Friday | 16 May, 2008
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Governments Urged to Learn From Businesses 08 May, 2008 12:49:44
Citizens are demanding better e-government services from their governmentsCitizens are demanding better e-government services from their governments - +
IT and the Business: Sharing a Common Language 17 March, 2008 13:49:45
For IT to succeed in an organisation it must become a central part of the business. To do this requires effective communicationToday's CIOs are moving IT away from its traditional back office role, towards becoming a central part of the business. But to integrate IT departments into the organisation requires a fundamental change in the culture of the organisation. - +
Meet the whiz kids: 10 overachievers under 21 11 March, 2008 09:42:22
They're the next generation of entrepreneurs, inventors, and innovatorsMark Zuckerberg, watch your back. Sergey and Larry? Consider early retirement. - +
Seven habits of effective CISOs 11 March, 2008 12:37:51
From helping others to influencing the right people, these tips will help transform your work habits from average to stellar with advice from CISOs around the worldToday's CISO plays a pivotal role not only in defining technical standards and security policies, but also in assuring customers of the security of their data and validating security controls to regulators. Many are struggling with this transition because they have been given these responsibilities without any real authority or visibility within their organizations. They also need a new set of skills to successfully fulfill their responsibilities. - +
Police tech: How cops use IT to catch bad guys 12 February, 2008 08:01:31
In the US, police demonstrate how they use high-tech gear to fight crime and promote public safetyEver wonder what that cop is doing in his cruiser that's parked behind your car with lights flashing -- while your heart is pounding and you're searching for your license and registration?
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Linux, Open Source Software Pay Off for PayPal 26 March, 2007 09:20:43
PayPal's upgrade path is 'unbelievably cost effective', ex-Visa CTO says.When Scott Thompson left Visa to take the CTO role at PayPal in 2005, the Web company's data centre surprised him. "Wait a minute," he recalls saying, "they run a payment system on Linux?" - +
At the Gateway 25 November, 2002 11:17:16
Australia leads the Asia-Pacific region in the transition to e-government.John Costello investigates how government organisations at all levels are using portal technology in a variety of ways to meet the needs of their communities. - +
Reclaiming E-Space 10 August, 2001 09:00:00
Successful bricks-and-mortars are looking for new ways to "e-deploy" their forces, armed with established vendor and customer relationships, brand recognition and infrastructure.Last year the experts were telling businesses:"If you can get your company to join the new economy, you may reap big rewards". Then came April's NASDAQ showers, and May's flowers still aren't blooming. So what's happening where bricks meet clicks?
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Google at odds with the locked-down enterprise 06 June, 2007 10:43:37
Douglas Merrill, Google's vice president of engineering and chief information officer talks about the company's security practicesSecurity has been a bit of a black art at Google. Unlike rival Microsoft, which publishes detailed information on its monthly patches and has openly evangelized the steps it takes to secure software, Google has generally been quiet when it comes to talking about security and it has kept the team that keeps Google's Web sites secure under wraps. Douglas Merrill, Google's vice president of engineering and chief information officer explains what Google gets from its security investments, and why his company believes that locking down the enterprise PC is not the way to go. - +
Rails creator: Silverlight may struggle 21 May, 2007 20:19:42
David Heinemeier Hansson discusses Ruby on Rails 2.0 and Microsoft's battle with open sourceDavid Heinemeier Hansson is the creator of one of the hottest technologies amongst software developers these days: the Ruby on Rails Web framework. - +
IAB Chair Mulls DNS Security 29 March, 2007 11:39:07
IAB chair Olaf Kolkman says DNSSEC isn’t a failure, but it will take a while for the security extensions to become widely deployed.Olaf Kolkman, a Dutch DNS expert, is the new chair of the Internet Architecture Board, a panel of 13 leading network engineers who provide technical oversight to the IETF, the Internet's premier standards-setting body. He's also CEO of NLnet Labs, an Amsterdam research group focused on DNS security. - +
Sun co-founder hails open-source moves 27 February, 2007 11:24:54
Andy Bechtolsheim talks about open-source, Intel and SPARC chip architecturesAndreas, or simply, Andy, Bechtolsheim holds the distinction of having employee badge #1 among the thousands of people who have worked at Sun Microsystems in its 25 years of existence. Perhaps best known as the inventor of the Stanford University Network (SUN) workstation, he is among the four founders of the company, along with Vinod Khosla, Bill Joy, and Scott McNealy. InfoWorld Editor at Large Paul Krill recently spoke with Bechtolsheim about Sun's past and present situation, with Bechtolsheim chiming in on about topics including open source and the Intel and SPARC chip architectures. - +
IBM Exec Sees Open-Source Interest Growing 25 January, 2006 12:07:32
The world is going to be hybrid for a long time. People need to view it as an optimization problem: What is the right mix of Linux, other open-source and proprietary [software] in terms of the economics, my staff, my partners?Bob Sutor, IBM's vice president of standards and open-source, sees 2006 as the year when a number of industries will move to embrace open-source software -- and he expects IBM to play a role in many of those efforts. Sutor, who spoke with Computerworld Monday, also weighed in on the role of Linux and offered his thoughts on Massachusetts' OpenDocument plans.
