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Mike Heck

Digital Government

Managing mobility

iMobile Suite 3.3 makes it easy to share data with portable devices

Digital Government

Back to the future with the whiteboard

Mimio transforms standard dry-erase boards into powerful tools for digital meetings

Digital Government

Take note of mimio

Virtual Ink's updated electronic whiteboard can help agencies reduce travel and make meetings more fruitful

Digital Government

Norton keeps systems, staff humming

Norton SystemWorks 2001 helps users defend against computer problems and lets IT workers do their primary job

Digital Government

Turning the tables on raw data

QQQ Software's TPL Tables would be attractive to agency workers faced with transforming raw statistics into clear tables for reports

Digital Government

NetVault 6

The adage that information is your most valuable asset rings especially true for government agencies.

Digital Government

Software takes stress out of data backup

The adage that information is your most valuable asset rings especially true for federal agencies. Unfortunately, many agency data repositories go unprotected because of the difficulty of using high-end backup solutions from brand-name vendors such as Legato Systems Inc. and Veritas Software.

Digital Government

Supported platforms

Supported platforms

Digital Government

Review: A friendly project management package

By keeping things simple, Project Office 3.0 from Pacific Edge Software ensures that your agency staff actually use this project management software

Digital Government

Making workflow less work

Ework's focus on forms makes it a good fit for agencies

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OCR gets paper into the digital workflow

ScanSoft Inc.'s TextBridge Pro 9.0 Business Edition provides fast document conversion and output to Web formats

Digital Government

Making Web meetings a snap

Web conferencing offers many benefits to large and small agencies

Digital Government

WebFort cuts cost of security

Whether your agency operates a World Wide Web site, extranet or intranet, chances are you post, or want to post, potentially sensitive data.

Digital Government

Making Web meetings a snap

Web conferencing offers many benefits to large and small agencies: Employees spend less unproductive time out of the office, managers reduce their organizations' travel budgets and workers in remote locations can quickly collaborate, which compresses decisionmaking cycles.

Digital Government

Desktop OCR market serves up two strong contenders

After years of widespread competition, the desktop optical character recognition (OCR) market has come to be dominated by two products: Caere Corp.'s OmniPage and ScanSoft Inc.'s TextBridge. Most recently, the options available to government agencies and departments have been winnowed by Caere's a