Digital Government
Calif. surplus items up for bid on eBay
Mixed in with discarded engagement rings and baseball cards, eBay shoppers can now find surplus items from the state of California.
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Web publishing simplified
Government Webmasters often are faced with the task of moving agency documents in a variety of formats to World Wide Web sites.
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Agarwal takes post at NIC
P.K. Agarwal will leave his post at the California Franchise Tax Board to run the National Information Consortium's e-government operations.
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Start-up targets civic life
The latest dot-com to enter the online services arena has its eye on more than government business.
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MIT, HP form digital alliance
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Hewlett-Packard Co. are set to form a $25 million alliance to develop new ways to create and manage digital information.
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Judging public records policies
Information should be available, but not to the extent that any casual Internet surfer could sift through criminal records, a pair of judges say
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Security holes going unpatched
The CIO Council is asking every federal chief information officer to find and fix the weaknesses that made a top 10 list of critical Internet security threats
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Air traffic control milestone met
The FAA has implemented a tool designed to more evenly space aircraft taking off from airports in the northeastern United States
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Privacy issues hit home on local level
In Durham, N.C., police find their needs for privacy clash with what local officials want to post on the Internet
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Investing for retirement requires vigilance
FCW's Friday Financials column urges you not to put your retirement investments on automatic pilot
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Lockheed, Cisco team up in fed space
Lockheed Martin and Cisco Systems announce an alliance that will incorporate Cisco's commercial technology solutions into Lockheed's U.S. government bids
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New NGA report stresses need for online permits
To best serve the customer and to spark economic development, government needs to be available '24/7,' report says
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Michigan to post lesson plans online
New or substitute teachers could learn from the sample curriculums, which would be provided by handpicked teachers
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Are online records too public?
The president's privacy counselor says it has become increasingly clear that not all information should be as widely available as the Internet makes it
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VA targets safer medical care
Senior officials signed an agreement creating the VA Patient Safety Reporting System, in which NASA will analyze information about medical errors at VA hospitals
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Caring about safety
Senior officials signed an agreement creating the VA Patient Safety Reporting System, in which NASA will analyze information about medical errors at VA hospitals
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WordPerfect gets new lease on life on Linux
WordPerfect Office for Linux represents a significant milestone for the Linux desktop movement in that it is the first commercially established productivity suite to be ported to Linux. As such it brings the same level of functionality and features that have come to be expected from most Windows-based products
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NASA to analyze VA errors
NASA is to begin operating a system for recording and analyzing VA medical errors and 'close calls'
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