Product Review: LoJack for Laptops helps users retrieve stolen computers or delete their sensitive contents.

Use these eight tips to get the most out of your 802.11n network.

The unforeseen adoption of iPads for use in the workplace even finds feds getting in on the act.

Product Review: The Lenovo X201 Tablet's high-speed processing, full-size keyboard and long battery life make on-the-go computing even easier.

As WiMAX emerges, does it offer a COOP option for secure communications?

Are you really working when you're not in the office? Can you prove it?

Client-side virtualization offers potential for putting truly hardened devices in the hands of both mobile and desk-bound users.

Enterprise Security Suite offers protection at nearly every level of an organization's network.

Learn how Microsoft App-V can provide a single tool for easy deployment and maintenance of virtualized applications.

Federal IT departments save money and increase security with mobile think clients.

Technology tools for engaging the public: Agencies look for ROI and smart approaches to expanding the methods they use to interact with citizens and share information.

The tide seems to be turning on telework as a smart continuity of operations strategy, and also on mobile devices and their place in the enterprise. Is your agency ready?

Survey finds that unified communications offers a way to better manage comm and network services within the enterprise — and also better serve users.

RFID tools let healthcare facilities find patients, staff, medications and medical equipment when they need to — improving on turnaround offered by barcodes.

Make sure you have security rules in place before allowing the use of BitLocker To Go by your agency's users.

Make sure you have security rules in place before allowing the use of BitLocker To Go by your agency's users.

Federal IT organizations begin embracing handheld devices as desktops within the enterprise.

Feds see broad potential for mobile apps and expect to push them out to users in the not-too-distant future.

Product Review: With the ThinkPad SL510, Lenovo offers an excellent netbook alternative.

CIO Robert Carey shares his IT vision for the Navy.

High-definition video conferencing humanizes everyday communications for federal workers.

Army researchers push for cutting-edge bedside technologies that can deliver real-time data and better clinical decision support.

For federal agencies concerned about continuity of operations, here are some IT tools that won't leave you stranded.

Three agencies use Voice over IP as their stepping stone to unified communications.

Secure flash drives add management challenges, but their portability and simplicity win satisfied users.

This rugged but user-friendly notebook can keep roaming feds plugged in.

Telework and remote access need to be easy for users. These five tips will help your program take off.

Agencies are turning to collaborative technologies to make the most of their resources.

For many feds, the office is wherever they are — a field, a doorstep, a war zone — and a rugged but user-friendly notebook can keep them plugged in. Check out our review of this rugged Panasonic notebook:

At the Jet Propulsion Lab, video conferencing eliminates unnecessary travel and makes it easy for the staff to work from anywhere. See how HD video is humanizing interactions for remote workers in other agencies, too.

Generally, it's not feasible to forbid employees from using mobile computing devices simply because of security risks. And often today, feds need them to do their jobs. HP has a notebook that can help allay an agency's information assurance concerns: the 4410t Mobile Thin Client.

Learn pointers on how to make sure your agency stays online and on task.

With the constant influx of wireless devices, ensuring 802.11x networks are adequately secured has grown increasingly important. Use these best practices to help keep your network and data safe.

In the battle to keep data and systems safe, agencies want information assurance that won't break the bank.

Official telework programs edge upward gradually as agencies adopt the view that the office is where the work is.

Product Review: Lightweight tablet features sharp screen resolution and numerous connectivity options.

To make remote work setups a practical option for short- or long-term displacements, JPL technologist identifies five must-have technology capabilities.

Using government gear or personal equipment, security remains paramount and possible.

Review: This vehicle-ready PC is a rugged and user-friendly tool for law enforcement officers and other feds who rely on mounted notebooks.

Learn pointers on how to make sure your agency stays online and on task.

Review: NETGEAR's WNR2000 wireless router comes loaded with plenty of features at a reasonable price.

Check out five tips to help your end users take the disaster out of disaster recovery.

To stop questionable traffic from making its way onto the network, learn how a standards-based NAC approach works.

A large screen and keyboard make the latest version of the Asus Eee netbook a pleasing portable.

Lenovo W700 — a contender as a desktop replacement — offers processing muscle and features for power users.

Power and (relative) portability. What more could you want in a desktop replacement?

Digital surveillance technology lets feds extend their security reach to the nation's edges.

Tablet PCs expand the ability to use computers — in the classroom and on the go — when teaching across disciplines.

DOD, the Indian Health Service and VA improve healthcare with high-tech tools at the point of care.

The ultra-portable netbook platform offers an inexpensive alternative for agencies that want to expand their telework programs.

Even the best idea needs time to gain acceptance before any actions can be taken.

Tablet PCs expand the ability to use computers — in the classroom and on the go — when teaching across disciplines.

The ultra-portable netbook platform offers an inexpensive alternative for agencies that want to expand their work-from-home hardware options.

