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Can Google break Microsoft's enterprise chokehold?

A tie-up with Saleforce.com sees Google pushing even further into Microsoft's businesss applications territory Read more »

Tech greats bid farewell to Gates

As Bill Gates steps down from full-time work at Microsoft, well-wishing cheers and not-so-nice jeers are echoing from Silicon Valley. Read more »

Gates looks back on 30 years at Microsoft

If you were to ask Bill Gates what life will be like when he stops working full time at Microsoft, he'd have to get back to you.Read more »

G'day UK: Google Oz wants top techies back home

There's nothing wrong with senior Australian engineers, they just lack "world class experience", according to Google Australia's head of engineering, Alan Noble. Now he's heading to the UK to poach senior engineers from Australia's ex-pat community. Read more »

Analyst predicts bleak future for Aust ICT economy

A visiting analyst has warned that an over-reliance on a temporary minerals boom and a decline in the number of science and engineering graduates will erode Australia's ICT capacity and hinder its unprecedented stretch of economic growth. Read more »

Technology talent crisis looming: Deloitte

Prepare for an immediate talent shortage is the message from this year's Deloitte Technology Fast 500 CEO Survey. Read more »

Salesforce.com wants customers to use the force

Salesforce.com is trying to persuade its customers to use its hosting platform, called force.com, to serve up their online applications, but even the company's leaders admit that most people still view it simply as a hosted CRM platform. Will its rebranding and development strategies help it to turn the corner? Read more »

Q&A: Borland's latest saviour

In the course of its 22 years in Silicon Valley, Borland Software has lived through its share of ups and downs. Read more »

Inside Microsoft's Linux lab

As Microsoft's director of platform technology strategy, Bill Hilf spends half his time trying to figure out ways Windows can work better with Linux and the other half trying to outflank the open-source rival. Read more »

You call that a standard?

Q&A Robert Glushko, a UC Berkeley professor who was involved in early XML proceedings, decries how powerful interests have distorted the standards process. Read more »

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Would you work for an Internet startup now?

The dot-com boom may be over, but opportunities still exist among Internet startups. Before you take a job with a new dot com, ask these questions. Read more »

Dev, sales team relations

It's important for development managers to have an understanding of both sales and development because of the close, symbiotic relationship between the two in creating products that meet customers' expectations. Read more »

Have a policy for making policies

Formalised policies and procedures help protect you, your company, and your employees. Here are tips on planning your policy strategy. Read more »

Critical roles make survival possible

Many IT companies downsized or restructured in the industry's recent downturn. The resulting flattened infrastructure has affected software development, product quality, and customer support. Read more »

Do tech 'Einsteins' make good managers?

CIOs have to take special care of their tech 'Einsteins' to keep them happy and performing well, but are these savvy savants promotable? Read more »

Five reasons your resume doesn't get results

Do you find yourself sending out dozens of resumes but not getting so much as a telephone call in return? Here are some of the reasons why. Read more »

The value of IT in tough times

It has been said that in the face of adversity one can determine the true character of an individual. I believe the same can be said of an organisation's senior leadership. Read more »

3 paths to career self-sabotage

Employee turnover hurts not only those receiving their "walking papers," but employers as well. It's a costly, though avoidable, problem. At my coaching practice, I often see the same detrimental effects that some actions repeatedly have on different individuals. Read more »

Be prepared for the hindsight critics

You know the worst thing you can do? Ask for general input after an app or design project is just about final. Read more »

Build a career portfolio to highlight your accomplishments

Gathering evidence of your day-to-day successes on the help desk can help you promote your career. Take the advice of one contributor and build a career portfolio to showcase your recognitions and achievements. Read more »

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2Vouch refers well

[blogs:bootstrappr] -- Melbourne-based Web start-up 2Vouch yesterday launched the first public beta of what it dubs its "social recruiting platform". Read more »

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  • Staff Crying, mooning and leaving

    In this week's roundup we see that continuous whining can get results, Linux users get 64-bit Flash and Moonlight previews, the latest in the Yahoo/Microsoft relationship and Senator Conroy ducks and weave in Senate Question Time. Read more »

    -- posted by Staff

  • Brendon Chase Sun eye Web developers with Netbeans 6.5

    Despite the recent employment axe hitting Sun the company has pushed out a new release of its Netbeans open source IDE with an eye to appeal more to Web developers. Read more »

    -- posted by Brendon Chase

  • Renai LeMay BarCamp buzz: Let the hacking continue

    Attending last weekend's BarCamp in Sydney, it was hard to escape the conclusion that a certain "dot-com bust" flavour had seeped into the kool aid previously being drunk by Australia's web 2.0 and early stage start-up sector. Read more »

    -- posted by Renai LeMay

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