LAWSON LEFT OUT OF LOCAL BIDDING: Software Maker Says Minneapolis, Ramsey County Didn't Give It a Fair Shake
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By Leslie Brooks Suzukamo, Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn.  Sep. 12--Harry Debes, CEO of St. Paul-based Lawson Software, is criticizing Ramsey County and the city of Minneapolis for not giving his company a chance to bid on two government contracts that went to its chief U.S.
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Shares of Lawson Software (LWSN:Nasdaq - news - research) were among the worst-performing technology stocks Thursday after the company said its first-quarter earnings and sales would fall short of expectations.
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You're not Entitledto free service... A software firm has unsuccessfully billed a local authority Â£10,000 after its website received lots of traffic from the council. The bill was based on a claim that Derby Council staff were using a free web tool for work purposes.â¦
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By Karen Nelson, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Sep. 18--PASCAGOULA -- Jackson County supervisors will again consider an appeal from a Florida developer who wants to build something other than single-family homes in an area of Fontainebleau north of St. Andrews.
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The Beijing municipal government may be reconsidering its controversial decision to sign a sweeping deal with Microsoft. Microsoft beat domestic software developers out of a 3.6M dollar contract on November
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The company's development group has been hit with layoffs.
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Process  unfair in demolition order  By SUSAN BEEHLER  Mandan  Mandan city commissioners sure did not act neighborly when dealing with a retired veteran living on Social Security.
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By John Stark, The Bellingham Herald, Bellingham, Wash.  Sep. 17--Tim Douglas doesn't plan to launch bold new projects during his unexpected year as mayor, but he doesn't see himself as a mere care- taker either.
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AT&T has called off its ambitious plans to roll out free municipal WiFi service over a 62-square-mile area covering St. Louis County. While the company had been wrestling with the problem of how to build a business model around this lucrative service, what may have ended up scuttling the deal was an unforeseen technical difficulty.
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Some are questioning the fit between the two companies from the perspective of open-source tools and APIs.
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By The Associated Press  In a May 21 story about municipal wireless projects, The Associated Press erroneously reported that EarthLink Inc. suspended new bids. The company said it won't seek as many bids, but isn't completely ruling out new ones.
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By Dave Orrick, Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn.  Feb. 11--Michelle Anderson wants it known she's neutral about all the recent controversy in her part of northern Anoka County.   Neutral about the school bus driver who crashed after parents had complained about her driving.
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The work may have been subcontracted to another firm.
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Poor software design, serious IT management inefficiencies and an untested deployment of a critical application were all major factors in last month&#8217;s Election Day problems in Denver, according to a scathing report from an IT consultant. The problems led to hours-long delays for voters looking to cast ballots and raised questions about the overall efficacy of e-voting.
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RedState is apparently failing because all Scoop developers are liberals so they couldn't get any support for Scoop which crashes all the time so they abandoned Scoop and their website sucks and I think that's funny and rusty should maybe consider fixing Scoop but it's not really his problem because Bush is the devil and we know how saintly rusty is and he wouldn't work for the devil.
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By Marc Benjamin, The Fresno Bee, Calif.  Dec. 13--Fresno County supervisors reversed course Tuesday and agreed to let Clovis develop plans for 511 rural acres east of town, bolstering the city's efforts to hang on to its second-largest manufacturer.
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The election director in Seattle's King County said Monday that hundreds of absentee ballots were mistakenly rejected in the heavily Democratic stronghold &#151; enough to swing the close governor's race to Democrat Christine Gregoire.