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How Much Should Computer Support Services Cost Your School District?
The Chicago Board of Education has no method for gauging what it should pay for information technology support services.
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Cops Have Trouble Funding Wireless Efforts, Need More Room on Radio
Cops Have Trouble Funding Wireless Efforts, Need More Room on Radio
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White House Turns Attention to Local Government Y2K Crisis; Forms Federal Council
White House Turns Attention to Local Government Y2K Crisis; Forms Federal Council
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Volume-Licensing Service Keeps Software Police at Bay
If you are having difficulty keeping track of your agency's software licenses, you might want to take a look at a service from ASAP Software Express, Buffalo Grove, Ill., which is designed to make it easier to identify, track and audit large software inventories.
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Technology Is Tough Sell for State Budget Surpluses
Colorado's Andre Pettigrew calls 1997 a year of lost opportunities for state information technology investments. As executive director of the state's Personnel and General Support Services Department, Pettigrew watched in dismay as the state government returned $139 million in excess state funds to
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NLC Recognizes 'Electronic Community' in Fairfax, Va.
NLC Recognizes 'Electronic Community' in Fairfax, Va.
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Plans axed for central federal role
In a longawaited report the Department of Health and Human Services has backed off its intention to recommend to Congress a federally managed computer system to track welfare recipients. Over the holidays and with little fanfare HHS delivered to the House Ways and Means Committee's Subcommitte
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Va. Sheriff's Office Posts Electronic Neighborhood Watch
Va. Sheriff's Office Posts Electronic Neighborhood Watch
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CertCo Leverages Utah Digital Signature Deal
When Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt signed a proclamation with the state's first official electronic signature last November it symbolized the coming together of years of work to establish a legal and technical framework for electronic commerce in the state.
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Labor agencies strong-arm congress for y2k funds
The U.S. Labor Department has sent off the only set of checks the federal government will probably distribute expressly to help state agencies pay for their Year 2000 software conversion work.
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Indiana WIC Awards $3.5 million contract
Indiana WIC Awards $3.5 million contract
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Va. Sheriff's Office Posts Electronic Neighborhood Watch
Va. Sheriff's Office Posts Electronic Neighborhood Watch
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Bell Atlantic and Cabletron Sign Internet Pact With N.H. Schools
The New Hampshire governor's office and Education Department recently announced a $5 million pact with Bell Atlantic and Cabletron
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Federal Program Designed to 'Nudge' GIS Development
Perhaps nowhere in the United States is there more of a need for consistent land mapping than in Alaska which is twice the size of Texas and is inhabited by an average of one person per square mile.
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California to Choose Between Four for CALNET Award
California to Choose Between Four for CALNET Award
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GSA unveils Year 2000 database
In an effort to provide assistance to federal information technology personnel boggled by the number of commercial software offerings now touted as Year 2000compliant the General Services Administration this week will unveil its Year 2000 COTS Product Database. The database which officially opens
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