Federal Outsourcing
Internet News, 8/15/03: Study Says $85B Available for Federal Outsourcing
By Roy Mark
An estimated $85 billion in large federal IT contract awards over the next three years show a strong potential opportunity for all technology vendors regardless of company size according to a report by Reston, Va.-based Input.
The report says three technology areas are common denominators across the largest upcoming IT acquisitions: IT security, enterprise integration and network architecture.
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Help Desk
TechWeb, 8/15/03: Home Users Need IT Support, Too
By Gregg Keizer
If home is an employee's castle, IT had better be building a bridge over the moat.
Telecommuters need a helping hand from corporate IT as much, if not more, than employees within the firewall. To get the ball rolling, Network Computing recently posted a set of best practices for supporting at-home workers. It covers those who labor full-time from home as well as those who occasionally connect to the corporate network, say during weekends and after business hours.
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Security
ZDNet, 8/15/03: Will MSBlast finally teach us a lesson?
By Robert Lemos
Two years after the Code Red and Nimda worms spread across the Internet, home users and many companies still aren't doing enough to secure themselves against Internet threats, said security experts.
"Software is still flawed, people are still not patching, and companies are still not making security a focus," said Marc Maiffret, chief hacking officer for security software maker eEye Digital Security. "They didn't after Code Red, they didn't after Nimda, and they didn't after Sapphire/Slammer. Mostly likely, they won't after this worm either."
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Microsoft
ZDNet, 8/14/03: Microsoft Sets Date for Office 2003
By Mary Jo Foley, Microsoft Watch
Retail availability expected at launch on Oct. 21, sources say.
Microsoft is expected to announce on Friday that several versions of its forthcoming Office 2003 suite have moved from development to manufacturing.
Delivery date for the shrink-wrapped productivity suite: Oct. 21, sources said.
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Collaborative Technologies
Release 1.0, 8/13/03: Weblogs, RSS and the Rise of the Active Web
By Daniel Gillmor
More than a decade ago, when Tim Berners-Lee came up with the core technologies that underlie the World Wide Web, he wasn’t thinking of a system that delivers information mostly from centralized servers to individual clients. He believed it would be as important to write to the Web as to read from it, and that the writing should be as simple as writing to a local text file. Commercial interests and the lack of easy-to-use tools delayed his vision for almost a decade, and it remained vastly easier to browse than to post.
In the past several years, the read-write Web finally has begun to emerge. Like other phases of the Net’s evolution, it builds on what came before. Like many other major shifts (how big this one is remains to be seen) it spread from a linchpin technology. This time, it is weblogs, or “blogs” for short, and an ecosystem of standards and applications surrounding them, that will change the equation.
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Optimism
The New York Times, 8/15/03: Dell Profit Rises 24% as PC Sales Show Strength
By REUTERS
Dell Inc. said yesterday that its quarterly profit rose 24 percent, to $621 million, as sales of its desktop and notebook PC's and computer servers increased 27 percent.
Dell, based in Round Rock, Tex., said the earnings were 24 cents a share, and were an increase from $501 million, or 19 cents a share, a year earlier.
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Cubicle Life
The Wall Street Journal, 8/15/03: How to Work a Crowd In 25 Words or Less
The trick for Dawn Wride is to avoid asking people how they're doing. Otherwise, the 65-year-old manager of quality assurance at a construction-services company might give co-workers the impression he cares to know the answer.
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