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Small Government Municipality Deploys PCs With Intel Core 2 Processor With vPro Technology to Improve Uptime and Reduce Costs

The Town of Winchester is a municipality in Connecticut with 100 employees. The township manages police, fire, dispatch, and water, along with roads, zoning, tax assessments, and other aspects of a municipality. These critical priorities need to be met while meeting tight budget requirements. Off late, the township deployed PCs...

Tags: Intel vPro, PC, Municipality, Uptime, Intel Core 2 Duo, Intel Corp., Government Municipality, Taxes, Free Trade, Processors, Financial Planning, Finance, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components

Case studies 2008-03-01

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Tax concerns to push Microsoft Azure cloud hosting out of Washington state

Tax concerns to push Microsoft Azure cloud hosting out of Washington stateWhat next, they'll terminate everyone's licensing agreements and thenhit the kill switch?Governments should be bullying corporations. Not the other way around. (or perhaps neither side should bully the other?)Typical MicroshaftHire foreigners, make the taxpayers foot the bill...

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Personal finance, tax, government, Microsoft Corp., Washington State, Quincy facility, Microsoft Azure

Discussion threads 2009-08-05

The City of Lausanne Optimizes Payroll Management for a Workforce of Nearly 8,000

City of Lausanne wanted to acquire a strategic and global human resources management solution to prepare the municipality for the ever-increasing challenges of e-government and integrate back office with other HR management systems. The challenge was to reallocate administrative resources to more productive tasks and reduce the costs associated with...

Tags: HRM, Payroll, Workforce, Human Resource Management (HRM), Organizational Structure, Payroll Solutions, Operational Accounting, Human Resources, Finance

Case studies 2009-03-01

City of Heemskerk Improves Data Availability, Scalability, and Security

The City of Heemskerk is a medium-sized municipality located in the center of The Netherlands' province of North Holland. This area, which was originally agricultural and is located in the triangle between Amsterdam, Haarlem, and Alkmaar, was among the fastest-growing municipalities in the Netherlands in the 1960s. It needed to...

Tags: Security, Netherlands, Oracle Corp., Scalability, Municipality, Linux, Operating Systems, Software

Case studies 2009-01-01

University music tax: sharing and caring?

University music tax: sharing and caring?Would a"blanket speeding ticket fine" be okay?Just a couple hundred dollars you have to pay your local municipality every year to cover any actual speeding you did but at which you weren't caught. I mean, essentially everyone breaks speed limits, at least once in...

Tags: Taxes, music tax

Discussion threads 2008-12-09

Swiss Municipality Realizes Concrete Benefits With Application Virtualization

The City Council of Biel, Switzerland uses approximately 650 client computers to help run the municipal government. Due to outdated technology for maintaining client software, the City's IT staff were required to expend large amounts of time distributing applications and performing manual software inventories. In order to manage its client...

Tags: Software, Client Software, Benefit, Application Virtualization, Microsoft Corp., Tools & Techniques, Desktop Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Management

Case studies 2008-09-14

City of Miami Beach Improves Public Safety and Boosts Productivity With Imprivata OneSign

Like many governmental organizations, the challenge for Miami Beach, a 24/7 municipality with a year-round population of about 90,000 that regularly triples to 300,000 or more wasn't just password consolidation. It was finding a solution compatible with specialized niche applications that are ubiquitous in local government environments. In all, they...

Tags: Imprivata

Case studies 2008-09-01

Dutch Municipality Modernizes IT Environment With New Desktop Software

When the Dutch municipality of Heumen decided to modernize its IT infrastructure, it became the first government organization in the Netherlands to migrate directly to the Windows Vista operating system. The benefits of the upgrade were evident immediately; the new desktop infrastructure is robust and user-friendly, and is helping Heumen...

Tags: Software, IT Environment, Information Technology, Desktop Software, Municipality, Desktops, Hardware

Case studies 2008-06-12

Surveillance cuts both ways

Surveillance cuts both waysExcellent readI wish there was more we could do to combat improper government activity but it is good to see someone suggest possibilities. As a veteran your last statement was the most touching to me.Nothing to hide?Only an honest government with nothing to hide is notafraid...

Tags: Vertical industries, Surveilance, camera

Discussion threads 2007-12-07

Travel Denmark - Guide, Maps, and Phrasebook. Includes: Copenhagen, Odense, Aarhus, Aalborg and more (Mobile)

An illustrated travel guide, phrasebook, and maps. Indulge Yourself with a personal tour guide on Your PDA. FREE General Information, basic phrasebook, and a map in the trial version. Features Fully illustrated. Historical overviews. Interesting facts. City Attractions. Phrasebook Landmark maps, Street maps, and more. Museums address, telephone, hours and...

