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    Not Far Enough from the Madding Crowd 06 May, 2008 15:10:23

    How the next generation is putting the “I” in teamwork
    About a year ago our company decided to explore going green
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    The Confidence Game 07 March, 2008 12:27:28

    It’s 10pm in India, do you know where your personal information is?
    Psst. Hey you. Yes, you. Over here. How about sending me a heap of personal information?
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    A Tale of Two Call Centres 04 February, 2008 13:18:44

    Happy belated 2008.
    Happy belated 2008. Holidays are over. School's back. Traffic sucks. The weeks off were not only welcome but refreshing, although I must admit there was the odd day or two that saw my "peace on earth, good will to men" disposition - well, shall we say - lacking
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    How Green Is My Valley - Not 10 December, 2007 14:37:16

    Some brown spots are appearing on IT’s new green leaf
    At the risk of incurring the wrath of some 100 plus members of the Greed Grid consortium and hundreds, if not thousands, of pundits, consultants, analysts and other purveyors of expertise, I have to ask a question: Does anyone else agree with me that Green IT may be the biggest non-event of 2007?
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    That Was the Year That Wasn't 05 November, 2007 14:53:39

    There’s not much to see in the 2007 rear-view mirror
    Since early October I've fielded at least a couple of calls a week from various PR people asking if I plan to do a year in review feature in my last issue of 2007
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    Weary Traveller 02 October, 2007 15:33:37

    The tyranny of triteness transcends the tyranny of travel
    I write this having just arrived on the US east coast after spending 24 hours on planes and in airports. I'm a tired and uninspired (in truth, jet-lagged and brain-dead would be more accurate) so this will be short if not particularly sweet
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    FUD 2.0 03 September, 2007 14:52:27

    21st century fear as vendor cites big scary numbers
    Last week I fired my entire staff. Why? Because - all evidence aside - they are obviously a bunch of slackers. I know it's true - even if my own eyes tell me otherwise - because there's research to prove it. An excess of research, in fact
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    Woe the Mid-Market CIO? 06 August, 2007 14:40:56

    Companies at the big end of town “get” IT, but can the same be said for their mid-market brethren?
    I have a suspicion that life's not exactly a holiday on Primrose Lane for a fair few mid-market CIOs these days
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    King Coles 05 July, 2007 09:49:47

    Would your CEO defend you? Well, would he?
    If CIO magazine named a "Person of the Year" in the tradition of Time magazine I had my dead-cert 2007 winner picked in early June. And you'd probably be surprised that he's not a CIO
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    Measure for Measure 05 June, 2007 10:00:45

    “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.” — Martin Luther King Jr
    Spend the better part of the day with someone, and you tend to get a measure of them
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    The State of the CIO Is Just Fine, Thank You 07 May, 2007 14:01:37

    Congratulations, CIOs. Our annual survey shows you’re doing great
    So do you want the good news, the not-so-good news or the bad news first? Okay, I'll decide for you - let's kick off with the good news, which is plentiful. More of you are reporting to the CEO than in any previous year
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    All Manner of Truth 02 April, 2007 12:29:20

    When things are going pear-shaped can we afford not to speak out?
    This month's column comes to you courtesy of a rather liquid dinner party a couple of weeks ago at Chez K.
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    Re: Alignment 06 March, 2007 11:26:45

    Do you know where the business is?
    On September 7, 1974 my second son was born. I'd wanted two children, so that particular project had been brought in on time and on budget.
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    Whither Thou Goest 05 February, 2007 11:51:41

    The wins of the past might not be good enough to sustain the future
    Happy 2007 — here's hoping it will be a very good year for all of us. If nothing else, it will certainly be a notable year for CIO: locally we'll mark our 10-year anniversary and the US mother ship will observe a score.
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    St Elmo's Fire 11 December, 2006 09:02:51

    Or how I was not tickled pink this holiday season.
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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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    Phishing botnet expands by hacking legit sites 15 May, 2008 08:10:59

    Plants SQL injection attack tool on bots, hacks business, education sites
    A botnet is now using a SQL-injection attack tool designed to hack legitimate Web sites, a move meant to add more hijacked PCs to its collection, according to a security researcher.
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    Which IT security skills are most important? 14 May, 2008 09:21:43

    There are two types of security skills that might be needed in a company: tactical security operations and strategic risk management.
    I often hear from IT executives that it is hard to recruit and retain "good security people." Many lament the shortage of skills in this area and cannot reconcile the skills offered with the positions that need to be filled. Is there really a shortage of good security people? Or just a mismatch in the skills and the jobs?
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    Icy encryption tool protects laptops from "cold boot" attack, vendor says 14 May, 2008 08:36:43

    Vulnerable encryption keys erased by HyBlue's IceLock
    The vendor HyBlue says it can prevent the "cold boot" encryption hack discovered by Princeton researchers with a laptop security product announced Tuesday.
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    Great Wall of Australia: Industry cops sanitised Internet 14 May, 2008 16:45:04

    Content filtering gets budget go-ahead
    Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has pushed ahead with the controversial [[artid:420013177|national content filtering scheme|ISP filtering]] with a $125.8 million budget allocation announced today.
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    Hacker writes rootkit for Cisco's routers 15 May, 2008 07:07:51

    A hacker has written rootkit software that works on Cisco's routers.
    A security researcher has developed malicious rootkit software for Cisco Systems' routers, a development that has placed increasing scrutiny on the routers that carry the majority of the Internet's traffic.
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