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Philadelphia Ready for Y2K, Hosts Community Conversation
Philadelphia's Year 2000 Readiness World Wide Web site shows that 100 percent of the city's missioncritical systems are Year 2000compliant as of this month, just in time for a Y2K Community Conversation lead by the chairman of the President's Council on Year 2000 Conversion.
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Intelligence bill targets NSA, Echelon upgrades
A bill that would authorize appropriations for the fiscal 2000 operations of the U.S. intelligence community includes funding for infrastructure upgrades at a key facility in what many suspect is a global, electronic surveillance network.
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Urban counties leave rural ones behind in the technology race
Urban counties are leaving rural ones behind in the technology race, according to a study by the National Association of Counties.
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State CIOs and business officials discuss experience integrating e-commerce at forum
State chief information officers and business officials discussed their individual experiences with integrating electronic commerce at a recent electronic commerce forum.
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Biggest Y2K costs behind U.S.
Government agencies and businesses in the United States will wind up spending about $100 billion to identify and fix systems to make them Year 2000compliant, according to a report released by the Commerce Department today.
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Idaho creates tech advisory council
Idaho Gov. Dirk Kempthorne signed an executive order creating a state Science and Technology Advisory Council and appointed Billy Shipp as the state's science and technology adviser.
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Utah Gov. Michael Leavitt offers a proposal to extend a three-year moratorium on Internet taxation
Utah Gov. Michael Leavitt, the National Governors Association chairman, yesterday offered a proposal to extend a threeyear moratorium on Internet taxation during which time a pilot tax program involving states and Internetbased retailers would be conducted.
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Pennsylvania will conduct an online auction for electricity services in the commonwealth
Pennsylvania on Tuesday will conduct an online auction for electricity services in the commonwealth, the eighth such auction performed there since March.
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Airlines make Y2K progress
The Transportation Department today announced that the groundbased systems used by the nation's major airlines have no Year 2000 problems that would prevent them from complying with safety standards, but some smaller carriers still have work to do.
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Credit card purchases online are commonplace thanks to the advent of sites
The process of using a credit card to conduct business on the Internet has become commonplace thanks to the advent of sites such as Amazon.com and eBay. Now the idea has picked up support from state and local government officials doing online procurements.
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Washington, D.C., is the new home of an electronic-business innovation center
Washington, D.C., is the new home of an electronicbusiness innovation center, part of a global network of ebusiness centers, IBM Global Services Inc. announced Monday.
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Pacom to build digital radio net
The U.S. Pacific Command (Pacom) plans to develop interagency digital radio networks for an emergency response network to serve the federal government and state and local police and fire departments in Alaska and Hawaii making it the largest project of its kind. Pacom decided to develop the Pacif
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Internet on the go with the Palm VII
If you thought previous versions of 3Com Corp.'s Palm organizers were useful and fun, just wait until you get your hands on the Palm VII, the latest offering in this popular series. For the first time, you can access the Internet including email from the Palm device.
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Federal Bytes
The real power of PowerPoint. During the recent Milcom '99 conference in Atlantic City, N.J., Army Gen. John Coburn, commander of the Army Materiel Command, borrowed a word of advice from legendary Gen. George Patton when he warned the crowd of onlookers about the dangers of presentation fatigue wh
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Picture this: Visio 2000 logical, intuitive, fun
If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a welldesigned diagram may be worth several thousand. That's where Visio comes in. We looked at Visio 2000 Standard Edition, a package designed for general business diagramming needs and the successor to Visio Standard 5.0 [FCW, Jan. 25]. You don't need
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Roster Change
Anne Reed, chief information officer at the Agriculture Department, said she plans to retire from government Feb. 1. Reed, who took over as the USDA's CIO in 1996, did not disclose her future plans. Commerce Secretary William Daley and U.S. Trade Representative Charlene Barshefsky have received the
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Feds consider Microsoft trial 'what ifs'
Should the government's antitrust case lead to a breakup of Microsoft Corp., some fear the world's leading software company may find it difficult, if not impossible, to lend direct support to federal agencies during times of crisis. The 'findings of fact' handed down Nov. 5 by District Judge Thomas
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Making order out of chaos
Working in information technology, your world is getting more and more complex, and your role in the enterprise is becoming more and more strategic. In short, it's an exciting time to be involved in the technology business. That's the good news. The hard part is that instead of simple and homogenou
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