(6/28/2007) The decision by Telus to call off its proposed merger with BCE earlier this week was met by surprise, but analysts are saying this decision may be a good thing for Canadian enterprise customers. Despite waging a high-profile public relations campaign last week with its chief executive arguing about the need for a truly national player, Telus issued a terse statement that it would not submit an offer as part of BCE's strategic review. The Western incumbent blamed "inadequacies of BCE's bid process" as the reason for the about-face. | (6/19/2007) CIOs are making headlines these days, but not always for the right reasons. Security breaches, crashed Web sites and other public technical snafus create the kinds of crises that put IT leaders front and centre. How you follow up in the immediate aftermath of a crisis can affect not only how the event is perceived, but also how successfully you'll avoid trouble in the future. | (6/18/2007) CIOs are making headlines these days, but not always for the right reasons. Security breaches, crashed Web sites and other public technical snafus create the kinds of crises that put IT leaders front and centre. How you follow up in the immediate aftermath of a crisis can affect not only how the event is perceived, but also how successfully you'll avoid trouble in the future. | (6/18/2007) The Technology CEO Council, an advocacy group representing several tech vendor CEOs, has been meeting with U.S. presidential candidates with the hopes of receiving an encouraging response to the policies they are pushing. The council, whose members include the chief executives of Intel Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM Corp., and Dell Inc., has met with several presidential candidates in recent months, says Bruce Mehlman, executive director of the group. | (5/29/2007) Simplifying the procurement of information technology is the aim of the Australian government with the recent launch of version two of the SourceIT model contracts and user notes, a year after releasing the first version. Special Minister of State, Gary Nairn, said version two represents the government responding to feedback from industry and agencies. | (5/18/2007) Citing federal and state law prohibition, MySpace.com is refusing to provide the names of registered sex offenders found using its Web site to a group of state attorneys general. "We are doing everything short of breaking the law to ensure that the information about these predators gets to the proper authorities," said Hemanshu Nigam, chief security officer at MySpace.com, in an e-mail to Computerworld. | (4/23/2007) I'm writing this column on the day of the Virginia Tech national tragedy. Aside from the natural emotions from this overwhelming, random act of violence, this event struck even closer to home because one of my daughters was recently accepted into Virginia Tech, and she and a sister were planning a road trip to the campus. | (4/17/2007) Recently, Liberal MP Marlene Jennings reintroduced the Modernization of Investigative Techniques Act (MITA) as Bill C-416. The private member's bill is a peculiar choice for pushing forward the Liberal's tough-on-crime agenda considering the bill's unpopularity and shortcomings when first introduced in November 2005 and subsequently died on the order paper when the previous government fell. | (4/6/2007) U.K. firms are set to face increasing demands from staff for flexible and remote working arrangements with new employment rights that come into force Friday. The 2006 Work and Families Act gives people who care for adults similar rights to flexible working as those introduced for parents of young children in 2003. | (4/5/2007) The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has ended a proceeding that would have allowed mobile phone calls on airplanes, for now ending the possibility of phone conversations during flights. | (3/27/2007) After a Senate committee said current legislation is lacking security and privacy safeguards, the future of Australia's Access card appears to be in doubt. While legislation to implement the Access card has been passed by the House of Representatives, a parliamentary Senate committee has called for additional legislation to provide safeguards and ensure it doesn't become a national identity card. |
  | |  | | Blog Spotlight: Sandford Borins |  | As Professor of Strategic Management at the University of Toronto, Sandford Borins brings InterGovWorld.com readers exclusive insights into how and why the public sector is changing. You'll find new perspectives and questions, observations and objectives, lessons and answers. Cover to Cover, the blog by Prof. Sandford Borins, appears every Thursday. Inside Cover to Cover | |
| | | Unified Communications |  | Unity is a word often heard in the public sector, with myriad agencies and departments looking to foster collective thinking around some of today's most pressing issues. The word, however, doesn't usually get mentioned in the same breath as technology. That's a situation, though, that might soon be changing, thanks to a new software platform known as unified communications.
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