+ In depth: Unified communications still fragmented—Unified communications (UC) technology has garnered a fair amount of attention, much of it due to vendors touting their UC offerings as the answer to ...

+ Five things CIOs should know about big data—Five key points CIOs should know when considering big data

+ In pictures: Top 20 mobile websites and services—Apps, schmaps. Who needs to download anything when these mobile sites and services offer fast information and entertainment right in your mobile brows...

+ In pictures: Top 20 mobile web sites and services—Apps, schmaps. Who needs to download anything when these mobile sites and services offer fast information and entertainment right in your mobile brows...

+ Defining 'big data' depends on who's doing the defining—Big data is an IT buzzword nowadays, but what does it really mean? When does data become big?

+ Study: Facebook relies on good design to retain users—What is Facebook's secret to keeping the world's largest user base content? Sticking to well-proven software design principles, one study has conclude...

+ Today, printers. Tomorrow, 'integrated peripherals'?—Out went 42 aging black and white copiers with interface boxes that let them serve as printers. In went 42 new networked multi-function printers (MFPs...

+ True tech confessions: Sinners and winners—We all make mistakes. But when you work in IT, those errors can quickly go public.

+ Location-based services: Are they there yet?—Mobile users are more connected to the Internet than ever. As of December 2011, ComScore estimated that there are 97.9 million smartphone users in the...

+ Analysis: Why Linux is a desktop flop—It's free, easier to use than ever, IT staffers know it and love it, and it has fewer viruses and Trojans than Windows.

+ Guide: How to build an 'All In' corporate culture—In recent years, consultants Adrian Gostick and Chester Elton kept hearing the same lament from corporate clients: "It we can't get our culture right,...

+ The future of the $200 tablet—Spending $150 to $200 on a tablet won't get you much these days: In most cases, you're looking at an off-brand Android product with a single-core proc...

+ Top CIOs predict future of the CIO role—Five years from now, the CIO will be a better, faster, stronger version of today's top IT leader, practically running the company single-handedly. Or ...

+ The upside of shadow IT—First, a scary statistic: Gartner predicts that in less than three years, 35 per cent of enterprise IT expenditures will happen outside of the corpora...

+ From IT to ET: Cloud, consumerisation, and the next wave of IT transformation—IT as we know it is over.

+ Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 (7.0) review: A nice price, but where's the 'wow'?—Android devices - both smartphones and tablets - are getting increasingly affordable. With its new Galaxy Tab 2 (7.0) tablet, Samsung is obviously hop...

+ Catching the eye of Google—Google's man in charge of acquisitions - vice-president of corporate development David Lawee - was in Auckland recently, but he was keeping quiet on w...

+ Is there a 'best' way to set up your private Cloud storage?—Given that Cloud computing is still emerging, it shouldn't come as a surprise that opinions vary widely on the best way to architect the storage. In f...

+ Hold the phone: retailers eye payments via smartphone—An emerging technology called Near Field Communication will soon give new meaning to the phrase "tapped out."

+ Cloud computing: Improving healthcare services—For all the innovations transforming the healthcare industry, one area where it remains almost universally behind the times is in the use of informati...

+ Mobile malware: Beware drive-by downloads on your smartphone—While Jeff Schmidt, the CEO of JAS Global Advisors, was surfing the Web on his new Android smartphone (his first Android phone) earlier this year, wha...

+ Guide: How to be ready for Big Data—Big Data is all the rage these days, and more than a few organizations are at least wondering what sort of business intelligence they could derive fro...

+ Review: Apple iPad (third-generation)—Apple's new iPad is an incremental upgrade rather than a revolutionary one.

+ The big promise of big data—For Twitter, making sense of its mountains of user data was big enough of a problem that it purchased another company just to help get the job done.

+ Your guide to the new iPad—Apple's new iPad has been unveiled. It is worth your hard earned dollars? Let's find out.

+ Project portfolio management - Part 2—Data-driven project portfolio management Project management suffered an identity crisis half a decade ago, when ever-more-empowered developers were le...

