Saturday | 5 July, 2008
Stories by: Sue Bushell
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Blog: Pegging a Share of the Social Surplus 30 June, 2008 12:18:08
And you thought - or at least the government would have you think - that binge drinking is a problem for our times! It seems the critical technology for the early phase of the industrial revolution - a time arguably every bit as turbulent as our own - was gin - +
Governments Should Draw on Wisdom of Crowds 19 June, 2008 12:33:19
A new report from Deloitte says that leading businesses have trained people to expect high-quality, personalized services, and these are standards which citizens are now applying to government - +
Blog: Trading on Employee Motivation 16 June, 2008 10:05:40
Ever found yourself wondering what more you can do to motivate your employees? - +
Blog: Putting That Cart Before the Horse 09 June, 2008 09:10:23
Isn't it time for CIOs to more consistently attempt to learn from, rather than repeat, their failures? - +
Identity Verification Still a Risk 05 June, 2008 11:05:24
Government agencies are still reporting difficulty and frustration in dealing with e-mail correspondence - +
Blog: Raising the Standard 02 June, 2008 09:53:42
Effective CIOs of the future will be those who ensure the entire organization is engaged in setting the IT agenda, managing the priorities for IT and ensuring that the operational use of IT is sustaining the organization appropriately - +
PDF Key to Digital Preservation — But Not Alone 29 May, 2008 12:01:34
UK organization says agencies must combine PDF/A with a comprehensive records management program and formally established records policies - +
Blog: What's a Poor CIO To Do? 23 May, 2008 14:50:14
Analysts insist IT innovation is high on the CIO's agenda even as they tell us, yet again, how IT is increasingly being asked to do more with less. What's a poor CIO to do? Both, says director of product marketing, Celona Technologies Paul Hollingsworth - +
The Getting of Wisdom 22 May, 2008 13:10:33
The next few years are shaping up to be a crossroads for public sector knowledge workers, says Steve Hodgkinson, research director at global advisory and consulting firm Ovum - +
Chasing Agility 15 May, 2008 11:35:20
A new report from the Victorian government claims that the complexity and uncertainty that the public sector faces is driving the need for governments to foster agility in its people, systems and outlook - +
Blog: The Clock's Ticking, Dude 09 May, 2008 12:25:54
As a savvy CIO you should consider that 100-day clock to prove your worth as having started to tick 20 days earlier
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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. - +
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. - +
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. - +
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. - +
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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'I have a lost laptop horror story for you' 30 June, 2008 10:08:14
The devil of identity theft is in the details that follow...The devil of identity theft is in the details that follow: Russ Jones tells a tale of woe that isn't particularly dramatic -- or rare -- and yet it's exactly the kind of story that worries me enough to ignore my better judgment and buy identity-theft protection from my insurance provider. - +
SQL attacks lobs onto pro tennis site 02 July, 2008 11:52:19
Wimbledon perfect time for crook's criminal racket.Visitors to the Association of Tennis Professionals Web site have potentially been infected with spyware after apparent lax security allowed a malicious script to be injected across its pages. - +
Hacking tools: A new version of BackTrack helps ethical hackers 30 June, 2008 10:57:21
BackTrack is the quickest way to get access to hundreds of (legal) hacking toolsVersion 3.0 of BackTrack has been released. BackTrack is a Linux-based distribution dedicated to penetration testing or hacking (depending on how you look at it). It contains more than 300 of the world's most popular open source or freely distributable hacking tools. - +
Japanese military loses data again 02 July, 2008 08:17:21
Japan's Self Defense Force lost sensitive data on joint US-Japan military exerciseJapan's Self Defense Force lost sensitive data pertaining to a joint US-Japan military exercise last year, the Ministry of Defense said Tuesday. - +
ACLU, EFF sue US gov't over mobile phone tracking 03 July, 2008 08:37:23
Two civil liberties groups sue the US Department of Justice over mobile phone trackingThe American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) are asking a federal court to order the US Department of Justice to turn over records about the agency's tracking of mobile phone users.
Ballarat Grammar Improves Student Access to Computer Based Learning with HP ProCurve 04 July, 2008 16:49:00
Media release: 40 Per Cent of Australian Businesses Do Not Validate Their Data 04 July, 2008 10:29:00
Kaseya helps turbo charge BlueFire’s service delivery model 03 July, 2008 17:23:00
Computershare Selects Symantec for Data Loss Prevention Globally 03 July, 2008 14:52:00
DST International moves to new Shanghai office 03 July, 2008 13:21:00
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