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(1/4/2008) According to a recent Computerworld poll, it's going to be a tough year for IT project managers. Project management has always earned a high ranking on the annual list of IT managers' worries, but in the first-half of the 2008 Vital Signs survey, it took the No. 1 spot. | (1/4/2008) Tougher criminal penalties for data security breaches are being urged by a committee of MPs as incidents where the government or contractors have lost people's personal data continue to come to light. | (1/3/2008) As we welcome the New Year, it's also a time to reflect and look back on the news that resonated with our readers in 2007. The most-read stories run the gamut of topics, from free WiFi scams and hot public sector IT trends to the realities of Facebook for the government. Read on for the top 10 stories of 2007. | (1/3/2008) No one is mistaking the current IT jobs market for the one that sizzled during the dot-com days and inflated salaries to astronomical rates. But as the U.S. economy wrestles with a weak housing market and record oil prices, demand for IT workers is on the rise. | (1/3/2008) No one is mistaking the current IT jobs market for the one that sizzled during the dot-com days and inflated salaries to astronomical rates. But as the U.S. economy wrestles with a weak housing market and record oil prices, demand for IT workers is on the rise. | (12/20/2007) A recent survey found that IT workers tend to have free-market principles and independent attitudes about political parties on the subject of U.S. politics and the government's role in regulation. | (12/19/2007) The U.K. government has admitted that the records of more than three million U.K. learner drivers have gone missing from a firm in the U.S. The records contained on the hard disc included the names and addresses of the test applicants, their telephone numbers and in some cases an email address - but no financial data. | (12/17/2007) The stories that get the most ink on information security issues are usually the ones about massive data breaches and other foul-ups - especially if they happen within government. | (12/12/2007) Despite added costs and complexity, business and government sectors are becoming wedded to data encryption, even though at times it's like an arranged marriage driven by regulatory compliance and fear of data-breach fiascos. | (12/12/2007) Despite added costs and complexity, business and government sectors are becoming wedded to data encryption, even though at times it's like an arranged marriage driven by regulatory compliance and fear of data-breach fiascos. |
  | |  | | 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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