+ Project portfolio management - Part 1—It’s never easy to bring two organisations together, but when they’re both huge companies with millions of customers and deeply entrenched culture...

+ How Cloud computing is forcing IT evolution—I had the privilege of chairing the infrastructure track at last week's Cloud Connect conference. Three of the presentations were particularly interes...

+ The social business network—You’ve gotta feel for the CIO who has to write a business case to convince his or her board to spend money on new technologies with names like Yamme...

+ Three tips for using Cloud services to extend your data center—Cloud technology is emerging as a viable option for companies that want to cut costs, increase agility or augment their own IT resources without build...

+ Samsung's Ice Cream Sandwich update schedule—When will your Samsung smartphone get Google's latest Android update, 4.0 or Ice Cream Sandwich?

+ The industrial robot revolution—One small step for man, a giant leap for robot-kind.

+ OS X Mountain Lion: A big cat for business?—Apple surprised the tech world by unveiling a developer preview of OS X Mountain Lion, the next generation of its desktop operating system set to ship...

+ In depth: Hands on with Apple's new OS X, Mountain Lion—Apple updates its iOS mobile operating system once a year. But why should the iPhone and iPad have all the fun? Apple has announced that it will rele...

+ LG's Ice Cream Sandwich update schedule—When will your LG smartphone get Google's latest Android update, 4.0 or Ice Cream Sandwich?

+ Working well with different cultures—In Europe, Greece’s parliament yesterday approved an austerity package. One wonders though whether financial instability will be replaced by financi...

+ Guide: How and when to build a mobile website—As of November 2011, 91.4 million people in the United States-owned smartphones, according to comScore. That was an 8 per cent increase over just a fe...

+ 13 security myths you'll hear - but should you believe?—They're "security myths", oft-repeated and generally accepted notions about IT security that arguably are simply not true - in order words, it's just ...

+ The A-Z of LinkedIn—LinkedIn has become a dominant player in the recruitment and human resource space in the past few years, with 150 million members and availability in ...

+ Get ready for street commerce—According to MIT Sloan, the global customer relationship management (CRM) market exceeds $50 billion annually and yet consistently 55-75 per cent of i...

+ IT's worst addictions (and how to cure them)—Are you a jargon junkie? Got an insatiable appetite for information? Do you rule over your company's systems with an iron fist, unwilling to yield con...

+ Android's Ice Cream Sandwich update and why it takes so long—We explain how and why Android updates take so long to be released.

+ 20 popular Ubuntu Linux apps you may want to try—As Ubuntu Linux continues to grow in popularity, most discussions of it tend to focus on the basics of the operating system itself, including especia...

+ Apple makes inroads into the enterprise—Why the fuss? What's so important about Apple support in the enterprise? To say that nearly all business applications today are written for and develo...

+ Don’t wait for Windows 8—Windows XP is 10 years old, yet a substantial number of businesses are still using it. They’re not really at fault. Upgrading to Windows Vista was c...

+ Hot Authentication Tools —The trusty telephone is emerging as one of the key elements in new multifactor authentication schemes designed to protect online banking and other web...

+ Mergers & acquisitions: The first 100 days—It is day one of the acquisition and executive reputations are on the line. Are you prepared? Have you revised your current organisation commitments a...

+ Enterprise agility through adaptive leadership—Jim Highsmith is somewhat of a luminary in Agile circles. The co-author of the Agile Manifesto, which guides the Agile project management philosophy, ...

+ In depth: The new help desk - agile, educational, efficient—A help desk can be a real lifesaver for employees, not to mention a productivity boost. A keyboard stops working, or Outlook crashes repeatedly, and a...

+ Opinion: Is Google evil? The jury is out—Much outrage has been expressed about Google's new privacy policy. People are acting as if they are shocked that Google would consolidate the personal...

+ HTC Velocity 4G speedtest—The HTC Velocity 4G promises data speeds of up to five times faster than its competitors, but is it really that fast? We put it to the test.

