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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 »
SAP puts focus on Business Objects
SAP has no plans to join Oracle and get involved in the megamerger game. Read more »
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 »
When do we declare Google a monopoly?
I did a double take recently after listening to Microsoft CFO Chris Liddell acknowledge that his company was ready to lose even more money in online services in the near term, if that's what it takes to catch Google. Read more »
Microsoft to profit from recycling
Under a new program announced by Microsoft, large companies that sell refurbished PCs can get a new copy of Windows XP to put on the machine, as long as they pay Microsoft again for that copy. Read more »
Top 10 reasons why online businesses fail
Most pundits accept that the high fatality rate amongst online businesses is a direct result of corporate ignorance on the part of the business owners. ZDNet Australia details the most common mistakes. Read more »
SAP inks open-source database deal
Business application powerhouse SAP is tapping MySQL's open-source database software in a deal that should let the smaller company accelerate its development plans. Read more »
Microsoft puts Exchange, SharePoint online
For perhaps the first time in its history, Microsoft made the case on Monday that businesses shouldn't run its software. Instead, the software maker argued that corporations should let Microsoft run the software for them. Read more »
IBM puts Notes on memory key
IBM released on Wednesday a version of its Notes collaboration software that can be stored on a memory key or iPod. Read more »
Oracle puts weight behind Asian Linux
Oracle is backing an Asian variant of the open-source Linux operating system, as tech companies get ready for a software boom in the region. Read more »
Features (120)
CVSDude: Queensland one day, global the next
Beginning with hardware bought on eBay, Brisbane-based CVSDude now manages source code for Apple, Intel and the BBC. Read more »
A SOA allows for better alignment
An SOA enables organisations to create a more meaningful relationship between services and business processes. Read more »
CIOs: Too many meetings, not enough strategy
If CIOs could squeeze more time into their workweeks, they'd like to spend it formulating business strategies. Find out what else they told us in our survey about how CIOs spend their work time. Read more »
Digging code: Software archaeology
At first glance, business software developers have little in common with Indiana Jones. But the emerging field of software archaeology applies some of the same skills, if not the dashing adventure. Read more »
Designing for distant shores, part 2
In our final part in our series on selling software overseas, Angus Kidman identifies the business issues you'll need to address. Read more »
Tactical data access and analysis should be your BI design drivers
The implementation of a business information data warehouse can have a profound impact on an enterprise's decision making processes. A BI warehouse transforms data into a tactical tool, increasing efficiency and enabling better decisions. Read more »
Working with 'Creatives'
Managing graphic designers on a Web project can present a few special challenges. These problem/solution scenarios illustrate some ways to deal with artistic temperament. 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 »
JavaMail puts messaging power at your fingertips
The JavaMail API is a messaging framework for e-mail messaging that provides protocol-independent access to mail infrastructure. We'll show you how you can use it in your Java programs. Read more »
Taking on Twitter with open source software
One service that seemed to come out of nowhere and get instant buy-in from influential digerati around the Web was Identica, an open source microblogging alternative from Montreal resident Evan Prodromou, who in 2003 had co-founded Wikitravel. Read more »
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Q&A with EditMe: A wiki for non-geeks
-- Finally, a wiki CMS solution that you can safely give to your clients to use. But sshhhh... don't call it a wiki... Read more »
The Portal of the Future
-- At this year's Gartner Application Development, Integration and Web Services Summit, I attended Gene Phifer talk: "Portal of the Future: What's Beyond Web 2.0?". Read more »
Jonathan Schwartz's free software foundation
-- Sun has become its own free software foundation, open sourcing everything from Java to Solaris, and acquiring the open source MySQL database for $1 billion in January of this year, as a way to grow its revenue. Read more »
Dr. Evil couldn't have said it better
-- When the price for a company is $1 billion, it's hard not to recall Austin Powers' Dr Evil. Read more »
Virtualisation -- threat or menace?
-- It sounds like VMware's Rosenblum has this opportunity figured out, and I suspect that Microsoft's Virtual PC managers do too. It'll be interesting to watch this market develop over time. Read more »
Web survey confirms the obvious
-- Web Design blog A List Apart has published the results of their first annual survey of web professionals, and the results should surprise absolutely nobody. I'll take this opportunity to break down the results (Warning: statistics ahead). Read more »
It's ego check time for Intel, Negroponte
-- I'm especially puzzled over the inane dustup that erupted this week between Negroponte's nonprofit One Laptop Per Child and Intel. Read more »
Is that $500 million in your wallet?
-- Have we officially returned to the silly season of the late 1990s? If not, there was a momentous step closer taken this week. Read more »
Google: Don't give up on OpenSocial
-- When Google unveiled its OpenSocial developer initiative at the end of October, observers hailed it as the future of the social Web.
But is the search king already too late to the party? Read more »
We don't need an eBay for security holes
-- It's been likened to an eBay for hackers -- new security site WabiSabiLabi is a market place for auctioning security vulnerabilities. Read more »
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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 »
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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 »
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BarCamp buzz: Let the hacking continueAttending 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 »
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Interplanetary Internet a possibility
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Conroy ducks, Ballmer evades and Android Fails -- Club Builder
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Yang's resignation: The talk of Silicon Valley
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Conroy ducks, Ballmer evades and Android Fails -- Club Builder
Club Builder this week takes a long look at Senator Conroy's recent attempt to explain his Great Firewall of Australia, we chase Steve Ballmer over Sydney, and find Google's biggest bug of the year.