(9/29/2006) If you seek to create a consolidated egovernment service network, coveting your neighbours IT assets may be a good way to begin, according to one high profile American CIO. | (9/21/2006) Will there be a rush to upgrade to Microsoft's latest OS? | (8/1/2006) The 10th Lac Carling Congress may have been a watershed event. It marked the emergence of municipalities as the project directors who are taking citizen-centred service delivery beyond the conceptual stage - to a work in progress. | (7/28/2006) Google Inc. is offering to host open source software development projects in a move that has been met with mixed reaction from the developer community online. | (7/19/2006) Microsoft Corp. and Nortel Networks Ltd. will unify their efforts to develop "unified communications" products to break down the barriers between telephony, voice mail, e-mail and instant-messaging systems. | (6/13/2006) Two software vendors have made their IP wiretapping tools for carriers and law-enforcement agencies work together. | (6/6/2006) A group of Asian journalists assailed Internet companies Yahoo and Google for siding with governments that curtail freedom of expression and information in cyberspace. | (5/10/2006) Recent legal setbacks suffered by Research In Motion (RIM) of Waterloo, Ont. appear to have left the converged handheld device market ripe for picking. | (5/3/2006) In 1999, San Diego County embarked upon what was then the largest municipal IT outsourcing initiative in the world: a seven-year deal worth $644 million with a group of companies known as the Pennant Alliance (which included Computer Sciences Corp as the prime contractor), meant to refurbish County government operations for 21st century challenges. | (5/3/2006) Broward County, Fla. Maricopa County, Ariz. and Fort Bend County, Tex. Three counties, separated by hundreds of miles, with something in common. | (4/3/2006) The US Internal Revenue Service continues to put taxpayers personal data at risk by not strengthening its information security systems, according to a report by the US Government Accountability Office. |
  | |  | | 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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