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(4/16/2008) Following the chaotic opening of Terminal 5, British Airways has announced that two of its senior executives will leave the company. The opening of Terminal 5 (T5) in March was beset by a catalogue of problems when a high-tech baggage system broke down and log-on problems left staff unable to get into work. | (4/16/2008) McGill University has begun deploying a new wireless network aimed at combating the performance and security challenges that come with having a downtown-area campus. Using Aruba Networks Inc.'s adaptive wireless LANs in both its Montreal-based campuses, the school has already deployed more than 2,700 wireless access points since beginning the project last year. | (4/15/2008) Microsoft has proposed a tiered approach to protecting the privacy of people targeted by online advertising, saying advertisers should get permission before using sensitive, personally identifiable information to deliver ads. | (4/14/2008) The U.K. government has admitted much more work has to be done on patient security and confidentiality concerns, associated with allowing pharmacists access to patient Summary Care Records (SCRs). | (4/14/2008) Security issues are on the minds of all CIOs these days. Whether the CIO of a 1,300-student liberal-arts college or that of a 13,000-employee Fortune 100 company, never before has the issue of data security been more important. | (4/11/2008) An Ontario city has opted to use open source software to integrate a number of its most important applications, choosing to turn away from larger, proprietary options. | (4/11/2008) Privacy organizations are calling for intensified scrutiny and oversight of the RCMP's information management practices, which have failed to comply with government policy for almost 20 years. | (4/10/2008) Washington politicians are frequently denounced for moving too slowly to respond to emerging problems, and while the adage has proven true regarding the federal sector's response to cyber security thus far, the U.S. government is making slow progress in addressing the issue, experts maintain. | (4/9/2008) Over the past decade, Canada has transitioned from an industrial economy to a networked economy said Keith Parsonage, Director General of the Information and Communications Technologies branch with Industry Canada | (4/8/2008) IT skills related to wireless technology will increase the most in importance in the next five years, according to a survey of more than 3,500 IT managers in 14 countries. The finding ranks IT skills in wireless ahead of all other skills, including Web-based technologies such as Web 2.0 and security, according to the Computing Technology Industry Association in Oakbrook Terrance, Ill., which commissioned the survey. |
  | |  | | 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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