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By-election / Special election: I am just trying to understand something about U.S. elections.Sen. Tim Johnson of South Dakota is in critical condition, and the analysts have started talking. In the event of an vacancy, looks like the Governor of the state can appoint another person to fill in.I know several countries have something...; Tags: onbliss, State Legislature, off-topic, constitution, elections, how-things-are-done, legislature, U.S. Senate; Discussion threads 2006-12-14
Proposed legislation could have big impact on e-commerce: A proposed law could drastically change the relationship between software vendors and users. Find out why.Every Thursday, TechRepublic will bring you legal issues that could help you protect your enterprise from future liability. We’ll address topics ranging from judicial decisions and congressional hearings to staffing concerns.As e-commerce continues to change...; Tags: Tools & Techniques, Matthew Osborn, UCITA, software, legislature, e-business; Technical articles 1999-08-19

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Is your municipality considering providing wireless broadband?: Not if your state legislature has anything to say about it - at least in some states. Check out this article on municiple broadband bills coming under fire. Especially if you live in Colorado!; Tags: broadband, wireless, wireless broadband; Blog posts 2005-12-21
Lightning (xpi): Lightning is an extension for Mozilla Thunderbird that adds an integrated calendar to the e-mail client. It is based on the standalone Mozilla Sunbird calendar application. Lightning includes the Daylight Savings Time summer time changes passed by the U.S. legislature in 2005.Version 0.5 has much more polished user interface in...; Tags: Mozilla Corp., Lightning, E-mail, E-mail Clients, Online Communications, Software; Software downloads 2007-10-30
The Business of Government: The Balanced Scorecard in the Public Sector: The SAO is a legislative agency providing audit and assurance services to the Texas Legislature. There are interesting challenges as SOA works to provide efficient and effective services to legislators, agency management, and ultimately to the citizens. The Scorecard has helped SOA to organize their challenges and to do business...; Tags: Agency, Government, SOA, Performancesoft, SAO, Scorecard, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Advertising & Promotion, Balanced Scorecard, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing, Marketing Research; Case studies

