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L.A. lawmaker wants city site to be multilingual
Los Angeles councilwoman Cindy Miscikowski filed a motion Friday directing the city's Information Technology Agency (ITA) to find ways to make Los Angeles World Wide Web site more accessible to the area's nonEnglishspeaking population.
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House calls on DOD to halt SPS rollout
Concerned about the viability of a $326 million automated procurement program, Congress has called on the Defense Department to suspend deployment of any additional hardware, software and networking equipment needed to run the system. Buried deep in the House report on the fiscal 2000 Defense Appro
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Intercepts
Although nobody has heard a word from the Interceptor since he set out last week on vacation in his canoe, I'm optimistic that the avid Global Positioning System user took a lesson from one of our joint story endeavors here at Federal Computer Week and affixed a handheld GPS system to the inside of
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GAO report: Benefits of Army digitization program uncertain
The Army has not produced conclusive evidence that its $20 billion plan to field dozens of advanced information systems to help soldiers exchange information will make its forces more effective on the battlefield, according to a General Accounting Office report released last week. The report, 'Batt
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Feds say Y2K experience aids in cyberdefense
The Senate last week took its first close look at how the expertise and systems being developed to deal with the Year 2000 problem can be used now and in the future against intentional attacks on the nation's infrastructure. Testifying before the Senate Special Committee on the Year 2000 Technology
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Group proposes common licensing rules
A U.S. organization that works to unify state laws today overwhelmingly approved a controversial proposal to adopt common licensing rules for software and other information technology transactions that critics say would hold IT companies hostage to the whims of software vendors.
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Buying Strategies
When Orange County officials recently began the process of renewing the county's data center and telephone support outsourcing agreement, they realized that they would need specialized IT consulting help to determine how best to structure a new deal. To get a better idea of how other government age
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Marrying Payment Systems to the Web
Electronic commerce has been hailed as a boon for the public sector in part because it enables state and local governments to replace traditional fee and fine collection systems with less costly collection systems using the Internet.
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Driving to a National DMV
You might call Arizona the first R&D lab of the online department of motor vehicles movement. Since 1996, the state has been busy automatingnow 'Webifying'licensing services for which citizens used to spend hours waiting to access. Most experts agree that Arizona has gone further than any other
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Hard Time Meets High Tech
To the inexperienced, prison operations may seem a lot like some grainy, gritty movie from the 1960s, with a fixed set of stock players. The warden is the guy with a belt loop full of jangling keys, the guards are the people silhouetted against a watchtower in profile with rifles, and the prisoners
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The Enterprise Fights Back
These days, if you go to a conference for the National Governors' Association, the National Association of Counties or the National League of Cities, you can bet that at some point an elected official will get up and say something like...
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Marketplace
Companies Combine to Offer Education 'Portal' Services Leading computer, Internet and education service companies have joined forces to take thinclient computing to the nation's schools, something they believe could bring schools within reach of the Holy Grail of technologyenabled education: a co
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'Digital Divide' Deepening
More Americans than ever are using computers and connecting to the Internet, but a significant portion of the population, particularly minorities and people in rural areas, lacks access to basic information technology tools, according to a report by the U.S. Commerce Department. The report showed t
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The Internet Tax Revolt
Residents of Hennepin County, Minn., can't help but feel a swell of pride whenever they pass the Mall of America, the world's largest indoor retail enterprise and a monument to the entrepreneurial imagination. With more than 500 stores and 2.5 million square feet of space, the mall draws consumers
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Linking IT to the Business Plan
Why is it still disputed that information technology is an integral part of business?
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500 MHz Pentium IIIs: Better than ever
Testing by Pat McClung and Andreas Uiterwijk The latest 500 MHz Pentium III PCs are fast, wellbuilt and easier to manage than ever. But the most intriguing new feature for government buyers is the unique serial number hardcoded into the processor. The serial number offers advantages to government
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Market Trends -- ERP
Enterprise software vendor JD Edwards & Amp; Co. recently announced a strategic alliance with electronic commerce newcomer Ariba Inc. that is designed to stretch JD Edwards' strengths from backroom enterprise resource planning (ERP) to the enduser world of Internet ecommerce transactions. The marriag
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Congress renews call for Y2K center
With more than 6,000 Russian nuclear weapons aimed at the United States and only 154 days left until the Year 2000, lawmakers yesterday urged Russian Prime Minister Sergei Stepashin to renew efforts to form a joint nuclear Year 2000 early warning center.
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Smart Training Center Opens for Oakland Low-Income Residents
Residents of Oakland, Calif.'s Acorn Smart Housing Center will begin moving into their newly wired apartments this week, and computer training will start immediately to provide them with the skills needed for placement in the hightech work force.
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