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Little Kansas Town Proves Paperless Agendas Possible
A city councilwoman from Lenexa, Kan., stole the show at a recent national convention with two magical little words: paperless packets.
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Microsoft, Intel to Help Train 400,000 Teachers
Microsoft Corp. is donating $344 million worth of software to Intel Corp.'s Teach to the Future program, which is designed to train more than 400,000 classroom teachers to use technology.
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Georgia Legislators Pull Plug on 'RepNet'
When Georgia's legislative session began Jan. 10, Republican state Rep. George Grindley was ready to beam the moment to his constituents in Cobb County with a miniature camera poised on his desk in the Statehouse.
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Charge It
Despite the plethora of high-tech solutions for conducting electronic business, many state and local governments are finding that low-tech is the way to go ? as in plastic.
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Strength in Numbers
The Internet has long been billed as the great equalizer in business, whereby small microenterprises can go after customers and niche markets as well as any large corporation.
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A wallet-size wealth of data
For marketers, ever hungry for scraps of information to identify potential buyers, a driver's license is a veritable feast.
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Clinton releases budget proposal
In his State of the Union address Jan. 26, President Bill Clinton envisioned a world wired to the Internet. In his fiscal 2001 budget, released today, he targets billions of dollars for information technology to make it happen.
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Advanced Server takes on tough tasks
Although we reviewed Microsoft Corp.'s Windows 2000 Server and Windows 2000 Advanced Server, we focused on the Windows 2000 Server product, which will be the target platform for most agencies looking to deploy the product for file and print servers, domain controllers, and to run basic server applications or support core networking infrastructure services. However, for more robust server configurations required to support highend, serverbased applications, Windows 2000 Advanced Server will be a more appropriate choice.
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The budget is just the start
If President Clinton's fiscal 2001 budget request ? due for release today ? is anything like his past budgets, spending on information technology programs will receive a generous boost. Congress, for its part, will likely pass bigger IT budgets all around.
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Navy takes PC game seriously
Jet jockey wannabes play Microsoft Corp.'s Flight Simulator game to capture a sense of what it's like to pilot a thundering jet. The game's realism makes it not only exciting to play but also an effective training tool.
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Cross-Talk
Would-be fishermen who walk into the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission for a license have been pleasantly surprised in recent months to find the lack of paperwork involved.
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Alaska outposts vote online
Internet voting got a chilly response in its Alaska debut. Just 35 people cast ballots online Jan. 24 in the state's Republican primary straw poll. Considering that 56 people were registered to vote online, the turnout wasn't terrible. It's the registration drive that was disappointing: 35,000 people were eligible.
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Missouri Offers Online Legislative Debate
When Missouri's legislative session began recently, for the first time citizens could listen to live debates on the House and Senate World Wide Web sites.
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GOP in Alaska and S.C. Select Online Campaign Host
The Republican state parties in Alaska and South Carolina have selected the Votenet.com suite of products from Netivation.com to be the backbone of their online campaign World Wide Web presence.
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How to Live With Standards (When You Can't Live Without Them)
Everybody loves standards. That is probably why there are so many of them. Aside from meeting the need for standards for the most minute bit of software, hardware, firmware and so on, human ingenuity has gone on to invent multiple standards for almost every last thing we do.
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Weathering Y2K Backlash
For the past two years or more, everyone associated with information technology has focused their energies on fixing the Year 2000 computer bug. At the end of it all, Jan. 1, 2000, came and went quietly, so we can put the problem behind us. Or so you would think.
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Six N.J. school districts receive $1.1 million in technology equipment
Donations stem from private company's effort to provide school-age children with the opportunity to learn more about the Internet and computers
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Attorney General Envisions Crime-Fighting Collaboration
Attorney General Janet Reno recently proposed a cooperative network that would enable law enforcement agencies nationwide to share information on electronic crimes.
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