Government & Public Sector

European and U.S. security officials were locked in talks in Brussels Monday to replace a passenger data sharing agreement that was outlawed by a European court in May.

The U.S. Department of Justice is asking questions about conduct by Hewlett-Packard Co. that has embroiled the technology company in controversy. A spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's Office in San Francisco, Luke Macaulay, said the Federal Bureau of Investigation is joining the U. S. Attorney in "investigating the processes employed" by HP.

The probe recently carried out by Hewlett-Packard Co. into its own board members in the U.S. has raised concerns in Canada about how telecommunication service providers protect customers

A U.S. judge on Friday sentenced the owner and operator of iBackups.net to 87 months in prison, the longest sentence ever given for software piracy, according to a software trade group.

Scheduling physicians into the workflow of multiple health care sites is an administrative nightmare because a large percentage of the institutions use outdated or even paper-based systems.

Telus Corp. changed its financial structure to the income trust model. The move will provide the telecommunications service firm greater access to capital to fund its plans to expand its broadband network, according to a company statement.

While Jim Firestone doesn't think technology watchers will see the advent of the paperless office in the near future, the president of Xerox North America does envision a more holistic approach to document management.

A home-grown Web-based application called Chyma has been adopted by many Canadian communities to tackle scheduling and communications of doctors. About 5,000 physicians use the system across Canada to connect with major hospitals and related healthcare facilities in places such as Sudbury, North Bay, Brantford and Scarborough.