The federal government's appetite for portable, wireless Internet products and information security software has grown in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, leading technology contractors and purchasers said Thursday. Terri Allen, . . .
The federal government's appetite for portable, wireless Internet products and information security software has grown in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, leading technology contractors and purchasers said Thursday. Terri Allen, senior vice president of sales for technology reseller GTSI, said that since Sept. 11, federal agencies have ordered up "ruggedized" computers with high-speed wireless Internet access that can be deployed into remote locations at a moment's notice and then be extracted and moved to another site. The computers are designed to keep working despite intense physical punishment.

Allen said she's seen the biggest increase in the wireless products category. Demand is particularly high for the handheld BlackBerry wireless e-mail device. Allen noted that, for agencies, such technologies have changed from "a nice-to-have [to] a must-have."

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