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    Increasing adoption of ITIL is making resistance futile 19 September, 2007 14:18:43

    David Farris, IT manager at the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal Plant Health Inspection Service, has been working for five years to change some of the processes within his 300-employee organization. He hopes the changes will lead to significant savings in the IT department, which now spends about US$100 million annually.
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    US Gov't Agencies See Slight Gain on Security Marks 16 April, 2007 11:16:49

    The US government has received an overall grade of C- on an annual IT security report card issued by Republican Tom Davis. That was a slight improvement from the D+ grades handed out for the two previous years, but eight agencies got failing marks -- the same number as last year.
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    Value of top US gov't IT contracts drops for '07 04 October, 2006 09:37:44

    The value of the top 20 U.S. government IT contracts in fiscal year 2007 will be US$118 billion, less than half the value of the top 20 government IT contracts in 2006, according to a report released Tuesday.
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    Immigration awards $200m contract to IBM 29 September, 2006 07:55:07

    The Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs yesterday announced a three-year deal with IBM for core technology services as part of its $495 million Systems for People project.
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    Facing the BPO Music 04 April, 2005 14:32:46

    Somewhere between price and performance sits the secret to a harmonious outsourcing relationship - if you can convince your partners to sing the same tune.
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    FACS Works To Improve Record-Keeping Compliance 24 February, 2004 13:17:45

    The Department of Family & Community Services (FACS) has begun a pilot of a product more typically used in legal and financial service circles, including the Macquarie Bank, as it strives to achieve an electronic framework for capturing office and email documents.
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    Mixed Reviews For Centrelink 04 November, 2003 10:13:14

    Centrelink’s Business Continuity Planning efforts have been largely endorsed by the Australian National Audit Office (ANAO), just weeks after being one of four agencies criticised for poor record-keeping practices.
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    Open Source’s Perfect Storm 08 August, 2003 11:22:44

    The race to find an alternative to Microsoft is well under way within Australian government as open source systems continue to attract the attention of cost-conscious CIOs
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    Cybercorps Grads Aim To Boost US Federal IT Security 17 June, 2003 10:25:22

    IT security at US federal agencies will get a boost this month from the first class of 46 students, mostly midcareer IT professionals, who have completed training under a federal scholarship-for-service program.
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    A More Perfect Union 06 June, 2003 10:03:23

    The US E-Government Act of 2002: The dollars, the players, the hurdles, the future.
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    The Prying Game 06 September, 2002 10:30:00

    Gathering competitive intelligence (CI) is a lucrative occupation that can deliver real rewards even to the most amateur of business spooks - but Australian managers are kidding themselves if they think they're doing it well. While savvy companies overseas keep close tabs on competitors by accessing a wealth of readily available information to win invaluable insights into the enemy's likely next moves, Australian companies have largely been slow to fully exploit this potent weapon.
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    CIO Live Podcast #79: Brent D Taylor, author of The Outsider's Edge: The Making of Self-Made Billionaires Part II 05 October, 2007 06:00:00

    For his new book, The Outsider's Edge: The Making of Self-Made Billionaires, social researcher Brent D Taylor spent four years of intensive research investigating the psychological make-up and backgrounds of some of the world's richest men and women, including IT luminaries Bill Gates, Larry Ellison and Steve Jobs. Taylor discovered that, despite working in different industries and coming from different upbringings, they all have one thing in common -- they are all outsiders.
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    CIO Live Podcast #78: Brent D Taylor, author of The Outsider's Edge: The Making of Self-Made Billionaires 28 September, 2007 17:34:25

    For his new book, The Outsider's Edge: The Making of Self-Made Billionaires, social researcher Brent D Taylor spent four years of intensive research investigating the psychological make-up and backgrounds of some of the world's richest men and women, including IT luminaries Bill Gates, Larry Ellison and Steve Jobs. Taylor discovered that, despite working in different industries and coming from different upbringings, they all have one thing in common -- they are all outsiders.
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    CIO Live Podcast #77: Panasonic Speeds Up Trans-Pacific File Transfers, Part III 21 September, 2007 07:00:00

    Part three in our three-part special report from CIO's sister publication Network World in the US, as Paul Desmond reports from the Network World IT Roadmap Conference in Santa Clara, California. With development teams in the US and Japan, Panasonic needed a more efficient way to move very large files between the two locations. Iben Rodriguez, IT consultant for Panasonic Research and Development, explains how a storage-area network and virtual server technology helped speed up WAN performance.
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    CIO Live Podcast #76: Panasonic Speeds Up Trans-Pacific File Transfers, Part II 14 September, 2007 07:00:00

    Part two in our three-part special report from CIO's sister publication Network World in the US, as Paul Desmond reports from the Network World IT Roadmap Conference in Santa Clara, California. With development teams in the US and Japan, Panasonic needed a more efficient way to move very large files between the two locations. Iben Rodriguez, IT consultant for Panasonic Research and Development, explains how a storage-area network and virtual server technology helped speed up WAN performance.
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    CIO Live Podcast #75: Panasonic Speeds Up Trans-Pacific File Transfers, Part I 07 September, 2007 07:00:05

    Part one in our three-part special report from CIO's sister publication Network World in the US, as Paul Desmond reports from the Network World IT Roadmap Conference in Santa Clara, California. With development teams in the US and Japan, Panasonic needed a more efficient way to move very large files between the two locations. Iben Rodriguez, IT consultant for Panasonic Research and Development, explains how a storage-area network and virtual server technology helped speed up WAN performance.
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    Data breaches rose sharply in 2008, says study 08 January, 2009 08:27:00

    More than 35 million data records were breached in 2008, according to the Identity Theft Resource Center.
    More than 35 million data records were breached in 2008 in the U.S., a figure that underscores continuing difficulties in securing information, according to the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC).
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    Rogue SSL certificate exploit puts VeriSign on the spot 07 January, 2009 11:04:00

    Wishes "white hat" researchers had notified VeriSign before public demo.
    Following the success of researchers last week in creating a false SSL certificate based on VeriSign's RapidSSL brand, the company is scrambling to explain how it happened, how it's preventing it from reoccurring, and whether its other SSL certificate-generation services are at risk.
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    With Gaza conflict, cyberattacks come too 05 January, 2009 08:03:00

    Pro-Palestinian hackers have defaced thousands of sites following attacks in Gaza.
    The conflict raging in Gaza between Israel and Palestine has spilled over to the Internet.
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    5 ways to secure your Blackberry 18 December, 2008 12:58:00

    What do Tom Cruise and the McCain campaign have in common? They have both been bitten by the loss of a Blackberry. Mobile expert Dan Hoffman gives advice on how to keep your cherished mobile device safe, even if it's out of your hands
    What do Tom Cruise and the McCain campaign have in common? They have both been bitten by the loss of a Blackberry. Mobile expert Dan Hoffman gives advice on how to keep your cherished mobile device safe, even if it's out of your hands.
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    Wireless VPNs: Protecting the wireless wanderer 18 December, 2008 11:04:00

    Employees sipping café Java over their wireless laptops may think a VPN makes them safe and secure. With careful configuration, there's some chance they're right
    Employees sipping café Java over their wireless laptops may think a VPN makes them safe and secure. With careful configuration, there's some chance they're right.
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