Government & Public Sector

Australia's ICT (information and communications technology) research and development community will receive no new federal money from the government's election war chest, with ICT research policy left as it stands until after the polls.

Computer viruses and worms will have to share the stage with a new challenger for the attention of attendees at a conference of antivirus researchers: spam e-mail.

Two prominent open-source software groups have rejected a proposed technology standard backed by Microsoft Corp. that would close a loophole used to send unsolicited commercial ("spam") e-mail, citing unresolved patent and licensing issues with the standard known as Sender ID.

In the light of Thursday's announcement by the South African Minister for the Department of Communications, Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri, that Value-Added Network service providers (VANS) may carry voice using any protocol as from Feb. 1, 2005, songs of joy can be heard across almost the entire ICT sector.

U.S. government agencies need to better understand the vulnerabilties of the software they're buying, said IT workers from several government agencies during a software assurance forum in Washington, D.C.

Since Gary Thuerk, a marketing manager at Digital Equipment Corp., sent the first batch of unsolicited e-mails

A recent survey by the American Management Association and the ePolicy Institute indicated that 20.1 percent of companies surveyed say...

The standard rationales that technology vendors give for implementing their products are competitive advantage, efficiency or striking new features.