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Federal government ditching PDAs for 2010 census

2008-04-03 19:52:19 by HASH0x8b7c648 in gadget life blog
 
...Census Bureau had been planning on giving census takers portable computers to enter and tabulate the data theyll gather when they go door-to-door in 2010 No more Apparently the program was such a boondoggle that the bureau has now decided to revert to the old pen-and-paper system Its embarrassing enough that the federal government couldnt...
 
Tags: census, census bureau, bureau, total cost, cost, billion, federal government, pen-and-paper system, absurd amount
 
 
 
 
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Problems with census PDAs could prompt a return to pencil and paper

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2008-03-26 16:01:00 by Donald Melanson in Engadget
...census, but it looks like the handhelds are already starting to cause plenty of headaches for census officials, who are reportedly even considering a return to pencil and paper if things can't be resolved. As the AP reports, the problems start with the contract for the devices, which originally clocked in at $596 million, has since grown to...
 
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Problems with census PDAs could prompt a return to pencil and paper

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2008-03-26 21:01:00 by Donald Melanson in
...census, but it looks like the handhelds are already starting to cause plenty of headaches for census officials, who are reportedly even considering a return to pencil and paper if things can't be resolved. As the AP reports, the problems start with the contract for the devices, which originally clocked in at $596 million, has since grown to...
 
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Problems with census PDAs could prompt a return to pencil and paper

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2008-03-26 21:03:38 by admin in Cool Gadgets and Gizmos
...census, but it looks like the handhelds are already starting to cause plenty of headaches for census officials, who are reportedly even considering a return to pencil and paper if things cant be resolved. As the AP reports, the problems start with the contract for the devices, which originally clocked in at $596 million, has since grown to...
 
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Census Bureau goes forward with plans to ditch PDAs

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2008-04-03 16:33:00 by Donald Melanson in Engadget
...Census Bureau will in fact be ditching its much-ballyhooed PDAs in favor of paper and pencil for the 2010 census . According to the AP, that fairly drastic move comes as part of a package of changes that will ultimately add as much as $3 billion to the cost of the census, bringing the total cost somewhere in the neighborhood of $14 billion....
 
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Census Bureau goes forward with plans to ditch PDAs

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2008-04-03 21:33:00 by Donald Melanson in
...Census Bureau will in fact be ditching its much-ballyhooed PDAs in favor of paper and pencil for the 2010 census . According to the AP, that fairly drastic move comes as part of a package of changes that will ultimately add as much as $3 billion to the cost of the census, bringing the total cost somewhere in the neighborhood of $14 billion....
 
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Pencil-Pushing Census Bureau Dumps Portable Tech for Pencils [Paper Trail]

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2008-04-06 11:30:46 by Jack Loftus in Gizmodo
...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...
 
Tags: bureau, census, census bureau spokesman, census bureau, paper, paper-crazy roots, wireless handheld devices, harris handhelds, washington post
 
 
 
 
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Pencil-Pushing Census Bureau Dumps Portable Tech for Pencils [Paper Trail]

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2008-04-06 15:30:46 by posted by Pantha in
...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...
 
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Harris' HTC-made Census handheld hits the FCC

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2008-05-05 13:58:00 by Donald Melanson in Engadget
...Census handheld may only be a shadow of its former self now that the Census Bureau has decided not to use it for any actual census-taking, but that doesn't mean it can hang its head in shame forever, and it's now popped up to make an encore appearance at the FCC. Thankfully, this time around the FCC folks have snapped plenty of pics of the...
 
Tags: fcc, htc-made census handheld, device appears, device, fcc folks, census bureau, encore appearance, fingerprint security, harris corp