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Wireless
Computerworld, 1/14/03: Believe the hype: Wireless can deliver
By Cristiano Pierry
After years of hype, anywhere, anytime access to personal data is now a reality that wireless can finally deliver.
Looking back, the browser has served as the primary conduit for offering mobile data services to end users, both mass-market and corporate consumers. Unfortunately, cramming a browser inside a wireless device falls short on a key purchase driver for wireless data services -- usability.
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Microsoft
eWeek, 1/15/03: Microsoft Launches Government Security Program
By Peter Galli
Microsoft Corp., moving to stem the tide of foreign governments embracing the Linux open-source operating system, on Tuesday announced it has formed a global initiative to provide governments around the world with access to Windows source code.
The new security initiative, the Government Security Program (GSP), has been designed to "address the unique security requirements of governments and international organizations throughout the world," said Craig Mundie, Microsoft's chief technology officer.
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Government
Federal Computer Week, 1/15/03: IT poses Homeland challenges
BY Diane Frank
New money likely will be needed to handle the Homeland Security Department's information technology needs, and based on existing agencies' track records, plenty of management problems will accompany that IT, according to a General Accounting Office report released Jan. 14.
In a study for the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, GAO identified $2.9 billion in IT funding at the agencies set to move into the new department — $1.2 billion in fiscal 2002 and $1.7 billion in fiscal 2003.
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Arts & Letters
Reuters, 1/15/03: Fifth Harry Potter Book Due on June 21
By Dan Lalor
LONDON (Reuters) - "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix," the fifth tale of the boy wizard by author J.K. Rowling, will go on sale across the globe on June 21, her publishers said Wednesday.
The book, which at 38 chapters and 255,000 words, will be a third longer than the last book -- "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" -- has been delivered to its English language publishers Bloomsbury of Britain and Scholastic of the United States.
Fans have had to wait three years for "Order of the Phoenix," which is to be released in Britain, the United States, Canada and Australia and in the English language in many other countries on the same day.
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