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Schools Open for Business
While many students undertake business case studies involving theoretical marketing or distribution questions, students in an Orange County, Va., venture are busy meeting production quotas for the hundreds of personal computers they build during the school year and designing World Wide Web pages fo
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Campaign Finance Laws Stifle the Electronic Soapbox
As the increasingly wired Year 2000 political races heat up, we are faced with considerable uncertaintyand some ominous initial signalsover the application of campaign finance laws to campaignrelated speech and political activities on the Internet. So far, the Federal Election Commission (FEC) h
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Partnership joins up XML, EDI
Electronic data interchange vendor OAO Corp. and electronic forms provider JetForm Corp. last month announced they will integrate their respective technologies to make it easier for organizations to conduct electronic commerce transactions. Under the agreement, users will be able to fill out and su
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Fax over IP: Great expectations
The concept of transmitting conversations over the Internet has attracted a lot of attention over the past year if not a lot of business. But a similar concept, with another whole range of benefits, also is emerging: faxing over the Internet. Largely because of its potential to lower telecommunic
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USDA to go mobile
The Agriculture Department this month plans to kick off a pilot program that includes using mobile offices to deliver its services to farmers who live in underserved areas, such as Indian reservations. The mobile offices are part of the USDA's larger service center initiative that colocates the U
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Firm offering free filtering services
A Fort Lauderdale, Fla.based Internet company, this.com, is offering free filtering services to all schools throughout the U.S., with a special focus on narrowing the digital divide by targeting innercity and underprivileged school children.
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Principia's Web Survey competent for basic tasks
The move toward cutting paperwork in government and the capacity of the Internet to produce a wealth of statistical and market data may seem to be at odds. They converge, however, in the arena of online surveys and forms. Here, eliminating the paper in the process not only saves labor and trees but
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GAO finds holes in Y2K efforts
With only about 60 days left until the new year, many agencies have not finalized plans for conducting business in the wake of Year 2000 problems, and at least one agency the Internal Revenue Service has yet to take an inventory of its computer equipment and software, which means the agency may
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Communities
Va. Adopts Seat Management Strategy Virginia recently became the first state to adopt a plan to outsource the management of desktop computers at all levels of government. Virginia's Council of Technology Services has been working on the state's groundbreaking plan since November 1998 and now is wo
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Desktop OCR market serves up two strong contenders
After years of widespread competition, the desktop optical character recognition (OCR) market has come to be dominated by two products: Caere Corp.'s OmniPage and ScanSoft Inc.'s TextBridge. Most recently, the options available to government agencies and departments have been winnowed by Caere's a
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First streamlining, now the results
Ever since 1996, when some scrappy entrepreneurs at the National Institutes of Health and the Transportation Department invented the governmentwide acquisition contract, my hope was that GWACs would serve two important purposes. One was to spread the use of multipleaward task order contracting aut
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State group pushes for broad information sharing
INDIANAPOLIS A national initiative to enable government criminal justice organizations to share information electronically eventually could lead to a national 'information architecture' available to agencies across all fields and at all levels of government, according to top state officials. The
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Bloomington, Ind., Webcasting Candidate Forums
With election day approaching, voters in Bloomington, Ind., have a chance to meet candidates for city offices without leaving home and not because the political hopefuls are going doortodoor.
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USDA offers one-stop biotechnology shop online
The Agriculture Department today unveiled a new World Wide Web site that provides the public with an information clearinghouse on biotechnology and the department's role in regulating biotechnology in the United States.
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N.C. putting e-services on fast track
North Carolina aims to puts its agencies on a fast track to deliver Internetbased services by developing a multipronged strategy the incorporates security, World Wide Web portals and other key components of electronic commerce on a statewide basis.
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Schools at Y2K risk in new year
An Education Department survey released Wednesday revealed that thousands of schools nationwide may not open on time next year unless significant progress is made in fixing computer systems and developing contingency plans for the Year 2000 problem.
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San Diego County Approves Outsourcing Contract
In an effort to create a virtual government, San Diego County will invest $644 million during seven years to revamp the county's computer and telephone systems, one of the largest technology spending plans to date by a local government.
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National 'Information Architecture' Grows Out of Criminal Justice Network
A national initiative to develop a way for government criminal justice organizations to share information electronically eventually could lead to a national information architecture available to agencies across all fields and at all levels of government, according to top state officials.
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GSA releases Millennia Lite RFP
The General Services Administration this week released the final request for proposals on its latest multibilliondollar contract for information technology services and plans to use performance to determine whether a vendor receives a contract extension.
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