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All you need to know about Office Open XML 23 April, 2008 12:08:05
Microsoft managed to win its battle to get the popular productivity software recognized as an individual standard, but the Open Document Format remains a viable alternativeNow that Microsoft has successfully lobbied to get its Office Open XML document format approved as an international standard by the ISO, it should put just as much effort into showing IT managers that it will offer value beyond attracting the interest of government customers. - +
Just how did Microsoft get OOXML support in Eastern Europe? 26 September, 2007 12:10:18
OOXML's standardization backed in the BalkansMicrosoft quietly got its proposed Office Open XML format through two European standards bodies. A member of the Free Software Foundation Europe looks at the low-profile process that made it happen. - +
Wikis can improve the utility of e-mail 16 August, 2007 11:41:31
Wikis not only make it easier to manage projects, but also can significantly reduce e-mail traffic in an organizationE-mail is a fantastically useful tool for many applications, but project management using e-mail as the primary communications vehicle could use improvement. - +
Breaking With Tradition 22 November, 2005 17:48:30
Ten years ago IT risks were "contained" within the four walls of the data centre. Today, IT risks are public and they can have dramatic personal ramifications.The nature of IT risk is changing, reducing the effectiveness of traditional risk management approaches - +
Are Government Agencies Serious About Open Source? 13 September, 2005 08:33:13
The office of the CIO issued a document for public review, outlining the plan to move away from applications that save files in proprietary formats.Recent stories about open source technology in government raises the question of whether CIOs of municipalities are serious about moving to Linux and open source technology, or if they are just using the threat of such a switch as a way to either get Microsoft to lower pricing on its software, or to force the dominant desktop software vendor to add new features?
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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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Phishing botnet expands by hacking legit sites 15 May, 2008 08:10:59
Plants SQL injection attack tool on bots, hacks business, education sitesA 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. - +
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? - +
Icy encryption tool protects laptops from "cold boot" attack, vendor says 14 May, 2008 08:36:43
Vulnerable encryption keys erased by HyBlue's IceLockThe vendor HyBlue says it can prevent the "cold boot" encryption hack discovered by Princeton researchers with a laptop security product announced Tuesday. - +
Great Wall of Australia: Industry cops sanitised Internet 14 May, 2008 16:45:04
Content filtering gets budget go-aheadCommunications 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. - +
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.
F-Secure Represented On The International Advisory Board IMPACT 16 May, 2008 13:42:00
Quantum announces General Availability of Industry's First Solution Designed to Match De-Duplication Functionality to Specific B 16 May, 2008 10:44:00
Hansen Technologies Extends Contract With Tokyo Electric Power Company 16 May, 2008 09:44:00
More Than 140 Higher Education Institutions Worldwide Use RightNow on Demand CRM 15 May, 2008 18:06:00
DST International Names Rob Gould as Director of Business Development and Strategy for Australia 15 May, 2008 15:40:00
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