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    You Could've Been in Pictures 01 July, 2008 10:59:21

    Now playing in a boardroom near you
    Once again I find myself on the road, this time with an itinerary that started with the long haul from Sydney to Finland by way of Singapore and Frankfurt - all of which translated to some 36 hours of time spent in the air and airport lounges
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    Citibank debit card fraud highlights ATM vulnerabilities 08 July, 2008 08:17:53

    'Back-end servers are kind of a joke,' and the trouble doesn't end there
    Malicious ATM intrusions, such as the late-winter breach that resulted in the compromise of Citibank debit card data, are not at all surprising given the vulnerable state of many of the servers and other components involved in processing such transactions, according to some industry representatives.
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    How to not have your Web site hacked like Sony's 07 July, 2008 08:23:22

    A SQL injection attack was used to plant malicious code on pages of two popular Sony Playstation games - SingStar Pop and God of War, reports security company Sophos. Hundreds of Web pages from other businesses have also been compromised.
    The US Sony Playstation Web site is the latest high-profile victim of a hacker attack on business sites that's spreading malware at breakneck pace, says a security vendor.
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    AG launches review into national e-security 07 July, 2008 11:07:49

    Howard's security agenda dragged over coals.
    A review of Australia's top e-security projects lead by the Attorney-General's Department has been launched to scrutinise the Howard's government's $73 million E-Security National Agenda.
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    Selling zero-day exploits has a down side 07 July, 2008 10:16:36

    There is an ongoing argument about the ethics of selling 0-day exploits on the open market: It helps if you don't sell exploits targeting the company you work for.
    Information Security can sometimes be a funny field to work in. Some days it seems as if anybody with their hands on unpublished exploit code can sell it for all they're worth, and others it seems that they are set to become the target of law enforcement and the companies the code affects. It does help if you don't work for one of the companies that is set to be affected by the exploits you are trying to sell and aren't trying to bootstrap a competing company in the process.
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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.
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