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Document Management System Saves Washington State Man-Hours
Washington's largest cabinet office, the Social and Health Services Department began to use a Webenabled document management, imaging and workflow solution that is cutting manhours needed to process requests and search for records.
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Orange County, Fla., Broadcasting Trial Via the Internet
Florida's Orange County Circuit Court began to broadcast a trial via the World Wide Web Monday, marking the first time a state court has transmitted its official proceedings live over the Internet.
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Wipe Out! is first aid for CDs
You've probably experienced it at least once: You put your CDROM in the drive and it doesn't load. When you examine it and discover that the culprit is a scratch in the CD's surface, you figure it's a lost cause and pitch it in the trash. Thanks to Esprit Development Corp. , Flemington, N.J., this
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Enviro groups endorse candidate for EPA IT position
A coalition of environmental groups has asked the Environmental Protection Agency to appoint as the head of its new Information Office the director of an organization that helps government agencies make public information available online. In a letter to EPA administrator Carol Browner, the groups,
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WebGov still suffers delays
After more than a year of work, a project to organize and centralize all federal government information on the Internet is still at least months away from completion. But the government's intentions to some day launch the megasite called WebGov has not stopped private companies from moving in, org
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Daley plan would close NTIS doors
The Commerce Department plans to close the National Technical Information Service because its core function of providing government information for a fee is no longer needed in the age of the Internet, Commerce Secretary William Daley said last week. NTIS collects, archives and sells scientific, te
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OFPP plans governmentwide e-Yellow Pages
In an effort to help government buyers find the most suitable products and services available on government contracts, the Office of Federal Procurement Policy is considering building an electronic governmentwide Yellow Pages. The online listing would detail what contracts are available and how the
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Air Force passes Y2K test with flying colors
Senior Air Force officials last week said they are confident the service would be able to go to war Jan. 1, 2000, after a critical Year 2000 exercise that involved dozens of the service's aircraft and key command and control systems revealed no major system failures. The Y2K Flag exercise conducted
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NASA awards outstanding software
NASA officials earlier this month selected a project developed by a Long Beach, Calif., small business as one of the outstanding software programs of the year. Alpha Star Corp. worked with the space agency to develop Genoa, an application designed to predict the durability and life cycle of manmad
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PageKeeper Pro: Doc management at the desktop
Caere Corp. calls PageKeeper Pro a documentmanagement program. And so it is, although the program is not designed for networked workgroups that need checkin/checkout, redline tracking and other highend features. Instead, PageKeeper is designed for individual end users who need to keep track of
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Fedwire Briefs
Clinton creates Net anticrime group President Clinton last week established a working group of top government officials to examine how law enforcement agencies can better investigate and prosecute criminal activities conducted via the Internet. The Clinton administration decided to form the workin
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ISS enhances risk-assessment tools
Internet Security Systems Inc. this week announced new versions of its vulnerability and riskassessment tools and took the first step toward integrating the management of all three products. The new versions of ISS' products Internet Scanner 6.0, Database Scanner 3.0 and System Scanner 4.0 p
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Wyoming high schools, agencies get videoconferencing
Under a $3 million contract with Tandberg Corp., Wyoming will install videoconferencing systems in all of its 76 high schools as well as the Wyoming Girls School, the Wyoming Boys School, the Department of Education and the Department of Administration and Information.
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DOD says SPS costs rise $100 million
Defense Department officials last week confirmed that the $326 million Standard Procurement System, a vital yet troubled part of the Pentagon's paperless contracting initiative, will need an additional $100 million to fix software problems and to sustain existing automated procurement systems. Late
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New version of Linux in the pipeline
IDG News Service SAN JOSE, Calif. Linus Torvalds wants more battery life from his Sony Corp. Vaio notebook, so naturally, better power management is among the improvements planned for the next version of the Linux kernel. Apparently that is how it goes when you have been anointed 'the leader of
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Sprint's Payne resigns
Jim Payne, former assistant vice president for FTS 2001 at Sprint Government Systems Division, today resigned from the company to pursue a job at another telecommunications firm.
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DOE energizes site with extensive Web searches
The Energy Department's Office of Scientific and Technical Information has set out to make searching databases and the World Wide Web less frustrating. The agency, which has been disseminating information about energyrelated topics for 50 years, last week debuted a new search engine for querying d
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E-commerce security: An identity crisis
To meet the burgeoning security demands associated with agency electroniccommerce efforts, industry has begun to offer comprehensive software and hardware solutions that provide a vital function: the ability to establish or 'authenticate' the identity of users involved in electronic transactions.
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Office developer helps get the job done
Microsoft Corp.'s goals for Microsoft Office Developer (MOD) 2000 were to deliver a product that increases the productivity of developers, makes it easy to provide database access to any Office application and makes it simple to maintain and deploy resulting solutions. From our perspective, having
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