Government & Public Sector

Vietnamese authorities raided the premises of three of the country's largest computer assemblers in the capital Hanoi on Wednesday, discovering large amounts of pirated software on the premises, according to a government statement.

It appears that the General Public License (GPL) for free and open source software (FOSS) may contradict some Canadian regulations, said one Canadian intellectual property (IP) lawyer.

A multi-million dollar Microsoft Corp. reward program to encourage people to identify computer virus writers has led to the arrest of a teenager in Germany on suspicion of writing the Sasser computer worm. However, with the appearance of a new variant of the worm, security firms are saying there is a group involved in the creation and distribution processes.

The tech industry wants to let the market squash spyware, but the U.S. Congress is getting impatient

It's a four-peat. Canada has once again increased its worldwide lead in e-government, according to Accenture's annual review.

Appearing recently before federal Parliamentarians, Canada's chief electoral officer, Jean-Pierre Kingsley, suggested that lowering the age of voting eligibility from 18 to 16 is an idea with merit. He is right.

Veteran Ottawa MP John Manley was federal Minister of Industry for seven years in the 1990s. In that capacity, he was an early leader of the federal government's e-government program. Manley recently spoke with Robert Parkins, editor of CIO Governments' Review, on his days as a champion of e-government and his thinking on more current issues.

A study by the Institute of Information Law (IViR) at the University of Amsterdam has revealed that the E.U.