[March 15, 2005] Spy Phones, e-Voting, Mobile Identity Management, Petabyte Server Among New Technologies at FOSE 2005, April 5-7 in Washington, DC Tweet WASHINGTON, March 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Over 150 new technology products will be introduced at FOSE 2005, the government's largest gathering of information technology professionals. Some 500 exhibitors will attract 20,000 federal high tech buyers along with 5,000 industry professionals to learn about the latest technologies at FOSE 2005 on April 5-7 at the Washington DC Convention Center. "Industry has responded rapidly to the federal government's burgeoning need for innovative technology solutions, and we will be showing off their new products at FOSE," said Lorenz Hassenstein, vice president of PostNewsweek Tech Media. "Leading corporations such as Accenture, Apple, Cisco, HP, IBM, Lockheed Martin, Microsoft and hundreds of other firms, small and large, are introducing new ways for government to operate more efficiently, safeguard our country, and move our national agenda forward." * Comfidex Corporation of New York, New York will introduce a secure, Web- based e-voting system that provides paper-based audit trails for recounts while preserving the anonymity of both the vote and the voter. VoteFiler is implemented using commodity PCs, and is designed to transparently coexist with traditional voting systems so that it may be adopted at a pace acceptable to the voting public. * Cornell Theory Center of Ithaca, New York will tout a computer system to store and manipulate massive amounts of data. Initially, the system will support three data-intensive research projects in astronomy, computer graphics and the Internet. The system will eventually hold 1 petabyte of data on an array of over 1,000 hard disk drives. (A petabyte is 1,000 terabytes; it is estimated that the entire contents of the Library of Congress could be stored in about 10 terabytes.) Cornell Theory Center provides high performance solutions to government and faculty at Cornell University. * Corrent Corporation of Tempe, AZ will host appliances to protect smaller networks against security breaches and attacks. Based on a new relationship with a major security software company, these appliances provide high-performance protection at a price that smaller organizations and agencies can afford. * eTelemetry of Annapolis, Maryland will announce their Locate911 for use in large government or commercial buildings. The system provides E911 systems with real-time Voice over Internet Protocol phone locations to expedite emergency response times and comply with regulations. * HP of Palo Alto, California will present a number of scalable identity management and mobility solutions, as well as the highly regarded HP Digital Pen solution. In addition, HP will exhibit lightweight tablet computers that accept handwritten inputs for immediate processing, as well as new workstation, server and storage offerings. * Meganet Corporation of Los Angeles, California will demonstrate their 3- ounce Spy Phone that permits concealed eavesdropping, a Cell Phone Interceptor that decrypts on the fly, and a Cell Phone Jammer in hand- held as well as rack mountable versions. * MPC Computers of Nampa, Idaho will showcase a series of notebook computers developed specifically for government that features multi- level security and an integrated Smart Card reader and biometric fingerprint scanner. * Puredepth of Auckland, New Zealand and Redwood Shores, CA will unveil computer displays that have two LCD panels layered, one over the other, thus producing a crystal clear 3D effect on a single monitor. Applications range widely from viewing superimposed MRI and CAT scans of a tumor to defense and geospatial work to intensive graphic design. * Riso, Inc. of Danvers, Massachusetts will have on hand the new color HC5000 inkjet printer, copier, and scanner. Printing at 105 pages per minute full color, monthly volumes of 250,000 pages are easily achievable at a running cost of $.03 per page. * User Centric, Inc. of Oakbrook Terrace, Illinois will exhibit an unobtrusive eye tracking product for recording and analyzing where users are and are not looking, in what order, and for how long when accessing web pages or other products. The results can be depicted in heat maps that help web site developers increase the acceptance and usability of web pages. PostNewsweek Tech Media, a wholly-owned subsidiary of The Washington Post Company, is the leading media company in the government technology community; offering focused national publications, web sites, trade shows, and conferences for the government information technology market. PostNewsweek Tech Media produces Government Computer News, a controlled-circulation magazine published 30 times per year for government managers who buy information technology products and services; Government Leader, a quarterly controlled-circulation magazine focused on the important issues in public management, human resources, financial management and technology; Washington Technology, a twice-monthly controlled-circulation magazine for government information technology systems integrators; and FOSE, the premier technology exhibition and conference in the government market. For further information about PostNewsweek Tech Media, go to http://www.postnewsweektech.com/. FOSE 2005 will take place at the Washington DC Convention Center on Tuesday-Thursday, April 5-7, 2005. Registration is free for government professionals and is available online at http://www.fose.com/ or by calling 1-800-781-FOSE. PostNewsweek Tech Media CONTACT: Sheryl Unangst of PostNewsweek Tech Media, +1-202-772-2523,[email protected]; or Peg Hosky of Hosky Communications,+1-202-237-0300, [email protected], for PostNewsweek Tech Media Web site: http://www.fose.com/http://www.postnewsweektech.com/ [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]