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San Diego Accepts Internet Taxes
San Diego County is now accepting property tax payments via the Internet by using electronic checks.
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Mars live: NASA set for flood of Net traffic
NASA expects a flood of people to hit its World Wide Web site looking for real-time images, video and audio from the Mars Polar Lander, which is scheduled to land tomorrow. But the space agency has created scores of mirror Internet sites to ease the congestion.
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Virginia Puts 'Most Wanted' Online
As part of an online national effort to capture elusive criminals, the Virginia Department of Corrections last week placed photos of 16 of its mostwanted parole fugitives in a document available for download from its World Wide Web site, with a brief synopsis of the individuals accompanying mug shots.
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Indiana Lays Out Money for Richmond High-Tech Market
Indiana Gov. Frank O'Bannon (D) last week allocated $153,000 from the state's Strategic Development Fund to help bring highpaying, hightechnology jobs to the city of Richmond's telecommunications and technology zone.
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Info superhighway to dictate which cities thrive
Like the railroad and the interstate, the information superhighway is going to dictate which cities thrive in the future, city officials attending the 1999 Congress of Cities and Exposition were told Wednesday.
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Condon to join list of former gov execs at SRA
Mary Ellen Condon, director of the information management and security staff at the Justice Department, plans to leave her post this week for a job managing information technology projects for SRA International Inc.'s government sector.
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Loislaw.com Expands its State Offerings
Loislaw.com, an Internet provider of primary legal research, recently expanded its offering to include case law and statutes databases from five more states, now including a total of 45 states and Washington, D.C.
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Companies Test Online Voting
Two Internet companies are conducting the first national presidential primary to enable all eligible U.S. voters to register online and then vote during a sixday period beginning Dec. 3.
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Clinton Calls for More E-Transactions
Monday, President Clinton called on the federal government to facilitate the growth of electronic transactions by identifying outdated legislation impeding electronic commerce, and invited state and local representatives to help find and revise such laws and regulations.
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U.S., NATO planning crisis management network
At a meeting this week with NATO defense ministers in Brussels, Belgium, Defense Secretary William Cohen plans to discuss the creation of a new informationsharing network that will help NATO nations respond more effectively to crises such as the strife in Kosovo.
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Puerto Rico's PRStar.Net Project Connects Agencies
Puerto Rico's PRStar.Net project, a network that will connect the entire island, is being used by nearly all of the 140 government agencies. Every agency will be online by Dec. 15, accordinng to an official at the Office of Management and Budget.
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Cisco tools to speed product ordering for resellers
Cisco Systems Inc. plans to give its resellers new electronic commerce tools that will make it possible for them to search, compare and order products online, reducing errors and the time it takes to receive products.
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DOD thanks low-tech 'code talkers' for WWII service
The Pentagon honored one of the few unbreakable forms of encryption the Commanche language, which was used by a special unit of American Indian code talkers in World War II during an award ceremony honoring Charles Chibitty, the last survivor of that elite Army unit.
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Philadelphia Feels Sting of Y2K Bug
About 500 Philadelphia residents recently received notices for jury duty that would have been better suited for their ancestors. The requests asked them to serve in 1900, an error caused by a Year 2000 glitch in the city court computers.
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Virginia to Host National Y2K Summit
Virginia's Century Date Change Initiative (CDCI) project will host a national summit Dec. 57 on innovative business practices that emerged from efforts to fight the Year 2000 computer date glitch.
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Pennsylvania Launches Statewide Microsoft Certification Program
Pennsylvania is launching a statewide initiative to certify about 20,000 students and 1,000 teachers through the Microsoft Office User Specialist program.
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HomeworkNOW.com puts coursework online
Schoolteachers in more than 275 schools nationwide are posting their classroom assignments online using HomeworkNOW.com, a free World Wide Web service that enables educators to update coursework on a daily or weekly basis.
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Camera Trained on Kentucky Development
In Lexington, Ky., residents have the opportunity to keep an eye on a highly awaited construction project without leaving their homes.
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Bill Streamlines Food Stamp Transactions
The U.S. Senate has approved a bill establishing national electronic transaction standards for food stamp benefits.
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