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Microsoft confirmed rumors that it has been developing a Facebook-like platform for the enterprise known as TownSquare, according to a report by Computerworld. While it's not hard to imagine how Microsoft could incorporate it into the SharePoint platform, a lot of its success will depend on how companies utilize enterprise social networks moving forward.

When US presidents leave office, they leave behind pounds and pounds of paper and bytes and bytes of electronic records -- all sorts of data reflecting the activities, and inactivity, of their leadership of this great nation of ours.

Service-oriented architecture promises many positives: resource reuse, application integration, business agility and infrastructure flexibility, among others. But never do SOA proponents claim ease of management as one of the technology's glories.

The Federation for Identity and Cross-Credentialing Systems (FiXs) -- a little-known group of non-profits, government contractors, commercial entities, and government agencies -- has recently unveiled a first-of-its-kind global infrastructure to support distributed, integrated identity management and cross-credentialing across organizations. The implementation combines several existing security technologies along with a set of trusted models, policies, and operating rules to insure the accurate identity of personnel accessing physical sites or logical systems.

What technology keeps you up at night? That's not the right question to ask CIOs anymore, I've learned this week at CIO's leadership conference here in Huntington Beach, California.

The US Defense Information Systems Agency is aggressively enhancing its current end-to-end information transport system to support the Pentagon's controversial dreams of establishing its own Internet - a $US200 billion Global Information Grid.

Will the NAA revolutionize the way we maintain Australia's official historical record?

To arrive at collaboration, companies will need to get over their win-lose mentality, and solve a host of technical and cultural challenges. Here's a road map for the journey

By assembling a star-studded team of vendors, the IRS thought its $US8 billion modernization project would manage itself. The IRS thought wrong. Now the agency’s ability to collect revenue, conduct audits and go after tax evaders has been severely compromised

If ever one wanted proof that the real work of IT is never, ever finished, the story of JORN is a classic case in point. After almost 30 years in development, the Australian Defence Force has finally accepted the world-first $1.2 billion Jindalee Over-the-horizon Radar Network (JORN), now industriously bouncing signals off the ionosphere to search thousands of square kilometres of sea and air space to Australia’s north and west.

Nearly half of all CIOs use offshore providers today, and two-thirds plan to send work overseas next year, according to US-based Forrester Research. India is still the leader, but as more companies seek to source globally, more countries are emerging to benefit from that demand - each with its own particular strengths and weaknesses.