Subpoena threat by lawmakers surprises Oracle
Oracle Corp. officials have expressed shock at a subpoena threat from the California Legislature in connection with a hearing this month on a controversial $95 million software license the company negotiated with the state.
Cops rev training with 3-D slides
They got no kick in Champaign when police officers booted up tired old Microsoft PowerPoint educational slide shows'that is, not until the Illinois city's police department started adding 3-D talking characters to the slides.
County speeds disease data with LabWorks
In light of last fall's anthrax attacks, health centers in communities nationwide are searching for the fastest possible way to report lab test results.
Washington wishes upon a star to find new CIO
Washington Gov. Gary Locke announced last month the appointment of Stuart M. McKee, the former vice president of Walt Disney Internet Group, as the state's CIO.
Oracle is 'stunned' by Calif. subpoena request
Oracle Corp. officials said they were shocked by a subpoena threat from the California Legislature in connection with a June hearing on a controversial $95 million software license the company negotiated with the state [<a href="http://www.gcn.com/21_11/news/18682-1.html">www.gcn.com/21_11/news/18682-1.html</a>].
Arizona cops can put suspects in a digital lineup
Arizona's law en-forcers used to have plenty of mug shots, but they were scattered in desk drawers and file cabinets.
Thin clients extend youth outreach
Last month Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.) presented a check for $500,000 to Montgomery County executive Douglas M. Duncan to fund a pilot program to bridge the digital divide in the Maryland county.
Calif., Oracle set to nix license deal
The scandal surrounding a $95 million sole-source contract California negotiated with Oracle Corp. is layered like an onion. Just when the auditors, state investigators and lawmakers looking into the buy think they've gotten down to the last layer, they find another underneath.
Software helps Lancaster, Pa., aid its homeless
Lancaster County, Pa., was where the 1985 film 'Witness' was shot. But the pastoral farms and fields depicted in the movie harbor a hidden population: the homeless.
Calif. IT department all shook up over contract audit
California Gov. Gray Davis yesterday accepted the resignation of Arun Baheti, California's director of e-government, and suspended state CIO Elias Cortez in the wake of an audit of a $95 million, six-year enterprise software contract with Oracle Corp.
City inventories telecom gear
When Lon Faison became supervisor of the Tempe, Ariz., telecommunications department, he found that the city's equipment inventory was stored in a dark, out-of-the-way place'one city employee's head.
Calif. town slices and dices its criminal data
Police in Westminster, Calif., had plenty of crime data. But the crime database couldn't distinguish between an auto theft and a joy ride, said Lt. Derek Marsh, director of administrative services.
Downtime is not an option in a Pa. county
With a staff of 46, the Montgomery County, Pa., Information Service Department supports 2,000 applications in 47 county departments at 16 locations. It is using fault-tolerant servers from NEC Computers Inc. of Boxborough, Mass., to host applications in four areas for which uptime is crucial: elections, jail management, imaging, and print and file services.
Expose in Maryland
Maryland last week launched its first sex offender registry site, at <a href="http://www.dpscs.state.md.us/sor">www.dpscs.state.md.us/sor</a>.
State attorney brings PDAs to Calif. courts
Nikki Colbert was tired of lugging a notebook PC from courtroom to courtroom. As a senior legal analyst with California's Office of the Attorney General, she traveled from Sacramento to San Diego and almost every city in between to give presentations.
At postal site, online service elicits no purr
Since 1997 I've reported on government efforts to improve service by using the Internet. Ah, the Internet. How efficient and convenient! How much money it will save us all. Recently I encountered online government as a citizen-user. I found one service saved me neither time nor money. But it did serve up headaches.
GAO urges coordination of homeland security
In testimony last month before the House Government Reform Committee, Patricia A. Dalton, director of strategic issues at the General Accounting Office, exhorted Congress to improve relations among federal, state and local governments to better protect the nation against terrorist attacks.
New in New Jersey: the chief technology officer
New Jersey's CIO Judy Teller yesterday appointed Charles S. Dawson the chief technology officer for the state.
Maryland posts info about sex offenders on the Web
Maryland's Public Safety and Correctional Services Department yesterday officially launched its first Internet sex offender registry at <a href="http://www.dpscs.state.md.us/sor">www.dpscs.state.md.us/sor</a>.
Drug abuse unit kicks paper habit
Until recently, the National Institute on Drug Abuse had a dependency of its own: paper.
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