Human error blamed for N.M. election glitch
NOV. 13—Election officials in New Mexico's Bernalillo County, the state's most populous area, found that 67,000 absentee and early-voting ballots were incorrectly counted following last Tuesday's presidential election.
Florida's elections Web site gets new servers to handle millions of hits
NOV. 9—Florida's State Department Division of Elections' Web site, at <a href="http://election.dos.state.fl.us/index.html"> election.dos.state.fl.us/index.html </a>, is getting about 200,000 hits per hour from Internet users checking for the latest presidential election ballot counts.
POWER USER
It's easy to forget that the mainstream computer era is only two decades old. I've been working with computers for twice that long, and electronic computers date back 60 years.
Maine city readies its systems for disaster
A bitter, destructive ice storm pummeled Maine's coastal city of Saco one afternoon in late September. Cars careened on glassy streets, telecommunications choked as utility poles toppled and icy falling branches slashed power lines, compounding the city's problems.
County tracks youthful offenders
A mother turned to Missouri's Callaway County juvenile justice system for help. She was hospitalized and had no one to care for her 14-year-old son. The county placed the child in foster care'a safe place for the boy to stay while his mother recuperated.
CIO OUTLOOK
A lot of technology these days is being thrown at law enforcement agencies, the courts and corrections departments. Yet the key ingredient'information'does not always flow among these organizations within a state, much less among states. The answer'and the challenge'is to establish a nationwide data-sharing architecture.
INTERNAUT
Are federal, state and local governments making headway on electronic commerce initiatives to accept taxes and fees online? And are governments closing the digital divide?
Network monitoring tool aims to improve uptime
Extreme Networks Inc. of Santa Clara, Calif., has a network monitoring tool that keeps an eye on the application layer performance of an enterprise network.
The tiny BlackBerry might be the ultimate pager
No matter how convenient wireless e-mail seems, it usually works only through a special address. A user has to figure out how to make the office e-mail system forward messages to that address.
EPA grants push states toward smooth reporting
The Environmental Protection Agency's One Stop Reporting program last month moved nine states closer to the agency's goal of having all 50 states participate in a plan to streamline environmental reporting.
COUNTY LINES
Neighborly feeling. That's what Chatham County, N.C., communications software company Blast Inc. and Red Hat Inc.'a provider of open source Internet infrastructure software'discovered when the county sought a firewall product to protect its server while providing secure Internet access.
Sheriff maps his county schools for crises
When school violence erupts, law enforcement response time is critical.
Courts' integration plans to get funding boost from Justice Department grants
Some state juvenile justice programs could receive federal funds by next year to integrate court systems.
State and fed CIOs pool resources to act on e-gov plans
A group of state and federal chief information officers agreed recently to form a task force to explore joint electronic-government projects.
NASIRE officials honor systems project managers at conference
The National Association of State Information Resources Executives last month honored smart systems projects.
Thin clients
Thin is in. Sales of thin clients have more than tripled since 1998, when 350,000 units were sold, according to a survey by International Data Corp., a market research company in Framingham, Mass. Sales reached 1.2 million last year, and most analysts predict the total to exceed 6 million annually by 2003.
Do-it-all peripherals really have to do it all'sharply
Multifunction devices have come of age in government offices that have to make do with less money and, in some cases, less space.
Fast Ethernet switches offer Web interface
Two Ethernet switches from Compex Inc. of Anaheim, Calif., have Web interfaces that offer diagnostic readings.
New version of Silanis' e-signature app can be used with XML forms
Silanis Technology Inc. of Montreal has released a version of its ApproveIt electronic signature application for use with Extensible Markup Language forms from JetForm Corp. of Ottawa.
Former Y2K czar John Koskinen takes post in D.C. government
John A. Koskinen, former chairman of the President's Council on the Year 2000 Conversion, has become deputy mayor and city administrator for the District of Columbia.
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