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Dirty data: IT, it's not your fault

The blame for poor quality data is too often laid at IT's door, when it should be the business taking responsibility, according to analysts. Read more »

auDA introduces new rules to block domain hogs

In a series of reforms announced this week, the Australian Domain Name Administrator (auDA) has regulated against domain traders by outlawing the practice of registering a domain name for the sole purpose of reselling it. Read more »

Scared or oblivious: Australia's SMEs on Linux

Australian SMEs aren't paying nearly enough attention to Linux considering the top priority for their IT managers is to "reduce costs", but despite the prevailing attitude, it won't take much for open source to have a far greater impact in the near future, according to research released today. Read more »

Only foreign workers can solve govt IT skills crisis

Not enough migrant workers are being hired to work in public service IT, which is contributing to a government-wide ICT skills shortage, according to a report by the Australian Government Information Management Office. Read more »

IBM preach business-driven development

Big Blue this week announced new tools and a commitment to better align business, operational and development goals of enterprise software applications in a bid to reduce failed projects. Read more »

IBM spiffs up its dashboard

IBM is developing software designed to give office workers a window into corporate strategy, from the CEO on down the organisation chart. Read more »

Putting a plug in insider leaks

A start-up has launched software designed to stop leaks of sensitive business information by focusing on the greatest risk: insiders. Read more »

Air scares and security measures deter biz travellers

The current problems besieging UK air travellers and airports are forcing companies to consider alternative options to business travel. Read more »

Business intelligence lies beyond IT: Dresner

"Business intelligence" has been perverted over time by vendors trying to find new ways to market their products, according to the man who coined the term. Read more »

Businesses advised to register .asia domains

Companies with an Asian presence should consider registering .asia domain names to prevent cybersquatting, internet registries have argued Read more »

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How to achieve real diversity in IT

While just hiring people who look different may satisfy internal mandates or passing fads, the truly beneficial form of diversity comes from a diversity of ideas and experience. Read more »

How to transform your organisation through IT

CIO's who change organisations often boast the same accomplishments: closer integration with the customer, becoming one with the business, becoming more agile and responsive, etc. We take a look at the how, and the why. Read more »

The move from tech to business management

In hard times, tech managers can leverage their soft skills to land jobs in other industries. But ask yourself these questions before changing careers. Read more »

10 midyear resolutions for IT managers

More than half the year has gone by, and some of those promising New Year's resolutions made at the start of 2007 have probably been forgotten or abandoned. Here's a recap of some goals to help guide your progress for the rest of 2007. Read more »

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 »

Keeping the door open...and shut

A Web server opens up your business to the outside world, so how do you keep out those parts of the world you don't like? Read more »

When is it time to upgrade your development environment?

Upgrading to a new development environment, particularly to .NET, involves a number of considerations, including the cost/benefit and business value of the move. Issues include license and training costs and the scope of application conversion. Read more »

Four steps to vendor evaluation

POC testing is just half of the battle in making effective purchases. Here are four areas to focus on during vendor evaluations. Read more »

Six "must haves" for the creation of highly productive software teams

An Inc. 500 profile from the SoftwareCEO Web site: Performance Software CEO Tim Bigelow shares his six "must-haves" for the creation of highly productive software teams. Read more »

Are key performance indicators a true measure?

Some managers love to look solely at numbers when assessing performance, and key performance indicators are right up their street. But how useful are they in the context of software development? Read more »

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Google plans new Internet measurement tool

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- Google is expected to unveil a tool Tuesday that measures Internet use to help advertisers identify the best places to buy ads that will reach its target audience. Read more »

Gartner: Social software projects lack purpose

Brendon Chase [blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- Social software projects fail because IT management lack purpose of their deployment according to the industry analyst firm. Read more »

Dealing with the ego elephant in the room

Brendon Chase [blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- Egomaniacs, swell-heads, know-it-alls, showboats, show ponies, narcissists, ego-trippers, big heads, and peacocks – work with one of these? Read more »

Are your Web apps ready for the next-gen browser war?

Brendon Chase [blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- Webkit, Firefox, and Internet Explorer are all scheduled to update their browsers in 2008. Are you ready for Web dev test fest 08? Read more »

Application Threat Modeling v2

[blogs:] -- Threat Modeling has become one of the most important ways to increase the security of your application development projects. It allows you to understand the threats you will face, and implement countermeasure in a consistent, reliable way. If you only do one thing to improve yoru development processes, Threat Modeling should be it. Now with the new ACE Threat Modeling methodology and tools, it's easy to do as well! Read more »

Microsoft imagines a better world.

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- Fresh off the wires from Microsoft comes reassuring news that their international student software design and programming competition, the Imagine Cup, is heating up. 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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