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- Ohio orders counties to offer paper ballot option
- Playing things right down to the wire, Ohio election officials have ordered counties that use touch-screen voting machines -- there are 55 of them -- to provide paper ballots for voters who request them during the March 4 primary, according to the Akron Beacon Journal. Secretary of State Jennifer...
- Tags: County, Ballot, Ohio, Keyboards, Financial Accounting, Monitors & Displays, Hardware, Peripherals, Finance, Components, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-01-03
- county Develops More Comprehensive, Efficient System With New Technologies
- The government of Hillsborough County, Florida, maintains an area of 1,072 square miles and serves a population of 1.1 million. Hillsborough County needed new IT applications to support its court-clerks' systems, so it turned to Catapult Systems for help. To validate the proposed application architecture, county and partner representatives visited...
- Tags: County, Partnership, Microsoft Corp., Business Structures, Government, Finance
- Case studies 2007-11-01
- Using Second Life in Your Business
- I was chatting with Norm Jacknis, CIO of Westchester county, the other day about his 2008 purchasing plans and one of the areas that came up was Westchester's use of Second Life-like technology. There are two projects they've got going, one ready to launch as early as...
- Tags: Second Life, County, Benefits, Human Resources, Dave Greenfield
- Blog posts 2007-09-20
- Lots and lots of parking lots=lots of pollution
- Yeah, those mega-sized parking lots may as bad as you imagine they are. Convenient for drivers, magnets for shoppers going to the big-box stores and malls. But ugly, indeed, for our little planet. That's the conclusion of Purdue researcher Bryan Pijanowski, shown in the picture...
- Tags: County, Pollution, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2007-09-11
- Montgomery county Northstar Traffic Cameras (widget)
- Displays traffic cameras from around the county. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
- Tags: County, Camera
- Software downloads 2007-08-01
- Kentuckiana Weather Radio (widget)
- Kentuckiana Weather Radio is for users in the always changing weather of the Louisville Metro area and surrounding counties in Indiana and Kentucky. Users specify what county they are in (see version info for lists of counties) and the Widget acts like a weather radio, constantly watching the severe weather...
- Tags: County, Radio, Weather, Kentuckiana Weather Radio, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing
- Software downloads 2007-07-09
- San Francisco CIO: Chris Vein - Transcript
- Dan Farber: Chris thanks for joining me. Chris Vein: It's my pleasure. Dan Farber: How did you end up in this role as CIO of San Francisco? Did you have a background in being a CIO? Chris Vein: Very accidentally,...
- Tags: CIO, City, County, Department, San Francisco, Difficulty, Government, Internet, Productivity, Wireless LANs, Network Technology, Strategy, Wireless, Networking, Management, ZDNet Editor
- Blog posts 2007-03-19
- Public Records (zip)
- Public Records, County Records, Sex Offender Search, Government Records, State Archives, Investigator Tool. You can search all 50 states records, county by county. A great addition to investigators' tools.
- Tags: County, Productivity, Government
- Software downloads 2005-11-07
- Key Factors in Implementing a Performance Management System
- In late 1999, the County of San Diego (County) embarked on a journey to install an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system. The ERP system would consist of a new financial system, human resource system and a performance management (PM) system. When the County's management team decided to develop a performance...
- Tags: Performance, Computer Sciences Corp., County, Performance Management, Business Intelligence, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Case studies
- HP SAN Maps Path to Services for Rutherford county Geographic Information System
- A steady influx of new industry and jobs means an increased demand for public services in Rutherford County, Tennessee - one of the fastest-growing counties in the United States. To help county and municipal governments deliver critical services to a growing population in a rapidly changing landscape, the county needed...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., County, SAN, GIS, Government, Storage Area Networks (SAN), Storage Management, Storage, Vertical Industries, Servers, Software, Hardware, Enterprise Software
- Case studies
- Small county Gains Big Efficiencies and Savings With Standards-Based 3Com IP Telephony Network
- With just 24,600 residents spread across 1,125 square miles, Oregon's Tillamook County is home to more cows than people. Tillamook County's 250 employees must provide prompt, attentive service to the community. With the county court system and most other departments housed in the county courthouse and the Public Works facility...
