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Minnesota carves e-recruiting path

An online resume application accelerated hiring and cut costs for the state.

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Alaska moves documents to Web

Over the last two years, the state Recorder's Office has made its mainframe indexing system accessible over the Web and is slowly putting more documents online.

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A lesson in perseverance

Minnesota's Kelley finds lawmakers are finally catching on to the importance of tech

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Maryland tech incubator opens

The Chesapeake Innovation Center, a technology incubator for start-up firms developing homeland security technology, has 80 percent of its space filled.

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NIC offers Web-in-a-Box for state agencies

The company that runs Oklahoma's online portal wants to sell the product to other agencies.

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Maricopa upgrades storage

After evaluating several products, the county's Network Solutions Group settled on CommVault Systems' Galaxy software.

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Massachusetts updates procurement

The state government is adding more features to its Web-based purchasing system.

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Arkansas launches insurance portal

Arkansas's Employee Benefits Division is building a Web-based system that will enable active and retired state and public school employees to view, enroll in and manage their health care plans and life insurance program online

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House to consider E911 office

Before year's end, congressmen will likely decide whether to establish an office in the Commerce Department to speed implementation of emergency response systems.

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Fairfax tax cheat reports go online

Virginia's Fairfax County now has a site for people to report cars suspected of evading the vehicle tax.

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Feds give $44 million for rural broadband

The Agriculture Department announced grants for 118 projects.

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Arkansas launches insurance portal

The state is building a system to let state and public school employees go online to manage their health care and life insurance plans

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Permit site tops usage goal

In the year since a regional e-government alliance in Washington's King County launched a permit portal, online usage has exceeded the group's expectations.

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Feds award $150M for responder systems

Homeland Security and Justice department agencies administer Interoperable Communications Technology Grant program.

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Md. to buy controversial Diebolds

State officials have decided to buy electronic voting machines from Diebold Corp. despite concerns that the machines could be open to tampering or fraud.

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Texas axes education tech unit

Budget cuts claimed the 16-person educational technology division of the Texas Education Agency.

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Creative funding

CIO group drafts report detailing unique approaches to securing funds

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Miami upgrades Web portal

Miami-Dade County's new site incorporates a new content management tool, allows for better personalization, and offers users e-mail subscriptions on 30 topics.

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Grant cut threatens Fla. network

The future of the network that provides Internet access for Florida's school districts is in doubt.

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NSA, DOD push Common Criteria for civilians

The security and defense community wants civilian agencies to require that all their IT products pass Common Criteria tests.