists at the Agriculture Department&#146;s National Arboretum are on top of this issue. They have helpfully posted the average blooming dates of flowers and plants in their large collection on the Web at www.usna.usda.gov.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Park Service turns to animation in the flash]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Macromedia Flash, largely known as a Web page animation tool, is delivering lightweight Web applications for a regional unit of the National Park Service.Chris Marvel, lead planner and webmaster with the service&#146;s Intermountain Region, has found Flash animation effective for sharing information with 3,800 employees spread across 89 locations.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Power User: Prime-time wireless for small offices? Not quite]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The latest technology always sounds enticing. Take wireless networking, for example. The ads make it sound as if you merely plug in a wireless PC Card and you&#146;re on the air, sharing files, printers, Internet links and even some applications.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[TIGER app tames paper]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Census Bureau is piloting a pair of open-standards applications for collecting and publishing geographic data.One app will let end users download and view the bureau&#146;s geographic data sets with a browser instead of desktop geographic information system software. The other will let local officials upload changes in their jurisdictions&#146; boundaries.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Internaut: What&#146;s WiMax? Wireless with a 30-mile range]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The forthcoming IEEE WiMax wireless networking standard, with a range up to 30 miles, could eliminate the need for short-range 802.11b or 802.11g WiFi hubs that have sprung up in many government offices.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Rights management needs policies]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The little-hyped rights management function in Microsoft Office 2003 has both advantages and disadvantages from a federal user&#146;s viewpoint, said Jon Wall, senior technical specialist in Microsoft Corp.&#146;s federal office.]]></description>
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