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W.Va. equipping elderly with computers
Government agencies in West Virginia are joining with businesses and volunteer organizations to put surplus computers into the hands of senior citizens.
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Shadowing cyberslackers
Working for the city of Phoenix, Mike Ingersoll has learned one odd fact about computers: They can make smart employees act like very dumb employees.
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Puerto Rico plugs in populace
In what could be one of the world's most ambitious projects to narrow the digital divide, Puerto Rico is giving its public housing population access to the World Wide Web.
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Configuration data: Go figure
Information technology departments are under pressure to cut or at least hold down costs while being asked to deliver improved services to users. Fundamental Software Inc.'s Enterprise Configuration Manager (ECM) offers IT managers an opportunity to make gains on both fronts at once.
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Taking a mulligan on PC setups
System administrators dread new software rollouts. In midsize to large agencies and departments, it can take weeks to get a new software product installed on all the workstations of the users who need it.
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Hey, private sector, it takes two to partner
'We want to be your e-government partner.'
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From FIDNet to AIDC
Major milestones in the General Services Administration's effort to build an intrusiondetection system for federal information systems.
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Web mining: The next big thing
One aspect of business intelligence that's not a real factor now ? but certainly will be ? is Web mining.
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States trying online tax pilot
Kansas, Michigan, North Carolina and Wisconsin are testing a program that could lead to a more streamlined sales tax collection system for the country
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E-mail lists taking off in Wash.
Washington state has seen its subscriber base for targeted electronic communication quadruple in size since the service was introduced in April.
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Internet use guidelines
The Guilford County, N.C., Department of Information Services asks employees to sign an agreement regarding Internet access. The guidelines:
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Which intrusion is worse?
The debate over a federal intrusion detection system which would collect data on information security breaches and then distribute warnings governmentwide should not center on whether the government needs such a system but on how it should be built.
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Balancing act
The plan for a governmentwide intrusiondetection network pits technology against agency culture
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Virginia honors technology pioneers
The state chose innovative state and local projects to receive Governor's Technology Awards
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'A nice turnaround'
With its Joint Automated Booking System, the Justice Department has hit 'a significant milestone' in a plan to set up a nationwide, cross-agency database of arrest information, according to Linda Burek, the department's deputy assistant attorney general for information resources.
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A how-to for reducing agency paper
A group of agencies released a model guide last month designed to help agencies develop electronic government plans under the Government Paperwork Elimination Act.
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Digging for data treasure
The Massachusetts school system knew it had valuable information locked up in the volumes of student data it collected, but there was no obvious way to get at it.
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More low-income people discovering the Net
In the United States, more underserved and economically distressed people are tapping into the Internet, according to a study by Media Metrix Inc., an Internet market research firm.
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