Government & Public Sector

The French government will sell a 9.6 per cent stake in France T

China's National People's Congress, the country's top legislative body, on Aug. 28 passed a law that legalizes the use of electronic signatures, paving the way to overcome an important obstacle to doing e-commerce in the world's most populous country, according to the official Xinhua News Service.

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

Enterprises handling the personal information of customers are being given a second chance to influence the operation of the Australian federal Privacy Act (1998). Federal Attorney General Philip Ruddock has announced a review of private sector provisions of the law.

Six California counties and cities on Friday filed a class action lawsuit against Microsoft Corp. accusing the software giant of violating California law with anti-competitive business practices.

High-speed Internet will not be coming to hundreds of rural and northern Ontario communities anytime soon as the Ontario government decided recently to scrap a $55-million program designed to help regions not covered by ISPs.

Splits have appeared in the Australian government's position of offshoring Australian public sector IT jobs. The Prime Minister's office has refused to support comments made by the Trade Minister Mark Vaile and Communications and IT Minister Helen Coonan backing the practice.

Spam and the bandwidth it wastes is the most pressing problem IT managers face. Not only does it slow down production and clog the network, but according to Paul Ducklin, head of technology for Sophos PLC, the real case for clamping down on spam is the huge amount of useless traffic it creates in unwanted replies, which doubles the flow on a network.