Be prepared: Happy campers use GPS beacons
Boy Scouts in Vermont are adding an intergovernmental safety device to their backpacks. For the first time, personal locator beacons (PLBs) became available for public sale or rental July 1 in the Green Mountain State, and later in all 48 contiguous states.
Tennessee correction folks don't doubt TOMIS
Tennessee's Corrections Department was rapidly outgrowing the mainframe system it used to track 20,000 state inmates, 50,000 people on probation and parole, and 5,000 people in county jails.
Maryland MVA regroups after MSBlaster attack
Maryland's Motor Vehicle Administration is beginning an in-depth review in the wake of the MSBlaster worm that shut down its systems this month.
Dual-OS server saves maintenance costs for Columbus
Columbus, Ohio, is saving about $80,000 a month on maintenance with a Unisys ClearPath Plus CS7101 server. <br>
Illinois court office leapfrogs to 21st century
The last time the Cook County Circuit Court Clerk's Office upgraded its systems, 'Charlie's Angels' and 'The Hulk' were hits on the small screen, not at the box office.
NLM describes what's inside
It may promise whiter teeth and fresher breath, but what exactly is in that whitening toothpaste? And can it be harmful? The National Library of Medicine this summer launched a Web site that lets consumers look beyond marketing hype to find factual information about household products.
Security experts give e-voting a thumbs-down
Government, academic and industry officials voiced concerns about electronic voting systems this month at the Usenix security conference in Washington.
County's tech chief has a story to tell
Kimberly N. Ellison-Taylor has been chief technology officer of Prince George's County, Md., since January 2001. She also is deputy director of the county's new IT and Communications Office.
Delaware plans to put health records on cards
Sen. Thomas R. Carper (D-Del.) definitely prefers plastic to paper when it comes to health care.
Tennessee Corrections staff soon can avoid doubting TOMIS
The Tennessee Corrections Department is giving its clunky mainframe systems a new Web front end. <br>
Security researchers decry electronic voting systems
Fresh concerns from government, academic and industry officials about existing electronic voting systems.<br>
Consumers look to NLM site for household product data
The National Library of Medicine has launched a Web site that lets consumers look beyond the marketing hype to find factual information on household products.<br>
Oceanside, Calif., blocks tsunami of spam
In the spring of 1999, the Oceanside e-mail system was down for a full day because of the Melissa virus. The virus was a wake-up call for city leaders, who decided to invest $25,000 in SurfControl software.
Prairie pragmatism helps Minnesotans
Minnesota is a land of plenty: crystal clear lakes, fresh air, lutefisk (a dish of cod soaked in lye) and highly educated citizens.
CIOs push security, data sharing
Eighteen state CIOs came to Washington for two whirlwind days last month to meet with Congress as part of the third annual D.C. 'fly-in' sponsored by the National Association of State CIOs.
Virginia county fries spam with heuristic software
Arlington County, Va., officials didn't think they had much of a spam problem, or at least nothing out of the ordinary.
Delaware has one word for health care: plastic
Proposal would make Delaware a testbed for a tracking system that stores an individual's health care information on a plastic card.<br>
Kentucky center tests disaster response network
A research lab on the campus of the University of Louisville is working with teams from EPA, the FBI and the Secret Service and other government agencies to forge a secure network for sharing homeland security data.
PKI tools build user trust in Pennsylvania's JNet
Pennsylvania's integrated Justice Network, JNet, is upgrading its security with a managed public-key infrastructure application from VeriSign Inc. of Mountain View, Calif.
State CIOs chat up federal lawmakers
State CIOs come to Washington, talking about cybersecurity, homeland security, interoperability, spam and identity theft.<br>
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