http://www.cio.com.au CIO Government en-us Copyright 2009, IDG Communications, for personal use only, not for redistribution without permission. Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:40:04 +1000 60 http://www.cio.com.au/index.php?id=722026830&rid=-601 CIOs in Australia and New Zealand are increasingly getting involved in the disaster recovery planning of their organisations, according to a new survey from Symantec. Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:16:00 +1000 http://www.cio.com.au/index.php?id=1333504582&rid=-601 The Federal Government is to spend up to $250 million on new backbone transmission links to a number of regional centres including Broken Hill, Darwin and Geraldton, as part of its Regional Backbone Blackspots Program. Thu, 02 Jul 2009 08:44:00 +1000 http://www.cio.com.au/index.php?id=636103075&rid=-601 For many, Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) is synonymous with innovation, but not with the successful commercialisation of its intellectual property (IP). Wed, 01 Jul 2009 12:39:00 +1000 http://www.cio.com.au/index.php?id=1424163606&rid=-601 A blind Boston-area teenager was sentenced to more than 11 years in prison Friday for hacking into the telephone network and harassing the Verizon investigator who was building a case against him. Tue, 30 Jun 2009 08:24:00 +1000 http://www.cio.com.au/index.php?id=1680591343&rid=-601 Microsoft's Bing search engine filters out some sensitive results from searches made in simplified Chinese, the script used to write the language in China, searches revealed Thursday. Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:30:00 +1000 http://www.cio.com.au/index.php?id=1666970314&rid=-601 Internet policymakers are forging ahead with a controversial plan to introduce hundreds of generic top-level domains -- such as .nyc, .sport and .food -- next year. Thu, 25 Jun 2009 07:58:00 +1000 http://www.cio.com.au/index.php?id=1744916469&rid=-601 A few years ago, companies were grappling with how to harness Web 2.0 technologies such as blogs, wikis and social networks inside the enterprise. Over time, on a departmental level, business leaders would buy these technologies with or without IT's blessing to help meet their internal collaboration needs. Thu, 25 Jun 2009 07:26:00 +1000 http://www.cio.com.au/index.php?id=1362918848&rid=-601 The Pirate Bay is the target of yet another legal case -- the Dutch antipiracy organization BREIN wants to close the file-sharing site in the Netherlands, and wants to see its founders appear in the Amsterdam district court on July 21, it said Tuesday. Thu, 25 Jun 2009 04:34:00 +1000 http://www.cio.com.au/index.php?id=877871085&rid=-601 The European Commission took a big step toward creating an enhanced pan-European system of security and surveillance Wednesday when it launched a proposal to set up a new independent agency to manage massive IT systems used by border control authorities. Thu, 25 Jun 2009 04:04:00 +1000 http://www.cio.com.au/index.php?id=1917978058&rid=-601 The U.S. government should avoid making huge changes in its deregulatory telecom policies because consumers have seen a "broadband boom" since 2000, according to a new paper released Wednesday. Thu, 25 Jun 2009 02:56:00 +1000