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Mail carriers prep to go wireless
In an ongoing effort to make it more competitive with private carriers the U.S. Postal Service plans to improve its mail tracking and tracing capabilities and delivery performance through two wireless pacts that could top $1 billion. The first procurement estimated to be about $500 million will all
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Netscape to provide federal workers with Fortezza support
Pending final government approval Netscape Communications Corp. plans this week to begin allowing any federal government electronic mail user to download and test its Navigator browser that supports Fortezza cards. This initial evaluation will give any federal employee whose email address is denot
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USDA: Putting plans in place
Some of our readers may have a sense of dé jà vu when reading about the latest freeze on large computer purchases at the Agriculture Department. Congress the General Accounting Office and various agency executives have been trying for years to bring this farflung agency's buying under
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200 MHz Pentium Desktops: Is Faster Better?
With Intel Corp. releasing more processors eachyear than you can count on one hand does it make sense to pay for the fastest Pentium around? Probably.
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Should States Fund Citizen Tech Programs?
Just what is state and local governments' role in ensuring that citizens have access to the latest communications and computing tools? That's one of the questions that Jane Leonard, the community development manager for Minnesota's fledgling Office of Technology, is trying hard to answer
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All Eyes Are on Texas
Texas which has a reputation for being larger thanlife has been grabbing a lot of headlines lately. But it's not a flamboyant politician or corporate scandal that's drawing the attention
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How We Tested 200 MHz Pentium Desktops
We evaluated these 200 MHz Pentium desktopcomputers using tests designed to show their performance and feature differences
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New York Internets Meet the Mainframe
The Internet is a powerful two-edged sword for many state governments.
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How Much Risk Can Your Vendor Take?
In state information technology circles, performancebased contracting is hot.
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Can You Go It Alone?
Is it possible for a state to pull off a project similar in size and scope to the Texas Integrated Enrollment Systemwithout help from the private sector?
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Perils of Privatization
The Texas program and others like it are rekindling an old technology policy debate: Is it right to spend the shrinking humanservices tax dollar on information technology?
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Death to Stovepipes and Silos
The metaphor of stovepipes and silos in government has been around for a long time
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Albany's Center for Technology in Government
The Center for Technology in Government which is incorporating the America's Job Bank and SUNY projects in its Internet Technologies Testbed is a nonprofit research center that explores ways to solve 'the practical problems of information management and service delivery in the public sector.'
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Health benefits see little change in open season
The Federal Employees Health Benefits (FEHB) program began its open season last week during which federal employees retirees and survivors can switch their health benefit plans. Very little has changed in terms of the benefits being offered by individual plans. That is because the Office of Personn
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Informix shuffles federal unit; Hammersla departs
Informix Software Inc. last week folded its Vienna Va.based federal division into its commercial sales organization as part of a corporatewide restructuring. As part of the reorganization Edward Hammersla III executive director of Informix's federal operations has left the company. Under the new c
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Can a contractor rely on the minimums in an IDIQ pact?
A company official asked the following question: It is common for agencies to specify minimum and maximum anticipated quantities in their indefinitequantity contracts in order to give the offerors guidance on how to price their proposals. To what extent is the government bound by these estimates?
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ROUND TWO
In a Nov. 4 article on Cabletron Systems Inc.'s new ATM products FCW should have reported that the MMACPlus SmartCell switch can accommodate up to 16 OC3 ports per module and a total of 224 ports in a fully configured system.In a Nov. 4 article on the National Imagery and Mapping Agency's Geospat
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Features make Warp 4.0 unmatched by competition
Early reviews of IBM Corp's OS/2 Warp 4.0 generally were positive with the majority of journalists recommending the product as a "musthave for current OS/2 users." Unfortunately that type of endorsement does little to convince nonOS/2 users that OS/2 Warp 4.0 is a platform worth considering. He
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