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Survey: Tech Critical in New Hampshire

Most New Hampshire voters say the hightech industry is critical to the state's future, according to a survey by Americans for Technology Leadership, a technology consumer group.

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Site offers point-and-click help for teachers

The Education Department on Thursday unveiled an online tool designed to help teachers quickly sift through the thousands of education resources available on the World Wide Web and select the best one for their students.

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Clinton urges agencies to narrow digital divide

President Clinton on Thursday asked agencies to help reduce the digital divide the gap between citizens that have access to information technology tools and those who do not.

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Details emerging on high-tech State bugging

State Department and FBI officials on Thursday characterized the listening and transmission device planted in the State Department by a member of the Russian intelligence service as an extremely sophisticated device that was professionally introduced into the department's headquarters.

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Unisys Takes Global Perspective on Government Market

As part of a larger corporate reshuffling, Unisys Corp. has created an organization to crosspollinate its work with U.S. state and local government customers and its government work across the globe.

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Companies Unveil E-Mall System

American Management Systems Inc. and Ariba Inc. have announced the launch of Buysense.com, the first World Wide Webbased marketplace designed to streamline the procurement process for state and local governments.

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Arizona Democrats to Hold Binding Internet Vote

Democrats in the state of Arizona are planning to allow their party to vote online in the March 11 presidential primary with hopes of getting more people to vote.

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Mission to Mars reveals need for more bandwidth

NASA officials are calling the unprecedented volume of Internet traffic received Dec. 3 by the main Mars Polar Lander World Wide Web site a good wakeup call for the space agency.

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Lawmakers search for new system to get their House in order

Four years after Congress first tentatively plugged into the World Wide Web, the House of Representatives is shopping for a powerful new computer system that will enable lawmakers and staff members to easily navigate and manage the fastrising flood of information surging through cyberspace.

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AMS and Ariba forge business-to-government e-commerce pact

Financial management firm American Management Systems Inc. and Internet electronic commerce vendor Ariba Inc. have teamed up to provide federal government users with products and services that will help them buy products online.

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Clinton signs intell authorization bill

President Clinton on Tuesday signed into law the fiscal 2000 intelligence authorization bill, which calls for a review of the role and mission of the high-tech National Reconnaissance Office and forces the intelligence community to explain the legal standards it adheres to when conducting surveillance operations.

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New York launches online permit database.

New York Gov. George Pataki last week announced the launch of an online permit database, designed to provide the state's business community with a onestop resource for permit needs and questions.

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Pennsylvania Launches Adoption Web Site

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge on Monday unveiled a World Wide Web site that enables prospective parents to go online and learn how they can adopt a child in the commonwealth.

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Wyoming Gov.'s Budget Focuses on the New Economy

Technology plays a key role in the Wyoming Gov. Jim Geringer's 20012002 budget proposals, both as a key factor of the state's economy and as a tool for improving government services.

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New chip promises telecom, Internet boost

A new highspeed digital chip demonstrated recently by TRW Space?#038;Electronics Group soon may offer telecommunications service providers and government agencies fiberoptic data transmissions at up to 40 gigabits/sec.

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Nebraska airs show for agricultural market

Agricultural producers in Nebraska soon will be able to log on to find the latest market news on a weekly TV show produced by the University of Nebraska Cooperative Extension program.

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FBI cancels mega-modernization project

After months of tussling with Congress, FBI officials have killed plans for a contract that would have enhanced the agency's crimefighting ability by giving its agents new hardware and software for sifting through and sharing information during investigations. As part of the FBI's Information Shar

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The Long Arm of the Law

When a convict with a 10year history of abusing and stalking his exwife made parole in Scott County, Minn., last year, the only thing between him and his victim was an inconspicuous bracelet prison officials had attached to his ankle. He paid it no mind and headed straight for his exwife. But be

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A New Civic Center

Officials of Clackamas County, a largely rural area south of Portland, Ore., say they have found a solution to a problem that plagues many of its residents and eventually threatens to dampen the local economy.

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NASA adds sites for Polar Lander

NASA developed a traffic plan in preparation for curious onlookers seeking realtime sights and sounds from the Mars Polar Lander, which descended toward the planet Dec. 3. The space agency created scores of mirror World Wide Web sites to ease congestion. During the 1997 Mars Pathfinder landing, NA