When animal-control officers in Lincoln, Neb., pick up a stray dog, they can enter its license-tag number into a Palm VII wireless handheld and instantly see any information on the animal from records stored on an IBM mainframe back at the office. Lincoln's tax as-sessors can use Palms to look up the history of a house they're ap-praising. Soon, the city's parking-enforcement officers will brandishrnhandhelds, checking license plates in their search for scofflaws and even verifying that a plate matches a vehicle identification number.
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