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Privacy and Biometrics: Biometric systems can be designed to put the power of the biometric into the hands of the individual, as opposed to the government, the police, or big business. Applications can be configured to give the data subject the ability to control access to his or her own biometric data, to...; Tags: Government Of Canada, Privacy, Biometrics, Authentication/Encryption, Security; White papers 2005-08-29
Relationship Management for Multi-Channel Service Delivery: The importance of relationship management has not been lost on the Government of Canada. While recognizing the importance of CRM tools in helping organizations maintain key relationships, the Government of Canada also acknowledges that these CRM tools are only one part of the puzzle. CRM is also a mindset that...; Tags: Government Of Canada, CRM, Service Delivery, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Productivity, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software; White papers 2005-08-09
Metadata and Controlled Vocabularies in the government of canada: A Situational Analysis: The Government of Canada GoC has been working actively for several years to enhance access to its published information through the use of metadata. In recognition of the value of controlled vocabularies in managing electronic information, the GoC has adopted standards for metadata and controlled vocabularies. This paper describes the...; Tags: Government Of Canada, Analysis, Quality, Business Operations; White papers 2004-10-04
ESRI Canada's Geography Network Builds on GeoBase: ESRI Canada is a Canadian owned company specializing in Geographic Information System GIS solutions. Data is the foundation of any GIS. Duplication of effort in collecting and maintaining this data adds unnecessary costs to any project or application. In support of the GeoBase concept of collecting quality data once and...; Tags: Government Of Canada, Environmental Systems Research Institute Inc., Network, Data, ESRI Canada, GeoBase, GIS, Software; Case studies
PEI Department of Transportation Uses the NRN: The province of Prince Edward Island has adopted the GeoBase National Road Network NRN, produced by NRCan's Geomatics for the Sustainable Development of Natural Resources program, as its official provincial road network. The advantages to PEI are many: by working within the national framework of GeoBase, PEI can share in...; Tags: Government Of Canada, U.S. Department Of Transportation, Department, GIS, Business Structures, Benefits, Software, Finance, Human Resources; Case studies

University of Ottawa Geography Researchers Utilize GeoBase: Professors at the University of Ottawa's Laboratory for Applied Geomatics and GIS Science LAGGISS are also involved in the often heated issue of climate change. A fundamental goal of the Climate System History and Dynamics CSHD project, the second largest earth science project in Canada, is to create spatially explicit...; Tags: Government Of Canada, University Of Ottawa, Climate, GIS, Telephony, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Software, Networking; Case studies

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Sugar-free Windows, as predicted: As Ivan Krstić predicted in his May 13th blog post (see "Intense and really thoughtful ranting from the OLPC front"), the OLPC XO will start shipping with Windows XP, minus the Sugar interface and open source tools that allow full implementation of the XO hardware (e.g., mesh networking). ...; Tags: One Laptop Per Child Project, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Christopher Dawson; Blog posts 2008-05-15
Verizon wins Homeland Security contract: Verizon picked up a huge contract from the Department of Homeland Security: a $670 million deal to provide IP and security services over 10 years, Reuters reports. Verizon was the primary winner of the 10-year, $20 billion contract to provide a full range of telecommunications and related...; Tags: Network, Verizon Communications Inc., Networking, Homeland Security, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Government, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2008-05-15
Medical companies celebrate death of patent reform: Medical device makers and drug companies are celebrating the apparent death of the 2008 Patent Reform Act. (For the other side of this debate, visit my open source blog.) Why were AdvaMed, PHRMA, and the rest of the industry so dead-against an end to...; Tags: Patent, Industry, Patent Approval, Drugs, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-05-15
Patent reform dead for 2008: The death of the Patent Reform Act in the Senate spells hard times for open source. That's because one of the act's main aims was to end "forum shopping," the practice of filing lawsuits in, say, the Eastern District of Texas, which never saw a patent plaintiff...; Tags: Patent, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-05-15
