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    Music to My Peers 11 December, 2006 12:49:03

    While anti-authoritarian youth used to "rage against the machine", now they "rage using the machine", with illegally downloaded dance music
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    Me and the Gang Down by the Schoolyard 06 November, 2006 12:44:47

    The kids are not alright
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    The Scrabble for Open Source 09 October, 2006 12:30:37

    Why all the fuss about open source software? And what does "open" actually mean, anyway?
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    Please Consider 05 September, 2006 09:00:00

    Over-the-top ideas for contributing to the bottom line . . .
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    Lowering My Hire Standards 04 August, 2006 13:07:20

    ICT staff are in short supply - and with good reason . . .
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    Flirting with Disaster 07 July, 2006 16:45:53

    CIOs beware: the road to recovery is full of potholes!
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    Virtualization Is F.A.B. 05 June, 2006 09:00:00

    Consolidating applications is a hot topic - but who's pulling the strings?
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    The All Seeing I 03 May, 2006 14:57:18

    What will the future of computing look like 100 issues from now?
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    The Rise and Rise of the MoPho 05 April, 2006 16:55:51

    Today's mobile phones have a life of their own. Be afraid. Be very afraid . . .
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    Transform is the Norm 08 March, 2006 13:44:52

    Is this a sea change or an e-change?
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    My MySite 03 February, 2006 09:51:23

    I'm going back to the Web, and this time it's personal . . .
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    One Tough Customer 12 December, 2005 13:18:16

    Coping with customer relationship mayhem
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    Search and Seizure 07 November, 2005 17:26:27

    Seek and ye shall find - too much!
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    Secure in My Identity 11 October, 2005 10:03:23

    "Take security issues into your own hands," the experts told me. Now all I've got are sore hands . . .
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    Secure in My Identity 11 October, 2005 10:03:23

    "Take security issues into your own hands," the experts told me. Now all I've got are sore hands . . .
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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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    Data-center security tools to not overlook 10 October, 2008 11:37:00

    With the rise of security suites, it's time to consider some emerging security tools and rethink others
    Protecting a corporate data center is like trying to keep an elephant safe from a swarm of flies. Despite your best efforts, bites happen. As the staples of security -- such as firewalls, antivirus software, spam and spyware filters -- come together in suites of products that allow for sophisticated management, there are other security tools either emerging or worth a rethink.
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    IBM, Secret Service, others study identity/cybercrime issues 09 October, 2008 10:09:00

    Center for Applied Identity Management Research organization teams experts in criminal justice, financial crime, biometrics, cybercrime and cyberdefense, data protection, homeland security and national defense.
    IBM, LexisNexis and the Secret Service are among a group of corporations, government agencies and academic institutions that has formed to study and help solve identity management challenges around cybercrime, terrorism and narcotics trafficking.
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    Strange account management at Amazon 09 October, 2008 09:51:00

    A careless login led to the discovery of some strange ccount management practices at one of the Internet's largest retailers.
    Via the RISKS mailing list comes an interesting tale of poor online account management at a major online retailer. According to Graham Bennett, accounts with Amazon display an odd behaviour that doesn't seem to have attracted much attention in the past.
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    Cambridge lab sets quantum key world record 09 October, 2008 07:51:00

    Researchers can now shift encryption keys around at speeds of 1Mbps.
    The hugely promising security technology of Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) has moved an important step closer to commercialization with the announcement by UK-based researchers that they can now shift encryption keys around at speeds of 1Mbps.
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    Palin hacking charge flawed, lawyers say 09 October, 2008 07:28:00

    Case considered a misdemeanor offence not a felony.
    David Kernell is facing five years in prison for allegedly hacking into Alaska Governor Sarah Palin's Yahoo e-mail account, but lawyers watching the case say that the felony charge against him is a bit of a stretch.
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Revolutionising Back-up and Recovery

Rapid adoption of virtual server technology, and the challenges associated with the backup and recovery of ever-growing stores of information is causing a number of IT managers to reevaluate their data protection strategies. New backup and recovery methods which use data de-duplication technology to reduce capacity and network bandwidth requirements are being deployed to keep up with explosive data growth, shrinking backup windows, compliance initiatives and security concerns. Read on to find out more.