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+ Sydney Water IT security manager talks governance strategy—Information security governance should not be treated like corporate governance, IT security steering committees must have the right stakeholders and ...

+ Going Google—It is 8pm midweek and three senior executives at Altium are working on a document they need first thing the next day — a presentation to staff about...

+ Five reasons I won't be using Ping—Despite all the hardware Apple introduced at its press event Wednesday, the most radical news was Ping, a social network for music that's launching as...

+ From Einstein to Xbox: The IFA consumer electronics exhibition turns 50—The IFA has a storied past as well as notable celebrities and some "first" technology ever seen in Europe. From Einstein to Xbox, the IFA has shown it...

+ 11 must-have Android apps for business—Now that business users have begun clamoring for Android phones in earnest, it's a better time than ever to take a fresh look at the Android apps now ...

+ Has Digg dug its own grave?—Some people just don't like change. Less than a week after Digg released version 4 of its social news-sharing site, fans have rebelled, flooding Digg ...

+ Is the ViewSonic ViewPad just another Streak?—Only a few weeks ago Dell was taking a beating over its tweener device, the Streak. But now ViewSonic is unveiling a similar mini tablet, the ViewPad ...

+ CIOs: Empower your employees' use of consumer tech—How empowered are your employees to solve customer and business problems? What's your role in empowering them? These questions are often absent from I...

+ How to be a good panel moderator—Panel discussions have a bad reputation for good reason. Far too often, they're boring, repetitious and as lifeless as a lineup of bobble-head dolls.

+ AutoCAD app proves strengths of iPad—Autodesk announced that it is bringing AutoCAD back to the Mac, and also adding AutoCAD apps for the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad.

+ Tablets: Real and rumored—With more than a million units sold in its first month, it's pretty clear that Apple's iPad touchscreen tablet has been a success so far.

+ Why Intel's Infineon buy is a smart move—Intel has been on a buying binge lately. Just two weeks ago the world's largest chip maker agreed to acquire security vendor McAfee for $7.68 billion,...

+ Stop Educating the Business and Start Delivering Value—I cannot tell you how many times I've heard CIOs say that they need to educate the executive committee about the value of IT. While I tend to nod and ...

+ Five reasons Australian email belongs in the cloud—If your company or organisation is not currently considering migrating its email systems onto a cloud computing platform, you're in danger of being le...

+ Brisbane Girls Grammar undergoes major Microsoft upgrade—Brisbane Girls Grammar School has become one of the first Australian private education bodies to undertake a roll-out of Windows 7, Office 2010, Excha...

+ Coca-Cola Amatil's journey: Lotus Notes to BPOS—Beverage company Coca-Cola Amatil (CCA) is halfway through the massive task of migrating its over 8000 employees from Lotus Notes to Microsoft's hoste...

+ Q&A: Xtralis CIO Simarjit Chhabra—We take a look at what's coming up next on his IT agenda

+ Google's Realtime Search update does what Twitter won't—Searching for status updates is not Twitter's forte, so leave it to Google to make its own Realtime Search engine more powerful instead.

+ Q&A: Tennis Australia CIO Chris Yates—We take a look at what's next on his IT agenda

+ Google voice chat not ready for business--or is it?—Google's new Gmail calling may be a great way for consumers to make free and low-cost voice calls, but the service isn't quite ready for business cust...

+ Avoid Your Business Being Collateral Damage in a Cyber War—All around the world, governments declare they are gearing up for cyber war. I know, I know, to anyone who has been at this for any significant length...

+ Sticks and stones: Picking on users AND security pros—I took my share of name-calling as a kid. I did my share of name-calling, too. We're taught that nothing good comes of such behavior. I've been thinki...

+ Chrome patches show the power of open source--and Google—Google's patching of vulnerabilities in its open source Chrome Web browser last week wasn't so much notable in itself; Microsoft, to be sure, is forev...

+ Leadership in an era of smarter public safety—Picture a line of fire engines, police cars and other governmental and non-governmental services arriving at the scene of a bushfire. It is a moments ...

+ Facebook Places vs. Foursquare: Who has the business edge?—Facebook's unveiling of Facebook Places is an obvious banshee cry to Foursquare and other location-based check-in services. As with those services, Fa...

