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MIS.tech: research

  • With Google starting to make its own moves, the operator-centric model for mobile location services may be past its use-by date

  • Organisations tend to resist change with well-developed immune systems.

  • Despite Google's inability to supply a basic TCO model for its Apps suite of products, it is stil...

  • No business or business model is recession-proof, but Salesforce.com is making a pretty good case for itself and software as a service (SaaS)

  • A line new manager needs to be aware that the strategies adopted in the IT professional role are unlikely to guarantee success in the new role

  • Many IT firms have announced job cuts over the past few months

  • Economic downturns alter organisational dynamics and can herald changes in the executive power hierarchy

  • Some major issues are dominating the next-generation network (NGN) agenda in France, including which technical solutions and access models to adopt for opening up households to fibre.

  • Inside attackers frequently have a pre-existing grudge which is work-related, so IT management attention must be given now to dealing with the "soft side" of their staff and contractors.

  • Telstra's last minute bid shows it has bowed to commercial pressure to take part in the NBN.

  • Telstra management has said for years that they regard companies like Google, Yahoo and Microsoft as their real long-term competition.

  • The problem for some technologies, as they try to defend their purpose and role in a downturn, is their weak business case and lack of track record

  • Despite the growing body of information available on data breaches, many executives remain unjustifiably overconfident in their organisations' security capabilities.

  • It will take six to nine months for the first real signs of progress from the integration of HP and EDS to emerge.

  • Resolving these desktop concerns requires much more than simply migrating the existing desktop images to the data centre and running them in a virtualised environment.

  • Can companies really emulate some of the key features of cloud computing in-house?

  • EDS is now an HP company; HP announced on Tuesday that it has completed its $US13.9 billion acquisition of the Plano, Texas-based outsourcer

  • The thin client market for the Asia Pacific excluding Japan (APEJ) region continues to grow significantly, pointing to a solid future for this form of 'lean and mean' computing for large enterprises.

  • The cooler financial winds now blowing through the world's credit markets will cut to the bone, and buyers of IT outsourcing services will need to choose partners with the fat to withstand the coming winter

  • Google App Engine, Amazon Simple Storage Service and Apple's MobileMe service have all experienced some high-profile service outages in the past few months


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