Tuesday | 14 October, 2008
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    IDG awarded for excellence 30 November, 2001 17:51:02

    IDG Communications publications received 18 awards Friday for publishing excellence from the Australian Business Publishers Association (ABP).
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    IT News Service - Week ending 11 August, 2000 11 August, 2000 12:41:36

    Bank Finds ASP Service Comes at a Price...Andersen Consulting Cuts Ties to Arthur Andersen...Cisco Reports Strong Q4 Results, Loses Top Exec...Gartner: ASPs Face Shakeout as Market Grows...Visa sets new rules for online purchases....WorldGroup splits from SPL to take on big five...Telstra's ADSL Service: High Price For Speed...Internet advertising to quadruple to $US24.4bn by 2004...IBM, Vignette Form Business Alliance...CWO claims Telstra blocks number portability process...
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    IT News Review - Week ending 21.07.2000 21 July, 2000 12:10:17

    Gartner: Get over the e-biz hype...HP expands portal offerings...UPDATE: CNET to buy ZDNet for $1.6 bln in stock...Mega portal selects PwC...Non-strategic functions should be outsourced...$20 million to incubate 250 startups..Melbourne IT cagey as domain expands further....Sybase IT incubator opens Asian markets...ICANN green-lights new top-level domains...Oracle readying ASP announcements for end of month...EDS launches hosted CRM solutions...Microsoft rolls out plans to embrace ASPs...Australian online advertising spend $22m in Q2...Analysts mixed about IBM's future...
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    Coming soon to Australia - CIO Web Business 14 July, 2000 11:35:06

    Insight and strategy for competing online
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    Trendlines 06 March, 2000 10:31:40

    The NEW the HOT the UNEXPECTED
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    Career Counsel 28 February, 2000 10:29:42

    Mark Polansky offers advice to aspiring CIOs and IT managers
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    Intelligence will out 06 October, 1999 13:17:40

    In our virtual round table IT industry gurus discuss BI's truth and consequences
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    New CIO Australia Web site launched 11 August, 1999 16:42:46

    CIO Australia this weekend launched its new web site targeting Australia's IS professional leadership.
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    Reality Check: Pundits Say the Darndest Things 09 July, 1999 11:18:52

    Maybe Channel Nine will run it as a TV show. You know the kind of thing, Pundits says the Darndest things, then agin maybe not. Here's the latest word from the street
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    IT News Review - Week Ending Monday 14/6/1999 08 June, 1999 08:22:53

    ASIC won't strong-arm super trustees on Y2K ... Smart cards not taking off, says Datamonitor ... Services lead IT growth for next five years ... Asia telecom market thriving, but Internet slow ... IP to dominate but not quite yet: Meta ... ATO falls victim to Melissa-type virus ... Qld water services run late in Y2K race ... Dataquest: Asian PC market turning corner ... GST cost 'almost unimaginable': Deloittes ... Banks emerge unscathed from weekend Y2K test
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    IT News Review - Week Ending Monday 31/5/1999 25 May, 1999 08:25:47

    Industrial award to cover IT professionals ... Govt firms up online security plans ... Telstra to fix Y2K issue for Vietnam telco ... Govt's Tas investment plan stems from Telstra sale ... Queensland summit addresses online growth ... Business intelligence the key to competitive edge: Gartner Group ... Fifteen companies form Asian mobile e-services group ... Survey lists top-rating Australian Web sites ... Internet censorship likely to be costly: Upton ... Intel's monthly online sales hit $1b ... Senate votes on Telstra USO costs ... Security still nixing online trading: Gartner ... Australian IT companies jumping on ASX bandwagon ... AIIA: E-companies' value hard to ascertain ... E-comm site construction averages $US1m ... Five ISPs told join industry scheme, or face fines
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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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    Cutting Through the Spin of Recent Vulnerability Disclosures 13 October, 2008 10:53:00

    The FUD surrounding the ClickJacking and TCP/IP vulnerabilities has the world seemingly frozen in fear. But once you cut through the spin, the vulnerabilities aren't all that they were made out to be.
    There are a few highly publicised vulnerabilities at the moment which haven't completely been disclosed and which, it is claimed, could threaten the whole Internet as-we-know-it. Only, when the vulnerabilities are finally disclosed, it seems that the whole incident has been somewhat Chicken Little.
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    PCI app security: Who's guarding the data bank? 13 October, 2008 11:09:00

    Compliance strategies for PCI's new application security requirements
    While Willy Sutton never really said it, the truth is that people rob banks because that is where the money is. Today's criminals don't walk into banks with loaded guns and get-away drivers. Rather they connect from a remote location using a browser and are armed with hacking tools and spyware.
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    Data-center security tools to not overlook 10 October, 2008 11:37:00

    With the rise of security suites, it's time to consider some emerging security tools and rethink others
    Protecting a corporate data center is like trying to keep an elephant safe from a swarm of flies. Despite your best efforts, bites happen. As the staples of security -- such as firewalls, antivirus software, spam and spyware filters -- come together in suites of products that allow for sophisticated management, there are other security tools either emerging or worth a rethink.
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    IBM, Secret Service, others study identity/cybercrime issues 09 October, 2008 10:09:00

    Center for Applied Identity Management Research organization teams experts in criminal justice, financial crime, biometrics, cybercrime and cyberdefense, data protection, homeland security and national defense.
    IBM, LexisNexis and the Secret Service are among a group of corporations, government agencies and academic institutions that has formed to study and help solve identity management challenges around cybercrime, terrorism and narcotics trafficking.
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    Strange account management at Amazon 09 October, 2008 09:51:00

    A careless login led to the discovery of some strange ccount management practices at one of the Internet's largest retailers.
    Via the RISKS mailing list comes an interesting tale of poor online account management at a major online retailer. According to Graham Bennett, accounts with Amazon display an odd behaviour that doesn't seem to have attracted much attention in the past.
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