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Digital revamps product line with Windows NT models
In a move to deepen its support for the Microsoft Corp. Windows NT operating system, Digital Equipment Corp. last week introduced a slew of new Intel Corp. PC servers and unified its server lines based on Intel and Alphabased processors under the Digital Server brand name. The new lineup spread
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Fedwire
Bill would make CRS put data on Net Sen. John McCain (RAriz.) last week introduced legislation that calls on the Congressional Research Service to put its reports, issue briefs and other information products on the Internet. Users could access the information at no charge, 30 days after it is issu
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High-speed connectivity wares unveiled
Highspeed localarea networking technology took center stage at last week's ComNet '98 show, as vendors introduced new cabling systems, routers and switches. 3M Corp. unveiled a new fiberoptic cabling system that the company said will cut in half the cost of laying fiber to the desktop.
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Lotus introduces new Notes client
The next version of Lotus Notes, scheduled to ship in the second half of 1998, will feature a revamped user interface modeled after a World Wide Web browser that is designed to cut training costs for large customers, including federal agencies, according to Lotus Development Corp. officials gathered at the fifth annual Lotusphere technical conference here last week.
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Tax Filing Teamwork
Last year the Progress and Freedom Foundation, a Washington, D.C.based think tank, ranked the state of Washington first among equals in its use of information technology to serve the public interest.
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The Planning Imperative
Tucked away in my files is a small newspaper clipping that states that Sony Corp. updates its 250year plan annually. I have never taken the time to verify the report. After all, who would make up something so preposterous! Instead, when hotshots around me castigate planning as impractical, I take
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Volume-Licensing Service Keeps Software Police at Bay
If you are having difficulty keeping track of your agency's software licenses, you might want to take a look at a service from ASAP Software Express, Buffalo Grove, Ill., which is designed to make it easier to identify, track and audit large software inventories.
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EBT Solutions
Electronic benefits transfer is 15 years old, and for much of that time it's been a perpetual bridesmaid: full of promise but always a step or two short of its ultimate goal of bringing speed and economy to the welfare delivery system.
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The Mass. appeal of digital certificates
In the eyes of many public information technology officials, electronic commerce still falls into the category of 'any day now' technology.
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Autodesk Provides Raster, Vector Mapping for the Web
State and local government agencies looking to use the Internet for sharing maps and maprelated data might take a look at Autodesk Inc.'s MapGuide Release 3.0, which hits the market this month. Release 3.0 includes a suite of tools that allow users to build and deploy a raster or vector mapdriven
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Guarding the Data Gates With Biometrics
Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of the state, wrote Cardinal de Richelieu in 1641.
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Technology Is Tough Sell for State Budget Surpluses
Colorado's Andre Pettigrew calls 1997 a year of lost opportunities for state information technology investments. As executive director of the state's Personnel and General Support Services Department, Pettigrew watched in dismay as the state government returned $139 million in excess state funds to
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Back to square one on welfare reform
After a year and a half of working in its secluded policy labs, the Department of Health and Human Services finally told Congress what the state information technology community has known for some time:
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NLC Recognizes 'Electronic Community' in Fairfax, Va.
NLC Recognizes 'Electronic Community' in Fairfax, Va.
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Pacific Ocean air traffic system fails
A newly installed Federal Aviation Administration air traffic control system that helps controllers track and separate planes flying over the Pacific Ocean went down for almost 16 hours earlier this month forcing controllers to rely on other techniques to track aircraft. The system that broke down
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Rossotti weighs in on Prime
Charles Rossotti commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service may change his agency's approach to its 15year modernization effort so that the IRS would have more flexibility in dealing with vendors and choosing information systems. In a Dec. 21 memo obtained by FCW Rossotti outlined his 'observati
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Records Web site goes public
The National Archives and Records Administration has made public its prototype of a World Wide Web page that describes federal agencies' records and their plans for preserving them. Although the application called the Agency Records Disposition Online Resource (ARDOR) is designed primarily as a ref
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INTERCEPTS
* C3I pinchhitter. Jacques Gansler the new deputy secretary of Defense has tapped former ASD/C3I Duane Andrews now laboring in the rarefied heights of SAIC to help him come up with a new game plan for the office Andrews once headed. No hard intell on what Andrews will suggest but my Tysons Corner
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Hill mulls new guidelines
The staffs of House and Senate oversight committees began work this month on legislation that would set guidelines for competition between government agencies and industry for federal contracts. A staff member on the Senate Committee for Governmental Affairs said members hope to produce language th
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