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Timms replaced with 'tough' new IT minister
News Until that point, Timms had been the minister of state for competitiveness at the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR) — itself known until recently as the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI).
[January 30, 2008, 10:49]
Witnesses to testify in Oracle hearing
News The department was created in 1995 to co-ordinate major technology purchases for the state. According to previous testimony, Keene, a former state senator, and Elias Cortez, the former director of the Department of Information Technology, dismissed...
[May 21, 2002, 10:35]
Washington State First to Provide a U.S. Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative (WHTI) - Compliant Enhanced Driver License
White Papers The Washington State Department of Licensing teamed with Washington Department of Information Services, Department of Homeland Security, Digimarc, and Microsoft to implement the Enhanced Driver License program.
[April 16, 2008, 1:02]
WA Department of Education and Training Rolls Out Statewide Digital Learning to 800 Schools
White Papers The Western Australian Department of Education and Training (WA DET) delivers education and skills development to people in the state. This vast geography presents the department with a range of challenges, including building the skills of teachers...
[May 21, 2008, 1:01]
British e-government hailed by UN
Talkback Various things from viewing public records to tax returns in America are now done almost exclusivly online in some places, but in many cases wheras the offline implimentaion is handled by the appropriate state department.
[January 12, 2005, 15:10]
Vista marketing sparks antitrust complaints
News In the more than six years since the department has been enforcing the consent decree, it has received the largest number of complaints from third parties about a particular Windows Vista marketing programme run by Microsoft, said Steven Houck...
[January 29, 2009, 8:12]
US Report: Antitrust suit against MS likely
News The discussions between the Justice Department, a coalition of State attorneys general and Microsoft ended today without resolution," it said. Department of Justice (DoJ) intend to file against Microsoft Monday morning, barring a last-minute...
[May 18, 1998, 10:09]
Massachusetts may embrace Microsoft Office
News At that time, only OpenDocument Format, or ODF, met the state IT department's definition of an open standard, which was not supported in Microsoft Office. We feel like this is the best approach to getting all the agencies in the executive...
[July 3, 2007, 8:48]
Did states 'deep six' MS-DoJ talks?
News Department of Justice and 19 state attorneys general, sets the stage for a ruling this week on whether the firm broke the nation's antitrust laws. Justice Department antitrust chief Joel Klein thanked Posner for his efforts and said any remedy must...
[April 3, 2000, 8:28]
Bush challenges EC over Internet governance
News Obviously we want to find common ground, we want a successful summit, but we're not giving away our principles in order to get there," US Ambassador David Gross, the State Department's coordinator for information policy, said on Thursday.
[October 21, 2005, 11:30]
Lawmaker: Oracle deceived California
News The department was created in 1995 to coordinate major technology purchases for the state. Some lawmakers are calling for the state to dissolve the Department of Information Technology, which was created in 1995 to guide the state's technology...
[May 15, 2002, 9:55]
Bangalore closing gap on Silicon Valley
News Gowda claims that Bangalore has already overtaken Silicon Valley, but the latest figures from California's state government Employment Development Department (EDD) estimate the number of technology workers in Santa Clara County, which is the heart...
[July 29, 2004, 8:55]
Yahoo-Google deal opposed by ad-trade group
News The Department of Justice is expected to indicate in the coming weeks whether it will seek to block the proposed search deal and, on a state level, a multi-state task force is expected to issue a decision in the autumn.
[September 8, 2008, 14:07]
US government ignoring RFID risks
News Among the list of planned or actual uses: the Department of Defense for tracking shipments; the Department of Homeland Security for immigration and baggage tracking; the State Department for electronic passports; the Department of Veterans Affairs...
[May 31, 2005, 9:45]
RIAA apologises for more mistaken warnings
News Sent during Penn State's final exams, it prompted the central computing office at the campus to threaten the department with having its Internet connection severed unless the infringing material was removed.
[May 14, 2003, 7:33]
Bush's EU man attacked for Microsoft links
News CSE and other similarly-minded groups received cash from Microsoft during its long-running antitrust war with the US Justice Department and state attorneys general. Boyden Gray, a lawyer who lobbied on behalf of Microsoft during the US antitrust...
[August 8, 2005, 15:30]
CA.gov Locator
Downloads The CA Locator currently provides thousands of locations for services including California Employment Development Departments One Stop Career Centers, Department of motor Vehicles field offices, Public Libraries, State Parks, Roadside Rest Areas...
[December 20, 2009, 18:39]
Microsoft agrees to change Vista desktop search
News Drummond continued:"We are pleased that as a result of Google's request that the consent decree be enforced, the Department of Justice and state attorneys general have required Microsoft to make changes to Vista," he said.
[June 20, 2007, 8:37]
California woes cloud Oracle's quarter
News The IT department for the Secretary of State's office has a $5m budget for fiscal 2002. The Department of Justice, Fish and Game and other departments will be watching Oracle (on this matter) and saying, 'Who is this business partner?
[June 2, 2002, 7:32]
University bans controversial links
News Because the FARC, also known by its Spanish name Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarios de Columbia, appears on the State Department's August list of 34 terrorist organisations, the university says it has no choice but to ban hyperlinks.
[September 26, 2002, 11:56]