+ Resources CIOs in Australia—In a fast growing sector, the bottom line is everything

+ A first look at the Nokia Lumia 800—Nokia's Lumia 800 represents somewhat of a new dawn for the struggling giant. It's the first phone to use the Windows Phone platform, following Nokia'...

+ Expert to IT pros: Adopt IPv6 soon or be sorry later—A dozen of the world's largest Internet companies - including Facebook, Google and Comcast - have committed to June 6, as the start date for their pr...

+ Google's enterprise strategy—Google's global vice-president of enterprise, Amit Singh, sat down with CIO Australia to talk strategy, products and the changing nature of the CIO ro...

+ Decision on world’s largest radio telescope imminent—Next month, the Australasian SKA Consortium is likely to find out whether Australia and New Zealand will host the Square Kilometre Array — the world...

+ Decision on world’s largest radio telescope imminent: Part one—Next month, the Australasian SKA Consortium is likely to find out whether Australia and New Zealand will host the Square Kilometre Array — the world...

+ 9 hot technology startups to watch in 2012—While there are sure to be a lot of new networking and IT companies that emerge in 2012, these nine stood out for their potential to deliver game-chan...

+ Rohan Davidson, CIO Rio Tinto Iron Ore—As CIO of Rio Tinto’s Iron Ore group Rohan Davidson plays a critical role in overseeing the IT requirements of the operations the mining company own...

+ Rohan Davidson, CIO Rio Tinto Iron Ore—As CIO of Rio Tinto’s Iron Ore group Rohan Davidson plays a critical role in overseeing the IT requirements of the operations the mining company own...

+ Rohan Davidson, CIO Rio Tinto Iron Ore—As CIO of Rio Tinto’s Iron Ore group Rohan Davidson plays a critical role in overseeing the IT requirements of the operations the mining company own...

+ Rohan Davidson, CIO Rio Tinto Iron Ore—As CIO of Rio Tinto’s Iron Ore group Rohan Davidson plays a critical role in overseeing the IT requirements of the operations the mining company own...

+ Vito Forte, CIO, Fortescue Metals Group—After joining the Fortescue Metals Group as CIO in January 2011, Vito Forte now leads the company’s IT department as it assists the resources indust...

+ Vito Forte, CIO, Fortescue Metals Group—After joining the Fortescue Metals Group as CIO in January 2011, Vito Forte now leads the company’s IT department as it assists the resources indust...

+ 10 must-have tools for Cloud power users—For many of us, the Cloud has changed the way we work and play. Thanks to well-known services like Gmail, Dropbox, Facebook and Instapaper, practicall...

+ 10 must-have tools for Cloud power users—For many of us, the Cloud has changed the way we work and play. Thanks to well-known services like Gmail, Dropbox, Facebook and Instapaper, practicall...

+ Vito Forte, CIO, Fortescue Metals Group —After joining the Fortescue Metals Group as CIO in January 2011, Vito Forte now leads the company’s IT department as it assists the resources indust...

+ Vito Forte, CIO, Fortescue Metals Group—After joining the Fortescue Metals Group as CIO in January 2011, Vito Forte now leads the company’s IT department as it assists the resources indust...

+ Interview: Vito Forte, CIO, Fortescue Metals Group—After joining the Fortescue Metals Group as CIO in January 2011, Vito Forte now leads the company’s IT department as it assists the resources indust...

+ A new era of IT transformation —The days of large IT transformation projects are over. In their place will be a new kind of IT transformation: smaller in scale, near-constant and mor...

+ A new era of IT transformation—The days of large IT transformation projects are over. In their place will be a new kind of IT transformation: smaller in scale, near-constant and mor...

+ 2011's biggest security snafus—Perhaps it was an omen of what was to come when the city of San Francisco on New Year's Eve 2010 couldn't get a backup system running in its Emergency...

+ 2011's biggest security snafus—Perhaps it was an omen of what was to come when the city of San Francisco on New Year's Eve 2010 couldn't get a backup system running in its Emergency...

+ EMC IT predictions for 2012—What will 2012 bring for IT?

+ EMC IT predictions for 2012—What will 2012 bring for IT?

