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Six N.J. school districts receive $1.1 million in technology equipment
Donations stem from private company's effort to provide school-age children with the opportunity to learn more about the Internet and computers
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Weathering Y2K Backlash
For the past two years or more, everyone associated with information technology has focused their energies on fixing the Year 2000 computer bug. At the end of it all, Jan. 1, 2000, came and went quietly, so we can put the problem behind us. Or so you would think.
Digital Government
How to Live With Standards (When You Can't Live Without Them)
Everybody loves standards. That is probably why there are so many of them. Aside from meeting the need for standards for the most minute bit of software, hardware, firmware and so on, human ingenuity has gone on to invent multiple standards for almost every last thing we do.
Digital Government
GOP in Alaska and S.C. Select Online Campaign Host
The Republican state parties in Alaska and South Carolina have selected the Votenet.com suite of products from Netivation.com to be the backbone of their online campaign World Wide Web presence.
Digital Government
Missouri Offers Online Legislative Debate
When Missouri's legislative session began recently, for the first time citizens could listen to live debates on the House and Senate World Wide Web sites.
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Alaska outposts vote online
Internet voting got a chilly response in its Alaska debut. Just 35 people cast ballots online Jan. 24 in the state's Republican primary straw poll. Considering that 56 people were registered to vote online, the turnout wasn't terrible. It's the registration drive that was disappointing: 35,000 people were eligible.
Acquisition
Contracts keep training on the air
The General Services Administration last week finalized contracts that will give agencies access to as much as $1.18 billion in satellite communication services over the next six years a relief for agencies that want to use telecommunications to train employees scattered across the nation.
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Cross-Talk
Would-be fishermen who walk into the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission for a license have been pleasantly surprised in recent months to find the lack of paperwork involved.
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Navy takes PC game seriously
Jet jockey wannabes play Microsoft Corp.'s Flight Simulator game to capture a sense of what it's like to pilot a thundering jet. The game's realism makes it not only exciting to play but also an effective training tool.
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The budget is just the start
If President Clinton's fiscal 2001 budget request ? due for release today ? is anything like his past budgets, spending on information technology programs will receive a generous boost. Congress, for its part, will likely pass bigger IT budgets all around.
Digital Government
Advanced Server takes on tough tasks
Although we reviewed Microsoft Corp.'s Windows 2000 Server and Windows 2000 Advanced Server, we focused on the Windows 2000 Server product, which will be the target platform for most agencies looking to deploy the product for file and print servers, domain controllers, and to run basic server applications or support core networking infrastructure services. However, for more robust server configurations required to support highend, serverbased applications, Windows 2000 Advanced Server will be a more appropriate choice.
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Clinton releases budget proposal
In his State of the Union address Jan. 26, President Bill Clinton envisioned a world wired to the Internet. In his fiscal 2001 budget, released today, he targets billions of dollars for information technology to make it happen.
People
For the Record
In Ancient Greece, they hanged people caught destroying antiquities thought to be records. Modern state and local governments, not quite so extreme, protect public records with laws. Today, those paper-based laws are fast becoming antiques themselves.
Digital Government
A wallet-size wealth of data
For marketers, ever hungry for scraps of information to identify potential buyers, a driver's license is a veritable feast.
Digital Government
Strength in Numbers
The Internet has long been billed as the great equalizer in business, whereby small microenterprises can go after customers and niche markets as well as any large corporation.
Digital Government
Charge It
Despite the plethora of high-tech solutions for conducting electronic business, many state and local governments are finding that low-tech is the way to go ? as in plastic.
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VA seeks cure for accounting woes
Facing the nightmare of transferring data from 48 software packages into its central accounting system, the Department of Veterans Affairs is planning a drastic move to replace its patchwork system with a single commercial financial management system.
People
Submariners get their turn
he Navy wants to use microsimulation in training areas besides aviation. The CDROM the Navy issued last month with the customized version of Microsoft Corp.'s Flight Simulator also included a simulation of an attack submarine.
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