Boston's Seaport Inn maintains a Web page that notes the advantages of its technology services, including its ability to set up a customized local area network linking your PC to those in other guest rooms. While not all hotels find it possible to have high-tech help desks, many recognize their typical guests' needs are changing. On its Web page list of guest amenities, Best Western's Washington Gateway Hotel boasts that its rooms have two phones per room, with a dataport. Now, a person fills out an application and the county can process it, getting it into the mail by the next day. In Texas, vehicle tag and title registration forms can be obtained in person at county offices, online or by fax.
Individuals sign the application and return it to the county office.
The application process, which must go through the Texas Department of Transportation, takes an average 10 days. IBM Corp. The program, EZ Renewal, is run through an IBM Web site called ServiceArizona. The agency now is planning another program to let residents go online to replace lost or stolen driver's licenses. The EZ Renewal program not only is easier for citizens, it saves money for the agency. To obtain this speed, such companies increasingly are relying on fiber-optic cable connections rather than standard copper cabling.