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D.C. Mayor, FCC Chairman Help Open New Tech Center
Washington, D.C., Mayor Anthony Williams and Federal Communication Commission chairman William Kennard were on hand Monday at the grand opening of a computer training facility that will serve the nation's capital.
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N.C. Web Site Aids Floyd Cleanup
When Hurricane Floyd bore down on the North Carolina coast last month, Gov. James Hunt asked his information technology department to provide the state's citizens with a single Internet point of contact for information on the storm and its impact.
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Colorado Appoints Secretary of Technology
Colorado Gov. Bill Owens recently announced that Marc Holtzman would assume fulltime leadership of the Office of Innovation and Technology (OIT) as Secretary of Technology and relinquish his post as head of the state's International Trade Office.
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Tech Corps-DC has students manage school LAN
Tech CorpsDC, a technical support volunteer program, is unveiling an initiative that gives students at a Washington, D.C., high school the responsibility of managing and maintaining their school's localarea network.
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Securing the Link
To meet a federal mandate to reduce welfare rolls, the Florida Department of Labor and Employment Security needed to find a way to transmit data securely with new privatesector partners while allowing them access to internal databases.
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Notebook Class of '99 Earns High Honors
You couldn't ask for much more from the notebook computer industry. Since the Test Center's annual notebook roundup last fall, vendors have improved nearly every aspect of their systems, from processor speeds and hard drive capacity to system weight and battery lifeall while dropping the average p
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Smart Pay, SmarTrip
When it comes to metropolitan rail systems, the Washington, D.C., Metro ranks as a relative newcomer, having arrived on the Capitol City scene about 20 years ago. But that hasn't stopped it from grabbing the lead in the race with other urban areas to find better and faster ways to move passengers t
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Texas Speeders Pay Fines Via Net Texas traffic offenders are racing to use ECourt Inc.'s new online court payment system
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IBM Puts a Shine on DB2 Enterprise Edition
One normally doesn't go around casually upgrading a database or migrating from one database to another. Usually, there has to be a compelling reason to consider such a major change to what are considered core services. IBM Corp.'s latest update to the venerable DB2 database presents compelling reas
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Iowa Internet strategy earns award
Vice President Al Gore bestowed Iowa with the Hammer award for its IOWAccess Internet strategy, which gives state residents greater access to information services and provides connections to federal, state and local governments.
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Virginia to outsource management of computers
Virginia last week became the first state to adopt a plan to outsource the management of desktop computers at all levels of government.
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Cracking Down on Identity Theft
It sounds like something dreamed up by a science fiction writer, but the practice of identity theftusing a person's driver's license or Social Security number to gain access to his or her credit accountshas become the country's fastestgrowing method of fraud.
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Schools As Information Businesses
As schools become increasingly wired to the outside world, they are busy testing the innumerable educational applications the new information infrastructure is bringing to the classroom. But school administrators would do well to heed the financial implications of the advancing classroom network. A
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Digital Signatures Key to Cross-Governmental Biz
The General Services Administration last month awarded the first in a series of contracts for publickey infrastructure services and products that states will be able to use in their dealings with the federal government.
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...and Internet Access for All
In the Midwest, a large urban police department has set up an online hot line for people to report drug activity. But what if residents in the target neighborhoods don't own PCs? Well, they can go to the library. One Southern California city allows residents to apply for lowincome housing over th
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Breaking Down the Language Barrier
By default, the city's World Wide Web site comes up in the predominant language of the region, but with a click of an easytolocate button, viewers can switch to a version of the site in another language.
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Identity Theft
They could have been anybody's grandparents: a sweet couple in their 70s happily enjoying their golden years. Instead, this retired Air Force officer and his wife spent at least part of 1999 sitting in front of the Maryland legislature, testifying about a crime so traumatic that they refused to pro
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Changing Gears
Thanks to a comprehensive new accounting rule, state and local IT shops finishing up Year 2000 compliance work soon will find themselves faced with a fresh challenge as they help to implement a whole new approach to the process of governmental financial reporting.
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Florida Pioneers EDI-based Purchase Card
Mostly a curiosity just a couple of years ago, the use of purchase cards appears to be an inexorable part of the future of procurement for state and local governments.
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