Saturday | 30 August, 2008
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Stories about: Transportation

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    Blog: Mobile Phones on Airplanes: Thumbs Up or Hang Up? 04 August, 2008 14:23:44

    I don't know about you, but the thought of being crammed into a middle seat between two folks yapping away on mobile phones during a flight literally sends spasms down my spine.
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    Blog: Unsafe Texting Sends More to the ER: Doctor Offers Up 5 Tips 01 August, 2008 14:49:33

    It seems like common sense: walking, or worse, biking down a busy city street while texting on a BlackBerry or other mobile device is not a very bright idea. However, US emergency room physicians say that's just the problem. A growing number of Americans, particularly teenagers and young adults, are demonstrating a surprising lack of common sense when it comes to texting and "multitasking"-and texting-related injuries, such as lacerated faces and sprained ankles, are increasing accordingly.
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    Blog: SQL Injections: The Future of Mass Hacking Campaigns 22 July, 2008 14:08:10

    SQL injection attacks are evolving as one of the primary modes of transportation for malicious scripts that hackers insert into legitimate Web sites. According to recent events, this method is becoming very popular amongst the hacker elite, especially taking into consideration the number of sites they are able to exploit almost overnight.
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    Text Analytics: Your Customers Are Talking About You 17 June, 2008 08:17:11

    If you're in the hotel business, customer satisfaction isn't just a key metric, it's one that can make or break the company. But until recently, addressing sources of customer dissatisfaction was taking too long for Gaylord Hotels. US-based Gaylord, which operates 4 resort hotels in the Nashville; Dallas; Orlando, Florida; and Washington areas, needed a quick, clear view of how customers and meeting planners viewed its properties and services, as well as alerts to budding problems.
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    Blog: CIOs Earn Promotions as Companies Realign their Management Structures for Growth 26 May, 2008 14:03:13

    Bob DeRodes hasn't left Home Depot yet, but that's not stopping the CIO from pursuing new career opportunities. DeRodes was appointed to NCR's board of directors on April 29, less than four weeks after Home Depot announced his intent to leave the company at the end of the year. NCR provides Home Depot with its self-checkout machines, which were installed on DeRodes' watch.
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    The future of enterprise search 20 May, 2008 08:14:18

    A startup company called Powerset gained a slew of headlines last week when it launched a beta version of its search engine, which like other offerings employs natural language processing, allowing users to search sets of information in the form of questions.
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    Blog: Promotions at the CME and Citi 19 May, 2008 14:32:37

    Jim Krause is retiring from the CME Group on June 30. Krause, who currently serves as managing director and CIO, has worked for the derivatives exchange for 23 years. He has been involved with every major technology initiative that the exchange has undertaken since 1985, including the design, development and implementation of the CME Globex electronic trading platform, the Clearing 21 clearing system, and the integration of the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) with the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME.)
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    How CIOs Can Benefit From Having Dual Roles 14 May, 2008 12:18:43

    More CIOs are being asked to take on responsibilities outside of IT. And it's not just the business that benefits. Expanding your job description can be good for your career, too — provided you master the politics and rethink how you run IT
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    Technology's Brief to Help Save The Environment Should Not Stop at The Datacentre 29 April, 2008 09:01:00

    Operating in a low-carbon economy is not going to be about doing the same things using less energy - it's going to be about doing things differently and doing different things. IT already contributes substantially to the energy efficiency of organisations, but it could do more. The big opportunity for IT organisations is to improve the environmental performance of the enterprise, its supply chain and its products and services in order to monitor and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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    Trendlines: New, hot, unexpected 14 April, 2008 14:16:00

    Bill Would Double Cap on H-1B Visas
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    Blog: Wi-Fi in Planes, Trains and Automobiles: Public Irritation? 28 March, 2008 15:23:36

    Wi-Fi in the US has already made its way onto airplanes and commuter rail trains, and soon the technology will be built directly into the radio units of some new cars. But I'm not so sure that's a good thing. Can't I just disconnect for a few minutes each day? Is that really too much to ask?
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2008 CIO Summit

19th August, 2008 Four Seasons Hotel, Sydney Developed in partnership with CIO Magazine, IDC, INTEP and the CIO Executive Council.

The world of the CIO is extremely complex and diverse. Multiple priorities demand attention and decisions are needed instantly. Individual teams need to be driven towards common goals, and businesses strive to become more mobile, agile and responsive. For CIOs, the challenge never ends.

Every year the CIO Summit identifies what is top of mind for CIOs across Australia and New Zealand, and offers insight for CIO benchmarking and vendor strategic planning alike.

Recent IDC research shows that over 59% of CIO's believe that 'to achieve their business strategies, technology should be used more aggressively than today.'

Join us on August 19th to discover how this is possible with the latest technologies including Virtualisation, Web 2.0, IP Surveillance and Software as a Service (Saas).

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Please email Denyse_Robertson@idg.com.au for further information.

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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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    Best Western forced to play defense on data breach disclosure 29 August, 2008 08:08:00

    Could hotel chain have done a better job of defusing story about system intrusion?
    The headline in this week's Glasgow Sunday Herald -- "Revealed: 8 million victims in the world's biggest cyber heist" -- was a grabber.
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    US Terror threat system crippled by technical flaws 28 August, 2008 09:53:00

    US Congress charges that US$500m project to prevent another 9/11 is a complete failure.
    A US House subcommittee is charging that a US$500 million IT project intended to "connect the dots" on terrorists and help prevent another 9/11 is a failure; it can't even handle basic Boolean search terms, such as "and, or and not."
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    Malware infects space station laptops 28 August, 2008 08:15:00

    Not the first time, says NASA; astronauts load up Norton AntiVirus
    Malware has managed to get off the planet and onto the International Space Station, NASA confirmed yesterday. And it's not the first time that a worm or virus has stowed away on a trip into orbit.
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    Separation of duties and IT security 28 August, 2008 09:40:00

    Muddied responsibilities create unwanted risk. Kevin Coleman says auditors may start labeling poorly defined IT duties as a material deficiency.
    Separation of duties is a key concept of internal controls and is the most difficult and sometimes the most costly one to achieve. This objective is achieved by disseminating the tasks and associated privileges for a specific security process among multiple people.
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    How to recruit and retain the best young security employees 27 August, 2008 08:32:00

    Today's youngest generation of workers, known as Generation Y, have different career goals than their parents did. What do you need to know to get them to work for you?
    The final installment in a series of articles about generational differences and security. Part one looked at managing workers in different age groups. Part two examined the types of security concerns that are most commonly associated with different generations in the general workforce. This article provides recruiting and retention advice for security employees.
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Still Sneaking In: The Threats Your Security Tools Aren't Telling You About

Web 2.0 applications are all the rage, offering us tremendous value when it comes to collaboration and communication. They also open us up to new kinds of attacks however, and can cause problems in keeping systems and data secure. Read on to learn about the new attack methods and how you can defend yourself and your business.

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