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Pencil-Pushing Census Bureau Dumps Portable Tech for Pencils
To our friends at Treehugger, please look away as we report that the Census Bureau is ditching plans to go digital and will return to its sinful pencil-pushing, paper-crazy roots. Originally, the Bureau planned for workers to use 500,000 wireless handheld devices from Harris Corp. as a replacement for the paperwork used to collect information from Americans who do not respond to the census. The $1.3 billion program looked great on, well, paper, but was ultimately derailed by hardware issues and incompetence. More »
11:30 AM on Sun Apr 6 2008
By Jack Loftus
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Latest by gibson042: @Elvisisdead: Absolutely right, sir! No one could pull off a system of the required complexity for less than $1 billion! more »
