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Maryland forms task force on public safety tech
Maryland Lt. Gov. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend announced last week the creation of a state task force on public safety technology whose goal is to bring cuttingedge law enforcement and correction technologies to state and local criminal and juvenile justice agencies.
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AMD chip tops Intel
In a neverending battle for bragging rights, Intel Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. are at it again to see which company can produce the fastest desktop processor. Last week, Intel released a 600 MHz Pentium III, and this week AMD is announcing the release of its 600 MHz processor, the Athlon
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EEO panel changes regs on complaints
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has changed the procedures federal employees use when pursuing equal employment opportunity complaints. The changes include restrictions on the ability of federal agencies to overturn administrative law judge decisions as well as new rules guiding the use
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The IT squeeze
The House and Senate worked last week to move along overdue fiscal year 2000 appropriations before taking a monthlong break, but tight budget caps could threaten civilian agencies' information technology projects. Trying to abide by a 1997 agreement with President Clinton to cap federal spending a
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Federal Bytes
HEADSUP THINKING. Rep. Constance Morella (RMd.) recently chaired a hearing that focused on possible lapses in computer security directly resulting from Year 2000 remediation efforts lapses that could raise the risk of theft, fraud or corruption by unscrupulous programmers. But Morella offered s
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CDW-G poised to pick up Navy IT-21 BPA
The Navy this week plans to award a $20 million blanket purchase agreement covering desktop and notebook systems to Chantilly, Va.based CDWG Inc., Navy officials confirmed. Jim Swizewski, contracting officer with the Navy's Fleet Industrial Supply Center, Norfolk, Va., last week said a deal with
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Court overturns federal e-records ruling
A federal appeals court ruled today that a government policy allowing agencies to delete electronic records as long as they preserved paper copies is valid, reversing a nearly 2yearold district court decision.
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NTIA administrator leaving Commerce
Larry Irving, assistant secretary of Commerce for communications and information and the administrator of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, plans to leave the Commerce Department at the end of the summer, Commerce Secretary William Daley announced Thursday.
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Texas nears rollout of fingerprint system
The Texas Department of Human Services (DHS) said it will finish by the end of this month statewide rollout of the Lone Star Image System, a fingerprint imaging system designed to combat welfare fraud.
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NIMA declassifies images for climate study
The National Imagery and Mapping Agency this week declassified 59 satellite images of the Arctic Ocean that will be used by scientists interested in understanding connections between polar ice caps and global warming.
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Education chief concerned about college Y2K readiness
U.S. Education Secretary Richard Riley sent a letter on Thursday to the nation's college and university presidents and chancellors expressing his concern that many of the institutions are not yet Year 2000compliant.
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Navajo schools get teacher training grant
A dozen Navajo school districts in Arizona, New Mexico and Utah received a $1.2 million grant from Microsoft Corp. earlier this week to fund technology training for teachers.
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Commerce Department IT official to resign
Larry Irving, assistant secretary of Commerce for communications and information and the administrator of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, plans to leave the Commerce Department at the end of the summer, Commerce Secretary William Daley announced today.
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Pa. libraries offer Y2K info for free
All of Pennsylvania's public libraries now have Year 2000 informational materials available for free. The state produced printed and video materials as part of Gov. Tom Ridge's Pa2K public outreach project, which sought to raise public awareness about the Year 2000 computer problem and provide basic planning tools for public use.
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California introduces contracting notification system
The California Department of General Services (DGS) recently introduced its Subscription Outreach Service (SOS), an Internetbased contracting notification system that electronically delivers state and local contract advertisements to registered businesses.
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Colorado's first CIO gets fill of job
Paul Quade, Colorado's firstever chief information officer, has a full plate in store for the 18 months he plans to serve under a loaned executive agreement that allowed him to accept the position.
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Web helps track down Woodstock vandals
The New York State Police turned to the World Wide Web as a tool to help round up a small group of vandals and looters who came to Woodstock '99 and turned the threeday music festival into a riot. Within hours of posting photos on the Internet, however, the police encountered resistance from an unlikely source: the free press.
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Meridian Data improves on a great product
With Snap! Server Version 2.0, Meridian has improved upon a product that was great in the first place.
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Nevada approves Utility.com for electric service
The Nevada Public Utilities Commission unanimously approved Utility.com last week to receive a license as an alternate seller of electric service to the state's 900,000 households and small businesses beginning in March 2000.
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