Gateway will supply the committee with more than 5,000 PCs to help track official event results, statistics and standings for Olympic officials, athletes, coaches, spectators and the media. When the Games are over, Gateway will donate the PCs to local schools and community associations. Hudson Microimaging of Port Ewen, N.Y., is microfilming and digitally indexing 110 cubic feet of election, corporate and political-action records for the State Archives. N.J. Hudson Microimaging scans the records and keys indexing data, which is recorded at the bottom of the film, company sales manager Paul Dunkel said. Users search a database for the documents they need and place the film roll into a reader, and the system goes to the exact spot on the roll.
Users can then capture the images digitally for printing, saving or transmitting via e-mail.
The state's Council on Technology Services has adopted a report from a council workgroup recommending a seven-point plan for digital signature use in state government. The plan is intended to enhance the security of electronic transactions to boost electronic commerce and economic development. The West Virginia Lottery is upgrading its system that collects data from 4,500 video lottery terminals at four racetracks. The system, from International Game Technology of Reno, Nev., will initially poll a modem device at each site daily via a dial-up link. The lottery plans to go online by May by changing the system connections to a private-line service that will transmit data continually rather than once daily, systems manager Pam Lopez said.