+ iPad copter fun to fly, steep learning curve—The AR.Drone from France-based Parrot is an exciting, fun-to-fly, four-rotor helicopter that can be piloted over Wi-Fi by an iPad, iPod Touch or iPhon...

+ Can you trust Facebook Places?—Facebook, the company many people don't trust to protect their status updates and personal information, is now in the business of collecting location ...

+ 8 geek videos that aren't viral -- yet—These videos deserve to be internet cult classics.

+ Slideshow: Verb IT first with HP Performance Optimised Datacentre (POD)—Sydney-based Verb IT is the first company in the Asia Pacific region to provision an HP Performance Optimised Datacentre (POD) next-generation data ce...

+ Google tablet with Chrome OS would be a bad match—If Google is planning to launch a tablet device in the near future, it should bypass its embryonic Chrome OS and instead go with Android, the company'...

+ Facebook places will crush foursquare—One of the odd aspects of the Facebook event launching the new Facebook Places service was the participation, support, and partnership of competing lo...

+ Clouds gathering—What a difference a year makes. Twelve months ago it was almost impossible to find Australian organisations that had embraced cloud computing. Now pre...

+ Maritime Museum sets sail for cloudy skies—After appointing its first CIO in January, the Australian National Maritime Museum has successfully migrated its e-mail and groupware system to the cl...

+ Fujifilm's new 3D camera is fun but pricey—While 3D movies are already experiencing something of a backlash, technology vendors are still pushing forward with 3D content -- trying to persuade u...

+ The web is dead. Who cares?—No doubt many netizens of cyberspace were surprised to hear this week that the World Wide Web is on death's doorstep while the Internet is alive and w...

+ Has the mouse outlived its usefulness?—A German retailer has prematurely posted (and very quickly taken down) details and product shots of the upcoming Microsoft Arc Touch mouse. The Micros...

+ Smaller iPad could be a better business tool—The Apple iPad has been an unqualified success with consumers, but it's a harder sell in the businesse market.

+ Google/Verizon: Will a parallel non-Internet help?—In spite of the fact that the net neutrality proposal that Google and Verizon published on Aug. 9 was not much like what the rumor mill predicted as l...

+ Apple's iAd platform: Success or failure?—The early returns are rolling in on Apple's iAd mobile advertising platform, and so far the results seem mixed.

+ 8 geek videos that aren't viral . . . yet—We scoured the internet to bring you eight of the funniest tech videos the web has to offer. Sure, they didn't feature musical pets or dancing babies,...

+ Ways to share spare CPU cycles—A network of hundreds of thousands of home computer users recently discovered a rare celestial object by donating their computers' downtime to a worth...

+ Mobile apps security: Apple iOS v. Google Android—The Apple iOS, which runs on its iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad, has a flaw in how it reads PDF documents that makes it easier to hack. This flaw is exp...

+ Getting Ready For Internet Explorer 9—After four platform previews aimed at demonstrating the power of the underlying Internet Explorer 9 engine to developers, Microsoft is ready to unveil...

+ Which Web browser is best?—Of all the software on your PC, the Web browser may be the most important tool you use each day--but you may not give it much thought.

+ 12 top spy gadgets—Spies are everywhere these days, from the 10 Russians nabbed in the United States to Angelina Jolie

+ The policeman's new partner: iPhone—Chances are you've never heard of the iPhone app One Force Tracker, one of the coolest apps never to appear on the App Store. The iPhone app, created ...

+ Email security: Pedigree versus hybrid—Ten years ago, preceding the dot com bomb, only a handful of organisations had bought email security software. The overwhelming business driver was th...

+ Q&A with Richard Stallman—Free software is a different beast from gratis software. Free software activist, Richard Stallman, discusses the importance of freedom across all mode...

+ Google Apps Fits at Italian Fashion House Roberto Cavalli—Italian fashion house Roberto Cavalli had an IT mess on its hands. In the last year, it reorganised internally, consolidating 27 assets into nine, and...

+ KDE innovation still brewing amid stable 4.5 release—With KDE Software Compilation (SC) 4.5 released this week, the open source project has made another stepping stone towards its goal of providing a mod...

+ Did HP board have hidden agenda in removing Hurd?—By now everyone knows that HP CEO Mark Hurd was forced to resign following an investigation into an alleged sexual harassment scandal.

