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 <issue>09</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Agencies activate IWN plan]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Standardized net should adapt to local law enforcement needs.]]></description>
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 <volume>26</volume>
 <issue>09</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Feds' other e-mail]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Like it or not, some federal employees use commercial e-mail and messaging services, sometimes with good reason.]]></description>
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 <volume>26</volume>
 <issue>09</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[The case of the missing e-mails]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Congressional scrutiny of the White House&#146;s e-mail systems extends to agency archiving systems.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/26_09/43564-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>26</volume>
 <issue>09</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Wyatt Kash | Tipping point]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[OMB&#146;s plan for standard agency desktop configurations could benefit others as well.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/26_09/43570-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>26</volume>
 <issue>09</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Warren Suss | Infrastructure and the bottom line]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Until federal infrastructure managers make a more direct, measurable case for their contribution to program-level performance, IT infrastructures will continue to be perceived as cost centers, not profit or value centers.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/26_09/43571-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>26</volume>
 <issue>09</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Michael J. Bechetti | Technical Difficulties]]></title>
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 <volume>26</volume>
 <issue>09</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Shawn P. McCarthy | The big picture on metadata]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Metadata can help solve data management problems, if repositories have common rules.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/26_09/43573-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>26</volume>
 <issue>09</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[R. Fink | An unlikely hero on tax day]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The IRS, for once, comes up smelling like a rose.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/26_09/43574-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>26</volume>
 <issue>09</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Mesh surveillance]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[A spate of serial crimes in Phoenix during the summer of 2006 led the city&#146;s police department to search for a new video surveillance system.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/26_09/43582-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>26</volume>
 <issue>09</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Aging birds threaten forecasts]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[U.S. Earth-observing satellites are aging, and agencies have few replacements planned.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/26_09/43585-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>26</volume>
 <issue>09</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[A VPN in the palm of your hand]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[NetMotion Wireless has released Mobility XE, the first mobile virtual private network that is compatible with Windows Mobile-based Palm Treo smartphones.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/26_09/43592-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>26</volume>
 <issue>09</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Tech comp]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Commerce Department&#146;s Advanced Technology Program opened a new competition for cost-sharing awards to support high-risk industrial research and development projects.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/26_09/43593-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>26</volume>
 <issue>09</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Behavioral modification]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Sana Security Inc. has announced the first behavior-based anti-malware product for Microsoft Windows Vista.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/26_09/43594-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>26</volume>
 <issue>09</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Offensive nanotech]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The College of Engineering at the University of Missouri-Columbia has received a $10 million contract from DOD to develop a variety of products based on nanotechnology.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/26_09/43595-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>26</volume>
 <issue>09</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[What are they building in there?]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The General Services Administration is looking for vendors conversant in advanced Semantic Web technologies.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/26_09/43596-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>26</volume>
 <issue>09</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Data on the move]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Officials at Quantum are hoping to solve a host of storage problems with a single solution.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/26_09/43597-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>26</volume>
 <issue>09</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[One pinch BPM, add a little SOA]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The recent news that Software AG is planning to acquire integration software provider WebMethods has resulted in a virtual avalanche of industry acronyms.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/26_09/43598-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>26</volume>
 <issue>09</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Kevin Kaporch | The Keys to Secure Documents]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[As the Government Printing Office&#146;s director of product security, Kevin Kaporch has a lot of experience with supply-chain security and counterintelligence. Now he is offering his expertise to the broader community.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/26_09/43569-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>26</volume>
 <issue>09</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[The Power of  2]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Dual-core processors crank up the power in desktop systems while using little power themselves. The GCN Lab tests three models, one of which blows away the benchmark test.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/26_09/43586-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>26</volume>
 <issue>09</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[GCN at 25: Adjusted returns]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Feb. 15, 1993, issue of GCN featured a Page 1 story on the IRS&#146; plans to have 100 million returns filed electronically by the year 2001.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/26_09/43575-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>26</volume>
 <issue>09</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Technicalities]]></title>
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 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/26_09/43576-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>26</volume>
 <issue>09</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Tech decisions looming for CIS]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Citizenship and Immigration Services plans to get out from under its Cratchit-like load of paperwork.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/26_09/43559-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>26</volume>
 <issue>09</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Emergency notification systems get the call]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Virginia Tech shootings spur interest in multiple-mode emergency alert systems.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/26_09/43561-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>26</volume>
 <issue>09</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Network warfare]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[NSA&#146;s cybersecurity Red Team battles teams from the military academies.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/26_09/43562-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>26</volume>
 <issue>09</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[BlackBerry outage underscores need for a backup plan]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The recent BlackBerry outage proves you need a backup plan for every occasion.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/26_09/43568-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>26</volume>
 <issue>09</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Clean sweep]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Permanently removing data from old hard drives is harder than you might imagine.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/26_09/43577-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>26</volume>
 <issue>09</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Handling the tail end of the IT life cycle]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The National Institute of Standards and Technology has some advice for agencies getting rid of digital storage media: Shred. Disintegrate. Pulverize. Incinerate. Melt.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/26_09/43578-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>26</volume>
 <issue>09</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Shhhh...A data scrubber they don&#146;t want you to know about]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Thoroughly removing data from a hard drive doesn&#146;t always require an expensive degausser. There are techniques for permanent erasure that involve only software, if you&#146;re willing to do a little preparation.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/26_09/43579-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>26</volume>
 <issue>09</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Breaking the sound barriers]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Systems linking voice, data and applications can boost service and reduce costs.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/26_09/43580-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>26</volume>
 <issue>09</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Search and enjoy]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Search companies try new techniques for understanding subtle distinctions within gigantic piles of data.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/26_09/43581-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>26</volume>
 <issue>09</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Know-it-all labels]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Coast Guard uses 2-D bar codes on aircraft parts to thwart black-market dealers.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/26_09/43583-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>26</volume>
 <issue>09</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[2-D bar codes: They pack a lot of data into a small space]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The DataMatrix standard is a scheme for encoding data, anywhere from a few bytes to a few kilobytes.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/26_09/43584-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>26</volume>
 <issue>09</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[The Universal Inbox: One hub for all]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[With Exchange Server 2007 and Office Communications Server 2007, Microsoft is laying the foundation for the Universal Inbox.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/26_09/44198-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>26</volume>
 <issue>09</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Word documents by phone]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Ordinary telephones and an Avaya Speech Access system link 2,300 Marin County, Calif., officials.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/26_09/44199-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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