First Do No Harm: The Problem of Spyware: This paper surveys the legislative landscape as of early 2005. Prompted by concerns over pop-up ads that were launched by third parties when users visited particular sites, the Utah legislature passed a spyware bill in 2003 that has been widely imitated in other states. Meanwhile, there has been a great...; Tags: University Of Pittsburgh, Spyware, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security; White papers 2005-08-21
Kansas State Records Management Manual: State Records Center Procedures: The Kansas State Records Center provides centralized, efficient, and secure storage for inactive and semi-active state government records. Authorized by the legislature in 1957 and funded in 1992, the State Records Center offers agencies controlled access to their records until administrative, fiscal, and legal retention requirements are met. There are...; Tags: Agency, Record, Kansas State Records Center, Records Management, Advertising & Promotion, Managerial Accounting, Marketing, Finance; White papers
College Center for Library Automation Selects WebInteractive for Remote Support: Established in 1989 by the Florida Legislature, the College Center For Library Automation, that provides service and leadership in automated library and information resources to enhance the educational experience at Florida's 28 community colleges wanted to transition from a main-frame-based system of library automation to a Web-based client-server approach for...; Tags: Inter-Tel Inc., Training, Remote Support, Automation, Remote Administration, Workforce Management, Human Resources; Case studies
The State of Illinois "Emphasis on Accountability and Managing for Results": The intended use of performance measures differs between the legislative and the executive branches in Illinois. Within the executive branch, the purpose for the performance measurement movement is also articulated differently up and down the organization. At the executive and department director level, there is general agreement that performance measurement...; Tags: Performance, Performance Measurement, Accountability, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management; Case studies
Government Retirement Agency Cuts Response Time From Days to a "New York Minute" With Lexmark: Established by the New York State Legislature in 1920, the New York City Employees' Retirement System NYCERS serves more than 200,000 active members and 120,000 retirees and beneficiaries. Maintaining complete paper-based personnel files for current and past employees is crucial, requiring superior organization. But even for NYCERS, that was no...; Tags: Agency, Lexmark International Inc., Advertising & Promotion, Marketing; Case studies
BART Transit System Embarks on a Business Improvement Journey: Created by the California State Legislature in 1957, the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit BART District maintains a modern high-speed rail network, yet the mainframe-based applications assisting financial, Human Resource HR, and supply-chain functions were antiquated. This public agency needed to modernize its 35-year-old business processes and install new...; Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Supply Chain Management (SCM), Mainframes, Servers, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware; Case studies
Texas Legislative Council Saves Time Drafting Bills With New Workflow Process: The Texas Legislative Council TLC provides bill drafting services to the legislature. TLC uses a word processor and a proprietary editing and archival application called SALSA to manage the drafting and storage of legislative documents. But the council is receiving an increasingly large number of documents that were created in...; Tags: Word-processing, Document, Council, Microsoft Corp., Workflow, Texas Legislative Council, Process Improvement, Word Processors, Quality, Business Operations, Software; Case studies
Nortel Networks Case Study: New York Boards of Cooperative Education Services: In 1948, the New York State Legislature created BOCES, or Boards of Cooperative Educational Services. Each BOCES and the school districts it represents have a mission to provide the highest possible quality education to students. They also share a challenge: doing more with less. The Boards of Cooperative Education Services...; Tags: Converged Network, Nortel Networks Corp., Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law; Case studies
Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance: Using BMC CONTROL-M Solutions for Operations Management: The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 was enacted by U.S. legislature to protect investors and the public from fraudulent corporate accounting practices and erroneously reported corporate financial information. The Securities and Exchange Commission SEC established the rules, requirements, and deadlines, and continues to administer compliance. The burden of compliance now falls...; Tags: BMC Software Inc., Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance, Accounting, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Compliance, BMC CONTROL-M, It Management, Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulatory Compliance, It service Management, Regulations, Government, Financial Accounting, Finance, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures; White papers 2005-10-18
Karnataka Simplifies Budget Management Processes: The Finance Department of the Karnataka State Government is responsible for preparing and presenting the annual financial statement to the two houses of the state's bicameral legislature. The department wanted to replace ageing legacy system with centralized, integrated budget information management platform and simplify production and printing of 15 budget...; Tags: Information Management, Oracle Corp., Karnataka, Financial Accounting, Financial Statements, Hardware Upgrade, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Databases, Open Source, Finance, Hardware, Management, Software, Data Management; Case studies
Who Determines Your Quality Of Life?: Who determines your quality of life?This is an open-ended question. And it also asks whether we are talking about families, the church, the state, or the legislature.Personally, I will assume it refers to the individual in a social context such as the society at large. In such an aggregate...; Tags: Instant messaging, derryck@...; Discussion threads 2006-01-19
Have environmental concerns hit your data center?: The environment has initiated conversations that deal with information technology, and the government is starting to chime in. In January 2007, Sen. Wayne Allard (R-Colo.) introduced a bill that would require the Environmental Protection Agency to analyze and report to Congress about the growth and energy consumption of computer...; Tags: Data Center, Information Technology, Environment, Energy Consumption, Tech Industry, Data Centers, Strategy, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Management, Andy Moon; Blog posts 2008-02-07
Jobs, Gates and a Trip Down Memory Lane: Bill Gates and Steve Jobs shared a stage for the first time in over ten years at The Wall Street Journal's D5 conference Wednesday CNET picture gallery, though this time the two industry pioneers met face to face, which looked a lot more comfortable than the Orwellian appearance of Gates...; Tags: Job, Steve Jobs, Apple Inc., Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp., Digital Music, Digital Media, Media Players, Strategy, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Management, Andy Moon; Blog posts 2007-06-05
Lawmaker to reintroduce gay marriage bill: Lawmaker to reintroduce gay marriage billBy LISA LEFF, Associated Press WriterLast Updated 11:55 am PST Sunday, December 5, 2004"SAN FRANCISCO AP - Five weeks after voters in 11 states banned same-sex marriages and the issue was cited as a factor in John Kerry's defeat, a California lawmaker plans to reintroduce...; Tags: Leno, Kevin McCarthy; Discussion threads 2004-12-06
What my grandmother taught me about IT security: The Identity Theft Enforcement and Restitution Act of 2007 passed the Senate by unanimous consent. As is often the case in our nation's legislature, the two houses of the federal legislature -- the House of Representatives and the Senate -- are working at roughly redundant purposes, and have each...; Tags: Cybercrime, IT Security, Information Technology, U.S. Congress, Lesson, Data Security, NIST, Key, House, Dual_EC_DRBG, NSA, Government, Identity Theft, Security, Vertical Industries, Enterprise Software, Software, Chad Perrin; Blog posts 2007-11-28

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