+ Wealth management: Deceptively simple—The ANZ recently announced its intention to ramp up its drive into the wealth management sector and HSBC Australia plans to expand into the ‘mass af...

+ Inside American Eagle Outfitter's 8-Day website nightmare—HANG IN THERE. That was the first plea American Eagle Outfitters offered its nearly 1.5 million Facebook friends three days after its trio of e-commer...

+ Is augmented reality just a cheap gimmick?—Augmented reality, long a staple of science fiction, is here, there and everywhere. A search on Google News brings up nearly 700 recent stories about ...

+ Droid 2 details seep out—If you're hoping to get your hands on the Droid 2, the anticipated refresh of Motorola's popular Android-based device, you may not have much longer to...

+ Five Advantages of Unified Information Access (UIA)—The first wave of enterprise search helped companies tap into the world of text+, sometimes referred to as "unstructured" or "semi-structured" informa...

+ CIOs talk about staying strategic—It’s the bête noire of C-level managers the world over — too often, it’s easy to be pulled into the morass of day-to-day issues at the expense ...

+ Telepresence and video conferencing: The business case—It could be any meeting room, anywhere, with one major difference: The room, within Sheraton on the Park hotel in Sydney, is a gateway to the world. A...

+ Mainframe sect tackles new roles, old stereotypes—IBM's new mainframe is on display at this week's SHARE conference in Boston, a testament to the relevancy of the big iron in today's enterprise IT env...

+ Android Expansion: 6 Products That Aren't Smartphones—That little Android mascot must be struggling to catch his breath.

+ Stupid mobile tricks: 7 stories of smartphone horror—For a device with "smart" in its name, a smartphone sure can help you do a lot of stupid things. Whether it's racking up thousands of dollars in inter...

+ Google Wave flops: What Google service will go next?—Let's pause for a moment of silence to remember Google Wave, a service that has gone off to greener pastures. Google confirmed the news late yesterday...

+ A Defcon badge unlike anything you have ever seen—It's unlike any conference badge you've seen before. Sleek, stylish, programmable, and made out of metal. It's the Defcon 18 conference badge. Unveile...

+ A daughter follows her father into a mainframe career—Kristine Harper and her father, Tom, both work on mainframe computers. BOSTON - Kristine Harper was about 12-years-old when her father took her to his...

+ 11 free Linux apps your business needs now—Despite the wealth of free applications out there, many small business owners continue to spend an inordinate amount of their all-too-scarce resources...

+ Blackberry Torch 9800: Try again, RIM—Research in Motion performed a neat smoke and mirrors trick when introducing the BlackBerry Torch 9800 yesterday.

+ Don't mess with Texas: Lessons from IT outsourcing disasters—Two weeks ago, the CIO of Texas penned a seven-page letter outlining the chronic failures of the state's nearly four-year outsourcing relationship - a...

+ Your workplace in 2020: Gartner's predictions—How will people work 10 years from now? Gartner thinks it has a pretty good idea, predicting 10 major changes that will occur during the next 10 years...

+ CIO Summit 2010: IT’s new ‘normal’ with Gen-i—CIO editor Georgina Swan talks to Phil Varney about how to deliver business outcomes with ‘intelligent velocity’.

+ CIO Summit 2010: Cloud computing with IntraPower—CIO editor Georgina Swan talks to Darc Rasmussen about the ‘trusted cloud’ computing model.

+ CIO Summit 2010: Technology and organisational change with Novell—CIO editor Georgina Swan talks to Paul Kangro about how organisations affect change without disrupting the overall business.

+ Funny IT helpdesk requests—We’ve all been through it, so this is guaranteed to make you smile. IT service management (ITSM) provider [[xref:http://www.sysaid.com/|SysAid Techn...

+ Nine real iPad alternatives—Even since Apple released its "magical and revolutionary" iPad, other vendors have been scrambling to deliver products that go Apple one better.

+ Twitter Tips: 5 Ways to Find Relevant Followers—Twitter has more than 100 million users, which means you're bound to encounter a lot of noise. You'll find brands hawking their products or services, ...

+ The new business architecture—The rules of business are changing at a rapid speed. We see many companies already embracing, or at least looking to include business 2.0: The use of ...

+ Lab Notes: The Inside Scoop on Browser Speed Testing—If you're a regular PCWorld reader, you may have noticed the Browser Blowout story we posted last week. In it, I looked at various aspects of the majo...