+ Guide: How to bulletproof your website—'Tis the season to begin ramping up online shopping activity, and for retailers that means doing all they can to ensure their websites are up, highly ...

+ Guide: How to bulletproof your website—'Tis the season to begin ramping up online shopping activity, and for retailers that means doing all they can to ensure their websites are up, highly ...

+ Hackers target IPv6—If your IPv6 strategy is to delay implementation as long as you can, you still must address IPv6 security concerns right now.

+ Hackers target IPv6—If your IPv6 strategy is to delay implementation as long as you can, you still must address IPv6 security concerns right now.

+ Google's Ice Cream Sandwich - a new era for Android—Google's Android 4.0 operating system is more than just another upgrade.

+ Free news, paywalls and the slow death of media—Not all stories end badly, but this one does. Of all the industries unravelling upon our screens since the advent of the Web almost 20 years ago, trad...

+ CIO Summit 2011: Enterprise security with Palo Alto Networks—CIO Editor, Georgina Swan, talks to Palo Alto Networks’ Rick Ferguson about network security

+ What smartphones will be like in 2012—Since the advent of the first modern smartphone--arguably the original Apple iPhone in 2007--the power of these mobile computing devices that also hap...

+ CIO's to watch: Parmalat's Barry Wiech—With its extra screen space, it makes sense for an avid Angry Birds gamer to choose a tablet. But Parmalat chief information officer — and Angry Bir...

+ CIOs to watch: McGrath's Tod O’Dell—Tod O’Dell worked his way up from the help desk to service delivery and management of the development team at McGrath Estate Agents.

+ CIOs to watch: McGrath Tod O’Dell—Tod O’Dell worked his way up from the help desk to service delivery and management of the development team at McGrath Estate Agents.

+ Customer service in the Cloud—At the Gartner Summit in Sydney, delegates were asked if they agreed with the premise that by 2016, 20 per cent of all businesses’ IT would be based...

+ Are you ready for networking in the cloud?—The two primary forms of public cloud computing, Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), are both growing dramatically in...

+ CIOs to watch: ME Bank's Kathryn Hawkins—Kathryn Hawkins is not a gadget person but she does have a soft spot for the Nintendo Wii and its fitness games. That’s because after working at not...

+ The PC is dead—I find it interesting how technology reinvents itself so rapidly. The reason for this is probably attributable to Moore’s Law or in fact the 'Highwa...

+ HP is ready to get back to business—After a crazy year for HP that included a failed tablet, a hasty decision to abandon the PC business (a decision now abandoned), and a CEO shakeup, th...

+ CIOs to watch: Cochlear Australia's Mark Salmon—Australian CIO talks about their industry, career and favourite smartphone

+ Want better Wi-Fi? Five things you need—Laptops used to be the only devices on the company's wireless network. But Wi-Fi has become a ubiquitous standard used by a host of devices -- includi...

+ Windows XP: Pros and cons of not upgrading—Windows XP users, your favorite operating system is a decade old, and if you're still using it, you're not cool anymore, at least according to Microso...

+ Gartner: The top 10 strategic technology trends for 2012—ORLANDO -- The technology that makes up many of the systems in the ITworld today is at a critical juncture and in the next five years everything from ...

+ Steve Jobs interview: One-on-one in 1995—In April of 1995, Steve Jobs, then head of NeXT Computer, was interviewed as part of the Computerworld Honors Program Oral History project. The wide-r...

+ CIO Summit 2011: The future of business intelligence with QlikView—CIO Editor, Georgina Swan, talks to QlikView's Mark Sands about BI in a mobile world

+ Apple and Samsung: What's behind the patent fight—Samsung took a step toward finding a kind of "pax tabletica" with arch-foe Apple in an Australian court last week, offering to remove features from it...

+ Q&A: Schiavello CIO, Krist Davood—Krist Davood has held the group chief information officer role at Melbourne-based construction and manufacturing firm, Schiavello Group, for over two ...