Images: Mars is getting a new visitor: NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander is expected to search for life after it touches down near an icy region of the Red Planet on May 25.On the morning of May 25, Mars will receive a new alien contraption from Earth, the Phoenix Mars Lander. Its three month mission is to sample...; Tags: Surface, Earth, NASA, Phoenix Technologies, It', CNET News.com; Image galleries 2008-05-15
Bell Canada's packet inspection violates privacy law, group says: And you didn't like Comcast's TCP resets. Something far more egregious is going on in Canada, where Bell Canada has been engaged in deep-packet inspection of traffic. Bell is using DPI to find and limit the use of peer-to-peer applications such as BitTorrent, which it says are congesting its network,...; Tags: Bell Canada, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2008-05-15
Commercialising the Semantic Web: Following an earlier post on this blog, last month I found myself moderating a panel in the final session of one of the tracks at this year's World Wide Web Conference in Beijing. As I commented via Twitter at the end of the session, "Great...; Tags: Garlik, Semantic Web, Internet, Paul Miller; Blog posts 2008-05-15
Britain releases its X-Files: The truth may be out there, but so far it's not in the government files. The British government posted the first batch of its X-Files to a website today in a project that will eventually see the Ministry of Defence turn over to the National Archives 160 files on UFO...; Tags: Officer, Britain, Alien, Missile, UFO, Government, Vertical Industries, Aerospace & Defense, Servers, Enterprise Software, Software, Manufacturing, Hardware, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2008-05-14
Photos: Where the building is the network: The San Jose, Calif., headquarters of Echelon, maker of technologies for smart buildings, model the company's energy management systems.Behind the scenes of "smart" buildings, including the Louvre Museum in Paris and the Sears Tower in Chicago, lies technology from Echelon. The company doesn''t call its embedded control technologies "green,"...; Tags: Network, Echelon, Photograph, Building, It', Echelon', That', Networking, CNET News.com; Image galleries 2008-05-14
Polar Bear Threatened, says U.S. Global warming acknowledged in public.: The U.S. Department of Interior has just listed the polar bear as a "threatened" species, that is legally and technically different than being listed as "endangered." The Feds based their announcement on studies by government scientists. Global warming is reducing Arctic sea ice off...; Tags: Bear, Global Warming, Bloomberg News, Wetzler, Kivalina, Harry Fuller; Blog posts 2008-05-14
European on-demand accounting vendors breaking the dam?: Since I am based in Europe and come from a finance background, I have a special interest in what happens in this part of the world. Over the last couple of years, I've been consistently told by 'experts' that saas/on-demand business applications and especially those that are finance related will...; Tags: On-demand, Vendor, QuickBooks Online, Smb/Sme, Financial Accounting, Finance, Dennis Howlett; Blog posts 2008-05-14
UK gov't releases transparent post-failure analysis: The UK Identity & Passport Service IPS has released an excellent post-implementation assessment report describing lessons learned from five key 2007 projects. In an unusually transparent move for any government agency, the report candidly examines each project's objectives, deliverables, and areas for improvement. ...; Tags: Project, Procurement, Analysis, IPS, Purchasing & Procurement, Government, Business Operations, Michael Krigsman; Blog posts 2008-05-14
Mobium GPS Navigation System (zip): Mobium GPS turns any Windows Mobile PDAs and smartphones into a GPS navigation system with turn-by-turn, GPS guided and voice prompted route guidance. You can search a database of 15 million business listings in your proximity, either by category, or by name, or both. You can then immediately call the...; Tags: GeoMicro, Mobium GPS, GPS, Handhelds, Smart Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware; Software downloads 2008-05-14
Instant Court Records (exe): Lookup court records, court houses, convictions, bankruptcies, and more using our court record databases. Our court record databases are the same ones used by private investigators, law enforcement, government agencies. Now available to you for your own online court record lookups. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.; Tags: Lookup, Storage, Litigation, Databases, Hardware, Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management; Software downloads 2008-05-14