Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Digital strategy coming later this year: Paradis Also, lobbying to start Wednesday on setting details of how next year’s spectrum auction will run and the contentious issue of roaming
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
OpenText to supply federal records management The Waterloo, Ont., company, whose product is already used by most departments, will be the platform for all ministries and agencies
Friday, April 13, 2012
Ottawa releases open government action plan The Harper government will direct bureaucrats to think of disclosing information by default. To keep track of everything, it will create a hosted government-wide records database
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Advice for federal IT workers facing layoffs Tout the fact that you worked for one of the biggest and most complex IT environments when looking for another job, says expert
Monday, April 02, 2012
Interview: Bill C-11 and CIPPIC RADIO ITWC This week, David Fewer from CIPPIC joins us to talk about Bill C-11 and copyright law in Canada
Thursday, March 29, 2012
Federal budget: IT consolidation, telepresence for savings Videoconferencing, cutting back on software and hardware licencing fees are among the ways Ottawa will try to slay the deficit
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Britain to spend millions on opening data As Canada prepares to release its open data action plan, London announces it will spend to buy data from its departments for release to the public
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Analysis: The A,B,Cs of the next spectrum auction ANALYSIS The much anticipated 700 MHz auction has been carefully structured by Industry Canada. Here's a guide to which spectrum will be most fought over, and why 
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Ottawa to put limits on 700 MHz spectrum auction The big carriers didn't get the open auction they want, but new operators also didn't get the opportunity to buy all of the spectrum themselves
Monday, March 12, 2012
Interview: World Congress on Information Technology RADIO ITWC WCIT program chair, Anthony Williams, joins the podcast to talk about what to expect at this year's event in Montreal
Thursday, March 08, 2012
Web site tracks Ottawa’s growing social media presence Now there's a one-stop place to find the hundreds of Twitter, Facebook and blogs from federal cabinet ministers and bureucrats
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Dramatic change coming for public sector CIOs A new computing platform, shared services and economic pressures are changing the government IT picture. Why CIO will mean "chief innovation officer"
Friday, February 17, 2012
Social media pushes government, says Clement Tens of thousands of tweets and email were why the Harper government acted on usage-based billing last year, says minister. Read why he's interested in trying crowdsourcing
Thursday, February 09, 2012
ISPs aren’t broadcasters, Supreme Court rules Disappointed cultural groups won't give up trying to compel Internet service providers to contribute funding to Canadian productions despite ruling 
Wednesday, February 08, 2012
Industry Canada ruling pushes Dish's LTE plan Decision helps the U.S. satellite TV carrier get closer to its plan to offer a 4G mobile service in the United States. But it has to get FCC approval
Friday, January 27, 2012
Proposed ISP access law threat to privacy, say groups Pressure on Conservative government increases with the expected re-introduction of government bill giving police the ability to ask for subscriber information
Thursday, January 26, 2012
CRTC names Leonard Katz interim chair Following the departure of Konrad von Finckenstein, Leonard Katz is appointed interim chair of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission
Monday, December 26, 2011
Year in review: February 2011 Zuckerberg meets his doppleganger, RIM announces Android plans and Nokia ties its handset future to Microsoft. More of 2011 in the rear-view mirror
Friday, December 16, 2011
Mobile still vital to Canada's 2012 growth: IDC In their annual predictions call, IDC Canada cited growth in mobile devices, offshore investment and cloud for fiscal 2012
Tuesday, December 06, 2011
A different kind of IT trade show Canada’s own IT and telecom trade show lands in a bigger downtown Toronto venue in its second year. Why one attendee is returning
Thursday, December 01, 2011
WikiLeaks creating new whistle-blowing platform WikiLeaks also released a study covering companies developing surveillance products
Thursday, December 01, 2011
Canadian Government Web 2.0 guidelines criticized The Treasury Board’s formal guidelines governing social media use have only been out for about a week, and they’ve already been scrutinized as impenetrable
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Debate but no news on foreign telco ownership The government isn't ready yet to reveal its new foreign investment strategy, Industry Minister Christian Paradis has told a communications conference
Monday, November 28, 2011
U of T upgrades e-mail infrastructure using PbD In a lot of cases, making decisions by committee is a great way to sink innovation. However, in the case of U of T, and its project to move e-mail and personal storage into the cloud, it worked and helped focus priorities
Thursday, November 24, 2011
Focus on privacy first: Microsoft Cloud Security Roundtable At a cloud security roundtable event in Toronto, security and privacy experts discuss new priorities Canadian businesses should have for their cloud endeavours, and why The Patriot Act shouldn’t be feared