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Back from the Brink Apple 'Thinks Different' With New Announcements By Joshua Dean Apple Computer Inc. recently unleashed a string of new product offerings, many geared toward computer lab clusters of users and workgroups. The Cupertino, Calif.based company made it clear on a recent product tour t
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Dual Pentium IIs Pack Power into Servers
Testing by Andreas Uiterwijk And Chip Pettirossi If you are looking for a PC server with plenty of horsepower and storage space, a 450 MHz Intel Corp. Pentium II dualprocessor system may be the answer. This class of workgroup servers is designed for file storage and data safety. However, the dual
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Linux Offers LowCost Alternative to UnixorWindowsNT Dilemma State and local government managers may be catching on to the advantages of Linux, a opensource operating system that caught fire in 1999 as an inexpensive way for technology managers to broaden their selection of operating systems be
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States Shop for OBI Solutions
State and local government agencies that have taken the first steps toward Internetbased procurement know that even basic electronic commerce applications have the potential to cut bid times, lower costs and improve interagency cooperation. Massachusetts, for one, claims it can lower its transacti
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Georgia Network Caters to Kids
When schools close for the summer, hungry children are in particular danger of slipping through the public safety net. Communities often must redouble their efforts to find and feed children who receive free or reducedprice meals through the public school system but have no guarantees during the s
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DenverGov: Home of 250 New Webmasters Denver recently unveiled a World Wide Web site designed to secure the city a lead in the pack of municipal governments racing to deploy services to the Internet. The site, at www.denvergov.org, is staffed by 250 city and county agency employees designated as c
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Backup Plan for Y2K State/Federal Interfaces The president's Year 2000 office said almost all of the states were making 'excellent progress' in preparing their federal program interfaces for the millennium date change. A report by the President's Council on Y2K Conversion said that while 48 states
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Support the New Tax Moratorium
The arrival of electronic commerce means that all the trappings of businessinvestment capital, shopping, bidding, buying and selling (in short, money)are flowing more often over networks. Not just over big networks between established centers of trade but also smaller network capillaries that con
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Virginia Governor Ignores Internet Tax Lawsuit, Sets June Meeting
Defacto leader of a new 19member Advisory Commission on Electronic Commerce, Gilmore is charging forward with plans to hold an initial meeting of the group, which will ultimately set the pace for future taxation of Internetbased commerce.
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CIOs Map Out Priorities
Gathered here for the National Association of State Information Resource Executives midyear conference, state chief information officers yesterday registered their wish list of issues for an information technology platform being pulled together by the nation's governors
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Smaller Communities Weak Link in Y2K Chain
Identifying the nation's smaller communities and local governments as possibly the weakest link in the chain of Year 2000 awareness, President Clinton's Year 2000 czar, John Koskinen, today unveiled plans for a summer campaign to promote awareness at that level.
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Connecticut Rep. Questions EDS Deal
Connecticut Speaker of the House Moira Lyons (D) recently sent a laundrylist of questions about the state's billiondollar deal now pending with Electronic Data Systems Corp. Among Lyons' concerns are cost savings, privacy, contractor past performance and payment issues associated with the deal.
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Clinton Administration to Develop Y2K Contingency Plans
The Clinton administration announced that it will develop contingency plans to keep federal/state social programs operational in case stateowned computers fail because of the Year 2000 computer problem.
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Is Everybody Happy?
Not everyone is happy with the outsourcing idea, especially those representing the county's IT employees. Mary Grillo, executive director of Local 2028 of the Service Employees International Union, which represents 60 employees affected by the transition, believes the county was too hasty in its de
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Buying Strategies
In an era of rockbottom computer prices, rapid technology introductions and electronic catalogs, no one could blame state and local purchasing officials for going directly to manufacturers for their information technology equipment. Nonetheless, most buyers are sticking with hardworking local res
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Hartford Arms Citizens With Crime-Fighting Tools
Don Noel has owned a home in Hartford, Conn.'s Blue Hills neighborhood for nearly 34 years, but don't mistake him for a man who lives in the past. Noel is well aware of the modernday crimes that have permeated the neighborhood, including robbery, larceny, assault, auto theft and drug dealing. He a
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The New Auction Block
It was just a matter of time before an Internetsavvy state or local government became bold enough to get in on the cyberauction frenzy. After all, millions of Americans each day click on popular World Wide Web sites to buy everything from Beanie Babies to baseballs slugged by the likes of Mark McG
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Going, Going, Gone
Marketplace Going, Going, Gone Pennsylvania's Department of General Services has inked a deal with Internet auctioning company FreeMarkets OnLine Inc. to test popular online auctions in the world of government purchasing. During the threemonth trial, Pennsylvania will conduct three or four live cy
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On the VPN Trail
The Kansas Bureau of Investigation has become the first state law enforcement agency in the nation to launch a virtual private network to exchange highly sensitive files with the state's police departments over the Internet.
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