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BLM opts for cost-free digitization

The Bureau of Land Management may have found a means to convert its library of microfilm land records onto disk at no cost. Actually, the means may have found the bureau.

Digital Government

IP telephony gets boost

With a slew of new products introduced late last month, Cisco Systems Inc. is challenging the conventional wisdom that IP telephony or voice services over an IPbased network works well only on a small scale.