- Tags: County, Network, 3Com Corp., Standards, Tillamook County, VOIP, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Networking
- Case studies
- Matching the Fast-Growth Pace of Spotsylvania & Stafford Counties, Virginia
- Spotsylvania and Stafford counties are two of the fastest growing counties in the state of Virginia - both rank among the top five - and among the top 15 fastest growing counties in the United States today. Keeping up with the increased calls and a very crowded radio dispatch system...
- Tags: County, Wi-Fi, Wireless
- Case studies
- county Government Increases the Security of Its Network
- Fulton County has the largest county government in Georgia and one of the largest in the southeastern United States. In October 2003, the Blaster computer virus crippled the county's network, causing a service outage for more than 48 hours. Although all areas of government were infected, the judicial system was...
- Tags: County, Network, Microsoft Corp., Fulton County, Government, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, Security, Viruses And Worms, Operating Systems, Software
- Case studies
- Nortel Networks Case Study: Montgomery county, PA
- Located 20 miles outside of Philadelphia, Montgomery County serves a population of approximately 760,000 spread throughout 62 municipalities - making it one of the 15th largest counties in the United States. The existing FDDI data service had met County needs to date but was outdated and restricted their ability to...
- Tags: Data Service, County, Public Health, Nortel Networks Corp., Healthcare
- Case studies
- Sun Case Study: county of Santa Clara
- The County of Santa Clara, the heart of California's Silicon Valley, is unique because of its combination of physical attractiveness and economic diversity. The county wanted solutions at the leading edge of technology, and therefore tested Oracle Database 10g on Sun servers running the Solaris 10 Operating System. The system...
- Tags: County, Sun Microsystems Inc., Santa Clara, Sun Solaris, Servers, Operating Systems, UNIX, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware, Data Management
- Case studies
- Edgecombe county Cut Field-Mapping Time in Half Using Mobile GIS
- Edgecombe County, North Carolina, likes to be known for its charm, hospitality, and environmental stewardship. A few years ago, the state informed the county that the freshwater aquifer was drying up. To better safeguard the water supply, Edgecombe economic developers set their sights on attracting environmentally friendly companies that would...
- Tags: County, Mobile, GIS, Advertising & Promotion, Software, Marketing
- Case studies
- county - City GIS for DeKalb county and the Cities of Auburn, Butler, and Garrett, Indiana
- Just as Auburn was innovating automobiles in the '20s and '30s, the town continues to innovate today in ways more often seen in larger cities. As the county seat of DeKalb county, Auburn has partnered with the county government and other nearby towns to provide better taxpayer services through shared...
- Tags: County, Environmental Systems Research Institute Inc., GIS, Government, Software
- Case studies
- StreamLine SL500 Modular Library System Helps county Keep Pace With Dramatic Growth
- Alachua County is located in the north central part of Florida, 50 miles from the Gulf of Mexico and 67 miles from the Atlantic Ocean. The county encompasses 965 square miles. The StorageTek Professional Services team, now part of Sun Microsystems, conducted a detailed assessment of the county's storage environment,...
- Tags: County, Environment, Streamline, Sun Microsystems Inc., Alachua County
- Case studies
- One county's GIS Success Story: Conway county
- The officials in rural county named Conway decided to develop a Geographic Information System (GIS) to benefit utilities such as water and sewer systems. Since Conway County desired and needed a well-developed GIS, it realized that accurate street and road data needed to be gathered for the county. The county...
- Tags: County, GIS, Software
- Case studies
- IMAGE-X Enterprises Case Study: California Supervisors Association of Counties (CSAC)
- Faced with a looming power shortage, CSAC was met with the difficult challenge of collecting information from counties about the use of electricity in the state. CSAC designed standardized forms to help collect information, but these forms were hard to distribute and required staff to spend considerable time filing the...
- Tags: County, Form, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Case studies
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