Experts in open government and social media discussed everything from government-as-a-platform to app stores to the creation of a MuniForge during a panel discussion at the Open City Workshop in Edmonton. Plus, CIO Chris Moore's take on the risks of open government.
Nokia has decided that its one-letter naming convention plus a model number for its phones isn't keeping up with the times. The Finnish phone maker said in a blog post on Monday that it will now use just numbers, calling its latest smartphone the "500."
Oracle has agreed to pay US$199.5 million plus interest for failing to meet its contractual obligations in a 1998 contract with the U.S. General Services Administration, the U.S. Department of Justice announced.
Over the years, Apple has earned a less-than-stellar reputation among purchasers of enterprise desktops. Macs were seen as overpriced to begin with. And Apple didn't offer huge discounts for bulk purchases, like the PC makers. Plus, Macs didn't come with the ecosystem of integrated productivity and management apps that are taken for granted in the Windows world.
The International Consumer Electronics Show takes place next week in Las Vegas, and as always there will be plenty to trigger our technolust. Teaser press releases from exhibitors augur a new suite of super-thin laptops and mid-range tablets, plus Internet-connected cars and TVs, as well as the latest developments in charging and connecting devices without wires.
Comparisons have already been made between the iPhone and the Droid smartphones, but one telling difference that might matter more is something less tangible, involving Apple fanaticism and the iPhone's two-year-plus market lead over the Droid.
A combination of costs savings and features plus a need to refresh the network infrastructure in general drove a Wisconsin school district to abandon its Cisco VoIP and data network for one driven by ShoreTel and HP.
Paul Otellini's 2008 compensation includes a $3.9 million cash bonus plus stock options and awards valued at $7.2 million at the time they were granted.
As one of three credit bureaus in the United States, Equifax keeps financial data on every adult in America, plus people in 16 other countries. But the company knows much more than just what goes into an old-fashioned credit score.
Vonage Holdings is adding unlimited free calls to countries including Mexico and China, plus speech-to-text conversion of voicemail, to its fixed-line VoIP (voice over Internet protocol) service.
Microsoft is reportedly in talks to buy enterprise social network company Yammer for $1 billion-plus, a move that could bolster everything from Microsoft's unified communications to CRM businesses.
HP ProCurve debuts first switches built specifically for data center applications, plus a server module so users can integrate switching and application processing.
The Ethernet Alliance this week said that an IEEE task force charged with creating a "Power over Ethernet Plus" standard for video has submitted a new draft that could help bring about a standard by next year.
Plus: NSF awards grant to UC Berkeley for cybersecurity center; Cisco warned of a potential Internet attack using a common management protocol; Cisco also bought Topspin; AOL launches enterprise AIM federation program; and, wi-fi now available at the North Pole.
The U.S. Department of Justice and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement have seized more than US$896,000, plus the domain names of seven websites accused of selling counterfeit sports apparel, the two agencies announced Tuesday.
Last issue I predicted a bit of a slowdown, some bumps in the road perhaps even some fracturing of the OpenID community in the coming year. Scott Kveton disagrees. Well, he would as he’s CEO of JanRain, which describes itself thus: “JanRain is delivering Internet-scale user-centric identity solutions employing the OpenID protocol.”
Research in Motion, reeling as its BlackBerry takes a beating from the Apple iPhone and assorted Android smartphones, is expected to lay off anywhere from 2,000 to 6,000 employees to cut costs and turn around its financial fortunes. While the exact number of layoffs from RIM's 16,000-plus staff remains to be confirmed, the restructured company appears headed for a high rank on this year's list of tech industry layoffs.
This year's CIO 100 Symposium was exceptional. The speakers were smart, experienced and engaging, and they offered solid takeaways to the 250-plus IT executives filling the International Center at The Broadmoor in Colorado Springs. While they covered many topics, one theme in particular ran through the two days, sending a strong message about how to move the needle in your business and your life:
Picking up where we left off last time on the topic of trends and advantages of convergence and VoIP, today we'll highlight a recent discussion with Chris Lyman, CEO at Fonality. Fonality offers a premise-based IP PBX and has more than 1,000 IP-PBX systems deployed serving 15,000-plus business users.
Gemalto provides telecommunications, financial services, eGovernment identity and access management, plus IT security and mass transit systems for more than one billion people worldwide. In Singapore, the firm has some 1,000 employees, with 160 engineers engaged in research and development. MIS Asia editor Ross O. Storey, spoke to Ng Fook Seng, Gemalto's Senior Vice-President, Security Business Asia, about the firm's Asia plans.
A few weeks ago we discussed the Sony Reader and its fabulous display. From your letters it seems that there’s a roughly 50/50 split between those who think that e-books have a future and those that think they will make nice landfill.
The big news in the carrier world is last week’s awarding of Networx, the General Services Administration’s $20-billion-plus project for revamping the U.S. government’s telecom infrastructure. Networx is a 10-year program that will provide domestic and international telecommunications services including voice, data, video and wireless to the U.S. federal government, and replaces the two predecessor contracts, FTS 2000 and FTS 2001.