+ Collaborate or perish—Speaking to Australian CIOs about their current challenges, collaboration is emerging as the ‘next big thing’ for IT departments in Australia. The...

+ Restricting access to social media can seriously damage your business—In the past year or so, it has been amazing to witness organisations finding ways of using social media to engender innovation and creativity. By offe...

+ What Android's impressive growth means for you—Rather than bore you with an opening line about how Android phones outsold the iPhone last quarter, I'm going to begin with an anecdote:

+ Is Linux really harder to use?—Not surprisingly, the misperception that Linux is harder to use than other operating systems is also one that competing vendors routinely use to scare...

+ Strategy's Limits: A chat with Ernest von Simson—As co-founder of The Research Board, an exclusive, IT-focused think tank established in 1970, Ernest von Simson watched time and again as corporate le...

+ Microsoft, get back to work!—Steve Ballmer assured analysts and the world that Microsoft is hard at work developing a Windows 7-based tablet to compete with devices like the Apple...

+ How Android 2.2 will boost business—Froyo is coming.

+ On strengths of Linux, Android will win mobile contest—Mirror, mirror, on the wall, which mobile operating system is fairest of all? That's a common question, given the many contenders in the mobile arena-...

+ Could Facebook be the next AOL?—Last week, Facebook announced that it had amassed 500 million users, a formable portion of the global Internet audience. But even as Mark Zuckerberg a...

+ 'Year of the virtual desktop' a flop so far—More than halfway through what vendors and many analysts predicted would be the year virtual desktops would replace enormous numbers of the physical k...

+ Beauty shots: Technology to drool over—Sling Media's small Slingbox 700U won one of three Best in Show awards given by the Industrial Designers Society of America (ISDA).

+ Q&A: Santos CIO Hugh Banister—CIO spoke exclusively to Hugh Banister, CIO at gas supplier Santos, about the challenge he faces in his role, what his average work day looks like and...

+ Wi-Fi WPA2 vulnerability FAQ—So this guy at AirTight Networks says Wi-Fi Protected Access 2 has a "hard shell on the outside, but a soft underbelly inside"due to an overlooked vul...

+ MCG ditches analogue for digital security—The Melbourne Cricket Ground has moved to an open source IP security system to manage high definition CCTV and ground access control.

+ Jolicloud 1.0, a Linux distro in progress—Jolicloud 1.0 is a new edition of Linux aimed at non-technical netbook users.

+ 8 amazing things you'll do with Windows 8—Windows 8 is still a couple of years away, but Microsoft is already telling partners what to expect in the next generation operating system. Luckily f...

+ Android and Apps—The more I use the HTC Incredible, the more I like it. And the thing that really makes the Incredible, er, incredible is its operating system, Android

+ Visual tour: Visiting the Googleplex—I recently visited the "Googleplex," Google's expansive headquarters in Mountain View, Calif., for an interview, and took the chance to snap a few pic...

+ CIO Summit 2010: Market trends with Optus Business—CIO editor Georgina Swan talks to Rob Parcell about what CIOs can expect over the coming 12 months.

+ Four ways IPv6 will save the Internet—The world is almost out of IP addresses--or at least it's almost out of the IPv4 addresses that IT admins and users are most familiar with. Fortunatel...

+ Apocalypse: 52 percent of CIOs plan to blow up IT groups—The saying goes something like this: "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." The statement is, of course, embraced as dogma by those fearful of change and ...

+ Your Leadership Portfolio: The View from C-level—Former senior IT leaders who rise to head of the function are often surprised by the competencies that they are expected to have at the C-level.

+ Why the $35 tablet will never exist—"India unveils $35 computer for students," says CNN.com. "India unveils prototype for $35 touch-screen computer," reports BBC News. "India to provide ...

+ India's $35 PC is the future of computing—The government of India has unveiled a prototype of a touchscreen, tablet computer which it expects to sell for US$35 initially.

+ Jetpacks, androids, and the future that never came—From Jules Verne to Stanley Kubrick and beyond, writers and artists have imagined what the future would be like. Their visions range from the comicall...

+ SAP-Sybase: What to expect in the first 90 days—Now that SAP's roughly $US6 billion acquisition of Sybase has gained clearance from European regulators, it may not be long before the deal is finalis...

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