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Firm offering free filtering services
A Fort Lauderdale, Fla.based Internet company, this.com, is offering free filtering services to all schools throughout the U.S., with a special focus on narrowing the digital divide by targeting innercity and underprivileged school children.
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USDA to go mobile
The Agriculture Department this month plans to kick off a pilot program that includes using mobile offices to deliver its services to farmers who live in underserved areas, such as Indian reservations. The mobile offices are part of the USDA's larger service center initiative that colocates the U
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Fax over IP: Great expectations
The concept of transmitting conversations over the Internet has attracted a lot of attention over the past year if not a lot of business. But a similar concept, with another whole range of benefits, also is emerging: faxing over the Internet. Largely because of its potential to lower telecommunic
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Partnership joins up XML, EDI
Electronic data interchange vendor OAO Corp. and electronic forms provider JetForm Corp. last month announced they will integrate their respective technologies to make it easier for organizations to conduct electronic commerce transactions. Under the agreement, users will be able to fill out and su
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Campaign Finance Laws Stifle the Electronic Soapbox
As the increasingly wired Year 2000 political races heat up, we are faced with considerable uncertaintyand some ominous initial signalsover the application of campaign finance laws to campaignrelated speech and political activities on the Internet. So far, the Federal Election Commission (FEC) h
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Schools Open for Business
While many students undertake business case studies involving theoretical marketing or distribution questions, students in an Orange County, Va., venture are busy meeting production quotas for the hundreds of personal computers they build during the school year and designing World Wide Web pages fo
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Pay now or pay later
The gap in pay between federal information technology workers and their privatesector counterparts has been a problem federal IT managers have tried to solve for years and one that has the potential of derailing the vision of a truly digital government. That's why it is disconcerting that the A
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EEOC answers complaints
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, long criticized for its bureaucratic and weak enforcement, has streamlined the way it processes discrimination complaints. Federal workers, managers and labor representatives have complained that the EEOC's process for reviewing charges of discrimination
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Managing E-Commerce and the Digital Content Dilemma
The rise of electronic commerce, for all its benefits, has created problems for state and local IT procurement officers. The question has been how to properly structure an agreement to purchase rights involving such nontangible products as software programs, databases and other electronic contents
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Linkbot takes on the enterprise
The best just got better. TetraNet Software Inc. recently released a new version of its industryleading World Wide Web site linkchecker, Linkbot Enterprise 1.0, which offers new tools specifically designed for large enterprise sites.
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Officials tackle technology in procurement
Don Upson, Virginia's secretary of technology and Dick Thompson, the director of Maine's division of purchases, shared their views on the status and future of technology in state government procurement at last week's Fall Procurement Conference sponsored by the Coalition for Government Procurement.
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Intercepts
LONDON KOSOVO CLEAN SWEEP. Spacelink International, a small, privately held company based in Washington, D.C., but focused on Europe, has captured most of the military commercial satellite Earth terminal business in Kosovo, according to strong signals my mobile unit picked up here at TechNet Eur
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LapLink transforms itself into LapLink.com
LapLink from Traveling Software Inc. has been the easiest to use file-transfer and remote-control program for Microsoft Corp.'s Windows operating system. Now the company has a new name?LapLink.com?and a new version of LapLink.
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Federal IT czar position gets boost
A top federal chief information officer last week called on the government to create a federal IT czar, whose job would be to establish a common vision for information technology programs governmentwide. The idea has drawn cautious support from other federal CIOs. Roger Baker, the Commerce Departme
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Speed to burn: Intel debuts new chips
Intel Corp. last week announced 15 processors based on a new generation of technology that increases speed, reduces power consumption and makes it possible for manufacturers to offer completely new classes of systems, even as they lower prices. Computer manufacturers are ramping up to deliver serve
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Who is allowed to challenge a sole-source procurement?
A reader raised the following topic: What is the procedure for challenging a proposed solesource acquisition? Who can do so? In general, the rules for challenging a government agency's intended procurement on a solesource basis will be similar to those of any other bid protest. However, as discus
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Cable firm wired for federal business
Cox Communications Inc., a company known best for its cable TV business, has made a foray into the federal market over the past year, bringing highspeed Internet connections to users in the Air Force and the General Services Administration. The company which has focused its federal business on p
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Breaking the mold
Maj. Charles Wells, developer of two online knowledgesharing projects for the Army, is not your typical Army computer expert. Wells' background, career, motivations and avocations quickly prove that few people, even in the Army, fit into a stereotype. For example, one of the musical instruments he
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PIII Entry-Level Servers: Great Performance at Great Prices
Testing by Andreas Uiterwijk and Pat McClung For our latest server roundup, the Test Center took a look at 500 MHz Intel Corp. Pentium III entrylevel workgroup servers. These fileandprint servers are not meant for departmentlevel use or critical data storage. Rather, they are basic workhorses g
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