Digital Government

In Brief

Xerox Corp. announced today its new Phaser 750 color laser printer, which features a 200 MHz processor that delivers 16 blackandwhite pages per minute or 5 pages per minute in color.

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Oklahoma Tech Center Connects Talent

The Oklahoma Technology Commercialization Center is recruiting people who can help up-and-coming companies with technology needs.

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Beware of rotten apples

For at least 20 years, the white- collar criminal defense bar has advised companies to adopt "corporate compliance plans" as a way to insulate themselves from potential liability for the criminal acts of their employees.

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Intel: No serial number on next chip

Intel Corp. plans to stop stamping serial numbers on its processors, starting with its nextgeneration chip due out later this year

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Cisco Names New State/Local Government Manager

State and local governments have a new source to help them put government services online. Cisco Systems Inc. last month named a public-sector Internet business development manager.

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'John Hancock' Goes Digital

States Are on the Verge of Issuing the Public a Way To Secure Their Online Government Business

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Unisys ships 32-way server

The proliferation of Unix and Microsoft Corp. Windows NT servers has left many federal agencies looking for a costeffective way to consolidate their servers onto one mainframeclass system. Unisys Corp. introduced a new Intel Corp.based 32processor server at the recent FOSE trade show that is designed to do just that.

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Palm-sizing the scheduler

Federal employees who increasingly rely on Palm Inc.'s handheld computers for scheduling needs may be able to use the same project management software on their Palm devices as they use on their desktop computers.

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State CIOs Climb the Ranks

State chief information officers have progressed rapidly to positions where they can have a real impact on how states serve citizens

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NEF offers information technology scholarships

Money for Internet-based IT courses will be available to those making less than $40,000 a year

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Net tax report in, but issue isn't over

Despite the work of a 19- member commission that met for 10 months, heard from more than 55 experts, received thousands of pieces of mail and formally presented a 150-page report to Congress last month, the issue of Internet sales taxes is as unresolved as ever.

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Companies Will Reward GIS/GPS Project Ideas

Government agencies with great ideas for how to use Global Positioning Systems with geographic information systems could win help executing those programs in a contest sponsored by two companies.

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EPA pushes for deeper paper cuts

Ordered to cut paperwork by 40 percent, the Environmental Protection Agency is preparing to accept all reports, filings and documents in electronic form rather than on paper.

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Clinton casts safety net

Just hours after an earthquake crushes Turkish cities or a typhoon ravages the Philippines, e-mail messages begin trickling into the Federal Emergency Management Agency asking for help, advice and information.

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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. Inso Corp.'s OutsideIn Server eliminates the need to code such documents for HTML before placing them on the Web by converting files on the fly as users request them.

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Software Helps Job Seekers

Electronic Data Systems Corp. and Applied Theory Corp. announced they have teamed up to provide state and local governments with software that can be used to integrate employment services.

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Environmental Violations in Delaware Spotlight

Delaware Gov. Thomas Carper has directed the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control to post information about environmental violations on its World Wide Web site.

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Setting satellites to network time

Shortly after NASA demonstrated that standard Internet Protocolbased equipment can be used to communicate with a spacecraft, the agency successfully tested another element of standard IP that will help facilitate a mission's scientific research.

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Making Web meetings a snap

Web conferencing offers many benefits to large and small agencies: Employees spend less unproductive time out of the office, managers reduce their organizations' travel budgets and workers in remote locations can quickly collaborate, which compresses decisionmaking cycles.

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NASA demos space Net

NASA's faster, better, cheaper concept may get a boost from the Internet boom. A recent demonstration using commercial offtheshelf networking products and standard Internet Protocol (IP) to communicate with an orbiting satellite is the first step in designing space missions more quickly, more cheaply and smarter.