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    Guide: How to bulletproof your website 29 November, 2011 03:32:00

    'Tis the season to begin ramping up online shopping activity, and for retailers that means doing all they can to ensure their websites are up, highly available and able to handle peak capacity. Looming in many IT managers' minds is the cautionary tale of Target, whose website crashed twice after it was inundated by an unprecedented number of online shoppers when the retailer began selling clothing and accessories from high-end Italian fashion company Missoni.
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    TouchDroid will turn TouchPads into Android tablets 23 August, 2011 10:44:00

    The lucky people who managed to buy a $US99 TouchPad before they sold out just got luckier: A group of developers is working on a way to load Android onto the tablets.
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    TouchDroid will turn TouchPads into Android tablets 23 August, 2011 08:39:54

    The lucky people who managed to buy a US$99 TouchPad before they sold out just got luckier: A group of developers is working on a way to load Android onto the tablets.
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    CIOs: Empower your employees' use of consumer tech 01 September, 2010 07:53:00

    How empowered are your employees to solve customer and business problems? What's your role in empowering them? These questions are often absent from IT's mission, but not from the minds of those it serves.
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    Blog: Microsoft Retail Stores: An Idea Just Crazy Enough to Work? 17 February, 2009 11:53:00

    Coming soon to a mall near you: The Microsoft Store.
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    How to Maximise Your IT Security Budget 12 December, 2008 12:32:00

    In these days of economic recession, with cyber crime on the rise, it's more important than ever for IT leaders to make the most of their security budget.
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    Painful lessons from IT outsourcing gone bad 26 August, 2008 09:13:00

    As companies look to economize in a weak economy worsened by rising energy costs, it may be more tempting than ever to consider outsourcing your IT -- whether to a cloud-based provider, to a shop in your town, or to a provider in some far-off land. Certainly, outsourcing has worked well for many companies, but it can also lead to business-damaging nightmares, says Larry Harding, founder and president of High Street Partners, a global consultancy that advises company on how to expand overseas. After all, if outsourcers fail, you're left holding the bag without the resources to fix the problem.
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    Innovation Alchemy 12 December, 2005 13:15:57

    One of the most important things CIOs can create is the right mix of healthy environment and reliable process in order to foster innovation
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    The Ghost of Christmas Past 06 December, 1999 10:44:12

    In preparing for the busiest online holiday shopping season ever, e-retailers have visions of record sales-and nightmares about repeating last year's mistakes
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    Antivirus software powerless to stop data breach attacks, study finds 10 February, 2012 01:43:00

    Analysis of 300 incidents spots an elephant in the room
    Large numbers of data breaches are being initiated by targeted malware that antivirus software simply can't detect, an analysis of 300 real-world incidents from 2011 has suggested.
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    Valentine's Day Patch Tuesday: Microsoft to issue 9 patches, 4 critical 10 February, 2012 09:29:00

    Microsoft Thursday said that the second Patch Tuesday of 2012 will see nine security bulletins, four of which were deemed critical.
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    Security experts ask House for light a regulatory touch 10 February, 2012 01:39:00

    Cybersecurity experts on Wednesday warned members of a House subcommittee against racing to legislation that would establish an overly burdensome regulatory framework for safeguarding digital systems against attacks, instead urging a more limited approach that would clear away legal impediments such as the prohibitions against sharing critical threat information.
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    The six pillars of security operations 10 February, 2012 11:37:00

    Six key points that should be considered when creating and developing a SOC
    As mobilisation and bring-your-own-device (BYOD) becomes increasingly prevalent, business security has been propelled to the forefront of corporate strategy.
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    Google Wallet Security Concerns Raised 10 February, 2012 01:40:00

    Security firm Zvelo has discovered that the Google Wallet PIN can be cracked via an exhaustive numerical search.
    Google's new NFC system that purports to turn your phone into a credit card can be compromised using a brute-force attack -- and that raises questions about its security.
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