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(5/9/2006) BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd. (RIM) has hit back in its new legal battle, and launched BlackBerry Enterprise Server Express, a bid to attract small businesses. | (5/4/2006) In January, San Diego awarded a seven-year outsourcing contract worth approximately US$650 million to Northrop Grumman Information Technology to run the county's IT operations. | (5/3/2006) Access to information and services remains a powerful driver in the public sector for the adoption of basic enabling technologies like Web content management. But IT shops in government and health agencies are increasingly turning to the more commanding functionality that ties the software to business process applications in the back end. | (4/27/2006) Hamilton's portal gives new meaning to collaboration
Municipalities on the march
Visionary fibre guy turns Toronto wireless
Gatineau forges ahead with 311 service
Bruce County victorious with VoIP
Calgary's 311 launch: The first week
Consolidate and integrate - City of Ottawa's new magic mantra
| (4/25/2006) Users from the health care community said the resignation of the Bush Administration's point man for health IT is unlikely to seriously hurt the national move to adopt electronic health records. | (4/21/2006) A lack of political recognition and big business backing threatens to stunt the growth of Toronto's $35 billion information and communication technology (ICT) sector, according to a report released Wednesday. | (4/17/2006) RIM is working with the world's largest cellular phone service provider, China Mobile (Hong Kong) Ltd. to launch its popular BlackBerry mobile e-mail services in China by the end of May, a spokeswoman said Thursday. | (4/3/2006) An unpatched flaw in a "widely used security program" was exploited by an unknown hacker to gain access to a Georgia Technology Authority (GTA) database containing confidential information on more than 570,000 members of the state's pension plans. | (3/30/2006) When the B.C. government auctioned off data storage tapes that contained details of the medical status of thousands of people b including whether they are HIV-positive, mentally ill or considered fit for work b they really stepped in it. But, sadly, it could have happened anywhere. | (3/20/2006) For the City of Stratford it's out with the old and in with the new, as far as upgrading their IT infrastructure is concerned. It's something that you do once, and you don't have to do it again, according to Ron Roy, manager of information technology services with the City. | (3/9/2006) Government, you may have noticed, has been slowly getting its head around wireless. |
  | |  | | 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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