Government Technology Regulation |
(3/20/2006) Watchfire Corp., a vendor of online risk management software, will on Monday release a new product designed to help U.S. government Web sites comply with a broad range of security, privacy and other federal regulations.
| (3/17/2006) The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) and a group of broadband providers on Wednesday announced a set of principles that would allow consumers to attach devices to broadband video networks.
| (3/17/2006) A Texas congressman plans to reignite his effort to reform how intellectual property disputes are conducted. | (3/15/2006) In his keynote address at the Atio Conference on the Electronic Communication Bill (ECB), held last week, MP and chairman of the Portfolio Committee on Communications, Mpetjane Lekgoro, did not want to expand on the negative and risk implications of the Bill.
| (3/10/2006) Laws prohibiting broadband providers from blocking or slowing service to competing Web sites or online applications would amount to government-sanctioned property theft, speakers said Thursday at a conservative think-tank forum.
| (3/6/2006) Election officials in California have certified controversial e-voting gear from Diebold Election Systems Inc. for the 2006 voting season, despite security concerns raised by e-voting opponents.
| (3/3/2006) More than 60 technology companies, consumer advocates and trade groups are urging a U.S. House of Representatives committee to seriously consider legislation designed to prohibit broadband providers from discriminating against competing services transmitted over their networks.
| (3/3/2006) More than 60 technology companies, consumer advocates and trade groups are urging a U.S. House of Representatives committee to seriously consider legislation designed to prohibit broadband providers from discriminating against competing services transmitted over their networks. | (3/3/2006) Changing the regulatory framework of the telecommunications industry is needed quickly says Telstra which claims the regulatory uncertainty is costing it the deployment of its next-generation networks, while at the same time providing a leg up for its competitors.
| (2/23/2006) China's Ministry of Information Industries (MII) has completed an investigation into Google Inc.'s usage of an Internet license that belongs to a Chinese company, a ministry spokesman confirmed Wednesday.
| (1/31/2006) The European Commission has given Microsoft Corp. five weeks to comply with its March 2004 antitrust ruling on workgroup server interoperability, or face daily fines of b,2 million (US$2.4 million), a Commission spokesman said on Thursday. |
  | |  | | 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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