VA hospital finds electronic records and mobile devices let doctors and patients gather and access healthcare information on the move.

Lenovo notebook - definitely a contender as a desktop replacement - offers processing muscle and features for power users on the move.

Data leak prevention technology inspects outbound content to keep sensitive data from escaping the network.

Learn how to protect sign-on credentials and data across open networks.

These tips can help your agency protect sensitive data at the endpoint.

The use of digital imagery has expanded beyond radiology, and the benefits are clear: fast diagnosis, permanent storage of images and better security.

Dependable IT at the point of care proves to be a critical component of health service on the battlefield.

Check out 10 portable tech gadgets that let you take the office with you.

Operation Homefront's computer donation program helps military families and wounded warriors keep in touch via the keyboard.

Plan properly to prevent provisioning and troubleshooting woes.

Product Review: With its 6930p, HP offers a "business-rugged" notebook that can stand up to being hauled around town and country.

With 802.11n's official debut less than a year out, here are six steps that you can take to get ready.

HP and the Flexible Display Center raise the curtain on an affordable and bendable display that's also environmentally sound.

Some new tools offer users ease of motion in the meeting room, in the training facility, at the depot — almost anywhere.

Take a look at HP's newest netbook — a device designed for ultraportability and ultra-access to the Internet and to your office apps.

To reduce risk of a security exposure when using mobile devices, one school of thought suggests traveling light, with your gear and your data.

To ensure private information stays that way on agency smartphones, set some ground rules and enforce them.

Prevent data leakage through your agency's system ports.

Inside nearly every notebook or desktop PC built within the past three years resides a hardware module that often goes unused in protecting data.

Agencies rely on remote management to support users.

FedTech Interview with the GSA CIO

Agencies go beyond wireless hot spots to provide critical network connectivity.

GuardianEdge Hard Disk Encryption protects data on mobile devices and removable media.

Mobility is a driving force behind the Army's Warfighter Information Network-Tactical (WIN-T) project, which provides broadband wireless connectivity to troops on the move, whenever and wherever they need it.

Storage manufacturers are responding to the demand for energy efficiency, improved transfer speed and increased capacity by developing faster, greener disk drives that can store up to 1 terabyte of data in a notebook computer.

Pointers on securing your telework environment.

Speed means everything when establishing networks in a disaster zone.

After testing thin-client kits to create on-the-fly communications networks, interagency teams that respond to wildfires are scaling up their use nationwide.

If you want to let data idle, make sure you have protections in place to secure those files at rest.

In the government, virtualization tides ripple toward the desktop.

In the ragged terrain of war-torn Afghanistan, a team of Army network specialists battles harsh conditions to keep data flowing.

Not so long ago, disasters were a localized phenomenon. They had limited boundaries, and there was little investment in operational interactions or communications interoperability to support cross-government levels of response. That is no longer the case.

Agencies reach out via portals and handhelds to expand collaboration and tap user knowledge.

Agencies share their advice on how best to equip, manage and support employees when they're working at home.

With 802.11n, the expectation is that users will be able to bank on Wi-Fi capability.

Coast Guard matches digital fingerprints to nab wanted offenders and deter repeat border crossers.

Fingerprint readers can enhance notebook security and convenience, but they have limitations.

Feds offer tips for making telework work.

The Federal Railroad Administration will upgrade handhelds used by track inspectors to keep the nation's train routes safe.

Get ready for LANdroids to scurry onto the network terrain.

Measurement makes telework work at the Treasury agency

Agencies plan for ways to use upcoming wireless standard to extend connections.

Using cell phones, text messages and a simple SQL Server database, the U.S. government wants to revolutionize the way health-care workers treat AIDS patients across Africa.

Adapt or perish. That's Adrian Gardner's motto. The CIO at the National Weather Service says that embracing change is a "critical success factor" in government information technology.

USB flash drives are fast and easy, but agencies find they need to set guidelines and enforce security measures before letting workers use them to transport data.

To secure data at rest, tune up your users' notebook protection measures.

Think of your teleworkers as drivers who need to obey the rules of your road if they want to keep their license to access data.

Some measures your information technology department can take to lock down access to USB flash drives and protect data.

When planning security policies and practices for employees who work from home, make sure to include the occasional home warriors, not just your agency's official teleworkers.

Agencies are on high alert to keep data in the right hands — even when it's available to mobile end users.

No matter how we slice and dice the analytical process, a mobile, distributed workforce is a guaranteed part of the government's future.

Blade and modular PCs offer benefits to agencies when it comes to managing systems for users — whether in the office or on the road.

The freedom that wireless devices convey attracts users, but that same mobility can undermine security and planning — and bring a whole new meaning to asset management.

To let handheld users in your agency tap into data via Wi-Fi, consider using virtual private networking and SSL tunnels.

The Department of Veterans Affairs deploys a high-tech arsenal to improve ambulatory services in order to reduce in-person health clinic visits for veterans who cannot travel.