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A little ray of sunshine

27 Aug 2008 | MIS.Online | Ben Woodhead

Amid the gloom of reporting season there's a ray of sunshine for the information technology industry - many of the nation's largest companies aren't showing any inclination to cut computing costs.

US finds caps don't fit

25 Aug 2008 | MIS.Online | Chris Jenkins

In the home of the brave and the land of the free, downloaders are starting to find out the internet ain't what it used to be.

Little hope for Commander's creditors

19 Aug 2008 | MIS.Online | Julian Bajkowski

Most of the creditors that attended today's Commander creditors' meeting, chaired by Ferrier Hodgson administrator Max Donnelly, held out little hope that they could recover unsecured debts.

The non-English web

11 Aug 2008 | MIS.Online | Chris Jenkins

The Olympics are always a timely reminder, if ever we needed one, that not everyone speaks English.

Whose turf?

04 Aug 2008 | MIS.Online | Michael Crawford

For the security executive, telling employees to follow policies can be unrewarding as shaking a fist in the air and screaming at kids on the nature strip to "get off my front lawn"?

Allison? GoFigure

31 Jul 2008 | MIS.Online | Paul Smith

When I asked for his name -his name, mind - he told me it was Allison. I suppose I have to take him at his word on that point.

Pop the clutch in

31 Jul 2008 | MIS.Online | Chris Jenkins

When I was learning to drive, my Dad wisely told me that stalling the car wasn't that big an issue. Far more important was how long it took you to recover and get going again.

A trillion reasons for IPv6

28 Jul 2008 | MIS.Online | Julian Bajkowski

Search and advertising giant Google has estimated that the number of page addresses, known as URLs (uniform reference locators) has now hit one trillion, a new milestone for the internet.

Jobs for the bots

25 Jul 2008 | MIS.Online | Michael Crawford

If security pundits are to be believed, then the world is being taken over by botnets.

The undressed Olympics

22 Jul 2008 | MIS.Online | Chris Jenkins

Going to Bejing to check out the games on the company or taxpayer coin? Good for you. Just know that your hosts have already made plans to get you undressed. Electronically.

Is the brick back?

21 Jul 2008 | MIS.Online | Michael Crawford

Is the return to the bulky brick phones proof that fashion is cyclical?

iPhone surfing starts to make sense

15 Jul 2008 | MIS.Online | Ben Woodhead

The endless paeans to the iPhone that Apple fan bois and grls have spewed forth over the past year went a pretty long way to turning me off the damn thing. But I have to admit, I'm coming around a bit.

The old one-card trick

14 Jul 2008 | MIS.Online | Chris Jenkins

When politicians in NSW and Victoria ask just how good smartcard public transport ticketing systems are, the conversation frequently turns to Oysters and Octopus.

That other mobile platform

10 Jul 2008 | MIS.Online | Chris Jenkins

Sure there's been a lot of iPhone hype, but have you heard much about Windows mobile lately?

Carbon's silver lining

09 Jul 2008 | MIS.Online | Ben Woodhead

Corporate Australia is expected to paint a grim picture of the next 12 months when 2008 financial results are handed down, but there are still some big opportunities out there for technology companies despite the looming threat of budget cuts.

Why are people so unkind?

01 Jul 2008 | MIS.Online | Ben Woodhead

It was a long kiss goodbye but Bill Gates has finally punched off the clock at Microsoft for the last time.

Any takers?

30 Jun 2008 | MIS.Online | Chris Jenkins

That no one found anything in Affinity worth buying must surely cast a big shadow over Personal Broadband Australia.

Standing on the outside

27 Jun 2008 | MIS.Online | Paul Smith

With smaller players perennially sidelined by preferred supplier agreements, Australia is unlikely to be the breeding ground for any global IT giants.

Software upgrade asleep at the wheel

23 Jun 2008 | MIS.Online | Michael Crawford

Fast moving metal objects such as cars generally benefit from the addition of brakes, and these brakes are usually applied when you need your metal object of choice to do one thing. Stop.

Gershon flies into heated reception

20 Jun 2008 | MIS.Online | Julian Bajkowski

When Sir Peter Gershon files into mid-winter Canberra next week to cast his ruler over the Federal Government's sprawling computer inventory, he will be treated to a small-town spectacle that strikes at the very heart of why so many public sector IT projects here often fail

Face up to .au facts

18 Jun 2008 | MIS.Online | Renai LeMay

The news that global social networking giant Facebook successfully confiscated the local version (facebook.com.au) of the domain name which it has built its business on should come as a surprise to nobody.

Spam works - unfortunately

16 Jun 2008 | MIS.Online | Michael Crawford

Last week Cisco shot out a press release stating their security division Ironport has tracked sales of counterfeit pharmaceuticals to the amount of spam pumped out through botnets - netting drug manufacturers behind the spam network almost $US150 million annually.

Join the dark side

12 Jun 2008 | MIS.Online | Paul Smith

Is jumping ship for a vendor a viable career option for a CIO? The recent examples of AAPT's Bob Hennessy, AGL's Cesare Tizi, and Westpac's Michael Coomer seem to suggest it is.

Dishing the dirt

12 Jun 2008 | MIS.Online | Julian Bajkowski

Government procurement in Australia has long been a cut and thrust affair, especially when it comes to exerting influence over politicians and bureaucrats to get a big deal over the line. But it's a new low to try to dynamite a CIO out of their job through accusations of largesse and corruption.