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(2/11/2008) Shortly after the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) launched a new blog site to gather feedback from air travelers and respond to their suggestions, it halted a practice at some airports that required travelers to remove all electronic equipment from carry-on luggage during security screens. | (2/7/2008) Support for the Federal Government's A$15 million Information and Communications Technology (ICT) apprenticeship program on behalf of the Australian Public Service (APS) program was recently announced. The program is in conjunction with a four year APS program that will deliver up to 60 jobs within government agencies for young people. | (2/4/2008) There is still a lot of work to do before even well connected countries realize the full economic benefits of ICT, according to a study ranking governments worldwide on their use of communications technology and infrastructure. | (2/4/2008) If Microsoft's offer to buy Yahoo for $44.6 billion is accepted, privacy groups are threatening a fight before U.S. regulatory agencies. Microsoft announced that it sent an offer to Yahoo's board of directors last Thursday, going public with the news Friday morning. | (2/1/2008) The notion that technologies used to improve IT security serve as the most vital element of corporate risk management currently ranks below other priorities among customers, according to Symantec's annual survey of 405 businesses. | (1/31/2008) Alarms are sounding from many quarters about looming shortages in IT staff. The public sector will be particularly hard hit. An attrition rate of about 50 per cent over the next 10 years is expected for senior government IT staff due to early retirement, says David Tighe, VP at OriginHR, a Toronto-based recruiting and retention services provider. | (1/31/2008) For at least two more years the U.S. government will continue to watch over Microsoft's compliance with the terms of its famous antitrust case settlement. Court supervision of Microsoft's compliance with a U.S. antitrust settlement will continue until November 12, 2009, ruled federal district judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly earlier this week. | (1/30/2008) The federal government's desktop security mandate kicks in this week, requiring government agencies to support standard secure configurations for Windows XP and Vista operating systems. Known as the Federal Desktop Core Configuration standard, the FDCC will require agencies to apply and maintain standard security settings on all desktops and laptops. | (1/30/2008) According to a recent report by Forrester Research Inc., IT managers and CIOs in large companies who have actively resisted embracing Web 2.0 technologies like wikis, RSS, blogs and social networks will likely begin adding them to their priority lists in 2008. | (1/29/2008) Inside the latest issue of CIO Government Review. |
  | |  | | 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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