+ IT inferno: The nine circles of IT hell—Spend enough time in the tech industry, and you'll eventually find yourself in IT hell -- one not unlike the underworld described by Dante in his "Div...

+ Guide: How to sync your PC, smartphone, and tablet—A few years ago businesspeople carried a laptop on the road, used a desktop PC in the office, and worked on another PC at home. Maybe they had a Black...

+ How Effective Leaders Can Make Principled Decisions—In your new book, The Leader's Checklist, you suggest leaders make a list of principles to review when making decisions. How does a checklist help a C...

+ IT risk: More rhetoric than action—Several recent spectacular IT system failures causing millions of dollars impact on pre-tax profit indicate the framework to identify and treat risks ...

+ How to prepare your business for Google+—Google+ just opened its doors to the world by enabling open signups and moving to the beta, testing phase. The nascent social network is still thin on...

+ Bad new world - Cyber risk and the future of the US—In September 2007, in a remote laboratory in Idaho, researchers began to show that that picture had begun to change, dramatically and irreversibly. Du...

+ Earth to satellite: When will you hit?—NASA scientists are doing their best to tell us where a plummeting six-ton satellite will fall later this week. It's just that if they're off a little...

+ Security breach—No company wants to be associated with a data breach, but if your systems are compromised the fallout can sometimes be more damaging than the act itse...

+ Make mobility standard business practice—Currently many IT departments have ‘mobility’ people. They manage the BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES), are the people who set up and administer...

+ Supply chain management in Australia - Part 3—As if data quality and stockouts weren’t enough of a day-today worry for CIOs, added pressure to serve demanding online customers and keep up with c...

+ Patent madness! A timeline of the Android patent wars—History may look at Android as the tech industry's Helen of Troy: The OS that launched a thousand suits.

+ Big data - Part 2—A second technology making a significant impact on solving Big Data problems is in-memory computing, which takes workloads that were traditionally res...

+ Supply chain management in Australia - Part 2—If supply chain experts can spend so much time and effort improving efficiency and still have more work to do, how are smaller companies meant to get ...

+ Supply chain management in Australia - Part 1—It all started, as these things sometimes do, with a chicken.

+ Big data - Part 1—According to IDC’s Digital Universe report the data created globally on an annual basis will leap from 1.2 zettabytes this year to 35 zettabytes in ...

+ SBS looks to Cloud services—When Klaus Schelp started at SBS at the beginning of this year he focused on business outcomes ahead of technology operations. As the head of informat...

+ The project management conundrum—When I was in short pants, there was a great TV show called The Magic Boomerang. The sizzle for this show was that there was a boomerang from the Drea...

+ Cloud computing and governance in the digital age - Part 3—During the Saleforce.com Dreamforce event in San Francisco, CEO Marc Benioff sat down with some of the leaders in the industry to talk about Cloud com...

+ Cloud computing and governance in the digital age - Part 2—During the Saleforce.com Dreamforce event in San Francisco, CEO Marc Benioff sat down with some of the leaders in the industry to talk about Cloud com...

+ Cloud computing and governance in the digital age—During the Saleforce.com Dreamforce event in San Francisco, CEO Marc Benioff sat down with some of the leaders in the industry to talk about Cloud com...

+ CIO Summit 2011: Security in the enterprise with SonicWALL—CIO Editor, Georgina Swan, talks to SonicWALL's Richard Ting about enterprise security

+ CIO Summit 2011: The future of mobile with SonicWALL—CIO Editor, Georgina Swan, talks to SonicWALL's Richard Ting about enterprise security

+ Hitachi GST CEO claims hard drive future hangs in Cloud—In March, Western Digital agreed to buy Hitachi Global Storage Technologies> (HGST), the disk drive subsidiary of Hitachi Ltd., in a stock and cash tr...

+ Six of the best free Android apps for geeks—There are a lot of things about Google's Android operating system that appeal to geeks. It's open source, it offers a lot of flexibility when it comes...

+ The challenges of competing with Cloud computing providers—In discussions about cloud computing and in comments readers leave on my blog posts, I commonly get statements along the lines of "Yeah, this cloud co...

