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Wednesday Grok: Microsoft’s browser lockout is to be pitied more than despised 23 May, 2012 10:21:00
Here’s an idea. Let’s tweak Windows so it only works properly with Internet Explorer. Is Microsoft up to its old tricks again? Manipulating software markets? Monopolising outcomes? More importantly, does anyone care anymore? Its moment passed, long ago. And the dead rise not yet. - +
Monday Grok: Facebook IPO — not everyone’s as greedy as a Wall Street underwriter 21 May, 2012 09:37:00
In the last 72 hours Mark Zuckerberg made a hero of his bank manager and an honest woman of his wife. That’s a hell of a weekend. - +
Friday Grok: Google gets its mojo back with Knowledge Graph 18 May, 2012 11:44:00
It seems like we are always dissing on Google. But not today. The search engine giant is about to roll out Knowledge Graph — a semantic Web solution — and the all the portents are good. Excellent in fact. - +
Tuesday Grok: Groupon surges on latest results, and savage cuts to marketing 15 May, 2012 15:04:00
Groupon released its latest financial results for its most recent quarter, and the headline numbers look great. They look stunning in fact. A cynic might suggest they are almost too good to be true. It went from a $146.5 million loss in the corresponding quarter last year to an $11.7 loss this quarter in this latest result.* - +
Thursday Grok: Oracle v Google — fat lady refuses to sing 10 May, 2012 09:25:00
Google, according to a jury, violated Oracle’s copyright but it hasn’t been able to decide whether Google overstepped the fair use provisions of the law. And we are still waiting for the fat lady to sing. Indeed, she’s just getting warmed up. - +
Yahoo CEO better Google "Exit", update his LinkedIn profile while he’s at it 07 May, 2012 11:27:00
Yahoo may well ditch its CEO, Scott Thomson, by the end of this week — assuming he lasts that long. Activist shareholder Daniel Loeb discovered that Thomson had padded (a polite term for ‘lied about’) his computer science qualifications when joining Yahoo. That padding (lying) had been going on for years, as it now transpires. - +
Wednesday Grok: Google chases paid inclusion, the very evil it once spurned 02 May, 2012 13:29:00
Google just can’t help itself. It’s like a drunk stumbling into a bar, or a junkie with his bony fingers clamped tightly around a fresh new 50 dollar note. The search engine giant seems determined to self-immolate. Forget about anti-trust for the time being, we’re talking instead about the debasement of its core product. - +
Monday Grok: Price inquiry — what can the government really do? 30 April, 2012 11:47:00
Australian software consumers have been getting royally corn holed by vendors like Microsoft and Adobe for years and still are. There’s one simple reason why the suppliers price gouge — because they can. - +
Friday Grok: Dotcom results — very good news, with more to come 27 April, 2012 09:48:00
The dotcom sector is blitzing it. Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Zinga have all reported this week, and while commentary has been a little mixed around some of the results, the reality is that the view from the cockpit of the helicopter is spectacular. - +
Tuesday Grok: It may not be a bubble, but it's a stretch 24 April, 2012 11:54:00
The universe is expanding. You wouldn’t know it though, as it’s hard to see a bubble expanding from the inside out. But it's an interesting phenomenon, at least right up until the moment when the membrane breaks. - +
Monday Grok: What do Facebook and Google know about you? 23 April, 2012 11:03:00
There’s an interesting and typically uncomfortable story published this morning in the Guardian by journalist James Bell where he investigated what information Facebook and Google hold on him.
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CIO industry insight podcast #11: Brad Howarth talks about the future of broadband 15 June, 2011 09:17:33
Journalist for CIO Australia, Lisa Banks, chats to Brad Howarth about A Faster Future; the book he co-authored with Janelle Ledwidge. - +
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CIO Australia editor, Georgina Swan, talks with Graham Waller, co-author of The CIO Edge - 7 Leadership Skills you need to drive results. The book examines the key skills CIOs need and how to develop them,focusing on the importance of the interplay between IT processes and people leadership. - +
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Special Report: Green and Sustainable IT in the Enterprise 15 April, 2010 11:58:23
Despite all the hype surrounding Green IT, many CIOs and senior IT executives are unsure about the best way to start their organisations on the green journey. In this special edition podcast, CIO Australia editor Matt Rodgers speaks to Sundeep Khisty, Green Practice Leader, HP Enterprise Services, Asia Pacific & Japan, about how CIOs can best guide IT to become a core part of a company's sustainability strategy.
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Chinese cyber-espionage threatens U.S. economy, DoD says 25 May, 2012 13:23:49
China's refusal to even recognize the problem -- never mind address it -- is behind opposition to granting an international service license to China Mobile - +
Mayor of New Jersey town arrested on hacking and conspiracy charges 25 May, 2012 15:45:59
West New York mayor Felix Roque and his son are accused of hacking into a website that promoted his recalling from officeThe mayor of West New York, New Jersey, was arrested together with his son on Thursday, for allegedly hacking into a website that criticized him and his administration. - +
Untethered jailbreak for iOS 5.1.1 available for download 25 May, 2012 14:56:00
Absitnthe 2.0 is the first untethered jailbreak available for the third-generation iPadAbsinthe 2.0, the jailbreak for iOS 5.1.1, is ready and available for download, the Jailbreak Dream Team announced at the Hack in the Box conference in Amsterdam. - +
Security researcher urges IT managers to keep up with SAP patches 25 May, 2012 09:30:09
Companies are vulnerable, but often don't realize they areThe story "Security researcher urges IT managers to keep up with SAP patches," posted on the wire Thursday, incorrectly stated the location of Onapsis in the second paragraph. - +
Government alarm over cyberattacks validated by terrorists 25 May, 2012 13:23:21
Purported al Qaeda video circulated by supporters of Senate legislation to regulate computer security of critical industries
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