GPS Device + Web Access = Never Get Lost Again

Web access is popping up in everything. If you make a product and don't offer access to the intertubes, you might as well toss it in a black hole and let it get crushed into a state of infinite mass and density. GPS makers have bought into this mindset and now haphazardly toss web browsers into their products, whether they need them or not.

TomTom's Go Live 740 is a new breed of web-ready GPS in which web access seems like a well-integrated enhancement, not a useless afterthought.

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NetWitness Launches Insight Solution for IT Risk Discovery and Remediation

NetWitness Corporation, the provider of the award-winning NextGen network security solution, today announced the availability of NetWitness InSight, an innovative solution for automated risk discovery and remediation for workstations and servers. NetWitness InSight improves upon current risk assessment methodologies by both discovering sensitive data on host systems across the enterprise and concurrently evaluating the security condition of each system.

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Human-Powered Subs Start Your 'Engines'

A group of budding engineers will be diving, splashing and swimming in the pool next week for the first time this summer. The difference between them and a lot of other high school and college students is the pool: an in-ground, freshwater basin that is about 3,000 feet (914.4 meters) long, 51 feet (15.5 meters) wide, and 22 feet (6.7 meters) deep at the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Bethesda, Md. The occasion is this year's International Human-Powered Submarine Race.

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Unproven Missile Shield System Sent To Hawaii, Countering Potential North Korean Threat

Rumblings from Pyongyang regarding a long-rage missile test prompt deployment of an experimental missile shield and radar system

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Raytheon's C-RAM system testing grinds to a halt

Raytheon's work on a laser-based Phalanx counter-rocket and mortar (C-RAM) system has ground to a halt because the 50 kW fibre laser the company had borrowed for field tests has had to be returned to its owner.

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$27M to Harris for DISA Multinational Information Sharing Network

Harris Corp received a potential 5-year, $27 million contract from EDS to provide network and systems engineering and other support services for the Defense Information Systems Agency’s Multinational Information Sharing (MNIS) Program Management Office. Harris is the sole subcontractor to EDS on the MNIS System Engineering/Technical Assistance (SETA) contract, which was awarded under Encore II.

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