(4/27/2006) Canadian business got yet another smack from analysts for lagging the US in productivity and investment in new technology at the LinuxWorld and NetworkWorld Canada conference underway in Toronto this week. | (3/30/2006) New technology initiatives may help solve the service performance problems encountered in the controversial program to deliver health insurance services in British Columbia. | (3/27/2006) Microsoft Corp. on Monday filed an appeal to the Seoul High Court in South Korea seeking to reverse a decision by the country's antitrust regulators that included an order to offer versions of its popular Windows operating system without its Media Player and Instant Messenger software.
| (3/20/2006) After four mining accidents in January and early February killed 16 people in West Virginia, industry experts are studying whether information technology can help to prevent future fatalities. But there's little agreement about which technologies can do the most good.
| (3/8/2006) As the baby boomers hit retirement age, a new cohort of employees will arrive for work at every government in Canada. IT security managers can make some assumptions about the new crop. They are already knowledgeable about computers, the Internet, cellular telephones and PDAs. They have smoothly integrated technology into every aspect of their lives. | (3/6/2006) Research In Motion Ltd. (RIM) and NTP Inc. have settled their long-standing legal battle with RIM paying NTP US$612.5 million. | (2/24/2006) In the patent case of the century, the day of the reckoning is today -- Friday, February 24. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has issued a final rejection of one of five patents at the core of the court case and is expected to invalidate all of them. | (2/21/2006) Google Inc. has argued that turning over more than a million of its search records to the U.S. government would undermine users' trust in its service and compromise its trade secrets. | (2/21/2006) Equipping new cars with the latest digital safety devices could prevent thousands of road deaths in the European Union and save billions of euros by reducing traffic, a senior European Commission official said Tuesday. | (2/21/2006) Land Information New Zealand (LINZ) is phasing out paper-based lodgement of land transactions. By 1 July 2008 all survey and land title transactions are required to be lodged electronically on the Landonline system. Public counters in all processing centers will close from the same date.
| (2/6/2006) Last October, an obscure government body called the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) issued a security guideline that banks are treating as a mandate. Starting in January 2007, financial institutions must provide consumers of online financial services the same protection enjoyed by customers using a debit card to buy groceries or gas: strong authentication.
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  | |  | | 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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