CIO who cut his teeth on state systems moves to EPA
After almost 25 years of managing information technology in state governments, Edwin A. Levine has jumped headfirst into the federal sector.
Ohio faces tough IT task in merger of agencies and networks
Two Ohio agencies have merged, creating a big systems integration challenge.
Tax processing system upgrade delays refunds
This has not been a good year for the North Carolina Revenue Department. A shortage of employees, combined with a heavy snowfall in January that kept some workers home for several days, got the state off to a slow start in processing 1999 income tax returns.
Layer 2 switches
If your legacy Ethernet LANs are stretched to the breaking point under the weight of new users, servers and high-end applications, try replacing old Ethernet hubs with one or more 10/100-Mbps Ethernet switches.
New mobile chip clocks 600 MHz
Three new ultralight portable PCs powered by Intel's 600-MHz mobile Pentium III SpeedStep processor have a battery-saving work mode in which the CPU draws less than 1 watt.
LAB NOTES
Aladdin's lamp. The GCN Lab recently heard about a hand-powered device that recharges the battery of a wireless phone.
Integration with software is key to success with digital signatures
What's an electronic signature, and how do you make one? It depends.
COUNTY LINES
Cleaning up. Pennsylvania's Cambria County is using palmtop computers to direct its waste management workers and to track recycling operations in the field. County officials estimate that they have saved thousands of dollars and at least 12 hours of employee time weekly.
Lighten up your antics on the road
A good presentation can help get projects approved, as every government manager knows.
State's IT team upends systems practices
Donald Upson, who became Virginia's first secretary of technology in May 1998, learned the subtleties of government computing as the top aide to former New York Republican congressman Frank Horton and as minority staff director for the House Government Operations Committee. He also worked as a vice president of strategic planning for Litton PRC Inc.
CYBER EYE
One of the toughest questions in securing information systems has always been: How much security is enough?
Better tax collection to fund overhaul
Virginia's Taxation Department is overhauling its computer system in a five-year project with a special wrinkle for the commonwealth: The $123 million cost of its contract with American Management Systems Inc. of Fairfax, Va., will be paid from formerly uncollectable taxes.
Traffic on fiber-optic networks hits a speed bump
Network managers who want to get more speed out of their existing fiber-optic infrastructure are about to run into a technical speed bump.
Monitoring app WhatsUp Gold helps keep your network from going down
WhatsUp Gold may sound like something Bugs Bunny would say, but it's actually a program that monitors your network and lets you know when a network resource such as a fax server or Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol server goes down.
POWER USER
Ever wonder whether other government organizations are spending less but getting more out of Web technology than your office does?
Cisco Catalyst switches give users flexibility
The Cisco Catalyst 2900 XL series is a line of managed 10/100-Mbps auto-sensing switches that provide network design flexibility.
States begin accounting system revamps
State and local governments are preparing to report to a higher standard. Last year, the Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) established more sharply focused financial reporting guidelines for state and local governments [<i>GCN/State & Local</i>, October 1999, Page 1].
Camp connects blind students, technology
Much of the technology that has fueled the current employment boom has relied on visual cues'words and pictures on a computer monitor.
Smaller Web site will swallow the larger one
The most visible change stemming from the merger of Ohio's Bureau of Employment Services and Human Services Department will be on the Web.
Wireless system passes the tornado test
If the tornadoes that struck Tarrant County, Texas, in March had come a year earlier, the results might have been strikingly different. But thanks to a digital wireless communications system installed late last year, the county's Sheriff's Department was able to help its 1.3 million residents weather the storm.
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