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Welcome to the eFLC Report by Rebecca BrennanHappy 4th of July! Welcome to the June/July issue of the eFLC Report. We will be taking a break in July due to the upcoming FLGISA Annual Conference. We will be back in August. Hope you enjoy the articles! MORE >> Court Rules Employee Text Messages Are Private by K.C. JonesA Court of Appeals ruled in favor of a police officer and others who claimed that the city of Ontario, Calif., violated their Fourth Amendment rights. MORE >>IT groups rethinking the "save everything forever" approach find deletion and retention policies and tools must be razor sharp to cut through a morass of regulations. MORE >>IT must keep costs and energy consumption down, while supporting the demands of the business. MORE >>Cities and counties want to take the next step in call-center services, but neither their pocketbooks nor their partners are ready to regionalize. MORE >>Government relies as heavily on IT these days as the private sector does, but there has been a real gap in the understanding of IT's business value. MORE >>Federal emergency management grants will require state and local agencies to spend more money on planning, and less on acquiring resources and attending exercises, said the Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) preparedness coordinator for the Pacific Northwest. MORE >>The network is the computer" - at least, it is according to Sun Microsystems. Sun's John Gage coined that phrase two decades ago, which was, in hindsight, about 20 years ahead of its time. MORE >>For some organizations, reducing the energy consumed by IT equipment is becoming a selling point with customers and even potential new hires. MORE >> E-Mail Archives And Litigation: Here's How To Get It Right by Andrew Conry-MurrayFailure to manage e-mail can cost millions in court. A popular framework and an archiving system can help get your house in order--and pay dividends in the legal realm and beyond. MORE >>Get too deep into server virtualization without considering its impact on your storage infrastructure and you could shortchange everyone. MORE >>Is it time to give your licensed software the boot? Early users find some things are less of a problem with software services. MORE >>I’m told my May column was naïve about the security threats and challenges that come when public employees troll the Web at work. MORE >>State and local governments are struggling to keep up with a high-tech economy’s surge of e-waste. MORE >>The video a state or locality puts up on YouTube doesn’t have to be wacky, but it helps. MORE >>Have you ever thought, "If it were up to me ...?" I'm sure you have. I know I have, especially recently. This year, people in the United States spend many hours listening to presidential candidates from across the political spectrum talk about how things could be, should be and will be if voters leave it up to them. MORE >>Economists and everyday people are talking about a U.S. recession. Warren Buffett recently said on CNBC that by any commonsense definition, the economy is in a recession based on what he is seeing from the businesses owned by his holding company, Berkshire Hathaway. MORE >>Until 2006, Minneapolis city government was burdened with an inefficient calling system. MORE >>Spam volumes have been on the decline for the past four months, but they are still double what they were at this time last year, and forecasters at MX Logic Inc., of Englewood, Colo., say they are going to get worse this month. MORE >>As computer systems become increasingly precise, a conflict emerges between human and machine measurements MORE >>Developer-friendly platforms help produce programs that take advantage of what smart phones can do MORE >>Intel's x86 microprocessor architecture has dominated large swaths of computing for three decades. Here's why. MORE >> |
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Is Your Network VOIP Ready by David StromHere are five questions to ask before starting any IP telephony deployment MORE >>Why one wireless broadband option hasn’t lived up to its hype. MORE >>THE NATION’S EMERGENCY telephone systems have worked so well for about 40 years that 911 long ago entered the national parlance as shorthand for an emergency call. But many Public Safety Answering Points (PSAPs) using 911 systems have become outdated. MORE >>Carriers harden networks on coasts as hurricane season arrives MORE >>
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