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Boston offers kiosks for paying tickets, taxes
Boston residents soon will be able to avoid long lines at City Hall by paying parking tickets and excise taxes online at electronic kiosks set up around the city.
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Advisory Commission on Electronic Commerce Gets Under Way
Virginia Gov. James Gilmore was officially elected as chairman of the Federal Advisory Commission on Electronic Commerce, a 19member congressional advisory panel that began meeting here Monday to determine how or whether to tax Internetbased electronic commerce.
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California Communities Tap Wireless Crime-Fighting Data
Two California communities are being protected by police officers with patrol car access to crime databases and records, thanks to a new wireless mobile communication and information system.
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Chicago Issues Y2K Scam Alert
Chicago released a community alert last week to warn its residents about scams related to the Year 2000 computer problem.
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Smart ID card gains support
The Defense Department's Smart Card Office is expected to recommend this summer that all military identification cards be replaced with smart cards despite past reluctance to make that move. Speaking at DOD's Electronic Commerce Day conference in Washington, D.C., this month, Martha Neal, deputy di
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DOD nears resolving MAN conflicts
The Pentagon has edged closer to resolving a longrunning turf battle between the four services and the Defense Information Systems Agency over control and management of metropolitanarea networks (MANs), with a top Defense Department official indicating the services could soon control their MAN de
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CKO: A welcome addition
When Congress passed information technology procurement and management reforms, the idea was to push stodgy federal IT managers to think out of the box about how IT could support agencies' missions. Many agencies certainly have taken the reforms to heart, with the latest change coming in the form o
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AGENDA
JUNE 1999 2122 Time and Frequency Seminar. The Broker Inn. Boulder, Colo. The seminar will present techniques related to the analysis and evaluation of oscillators and frequency standards. Call (303) 4975453; Web, www.bldrdoc.gov/timefreq/ seminar/seminar.htm. 2124 Energy Department 1999 Teleco
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MCI adds features to FTS 2001
At last week's GovTechNet International Conference and Exposition, MCI WorldCom Government Markets announced the first in a series of features it will add to its FTS 2001 telecommunications contract. Chuck Brock, deputy director of MCI's FTS 2001 program office, said the modifications will provide
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N.C. official wants DOD to help states with PKI
A North Carolina official this month called for the Defense Department to assist states with developing a secure publickey infrastructure to support state and local electronic commerce efforts. Jane Smith Patterson, senior adviser to the governor of North Carolina for science and technology, said
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Round Two
In our review of 500 MHz Pentium IIIs [FCW, June 14], the IBM Corp. machine tested should have been identified as the PC 300 PL.
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HCFA joins desktop outsourcing ranks
The Health Care Financing Administration last week awarded a task order to Boeing Information Services Inc. to provide turnkey desktop computer services, adding momentum to the federal government's fledgling seat management initiative. The $50 million, threeyear pact, awarded off the Outsourcing D
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LOC preps expanded digital learning center
The Library of Congress today officially will open a remodeled learning center to be used primarily to train teachers how to use the library's digitized historical collections posted on the World Wide Web. Renovations made to the National Digital Library Learning Center, formerly the Digital Librar
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Networking, security take center stage at GovTechNet
Network technology took center stage at the GovTechNet International Conference and Exposition last week, as industry vendors introduced or previewed a slew of products designed to ease data communications in the office and in the field. Other announcements include encryption technology for recorda
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Roster Change
Anthony Galante, chief information officer at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, will retire from government service at the end of this month. Stuart Reiter, who joined the agency last month as deputy CIO, will be named CIO. Reiter previously worked as director of infrastructure services for IMC Gl
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Intercepts
A REAL ASD/C3I AT LAST? The White House, freed of the pesky distractions of the past year (Monica, impeachment, etc.), has finally nominated Art Money, the longestterm senior civilian official in history, as assistant secretary of Defense for command, control, communications and intelligence. If e
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Clarke leaves IT legacy at DOD
This weekend, as Army Col. John Clarke begins to ease out of federal service and into civilian life, he'll be doing something that he finds very familiar: building and repairing things. In this case, the things will be houses in Appalachia. Clarke will be pitching in for an entire week on a service
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Interior challenges news report
It's like the Wild West on the Internet frontier, Interior Department Webmaster Stephen King says. Not surprisingly, the vast and relatively lawless terrain of the World Wide Web isn't without its rhetorical gunfights. Consider a recent skirmish between the department and The Washington Post. A Pos
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Federal Bytes
SEAT MANAGEMENT: YEAH, BABY! The General Services Administration's Seat Management contract may never achieve the popularity of 'Star Wars.' But the program drew a comparison to 'Austin Powers' last week. Federal agencies' reaction to the Seat Management desktop outsourcing contract has been as div
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