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Voters care about Internet growth, not taxes
More than onethird of American voters care far more about the continued growth of the Internet than state and local governments' ability to collect taxes on electronic commerce, according to a recent poll.
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GPS funding cuts could delay system for five years, official says
Modernization of the Global Positioning System could face a five-year delay unless Congress restores $17 million in funding that President Clinton asked for in his fiscal 2000 budget, according to top administration officials.
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Illinois system helps students find schools
The Federation of Independent Illinois Colleges and Universities unveiled a free, Internetbased information system on Tuesday to help prospective students find their future school among the group's 58 member institutions.
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IBM to develop tax system for California
California's Franchise Tax Board has tapped IBM Corp. to develop a tax system that will help the state collect $30 million in revenue lost annually because of missing income tax returns.
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NOAA awards contract to better predict severe weather
State Department officials today released a series of reports that outline for worldwide travelers potential Year 2000 problems in foreign nations, but critics say the reports lack detail.
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NIST to offer workshops on security issues
State Department officials today released a series of reports that outline for worldwide travelers potential Year 2000 problems in foreign nations, but critics say the reports lack detail.
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Virginia colleges use new info access tool
The Virginia Community College System will be using a new integration software tool to provide students, faculty and staff with access to information and services via the Internet.
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New England Online launched
The New England Board of Higher Education launched New England Online last week, with the intention of providing the sixstate region with a centralized presence on the Internet.
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Australia deploys GPS for pinpoint landings
Australia will become the first country worldwide to use the $10 billion, U.S.built Global Positioning System to help aircraft make precision landings when it inaugurates next month an enhanced GPSbased landing system on tiny Norfolk Island, 938 miles east of the Australian continent.
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Critics: U.S. Y2K travel reports lack detail
The Federal Aviation Administration has backed off its commitment to use the Global Positioning System as the primary means of commercial and private aerial navigation within U.S. airspace in favor of retaining ground-based navigation systems.
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Agenda
SEPTEMBER 1315 Defending Cyberspace '99. Hyatt Crystal City. Arlington, Va. A forum for government workers who are charged with enacting advanced security and payment systems, this conference offers a comprehensive educational seminar program and exhibition featuring the latest information and e
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Report shows that credit agencies behind tech curve
A new study concludes that federal credit institutions, such as the Federal Housing Administration, the Department of Veterans Affairs' loan program and the Rural Housing Service, face a tenuous future because they are not using new technologies that have been embraced by privatesector lenders. Ne
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'Workarounds' keep SPS on track
After holding three major exercises to field test the Defense Department's troubled $326 million Standard Procurement System, the Air Force developed 340 technical 'workarounds' to problems that would have made it impossible for the service to deploy using the system. SPS is intended to automate th
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Trellix Web: No experience needed
Small agencies that want to start a World Wide Web presence or intranet quickly, inexpensively and easily should give Trellix Corp.'s Trellix Web 2.1.5 a look. This new version of Trellix offers nearly all the features of Trellix 2.0 [FCW, March 8], and adds a handy OneStep Publish feature that ma
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Serious management for serious projects
Tracking large projects calls for serious software. Add geographical dispersion to the project team, and you'll need some way to connect all the players to a central management program. Netmosphere Inc. hopes to help solve that problem with the combined forces of Project Home Page 2.01 and ActionPl
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Web technology helps trace kids
The FBI, the Customs Service and the U.S. Postal Service are linked through new World Wide Webbased technologies to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, which last week opened a new headquarters in Alexandria, Va. NCMEC, created after Congress passed the Missing Children's Act o
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North Dakota appoints new CIO
North Dakota Gov. Ed Schafer (R) announced last week that he had appointed Curtis Wolfe as the state's chief information officer.
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HP unveils high-speed switches
HewlettPackard Co. last week released networking hardware and software products designed to bring gigabit speed and higher performance to localarea networks, including mediumsize and small workgroup operations within federal agencies, HP officials said. The new HP ProCurve 6308MSX routing switc
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DOD group, FBI IT leader win at IRMCO
The Defense Department's team that procures enterprise software licenses and the head of three major FBI information systems last Tuesday received Information Resources Management Conference (IRMCO) '99 achievement awards from the General Services Administration and the CIO Council. At a ceremony i
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