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NGA seeks changes to electronic signature bills
Governor's group wants to ensure that states' existing laws are not superseded
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IT drives DOT goals
Transportation Department's GPRA report shows success on highways, trouble on runways
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Pa. Project to Overhaul Policing
The Pennsylvania State Police has selected Lockheed Martin Corp. to serve as the systems integrator for a program that will incorporate computers into every facet of the commonwealth's crime-fighting efforts.
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Ga. Trying for Quicker Twister Warnings
Technologies designed to improve tornado-warning times for Georgia citizens are operating in three Atlanta locations.
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Results Act reality check
'Government needs to run more like a business.' It is difficult to imagine how many times that phrase has been uttered since Congress and the Clinton administration got serious about reforming the way government programs, and the information technology projects that support them, are managed. However, like many political slogans and mottos, the saying sometimes doesn't pass the reality test.
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HP storage devices offer relief
HewlettPackard Co.'s new NetStorage 6000 is designed to tackle two of the toughest issues facing federal IT managers: uncontrolled data growth and mixed computing environments.
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Reaching the Poor Via High Tech
Despite funding cuts, states are finding ways to use information technology to help society's most underprivileged families and individuals, concluded a recent study by the National Association for State Information Resource Executives, the organization representing state government chief information officers.
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Measuring agency performance: Out of reach
It is clear to Dean Mesterharm, the Social Security Administration's deputy commissioner for systems, that investing in information technology is essential for SSA.
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Connecticut Follows Every Dollar
Connecticut has developed a World Wide Web site to give taxpayers and policy-makers unprecedented information on how the state spends the money it borrows through bonds.
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Intel TeamStation System From PictureTel
The Intel TeamStation System ships with a PC containing an Intel Pentium III processor running Microsoft Corp.'s Windows NT 4.0. Its line rate is 400 kilobits/sec and its frame rate is 30 frames per second.
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Think before you mail
Can someone who mails a letter reclaim it from the U.S. Postal Service before it is delivered? Or will the letter, once placed into the mail, be delivered to the addressee even if the sender has a change of heart about sending it? This seemingly trivial question can have a surprising importance in the law of contracts.
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Data center selling points
The growing number of companies trying to win government outsourcing dollars are counting on three Bs to sell their data center services: bandwidth, backup and bulletproof design.
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ScanMail broadens virus fight
Trend Micro Inc. last month released the latest version of its antivirus software for Microsoft Corp.'s Exchange, which for the first time can scan both incoming and outgoing e-mail for viruses.
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Maine Proposes Laptops for Students
Every seventh-grade student in Maine would get a free laptop that they could keep after graduation under a precedent-setting proposal by Gov. Angus King.
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Rentable apps provider makes GSA schedule
Application service provider USinternetworking Inc. (USi) last week became one of the first companies to be awarded a General Services Administration schedule contract for enterprise application hosting and management services.
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IP videoconferencing arrives
The new products work well; it's the IP plumbing that needs work
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VTEL Galaxy 725 MT
The Galaxy 725 MT is a brand-new PC-based computing product from VTEL that targets the lower-end market.
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