Saturday | 5 July, 2008
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Philosophical Differences 05 June, 2007 10:41:18
Zen and the art of service-oriented architectureEven after 25 years in the IT industry it has taken me a fair amount of time to get my head around the topic of service-oriented architecture (SOA) - +
Racing Around Melbourne 11 December, 2000 11:26:16
CIOs are now talking about electronic service delivery rather than e-commerce. - +
Keeping the Boss Happy 15 November, 2000 10:20:29
Last year I asked 23 leading CIOs in Australia and Great Britain what they would request if they found a magic wand. The most common response was a desire to complete straight away IS's foundation stones. - +
Renovating the Business 16 October, 2000 09:18:22
IS is very much caught between a rock and a hard place when it plans the architecture on which to build an e-commerce site. - +
Doing Windows 04 September, 2000 10:56:56
The annual Forecast for Management survey asks local CIOs to identify the three major challenges ahead for them in the next 12 to 18 months [For an overview, see the June issue of CIO]. - +
Bend Me, Shape Me 11 August, 2000 14:00:08
W e live at a time of great corporate change. World-famous brands and household names are disappearing almost overnight as a wave of "merger mania" sweeps the business world. - +
You Make Your Own Luck 31 May, 2000 16:02:07
In this year's Forecast for Management overview, the message for CIOs is clear: it's not whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game - +
Learning the Ropes 28 January, 2000 13:19:43
Ask CIOs to list their top 10 challenges and many will put increasing the IS department's business acumen on their lists. After all, if IS understands the business and its challenges, then IS is more apt to promote technology solutions more pertinent to end-user needs. - +
Customer Valued 03 November, 1999 12:41:55
For much of the 1990s many organisations have been so focused on cost containment they have overlooked their customers. It has taken consumer backlash against things as diverse as bank branch closures, globalisation and privatisation to remind these businesses that it's the customer who is footing the bill. Perhaps that explains the burgeoning interest in customer relationship management (CRM) systems. - +
Project Management Blues 03 May, 1999 12:58:28
The 1990s very much seems a decade where the dominant catchcry is: "more is less". It is very hard to find any IS executive who does not feel they are working more hours with less staff than they were in the 1980s. - +
Digital Apartheid 12 April, 1999 10:23:49
I remember it as one of my parents' major investments. Both of them placed a great emphasis on education, so they were keen when the Encyclopaedia Britannica salesman called some time in the mid-1960s. Little was I to know then that their great sacrifice was to cost me half a day in lost productivity, and several hundred dollars in out-of-pocket expenses, 35 years later.
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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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'I have a lost laptop horror story for you' 30 June, 2008 10:08:14
The devil of identity theft is in the details that follow...The devil of identity theft is in the details that follow: Russ Jones tells a tale of woe that isn't particularly dramatic -- or rare -- and yet it's exactly the kind of story that worries me enough to ignore my better judgment and buy identity-theft protection from my insurance provider. - +
SQL attacks lobs onto pro tennis site 02 July, 2008 11:52:19
Wimbledon perfect time for crook's criminal racket.Visitors to the Association of Tennis Professionals Web site have potentially been infected with spyware after apparent lax security allowed a malicious script to be injected across its pages. - +
Hacking tools: A new version of BackTrack helps ethical hackers 30 June, 2008 10:57:21
BackTrack is the quickest way to get access to hundreds of (legal) hacking toolsVersion 3.0 of BackTrack has been released. BackTrack is a Linux-based distribution dedicated to penetration testing or hacking (depending on how you look at it). It contains more than 300 of the world's most popular open source or freely distributable hacking tools. - +
Japanese military loses data again 02 July, 2008 08:17:21
Japan's Self Defense Force lost sensitive data on joint US-Japan military exerciseJapan's Self Defense Force lost sensitive data pertaining to a joint US-Japan military exercise last year, the Ministry of Defense said Tuesday. - +
ACLU, EFF sue US gov't over mobile phone tracking 03 July, 2008 08:37:23
Two civil liberties groups sue the US Department of Justice over mobile phone trackingThe American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) are asking a federal court to order the US Department of Justice to turn over records about the agency's tracking of mobile phone users.
Ballarat Grammar Improves Student Access to Computer Based Learning with HP ProCurve 04 July, 2008 16:49:00
Media release: 40 Per Cent of Australian Businesses Do Not Validate Their Data 04 July, 2008 10:29:00
Kaseya helps turbo charge BlueFire’s service delivery model 03 July, 2008 17:23:00
Computershare Selects Symantec for Data Loss Prevention Globally 03 July, 2008 14:52:00
DST International moves to new Shanghai office 03 July, 2008 13:21:00
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