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In Part 2 of InterGovWorld's Spotlight on Maxime Bernier, the federal Industry Minister talks about nuclear energy and fuel cells, trucking plants and tricky telecom laws. Bernier steps back to assess industry and consumer reaction to his proposed reversal of a controversial CRTC decision; he tells us what he learned from a technology institute; and how he believes an online initiative dubbed BizPaL is helping the growth of Canadian business.

Exponential growth in the volume of information generated by enterprises has gone hand in hand with the launch of a slew of new data archiving products. However, as storage requirements of businesses get more complex, conventional storage products are not always able to satisfy these needs.

Canada's federal government just doesn't seem to have the knack for numbers. Eight years of wrappings on the knuckles by the Auditor General still hasn't fixed this country's Social Insurance Number (SIN) management system, according to the latest audit.

A worm and a virus attack, which might make all the tech staff scramble and work without sleep for 15 hours, the CEO doesn

Corporate security lapses are once again sweeping the news hour, but these days the culprit is just as likely to be an inside source -- a paid employee at a reputable company

Scheduling medical practitioners' work shifts at multiple clinics can often be an administrative headache

Russian security professionals Eugene and Natalya Kaspersky dropped by Network World this week en route from Moscow to the RSA Conference in California. In a wide-ranging interview with Features Editor Neal Weinberg, the Kaspersky Lab duo discussed the Russian mafia, the latest in hacker tricks and their view that the bad guys are winning.

Part 1 of InterGovWorld's Spotlight on Minister Maxime Bernier of Industry Canada. Bernier discusses the biggest challenge of his job, the recent cabinet shake-up, and the controversial government proposal to change a decision by the CRTC regarding deregulation.