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HCFA plans national Medicare Y2K testing week
The Health Care Financing Administration, the federal agency in charge of Medicare, today announced that it has designated Nov. 1520 as National MedicareYear 2000 Testing Week, enabling health care providers to evaluate their billing systems in an endtoend test with Medicare systems.
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Wisconsin Lands $1.12 Million Federal Grant to Prepare Students for IT Jobs
The U.S. Labor Department has awarded Wisconsin a $1.12 million grant to continue a program that helps prepare students for careers in technology and other fields.
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Illinois to Post Sex Offender List on the Internet
The Illinois State Police soon will post a list of all known sex offenders in the state on its World Wide Web site. The list, which will include offenders' names, dates of birth, addresses and whether their victims were younger than 18 years old, is scheduled to be up by Nov. 15.
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Rhode Island Conducts Internet Learning Day
Bell Atlantic joined Bryant College, the Urban League of Rhode Island and the Women's Center of Rhode Island in cosponsoring a free, Internet Learning Day, part of Bell Atlantic's initiative aimed at residents in communities who do not have regular access to Internet training.
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Metropolitan Community College in Omaha, Neb., to Offer State's First Large-Scale Distance Learning Program
Metropolitan Community College in Omaha, Neb., will use a multimedia solution to broadcast voice and video to four college locations and numerous offcampus sites throughout the state.
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Navy builds case against DOD network
The Navy is building a case for setting up its own network to help support its multibilliondollar agencywide intranet rather than relying wholly on the Defense Department's mandated network, a Navy official said Tuesday.
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Election Day goes online with VoteHere.net
Election Day went online Tuesday when VoteHere.net provided the software and technical expertise to manage elections simultaneously in two states.
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ISP Delays Debut of Advanced Videoconferencing Network in Central New York
The Syracuse MetroNet, an advanced videoconferencing network developed by the Community and Information Technology Institute at Syracuse University's School of Information Studies, was scheduled to begin a host of pilot projects last month, but complications with the Internet service provider scheduled to support the test beds have postponed the project's launch.
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Cyberattacks against DOD up 300 percent this year
The number of cyberattacks reported this year against the Defense Department's information networks has more than tripled compared with last year, according to the director of the Defense Information Systems Agency.
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Virginia moves toward digital signatures for government business
The Virginia Council on Technology Services (COTS) moved closer last week to embracing the use of digital signatures for government business.
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DOT, FAA say systems are Y2K ready
Systems that operate lighting, emergency response and radio communications at the nation's 565 airports are expected to work properly through the Year 2000 date rollover, according to Transportation Department and Federal Aviation Administration officials.
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Commerce Department Secretary William Daley announces a digital divide summit
Commerce Department Secretary William Daley announced on Monday that a digital divide summit will be held on Dec. 9, featuring participants from the federal government, the technology industry, the civil rights and nonprofit communities, grassroots organizations and the general public.
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Hawaii Gov. Ben Cateyano recognized Honolulu-based WorldPoint Interactive Inc.
Hawaii Gov. Ben Cateyano last week recognized Honolulubased WorldPoint Interactive Inc., a software company that has developed a new translation tool that can interpret and edit documents in 18 languages.
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U.S. savings bonds available via the Net
The Treasury Department today launched a new Internet site that for the first time will allow the public to buy savings bonds online.
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State group pushes for broad information sharing
INDIANAPOLIS A national initiative to enable government criminal justice organizations to share information electronically eventually could lead to a national 'information architecture' available to agencies across all fields and at all levels of government, according to top state officials. The
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First streamlining, now the results
Ever since 1996, when some scrappy entrepreneurs at the National Institutes of Health and the Transportation Department invented the governmentwide acquisition contract, my hope was that GWACs would serve two important purposes. One was to spread the use of multipleaward task order contracting aut
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Desktop OCR market serves up two strong contenders
After years of widespread competition, the desktop optical character recognition (OCR) market has come to be dominated by two products: Caere Corp.'s OmniPage and ScanSoft Inc.'s TextBridge. Most recently, the options available to government agencies and departments have been winnowed by Caere's a
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Va. Adopts Seat Management Strategy Virginia recently became the first state to adopt a plan to outsource the management of desktop computers at all levels of government. Virginia's Council of Technology Services has been working on the state's groundbreaking plan since November 1998 and now is wo
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GAO finds holes in Y2K efforts
With only about 60 days left until the new year, many agencies have not finalized plans for conducting business in the wake of Year 2000 problems, and at least one agency the Internal Revenue Service has yet to take an inventory of its computer equipment and software, which means the agency may
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