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Maine Y2K Glitch Issues Vehicle Registrations for Horseless Carriages
A Year 2000related glitch in the Maine computer system responsible for issuing vehicle titles earlier this year designated 2000 model cars and tractor trailers as horseless carriages, a term reserved for vehicles from earlier this century.
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Texas Department Selects Logicon for $80 Million Outsourcing Pact
The Texas Department of Protective and Regulatory Services (PRS) has awarded Logicon Inc. a sixyear contract worth up to $80 million to manage its desktop computing environment.
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Army moving forward on logistics modernization contract
The Army plans to award a contract in early December to outsource the operation of a major portion of its logistics system, now that the service has cleared the last procedural log jam standing in the way of its $1 billion logistics modernization program
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Commerce Department Awards $250,000 to Oregon University System
The U.S. Commerce Department awarded the Oregon University System (OUS) a matching grant of $250,000 to add a technology development and commercialization program to economic development efforts in the state.
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DOE Web-enables scientific research
As part of its latest effort to advance science research, the Energy Department today unveiled a World Wide Web site offering government scientists and the general public a onestop shop for searching hundreds of scientific journals.
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Study into Web's Impact on State and Local Elections Goes Public
In an effort to gauge the impact of the World Wide Web on state and local elections, the Democracy Online Project has developed a new Web site, www.cityvote.org, that provides citizens a means to offer feedback on campaigns in nine U.S. cities and Northern Virginia.
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Pennsylvania Bill Would Give Legal Recognition to Online Contracts
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge is supporting a bill that would give the same legal recognition to electronic documents and signatures as paper contracts in the state.
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HHS Identifies State Health Care Programs at 'High Risk' for Y2K Failures
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services today declared several missioncritical computer systems ready for the Year 2000 date change, including systems affecting the nation's largest grant disbursement system, welfare and children's programs, and health services.
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MIT and Microsoft Corp. Pledge Cooperation on Higher Education
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Microsoft Corp. announced last week that they will collaborate on a fiveyear, $25 million project to develop advanced technologies to improve higher education.
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HHS completes successful Y2K test
The Department of Health and Human Services today declared several missioncritical computer systems ready for the Year 2000 date change, including systems affecting the nation's largest grant disbursement system, welfare and children's programs, and health services.
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Army mulls cutting tanks in favor of lighter, high-tech force
Gen. Eric Shinseki, chief of staff of the Army, today called for a major transformation of the Army within the next decade that could include an abandonment of all tracked vehicles in favor of a lean fighting force that relies heavily on command, control and communications technology.
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Electromagnetic pulse attacks: The wave of the future, panel says
The detonation of a small nuclear weapon in the upper atmosphere could lead to widespread paralysis of the nation's critical electronic infrastructure and cripple the Defense Department's ability to wage war, experts warn.
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University of Massachusetts Moves to Thin-Client Technology
The University of Massachusetts libraries on the Boston and Dartmouth campuses have deployed thinclient computer terminals to provide students with highspeed Internet access without the high maintenance and administration costs associated with PCs.
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Princeton Review develops Internet-based test prep
The Princeton Review, wellknown for helping highereducation students bone up for college entrance exams, has developed an Internetbased educational service to help K12 teachers, students and students' parents prepare for state assessment tests.
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San Diego County, Calif. chief administrative officer recommends Computer Sciences Corp. (CSC)
Walt Eckard, San Diego County, Calif. chief admninistrative officer, announced last week that he will recommend that the Board of Supervisors select Computer Sciences Corp. (CSC) as the main contractor for the county's information technology outsourcing contract.
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New England Governors to Discuss "Building a 21st Century Economy"
New Hampshire Gov. Jeanne Shaheen (D) and Massachusetts Gov. Paul Cellucci (R) will lead a forum on Oct. 13 to discuss how New England can continue to support its hightechnology firms and maintain a high quality of life for citizens.
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Caldera denies union appeal to block logistics outsourcing
The Army has removed the last procedural hurdle standing in the way of its longdelayed $1 billion project to outsource its wholesale logistics system.
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PTO takes biotech patents online
The Patent and Trademark Office can now receive a limited number of patent applications over the Internet following a successful test of the agency's electronic filing system.
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Bill restricts access to personal information
Congress has approved a bill that will require states to obtain drivers' permission before giving third parties access to drivers' Social Security numbers, photographs, medical conditions and other personal information.
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