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Calling all Cars

Departments Find Wireless Liberates Officers From Their Desks

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iVillage.com Tries E-registration

The online women's network iVillage.com has teamed with the Internet election company Election.

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Health agency targets medical errors with Internet tools

The Health Resources Services Administration last week unveiled an initiative to improve health care in HRSAfunded community health centers by providing physicians with Internetbased electronic document tools.

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Homeward Bound

Telecommuting appears to have everything going for it.

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Va. Beach Schools Tune in to More Opportunity

A successful distance-learning pilot program at three Virginia Beach, Va., high schools prompted the local school board to expand the program to all 10 of the city's high schools.

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Changing the Rules of the Game

Solving a crime can be like playing the board game Clue: The key is to take lists of names, weapons and places and find the links among them, creating new leads or a short list of suspects to track down.

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Export system in overdrive

For January, the Customs system that processes export documents electronically handled nearly 40 percent of the paperwork for $60.4 billion in goods

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N.J. governor wants to post sex offender information on Internet

New Jersey Gov. Christie Whitman sent a constitutional amendment to the state legislature Monday that would allow the attorney general to post names, addresses and photos of dangerous sex offenders on the Internet.

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Mass. Library network to put catalog online

S.A.I.L.S., a Massachusetts library network that is merging two existing networks will post its catalog online using Sirsi Corp.'s Unicorn Library Management System for its 48 libraries.

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Groups oppose broadcast signal loan bill

Four groups sent a letter Tuesday to Rep. Tom Bliley, chairman of the Committee on Commerce, opposing a bill that would subsidize businesses providing broadcast signals to rural areas via cable, satellites or wireless technology.

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Congressmen wary of e-mail

Confidentiality concerns, uncertainty about constituents make members of Congress leery about using technology to correspond with constituents

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Intel unveils new Celeron processors

Intel Corp. offers new 600 MHz and 566 MHz Celeron processors, the company's fastest processors for the sub$1,000 PC market

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Washington Republicans to try online voting

The group will cast online ballots when they choose delegates for their state convention

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Arizona residents have say on state Web site

State technology agency is allowing people to vote on what online services they would like to see

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GAO: IT may save or sour U.S. economy

GAO paints a grim portrait of the future, but says information technology could provide solutions ? or compound the problem

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GAO lists security bargains

Agencies can cut their information systems' security risks with lowcost and nocost solutions, federal experts tell Congress

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Two bills push broadband access

Senators propose incentives for companies that develop broadband services in rural areas

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MIT Libraries teams with HP on digital archive

The archive will be capable of holding the nearly 10,000 articles produced by MIT authors each year, including multimedia content

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Top speech recognition vendors to merge

Speech technology company Lernout &Hauspie Speech Products Inc. has agreed to acquire competitor Dragon Systems Inc. in a deal that will eventually involve a consolidation of the two product lines into one.

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Off-the-shelf product briefs

A roundup of the latest company and product news