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North Carolina Judges CourtFlow a Success
North Carolina is one of the few states in which criminal superior court judges rotate from district to district, forcing courtroom clerks in the state's 100 counties to be extraordinarily fast and accurate with the forms that require a judge's signature before a ruling can be enforced. Despite the
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PIII Entry-Level Servers: Great Performance at Great Prices
Testing by Andreas Uiterwijk and Pat McClung For our latest server roundup, the Test Center took a look at 500 MHz Intel Corp. Pentium III entrylevel workgroup servers. These fileandprint servers are not meant for departmentlevel use or critical data storage. Rather, they are basic workhorses g
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Officials tackle technology in procurement
Don Upson, Virginia's secretary of technology and Dick Thompson, the director of Maine's division of purchases, shared their views on the status and future of technology in state government procurement at last week's Fall Procurement Conference sponsored by the Coalition for Government Procurement.
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Managing E-Commerce and the Digital Content Dilemma
The rise of electronic commerce, for all its benefits, has created problems for state and local IT procurement officers. The question has been how to properly structure an agreement to purchase rights involving such nontangible products as software programs, databases and other electronic contents
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Schools Open for Business
While many students undertake business case studies involving theoretical marketing or distribution questions, students in an Orange County, Va., venture are busy meeting production quotas for the hundreds of personal computers they build during the school year and designing World Wide Web pages fo
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Campaign Finance Laws Stifle the Electronic Soapbox
As the increasingly wired Year 2000 political races heat up, we are faced with considerable uncertaintyand some ominous initial signalsover the application of campaign finance laws to campaignrelated speech and political activities on the Internet. So far, the Federal Election Commission (FEC) h
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Firm offering free filtering services
A Fort Lauderdale, Fla.based Internet company, this.com, is offering free filtering services to all schools throughout the U.S., with a special focus on narrowing the digital divide by targeting innercity and underprivileged school children.
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Communities
Va. Adopts Seat Management Strategy Virginia recently became the first state to adopt a plan to outsource the management of desktop computers at all levels of government. Virginia's Council of Technology Services has been working on the state's groundbreaking plan since November 1998 and now is wo
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Bloomington, Ind., Webcasting Candidate Forums
With election day approaching, voters in Bloomington, Ind., have a chance to meet candidates for city offices without leaving home and not because the political hopefuls are going doortodoor.
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N.C. putting e-services on fast track
North Carolina aims to puts its agencies on a fast track to deliver Internetbased services by developing a multipronged strategy the incorporates security, World Wide Web portals and other key components of electronic commerce on a statewide basis.
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Schools at Y2K risk in new year
An Education Department survey released Wednesday revealed that thousands of schools nationwide may not open on time next year unless significant progress is made in fixing computer systems and developing contingency plans for the Year 2000 problem.
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San Diego County Approves Outsourcing Contract
In an effort to create a virtual government, San Diego County will invest $644 million during seven years to revamp the county's computer and telephone systems, one of the largest technology spending plans to date by a local government.
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National 'Information Architecture' Grows Out of Criminal Justice Network
A national initiative to develop a way for government criminal justice organizations to share information electronically eventually could lead to a national information architecture available to agencies across all fields and at all levels of government, according to top state officials.
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Law enforcement tech funding OK'd
The House and Senate last week approved $250 million in funding for law enforcement technology as part of the $39 billion fiscal 2000 appropriations bill that funds the departments of Commerce, Justice and State.
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New Online Seminar Series for GIS Professionals Kicks Off Nov. 9
GeonetCom, a free online seminar series targeting professionals in government, telecommunications and utilities who are interested in learning more about geographic information systems (GIS) will hold its first session Nov. 9.
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Illinois Awards $75 Million Contract for Telecommunications Relay Service
The Illinois Telecommunications Access Corp. (ITAC), on behalf of the 75 localexchange carriers in the state, awarded a contract worth up to $75 million to Sprint for a telecommunications relay service (TRS) that will support Illinois' deaf, hardofhearing, deaf and blind, and speechdisabled consumers.
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Women Executives in State Government Selects IT Committee
Women Executives in State Government, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization of cabinetlevel state government executives from across the country, recently named New Jersey chief information officer Wendy Raymer as the organization's chairwoman.
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Illinois Attorney General Files Suit Against Four Online Pharmacies
Illinois Attorney General Jim Ryan last week filed lawsuits against four outofstate Internet companies for selling prescription drugs online without proper licensing, making the Illinois the third state, following Kansas and Missouri, to file lawsuits against online pharmacies.
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Pennsylvania Announces Lightning Manufacturing Project, Creation of 'Virtual Corporations'
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge joined representatives from industrial and technology companies last week in announcing the Lightning Manufacturing Project, which allows businesses to collaborate via the Internet as virtual corporations.
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