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Calif. halts contract with Oracle
California has terminated six-year, $95 million enterprise license agreement with Oracle Corp.
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Tax system upgrade kept in-house
Pennsylvania is integrating its own tax systems as a way to save millions of dollars and keep a customer focus
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Housing agency eases filing
Massachusetts' Web-FACTS enables hundreds of management firms to file financial statements online
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System serves as bioterror sentry
New York City health department system analyzes ER data for trends that may indicate disease outbreaks
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Cable modems, access donated
Toshiba, Cox Communications help nonprofit agency connect disadvantages students to the Internet
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Feds ink deal for info sharing with states
The federal government will begin exchanging information with state CIOs about potential cyberattacks
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City's system tracks EMS fleet
New automatic vehicle location system enables Cleveland EMS dispatchers to track ambulances
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Pa. plans central voter database
Accenture to oversee the implementation of Pennsylvania's Statewide Uniform Registry of Electors
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Police, students combat cybercrime
Police are teaming up with students at the University of Tulsa to help investigate and stop cybercrime
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States called to action on security
Report from NASCIO promotes information technology security as a way of life and recommends courses of action
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Chicago tracking fleet with GIS
City's huge fleet of government vehicles will be watched over by a Web-based geographic information system
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Cybercorps to extend to states
The national strategy to protect cyberspace will extend a federal scholarship-for-service program to the state level
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Mississippi goes to AOL@School
Free software is being sent to all public schools in Mississippi that will include AOL@School's state focus feature
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Laguna Beach puts GIS on Web
California city makes its geographic information system available to the public to help local redevelopment
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Lessons learned after Sept. 11
Public safety agencies in the Washington, D.C., area did not have many of the interoperability problems reported in New York
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Fixing a communications breakdown
Homeland security puts focus on interoperability of public safety systems
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Working together
A core group of about 12 people has been working on the Dark Screen exercise for the past year
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Cyberterrorism drill set
Operation Dark Screen to help government, industry prepare for attacks
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Davis pushes for grant tune-up
The federal government should revamp the grants process that delivers funds for state and local IT systems that support human services programs, officials said
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