(5/30/2007) Four months after its official, belated release, figuring out how Windows Vista is doing in the market involves as much decoding as a Dan Brown mystery. Microsoft Corp. may trumpet impressive stats, but it politely ducks and weaves when the professionally curious seek many of the details behind those numbers. Here's our attempt to unravel this puzzle shrink-wrapped in a mystery. | (5/30/2007) Four months after its official, belated release, figuring out how Windows Vista is doing in the market involves as much decoding as a Dan Brown mystery. Microsoft Corp. may trumpet impressive stats, but it politely ducks and weaves when the professionally curious seek many of the details behind those numbers. Here's our attempt to unravel this puzzle shrink-wrapped in a mystery. | (5/22/2007) From a 19th-century mill town to recognition as the world's most intelligent community, the City of Waterloo, Ont., in the heart of Canada's technology triangle, has come a long way. Beating out six other finalists, Waterloo has been named as the "Intelligent Community of the Year" by The Intelligent Community Forum (ICF), a New York-based non-profit think tank that focuses on economic development in the broadband economy. | (3/27/2007) The best technology and best of intentions may not be enough in the world of electronic medical records (EMR) for a clinic in the Southern U.S. The new EMR system at Harbin Clinic has the strong support of its CEO, board of directors and chief medical officer. Its technology can improve patient outcomes while saving physicians money. But cultural issues have stretched the implementation from two and a half years to four. | (3/26/2007) The best technology and best of intentions may not be enough in the world of electronic medical records (EMR) for a clinic in the Southern U.S. The new EMR system at Harbin Clinic has the strong support of its CEO, board of directors and chief medical officer. Its technology can improve patient outcomes while saving physicians money. But cultural issues have stretched the implementation from two and a half years to four. | (3/23/2007) Toronto has signed onto the Digital City Network in a collaborative agreement with San Francisco, with the goal of stimulating innovation of new technology within the ICT sector, according to City of Toronto spokesperson Rob Berry. | (3/6/2007) His main political rival controls three national television networks, a newspaper, a weekly magazine and a publishing house, so an Italian minister has decided to try to level the propaganda playing field by buying himself an island in Second Life. | (3/1/2007) A minor software glitch temporarily grounded a squadron of the newest and most sophisticated fighter planes used by the U.S. Air Force recently. A dozen F-22A Raptor jets were en route to Japan when six of the planes' navigational systems malfunctioned, forcing the entire squadron to return to Hawaii. | (2/8/2007) Refreshing. I trust this process is not purely dollar driven as it seems are most processes in global affairs appearing in the news. Considering the alarming and unfolding of global events as they are being exposed primarily through the Internet an emergence of compassion among our leading institutions is in desperate need. | (2/5/2007) Canada Health Infoway Inc. is working with the country's 13 provinces and territories to integrate six applications, or key modules, into one portal for public health surveillance and information management. Jeffrey Betts, a business development manager for systems integrator IBM Canada Ltd., offers a walkthrough of the various components: | (1/25/2007) The information technology (IT) industry in Canada needs an image makeover to save companies here from a looming skills shortage according to analysts and labour consultants. |
  | |  | | 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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