COUNTY LINES
Cybervoting. Voters in two counties in Iowa, Woodbury and Johnson, got a taste of Internet voting during last month's elections.
Wireless calls create emergency services challenge
More than 100,000 times a day, emergency personnel answering 911 calls spend precious minutes determining the exact location of distressed callers who are using mobile phones. New technology could help public safety officials pinpoint callers' locations more quickly and accurately.
LAYER 3 GIGBIT ETHERNET SWITCHES
The wait is over'Gigabit Ethernet has come into its own. It is now a strong technology with a set of mature standards that can deliver 1-Gbps speed across networks on both fiber-optic and Category 5 copper media, and it's beginning to outpace asynchronous transfer mode for high-bandwidth networking.
A New York town finds benefits of spread-spectrum radio frequency
Spread-spectrum radio frequency is a fast-growing alternative for providing data connectivity between locations.
Phoenix looks up for water, power data
An extensive Phoenix-area public utility monitors its assets with a little help from above.
Missouri CIO steps down as NASIRE president; South Dakota's Otto Doll takes over position
Missouri's chief information officer, Mike Benzen, bid farewell as the 30th president of the National Association of State Information Resource Executives at NASIRE's annual conference in Indianapolis in October.
Caere's ImageAXS Pro manages still and multimedia images as database objects
Many software packages can catalog images on the hard drive, presenting thumbnail views of large photo collections. Most of them aim at general consumers. A package needs a little more to bring meaningful search capability into enterprise workgroups.
Virginia says yes to seat management
Virginia is initiating the first statewide seat management program.
Use ATM for IP messaging, Gigabit Ethernet for everything else
Not long ago, you might have chosen asynchronous transfer mode over Ethernet or Fast Ethernet because it was faster, more scalable and offered a higher quality of service.
Center will monitor global Y2K status
Large high-definition, flat-screen television monitors hover over the Year 2000 Information Coordination Center in Washington, displaying time zones around the world as if symbolizing the international magnitude of the center's purpose.
Site sends out word on Floyd relief
As Hurricane Floyd approached the North Carolina coastline in mid-September, the state's systems staff got the word from the governor and emergency office: Build a Web site.
Before buying a Layer 3 switch, check these specs
If you are shopping for a Layer 3 switch, first see if the switch meets all, or at least most, of the following criteria:
Powerful Palm VII's capabilities deal mobile users winning hand
If you're into whipping out technological trump cards, a Palm VII is the gadget to have.
With several added features, Microsoft Word is simpler to use
This review is part of an occasional series about programs in the recently released major office suites: Corel WordPerfect Office 2000, Lotus SmartSuite Millennium Edition 9.5 and Microsoft Office 2000.
Tape library company offers open SAN systems and services approach
Advanced Digital Information Corp., a maker of automated tape libraries, is taking what it calls an open-systems approach to storage area networks.
BUY LINES
Even though federal-state cooperative procurement hasn't gone anywhere, collaborative procurement practices among state and local governments are finding widespread favor and visibility. Last month I outlined interstate efforts to create electronic malls for a variety of products and services, including information technology.
Phoenix rises to systems challenge
Like the ancient phoenix, the nation's sixth-largest city sprang from the ashes'in this case, the ruins of an American Indian city that flourished in the desert from the eighth through the 14th centuries. The modern city of Phoenix is also thriving, having won several prizes in the past few years for excellence in managing information technology.
CIO OUTLOOK
How do you intelligently get rid of 16,000 old PCs? You can't plow them into a landfill.
Strong IT makes smooth flight for Phoenix
Danny Murphy, director of Phoenix's Information Technology Department, answered the call to 'Go West, young man' in 1983 when he became office systems administrator for the city.
FROM THE EDITOR
Now that the Microsoft Corp. antitrust case is moving into its final phase, government officials are starting to wonder how it will affect their software buying decisions.
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