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Cabletron Launches $100 Million Network Equipment Giveaway
Networking equipment Cabletron Systems Inc. is giving away an estimated $100 million grab bag of network equipment to organizations in the government, education and nonprofit communities who need just a few components to get their networks up and running.
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Connecticut Legislature Launches 'CSPAN' on the Web
Connecticut's General Assembly last week began providing coverage of the state's House and Senate proceedings over the Internet.
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Work needed to effect true reform
Last month's revelation that pilots are flying dangerous missions over Kosovo without the benefit of some information technology that could save lives should serve as a strong reminder that procurement reform is a work in progress. As reported by Federal Computer Week, retired topranking military
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Roster Change
Arnold Bresnick, associate chief information officer at the Agriculture Department, will retire from government June 3. Bresnick also is chairman of the Information Technology Resources Board. Rep. Tom Davis (RVa.) last month received the Electronic Industries Alliance's first Congressional Techno
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Marketplace Web Extras
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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Marketplace
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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Agencies fight off 'Melissa' macro virus
Federal agencies last week found themselves doing battle with a wildly proliferating computer virus dubbed 'Melissa' that even managed to make its way on board a Navy ship. However, thanks in part to timely alerts and contingency planning, agencies managed to contain the damage. The Melissa macro v
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Federal Bytes
DESEVE HAS TO GO. At a House hearing last week before the Government Management, Information and Technology Subcommittee, subcommittee chairman Rep. Steve Horn (RCalif.) wanted to know whether Ed DeSeve soontobe former deputy director for management at the Office of Management and Budget w
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Communities
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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Agenda
April 6 Bringing WebtoHost Technology Into Focus. Burlington Marriott. Burlington, Mass. (Also April 20 in Washington, D.C.) The seminar is designed for organizations considering the integration of Webtohost technology into an existing network infrastructure. For more information, call (781) 27
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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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Fedwire Briefs
AT?#038; Amp;T files for lower FTS 2000 prices Officials at AT?#038; Amp;T Government Markets said they sent a proposal April 2 to the General Services Administration to cut the prices on AT?#038; Amp;T's FTS 2000 long distance telecommunications network. John Doherty, AT?#038; Amp;T's vice president of FTS 2000 and civilian markets, sa
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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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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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Federal Bytes
Y2K SEMANTICS. People always are asking Sen. Robert Bennett (RUtah), chairman of the Special Committee on the Year 2000 Technology Problem, whether everything will be all right come Jan. 1, 2000. It seems he has a stock answer, which he shared with attendees at a policy summit held by the Informat
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Set-Asides
Set of standards needed for egrants Federal agencies that want to receive grant applications from the public electronically should agree on a set of common data elements and develop one common user interface, according to a report issued this month. In its final report to the National Partnership
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Fedwire Briefs
DOE requests $8 million for infosec Energy Secretary Bill Richardson last week said that he is requesting another $8 million in the fiscal 2000 budget for a new computer security program to counter classified information leaks. The funds would be used to better protect DOE systems from outside atta
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Roster
Teresa Sorrenti, director of acquisition operations and electronic commerce at the General Services Administration's Federal Supply Service, has been nominated to be vice chairwoman for the United Nations/Economic Commission for Europe member states. The group is the forum for countries in North Am
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