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Java-GIS Going Mainstream
Autodesk Inc., the PC software company, recently asked a cadre of geographic information system (GIS) usersincluding many from state and local government shopsto spend an imaginary $100 on new capabilities they would like to see in a World Wide Webbased mapping package. Many put their money on J
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Cutting Your Agency's Video and Phone Costs
Following their success in improving data networking systems, Internet technology developers are tackling how the Internet can capably handle other forms of traffic, including voice and video communications. The emergence of services such as Internetbased telephony and video promises to enable sta
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The Next Big Deal
For one San Diego team, the ultimate symbol of success won't be a World Series trophy or a Super Bowl ring. Instead, for San Diego County's information technology 'Tiger Team,' victory will be a 10year contract with a leading IT services firm to economize, modernize and manage the county's IT and
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Florida Supreme Court Weighs IP Videoconferencing
Judges at the Florida Supreme Court in Tampa must regularly travel to satellite offices 60 miles away in Lakeland, Fla., to discuss casework involved in some of the 5,000 appeals that the court examines each year. To cut down on the trips, which require the judges to travel on Florida's busy Inters
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Tool Scours Network for Y2K Compliance
Cabletron Systems has teamed with Opticom Inc., a developer of network reporting systems, to market a tool that state and local agencies can use to easily determine whether their networks are ready for the century date change. The tool, Y2KView, is the latest module of Manchester, N.H.based Optico
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This Month's State and Local Government IT Developments
Clinton 2000 Budget Pours Millions into Civic Technology The White House's fiscal 2000 budget underscored several programs that rely heavily on technology spending, with community 'smart growth' programs, hightech crimefighting and education technology programs the clear winners. Clinton proposed
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Shopping for Handhelds
If you want computer power on the go, you've got a lot of alternatives that are compact, lightweight and affordable. From palmtops to near notebooks, today's handheld computers meet the needs of most mobile government executives. The term 'handheld" refers to machines that vary dramatically in cos
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Rural Schools May Be Losing Out in Battle for E-Rate Dollars
Rural Schools May Be Losing Out in Battle for ERate Dollars
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Moynihan Bill Injects Funding for State Y2K U.S. Sen. Daniel P. Moynihan (DN.Y.) introduced legislation to set up a matching grant to provide relief to state governments struggling to prepare computer systems for the Year 2000. The Y2K State and Local Government Assistance Programs Act of 1999 wou
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Marketplace
For the EBuyer, EDI Getting Easier The key to California's plans to launch a system that state workers can use to purchase equipment and services via the Internet may be technology that Sunnyvale, Calif.based Ariba Technologies Inc. has developed to make electronic data interchange (EDI) applicat
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People Skills
Wendy Rayner knows firsthand what happens to states that let the technology skills of their employees languish. Ultimately, states that scrimp on technology training find that many of their workers just don't have the skills to do their jobs. 'We haven't kept up with bringing the skills along,' sai
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Taming Enterprise Data
In state and local governments, a consolidated view of all the data and records generated by individual constituents is a distant, idealized goal. Yet it is a service vision that holds a powerful grasp on government executives. Like corporations that have integrated large chunks of customer data, p
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Raising Tennessee Kids
Tennessee faced a formidable management and technology task two years ago when it decided to consolidate six children's services agencies into one. Perhaps the most basic and overwhelming task was combining its myriad legacy welfare systems into one workable, streamlined solution. So the state's ne
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Link to Learn
Last spring, Lucretia Hoffman became a certified Novell administrator. Now she'll either push on for her Novell engineer certification or switch over and study 'those cool geographic maps,' she said, referring to geographic information systems. Not bad for a young woman who's 17 years old and still
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