+ Get the IT career you want: Develop business value—A lot of technology professionals are frustrated with the IT profession. They can't find a job or move into the position that they want. They're alway...

+ Mobility in the enterprise - Part 3—No CIO wants to be the person who says ‘no’ to productivity -- especially when the request for iPads comes from the company’s senior executives....

+ Security and Google Apps—An indepth discussion about patching, Cloud computing and how Google deals with security incidents

+ Chinese developers take a bite of the Apple—If you've ever gone to Apple's mobile app store and purchased games like High Noon, Gamebox1 or Doodletruck, then you've downloaded an app from the bu...

+ Working with HR - Part 3—What department heads and line managers think of HR, what employees think, and what HR managers think.

+ Working with HR - Part 2—Stephanie Christopher, national director of SHL Australia New Zealand, a company which assists companies — including recruitment firms — in their ...

+ Working with HR - Part 1—Tell me if you’ve heard this one before: “Managers aspire to be strategic, but they are required to fulfil their duties as a functional expert.”

+ Q&A: BOQ Finance CIO—BOQ Finance chief information officer ,Peter Turnbull, talks to CIO Australia about next generation architecture, Cloud and the consumersation of IT.

+ Q&A: Bank of Queensland Finance CIO—Bank of Queensland Finance chief information officer ,Peter Turnbull, talks to CIO Australia about next generation architecture, Cloud and the consume...

+ The Australian Cloud: Challenges and Forecasts—The Australian Cloud market has been compared to taming the wild west. While it isn’t difficult to set up IaaS and other Cloud technology, the big c...

+ Has RIM's BlackBerry had its day in the enterprise?—They were once ubiquitous in the workplace, as much a symbol of executive status as the gold standard in enterprise mobile communications. Research in...

+ NBN Co CIO: The IT leadership strategy of Australia’s new telco - Part 2—NBN Co’s tasks are split between network construction and business-as-usual telecommunications, and few of the company’s employees could map out t...

+ NBN Co CIO: The IT leadership strategy of Australia’s new telco - Part 1—NBN Co has a head start that would leave many telcos green with envy. Armed with $27 billion in government funding, and at least $9 billion from debt ...

+ The dangers of 'groupthink'—Nigel Cameron has a question. Several questions actually. As the chief executive officer of the Center for Policy on Emerging Technologies (C-PET), Wa...

+ LOB Vs IT: Conflicts In The Cloud—While IT and the business are often in conflict with one another, these two areas of a company must work together in order for the Cloud to drive effi...

+ Platform As A Service—With software and infrastructure as a service provided through the Cloud, the development of customised applications for the enterprise comes from Paa...

+ The grill: Barbara Koster—Barbara Koster, CIO of Prudential Financial, oversees 1,700 IT employees and formulates policies, establishes standards and architectures, and develop...

+ Stopping the mobile madness—I love my iPad, but I hate what it represents.

+ Rise of the planet of the tablets—The Planet of the Apes series of sci-fi thrillers in the late 1960s and early '70s depicted a world in which intelligent apes are the dominant species...

+ Leading through human instincts—In the business world, describing your boss as “ape-like” is not typically considered a compliment. But it turns out there is a lot we can learn f...

+ Video chatting for newbies—Video chat is all the rage these days, thanks to new services such as Google+ Hangouts and Skype/Facebook integrated video chat. Video chatting is a g...

+ Cloud visions: SBS Case study—SBS Case study

+ How the iPad will change IT forever—When evaluating the adoption of mobile enterprise applications, it's important to understand the overall trends driving the adoption of the iPad withi...

+ CIO Summit 2011: The future of mobile with Motorola—CIO Editor, Georgina Swan, talks to Timo Brouwer about the potential of mobile technologies.

+ Data Security: What’s Different In The Cloud?—Security breaches are top-of-mind for IT leaders across the board, and as a result, the stress around securing data in the Cloud is even higher. Becau...

+ Building A Cloud: Fujitsu`s Journey—Building A Cloud

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