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Georgia Registration and Title Information System (GRATIS) online
The Georgia Registration and Title Information System (GRATIS) went online Tuesday in participating counties.
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Three California counties integrate welfare distribution with new software program
A consortium of three California counties integrates welfare distribution with its child support services thanks to a software program from CSE Resources Inc.
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CIO Council to make its activities more accessible
The CIO Council today announced the highlights of its strategic plan for fiscal 2000, including raising awareness among agencies of the council's activities, such as guidance on information technology management and reports.
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New York brings education tools online
The New York Wired Web site, launched last week, is the first statespecific site in a program that aims to bring education tools online for parents, teachers and schools.
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California World Wide Web workflow company receives a state labor law ruling
A California World Wide Web workflow company has received a state labor law ruling that will enable its customers to deliver an entirely paperless payroll to employees.
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Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport Nears Y2K Readiness
Officials at DallasFort Worth International Airport last week voted to spend $300,000 on a computerized airport lighting system to direct pilots to assigned runways, the latest move to ensure the airport has contingencies in place for the Year 2000 date change.
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Pacing Online Customer Service
When Tom Horley returned from vacation in early July, he had 700 email messages waiting for him, all containing questions or requests from users of Pennsylvania's official World Wide Web site. Horley, the chief of multimedia for Pennsylvania, said he would be able to answer the backlogged mail wi
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USPS targets online shipping market
The U.S. Postal Service has launched a campaign aimed at capturing more of the package business generated by the growth of online shopping. The campaign, which includes new services offered on the World Wide Web, is focused on USPS' Priority Mail service and involves the release of technologies dev
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Air Force unveils PowerPoint-to-Web technology
MONTGOMERY, Ala. The Air Force Air Armament Center has developed the World Wide Webbased Executive Management Information System, which enables users to post information directly to World Wide Web pages from Microsoft Corp. PowerPoint slides or Excel spreadsheets without first sending the data
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Fedwire
EDS' Newstrom takes HQ post Electronic Data Systems Corp. last week confirmed that George Newstrom, president of EDS' Government Industry Group, will leave his post to run the company's global government business from its Plano, Texas, headquarters. Newstrom will be succeeded by Bill Dvoranchik,
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How to give old PCs a new lease on life
Are you looking for a way to extend the life of your older Intel Corp. Pentium PC systems and make them Year 2000-compliant at the same time? These two tasks seem incompatible at first, but the FCW Test Center has come up with a solution.
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Consider tech investment payoff
With Congress and the Clinton administration locked in a battle over science and technology spending, a quick review of recent headlines seems in order. The Army announced that it had spent $45 million to create a center at the University of Southern California to work with film producers and video
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Microsoft to tailor support for DOD
Montgomery, Ala. Microsoft Corp. has proposed customizing a set of software support services for the Defense Department to ensure that DOD's systems stay up and running during a war, senior Microsoft officials confirmed last week. In an interview last week with Federal Computer Week, Microsoft pr
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Communities
Kentucky Virtual U. Goes Online The Kentucky Commonwealth Virtual University, a consortium of the state's public and private colleges and universities, has created a onestop World Wide Web site that provides access to all the enrollment and student services needed to get a college degree online. T
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GSA preps next award-term pact
The General Services Administration has stepped into uncharted procurement territory by planning to issue the first multipleaward contract using a relatively new form of incentive contracting. GSA is considering awardterm contracting as a way to enforce performance much the way award or incentiv
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GSA, CIOs unveil training program
Next week the General Services Administration and the CIO Council officially will unveil a new training program for the next generation of program managers that emphasizes performance results rather than the minutiae of contract management. The Strategic and Tactical Advocates for Results program w
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Commercializing the Classroom
Despite billions of federal and private grant dollars spent to wire K12 classrooms and connect them to the Internet, few schools have the money for computers or the teaching tools to use on them. Indeed, on average, observers believe schools are finding it tough to drop below a ratio of 10 studen
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Unisys online shopping delivers
Remember when you had to hit the computer superstores to go shopping? Or when you had to go leafing through bulky catalogs to find the products you needed? If you're a federal information technology buyer, you can say goodbye to traditional methods of shopping, which seem almost quaint today, and j
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Corel, Beyond.com ink DOD deal
The Defense Department last week awarded a $30 million blanket purchase agreement to Beyond.com for licensing, delivery and support of software from Corel Corp. in the first DODwide contract for both companies. The contract, negotiated by the Navy as part of the DOD Enterprise Software Initiative,
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