CapShare stores 50 pages
The CapShare 920 portable e-copier from Hewlett-Packard Co. shaves the words off a standard page in about six seconds and stores up to 50 pages for wireless transmission to a desktop or handheld PC or a printer.
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FAA's first Y2K director leaves job to return to Air Traffic Services
Ray Long, the Federal Aviation Administration's first year 2000 program director, has gone back to his roots in Air Traffic Services.
GAO: Savings from reform program overstated
The Clinton administration has inflated the savings estimates coming from National Partnership for Reinventing Government efforts, the General Accounting Office has reported.
Treasury devises an eight-part plan
The Treasury Department's new information technology work force improvement implementation strategy aims to infuse the agency's work force with technological training and new talent.
HUD IT office lets nothing slip through the cracks
The Department of Housing and Urban Development's 2-month-old Information Technology Reform Office scrutinizes all aspects of capital investment planning for IT projects.
Programs offer valuable lesson in how to bring technology resources to schools
Imagine a classroom of Ohio 10th-graders conducting an interactive videoconferencing session with a history professor at Ohio State University and a representative at the state General Assembly.
BUY LINES
We're in the home stretch now for year 2000. Even a cursory tour of the Web suggests that state and local governments have accelerated their efforts tremendously in the past five months since I last surveyed the problem. So, as the year draws to a close and in keeping with the theme of this issue, I'll take one last look at the state of 2000 readiness preparations in a few selected states and municipalities.
PUBLIC SAFETY
Municipalities that have tested and readied 911 systems expect things to work just fine on New Year's, unless citizens get itchy fingers and dial the emergency number just to see what happens.
INTERNAUT
It has been more than a year since the Federal Trade Commission issued its scathing report about online privacy, posted at <a href="http://www.ftc.gov/reports/privacy3/index.htm">www.ftc.gov/reports/privacy3/index.htm</a>.''FTC blasted
GAO audit finds buying policies at the IRS are lax
The IRS lacks adequate policies and procedures to manage property and equipment buys, according to a General Accounting Office report.
Teen-ager admits he hacked Web pages, prosecutors say
Nineteen-year-old Eric Burns, whose hacker alias is Zyklon, last week admitted to breaking into Web pages posted by NATO, Vice President Al Gore's office and the U.S. Information Agency.
Navy service offers app to identify child porn
The Naval Criminal Investigative Service is offering law enforcement officials a beta version of its home-grown application to identify child pornography on computers seized at crime scenes.
FAA and GSA do some final date code testing
Branches of the Federal Aviation Administration and General Services Administration have run their final year 2000 readiness check for several mission-critical systems through the services of a Burlington, Mass., contractor.
Seat management duties mean musical chairs for her priorities
If there were one word to describe Gabrielle James during her workday, it would have to be 'flexible,' she says.
He's the prop man for 1960s weapons systems
In the World War II movie 'The Great Escape,' James Garner plays an officer assigned to get supplies for 70 prisoners of war for an escape from a German prison camp.
This geospatial data manager spreads the wealth of EPA data
David R. Wolf came to the Environmental Protection Agency nine years ago because, he said, 'This is where the action is in geography.'
Finding IT professionals can be a full-time job
When W. Frederick Thompson began his job 18 months ago, it was to help build the Treasury Department's next-generation information technology work force, a task that could affect 9,300 employees. But his purview may soon expand to some 150,000 workers.
Marine learns ins, outs of systems management
CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C.'During his 16-year Marine Corps career, Maj. Lance M. Bryant has transformed himself from an infantry officer to an information systems management officer.
By-the-book planning eases systems readiness tasks
Regina Lawrence's workday begins before dawn at her home in rural southern Maryland, near the shores of the Chesapeake Bay, a world away from the hurly-burly of Washington.
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