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Massachusetts to Monitor Employees' Net Use

Massachusetts recently contracted with a company to provide agencies with the technology to monitor the Internet use of its employees.

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Letters to the Editor

Letters to the editor of Federal Computer Week

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Pataki Plan Targets High-Tech Jobs

New York Gov. George Pataki's freshly released budget plan includes a host of tax cuts and initiatives to bring more high-tech jobs to his state.

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San Carlos, Calif., Puts Narrated Presentations on the Web

San Carlos, Calif., last week announced that it had teamed with Presenter.com to put two narrated presentations ? one for small business and the other for the general public ? on the city's World Wide Web site.

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Maryland Cuts Red Tape from Justice Spending

Maryland's state and local crime fighters recently found themselves in an enviable predicament. They had the money to invest in technology, but they just weren't sure how to spend it well.

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Online Legal Research Firm Expands Coverage to 45 States

Loislaw.com, an Internet provider of primary legal research, recently expanded its offering to include case law and statutes databases from five more states, now including a total of 45 states and Washington, D.C.

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Mitretek's Helping Hand

In addition to helping Maryland devise a statewide public safety strategy, Mitretek Systems, through the Center for Criminal Justice Technology, also is involved in other local, state and federal technology projects.

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Small Town Goes High Tech

As technology evolves and people's expectations change, state and local government information technology managers are faced with a widening gap between their budgets and the systems, equipment and services they want to buy.

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Congressional neglect of feds must end

While security assessment services are gaining prominence alongside software products as a standard part of an overall security purchase, at least one vendor is offering virtual assessment services so that agencies don't even have to buy the software.

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Phoenix Site Proves Popular

A Phoenix city leader showed off his city's World Wide Web site and gave tips on how others can create one like it at a seminar titled 'Building Technology Strategies' at last month's 1999 Congress of Cities.

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Hearings to address tech-worker shortage

A job training work force commission will hold several public hearings this month to examine ways to increase the number of skilled information technology workers in the United States.

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Alaska Plans Statewide Telecom Program

Alaska, which spends more than $26 million annually on telecommunications products and services, plans to replace a hodgepodge of contracts with a single statewide telecom program.

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aperless contracting Here we are in the second week of 2000, and as far as I can determine, the Defense Department still uses paper by the boxcar to execute contracts, despite promises by John Hamre, deputy secretary of Defense, that the entire process would be digital. (See story, Page 68) Now, I know that man had a serious Year 2000 preoccupation, but one still wonders when the Pentagon will even come close to meeting this goal.

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Online Headhunter Eases Job Search

An online job search site in Texas is giving the unemployed another way to look for work and making the job hunt a little easier.

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Lessons learned

The Year 2000 problem, which came and went with only minor disruptions, may be remembered more for its positive impact on information technology than its catastrophic threat.

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San Diego County Unveils Child Abduction Web Site

In an effort to fight child abductions, the San Diego County, Calif., district attorney's office has launched a World Wide Web site that includes photos and other information on missing children from the office's longest-running cases.

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Companies Unveil E-Mall

Loislaw.com, an Internet provider of primary legal research, recently expanded its offering to include case law and statutes databases from five more states, now including a total of 45 states and Washington, D.C.

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Rand: Tech Aid Helping to Fight Crime

Rand, the public-policy think tank, has issued a report suggesting that federal technology assistance for state and local crime fighters is paying off, although many opportunities exist for enhancing the relationship.

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Camera Trained on Kentucky Development

Lexington, Ky., residents have the opportunity to keep an eye on a highly awaited construction project without leaving their homes.

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Utah Bridges Budget, IT Planning

As technology evolves and people's expectations change, state and local government information technology managers are faced with a widening gap between their budgets and the systems, equipment and services they want to buy.