Tags: Mobile, Biology, Copenhagen, Guide, MobileReference, Transportation

Software downloads 2007-09-14

Travel Denmark - Guide, Maps, and Phrasebook. Includes: Copenhagen, Odense, Aarhus, Aalborg and more (Mobile)

An illustrated travel guide, phrasebook, and maps. Indulge Yourself with a personal tour guide on Your PDA. FREE General Information, basic phrasebook, and a map in the trial version. Features Fully illustrated. Historical overviews. Interesting facts. City Attractions. Phrasebook Landmark maps, Street maps, and more. Museums address, telephone, hours and...

Tags: Mobile, Biology, Copenhagen, Guide, MobileReference, Transportation

Software downloads 2007-09-14

Bill would forbid laws against muni Wi-Fi

Bill would forbid laws against muni Wi-FiDisagree on principleState legislators should be allowed to do stupid things without Congressional interference, as long as they take responsibility for doing so. Bills like this just keep the knuckleheads in office longer by allowing them to pass the buck.Why?What is the federal...

Tags: Wireless LANs, WIRELESS, Wi-Fi, municipal Wi-Fi, federal government, spectrum

Discussion threads 2007-08-03

The realities of municipal Wi-Fi

While, in principle, I agree with my colleague, Chris Dawson (Why municipal Wi-Fi is an educational expense), the problems with this approach are huge -- and have nothing whatsoever to do with education. In the 1930's the rationale for providing ubiquitous radio, electrical, telephone, and water resources to everyone was motivated by the...

Tags: Education Technology

Blog posts 2007-07-17

IT Service Provider Leverages Intel vPro Processor Technology to Remotely Serve Clients Who Expand Into New Geographic Regions

Linked Technologies is an IT service provider with customers in industries such as tool-and-die manufacturing, health care, municipality, water management, and public safety. For many of these customers, interruptions to business can have serious, if not life-endangering consequences. Although Linked Technologies has been providing a diverse set of services to...

Tags: Intel vPro, Information Technology, Intel Corp., Linked Technologies, Business Services, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components

Case studies 2007-07-01

Politicians weigh renewal of Net access tax ban

Politicians weigh renewal of Net access tax banThe internet is way to complicated for a tax. Besides we are already taxedHow so you ask? Hosting providers pay taxes on power, water, personell. We pay taxes when we buy a PC, when we turn it on and it...

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Internet access, Internet, tax

Discussion threads 2007-05-23

Digital cities? Look south.

Where are the most wired municipal governments in the US? According to a new survey, the answer is, the Sunbelt. News.com reports that the Center for Digital Governments 2006 "Digital Cities Rankings" found that many of the most advanced local governments were in the South and the Southwest. ...

Tags: Government technology, State &, Local Govt

Blog posts 2006-11-30

Testing Scada Networks

Testing Scada NetworksThat scares you?SCADA also controls the placement of control rods in a nuclear power plant. They are also being used in Eastern Europe nuclear plants.http://www.sztaki.hu/sztaki/projects/html/g2paks.htmlAnd this classic in the US.http://www.securityfocus.com/news/6767Just hope they have decent security.This is embarrassing...Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition SCADA reduced to two simple paragraphs is...

Tags: Enterprise software, Microsoft OS, network, SCADA system, SCADA, Programmable Logic Control

Discussion threads 2006-11-21

Cry the beloved country!

I’m writing this as I leave South Africa – sitting in an airport lounge on WiFi (iPass via South Africa’s Internet Solutions) at the end of my fifth trip here over a span of six years. I’m a member of the President’s International Advisory Council PIAC on the Information...

Tags: I&rsquo, m, President&rsquo, s International Advisory Council

Blog posts 2006-09-07

Making government IT security better

ZDNet's Government IT blog asks why Federal IT security was so crappy. The post was spurred by a piece by Zach Goldfarb in the Washington Post that answered that question and gave some suggestions on what to do about it. At the state level, security isn't a whole lot better....

Tags: information technology, Zach Goldfarb, security

Blog posts 2006-07-25

Tempe Wi-Fi: Firefighters, police are fans

Tempe Wi-Fi: Firefighters, police are fansThis makes a case for . . .. . . municipal/emergency employees being able to make use of a municipal provided WiFi cloud. Even if the cloud was restricted to just these few, it sounds like the cost would be justified.However nice it would...

Tags: Wireless LANs, WIRELESS, bum, Tempe Wi-Fi, Wi-Fi

Discussion threads 2006-06-29