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Philadelphia Ready for Y2K, Hosts Community Conversation
Philadelphia's Year 2000 Readiness World Wide Web site shows that 100 percent of the city's missioncritical systems are Year 2000compliant as of this month, just in time for a Y2K Community Conversation lead by the chairman of the President's Council on Year 2000 Conversion.
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Urban counties leave rural ones behind in the technology race
Urban counties are leaving rural ones behind in the technology race, according to a study by the National Association of Counties.
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State CIOs and business officials discuss experience integrating e-commerce at forum
State chief information officers and business officials discussed their individual experiences with integrating electronic commerce at a recent electronic commerce forum.
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Idaho creates tech advisory council
Idaho Gov. Dirk Kempthorne signed an executive order creating a state Science and Technology Advisory Council and appointed Billy Shipp as the state's science and technology adviser.
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Utah Gov. Michael Leavitt offers a proposal to extend a three-year moratorium on Internet taxation
Utah Gov. Michael Leavitt, the National Governors Association chairman, yesterday offered a proposal to extend a threeyear moratorium on Internet taxation during which time a pilot tax program involving states and Internetbased retailers would be conducted.
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Pennsylvania will conduct an online auction for electricity services in the commonwealth
Pennsylvania on Tuesday will conduct an online auction for electricity services in the commonwealth, the eighth such auction performed there since March.
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Credit card purchases online are commonplace thanks to the advent of sites
The process of using a credit card to conduct business on the Internet has become commonplace thanks to the advent of sites such as Amazon.com and eBay. Now the idea has picked up support from state and local government officials doing online procurements.
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Washington, D.C., is the new home of an electronic-business innovation center
Washington, D.C., is the new home of an electronicbusiness innovation center, part of a global network of ebusiness centers, IBM Global Services Inc. announced Monday.
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States put Y2K freeze on computer buys
Some states have put moratoriums on computer purchases and upgrades until the Year 2000 datechange scare is well behind them.
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Tech expands beyond CIO
The recent explosive growth of the Internet and electronic commerce has changed the way states do business, and now plenty of people besides the chief information officer are interested in technology, according to the head of the National Electronic Commerce Coordinating Council.
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Virginia transfers IT contracts
Gov. Jim Gilmore this week announced the transfer of statewide information technology contracts from the Office of the Secretary of Administration to the Office of the Secretary of Technology (SoTech).
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Survey: Y2K, Funding and Credit Cards Are States' Top E-Commerce Challenges
The Year 2000 problem, funding issues and credit card fees are the top three challenges to states' electronic commerce policies, according to the results of two surveys released at the National Electronic Commerce Coordinating Council conference.
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Maryland Department Weathers Paper Storm
Maryland's Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulations, which is responsible for issuing occupational licenses, was lost in a paper storm including a backlog of about 30,000 renewals, according to a department official. But that all changed after it took its renewal processes online.
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Half of nation's 911 centers are Y2K-ready
Only 50 percent of the nation's 911 centers are prepared to handle the millennium date change, according to the Clinton administration's final Year 2000 report released Wednesday.
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University Teams with NASA
The president of San Jose State University and the director of NASA's Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., last week signed a memorandum pairing the entities in future research and development, technology commercialization and education partnerships.
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North Dakota Installs PKI
North Dakota recently selected Entrust Technologies Inc. to provide a publickey infrastructure for state government operations to create a secure environment for its employees to access confidential information on North Dakota residents.
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Ezgov launches nationwide portal
Ezgov.com on Tuesday unveiled a nationwide World Wide Web portal that provides direct links to government services at the federal, state and local levels, including tax information, election data and applications that enable citizens to pay parking tickets and conduct other transactions online.
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Arkansas Medicaid Program Wins Vendor State's Quality Achievement Award
Officials from numerous state Medicaid agencies Tuesday warned members of a congressional panel that more funding and revamped technology are needed to combat the billions of dollars lost every year as a result of fraud.
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Michigan school pilots Ethernet network
The nearly 7,500 students in kindergarten through 12th grade in Michigan's Rockford public schools soon will be using a converged Ethernet network that supports voice, data and video services, as part of a pilot project unveiled Tuesday at Meadow Ridge elementary school.
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