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CIO advises 'follows the sun' on Y2K
California chief information officer Elias Cortez's Year 2000 strategy involves a Follow the Sun program to track the global impact of the date change up to 12 hours in advance.
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CIO outlines e-commerce, digital divide plans
North Carolina chief information officer Rick Webb joined lawmakers and state agency representatives here at the recent National Electronic Commerce Coordinating Council conference to outline the state's approach to electronic commerce, state S.B. 222, and the digital divide.
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Chicago mayor Richard Daley revealed his Year 2000 strategy
Flanked by representatives from key city agencies, Chicago mayor Richard Daley revealed his Year 2000 strategy Thursday at a news conference at the city's Y2K Command Center.
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Web site enables users to search more than 27 million tobacco industry documents
A World Wide Web site unveiled Thursday will enable users to conduct searches of more than 27 million tobacco industry documents from one centralized source. Donna Shalala, secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, made the announcement in conjunction with the Great American Smokeout.
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Texas State Comptroller Carole Keeton Rylander launched e-Texas
Texas State Comptroller Carole Keeton Rylander on Tuesday launched eTexas, a commission that will oversee 14 separate task forces charged with finding new ways to use technology to streamline government services.
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DC Mayor Conducts First Meeting of E-Commerce Task Force
Washington, D.C., Mayor Anthony Williams held the first meeting of the U.S. Conference of Mayors (USCM) Task Force on Electronic Commerce and Internet Technology Tuesday, where city leaders heard analysis on Internet taxation and other issues.
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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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Federal Bytes
The real power of PowerPoint. During the recent Milcom '99 conference in Atlantic City, N.J., Army Gen. John Coburn, commander of the Army Materiel Command, borrowed a word of advice from legendary Gen. George Patton when he warned the crowd of onlookers about the dangers of presentation fatigue wh
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Y2K freeze
After spraying for bugs, you don't open the doors and windows. That's the advice the federal government has decided to follow with the Year 2000 bug. Many agencies, having spent billions of dollars fixing missioncritical systems for the Year 20000 computer problem, have barred or severely restrict
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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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