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New GSA schedule draws Web designers
The popularity of a new General Services Administration schedule for marketing and media relations a schedule that also contains a category for World Wide Web design has 'exceeded expectations,' with 10 companies already on the schedule and many more expected to be placed on it in coming months
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Software offers image enhancement for research tasks
As scientists conduct more of their research electronically, Media Cybernetics LP, which makes software used to analyze images, has begun carving out a niche among researchers at numerous federal agencies. The company's hallmark ImagePro Plus enables researchers to enhance images in much the same
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Merisel steps up service to fed resellers
Merisel Inc., which manages product supplies for a number of federal resellers, last week announced it had upgraded internal management systems to enable those companies to provide federal customers with more accurate pricing information. Earlier this year Merisel migrated to SAP America Inc.'s R/3
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NIH prepares for ERP solution
When the National Institutes of Health awards a contract this month for an assessment of its administrative systems needs, it will become the latest agency to step into the market for enterprise resource planning software. Agencies throughout the government are looking to ERP as they replace aging
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RCG, Excalibur team on EFOIA solutions
RCG Information Technology Inc. and Excalibur Inc. have signed a partnership agreement aimed at bringing Excalibur's searchandretrieval technology to agencies seeking to meet the requirements of the Electronic Freedom of Information Act. Under the partnership, RCG Information Technology, a consul
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Agenda
14 TAWPI Work Process/99. Colorado Convention Center. Denver. The Association for Work Process Improvement's annual forum will include educational workshops, networking opportunities and sessions on data entry, document management, forms processing, electronic commerce and knowledge management. Ca
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Institute to put mediator resources online
The federal government is sponsoring the development of a World Wide Web site that will help find common ground for people who disagree over what should or should not be done with natural resources. The U.S. Institute for Environmental Conflict Resolution, an executive branch agency created by
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Michigan judge blocks online law
A federal judge in Michigan last week blocked enforcement of a new state law that would have criminalized online communications judged harmful to minors for carrying sexually explicit matter.
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Smart card market ready to explode
Depending on whom you ask, smart card technology is either on the verge of tremendous growth in the federal government or has yet to make a significant impression within most agencies. On the plus side, smart cards already have become a fixture at some military bases, for example, where they contro
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Market Trends -- ERP
Enterprise software vendor JD Edwards & Amp; Co. recently announced a strategic alliance with electronic commerce newcomer Ariba Inc. that is designed to stretch JD Edwards' strengths from backroom enterprise resource planning (ERP) to the enduser world of Internet ecommerce transactions. The marriag
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500 MHz Pentium IIIs: Better than ever
Testing by Pat McClung and Andreas Uiterwijk The latest 500 MHz Pentium III PCs are fast, wellbuilt and easier to manage than ever. But the most intriguing new feature for government buyers is the unique serial number hardcoded into the processor. The serial number offers advantages to government
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Linking IT to the Business Plan
Why is it still disputed that information technology is an integral part of business?
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The Internet Tax Revolt
Residents of Hennepin County, Minn., can't help but feel a swell of pride whenever they pass the Mall of America, the world's largest indoor retail enterprise and a monument to the entrepreneurial imagination. With more than 500 stores and 2.5 million square feet of space, the mall draws consumers
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'Digital Divide' Deepening
More Americans than ever are using computers and connecting to the Internet, but a significant portion of the population, particularly minorities and people in rural areas, lacks access to basic information technology tools, according to a report by the U.S. Commerce Department. The report showed t
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Marketplace
Companies Combine to Offer Education 'Portal' Services Leading computer, Internet and education service companies have joined forces to take thinclient computing to the nation's schools, something they believe could bring schools within reach of the Holy Grail of technologyenabled education: a co
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The Enterprise Fights Back
These days, if you go to a conference for the National Governors' Association, the National Association of Counties or the National League of Cities, you can bet that at some point an elected official will get up and say something like...
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Hard Time Meets High Tech
To the inexperienced, prison operations may seem a lot like some grainy, gritty movie from the 1960s, with a fixed set of stock players. The warden is the guy with a belt loop full of jangling keys, the guards are the people silhouetted against a watchtower in profile with rifles, and the prisoners
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Driving to a National DMV
You might call Arizona the first R&D lab of the online department of motor vehicles movement. Since 1996, the state has been busy automatingnow 'Webifying'licensing services for which citizens used to spend hours waiting to access. Most experts agree that Arizona has gone further than any other
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Marrying Payment Systems to the Web
Electronic commerce has been hailed as a boon for the public sector in part because it enables state and local governments to replace traditional fee and fine collection systems with less costly collection systems using the Internet.
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