US state eyes law to charge retailers for data breaches
A Massachusetts bill that would see retailers held financially liable to banks for the costs of a credit card security breach is receiving decidedly mixed support.
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US state to adopt plug-in ODF strategy for disabled
Louis Gutierrez, CIO of Massachusetts’ IT division, recently said the state will postpone a January 1 deadline to roll out open-source software that can save files in the Open Document Format (ODF). Instead, the state will, on a near-term basis, adopt a plug-in strategy to fulfil its policy calling for executive-branch agencies to make use of ODF.
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CIO who backed OpenDocument in Massachusetts resigns
The state government official who had been moving Massachusetts away from Microsoft Corp.'s digital document formats has resigned. Peter Quinn, Chief Information Officer for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, will quit his position, effective January 9, according to an internal memo.
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US state finalizes plans to phase out Office
The state of Massachusetts has finalised a proposed move to an open format for office documents, a plan that involves phasing out versions of Microsoft's Office productivity suite deployed in the state's executive branch agencies.