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Watch out for Web 2.0 security risks: Gartner

Adopting Web 2.0 to increase collaboration within organisations opens the door to significant security risks which need to be addressed, according to Gartner. Read more »

Security skills shortage may worsen

There is a security skills shortage, and "it's going to get a lot worse," delegates at the Gartner Security Summit were told yesterday by Nick Tate, chairman of AusCERT and CIO at the University of Queensland. Read more »

Web 2.woe: Simple security flaws going unfixed

Web application vulnerabilities are simple to fix -- but they're here to stay and will likely get worse, say security analysts. Read more »

Oracle aims to tone security muscle with Fusion

Billions of dollars worth of acquisitions have bought Oracle a perhaps unexpected bonus: security lessons. Read more »

Australia overreacts to Indian outsourcing: Gartner

The level of outrage over the outsourcing of software development to India is disproportionate to the effect it is having on the local industry, according to analysis group Gartner. Read more »

Gartner: Web 2.0 to make waves in enterprise

AJAX, mashups, location-aware software and sensor mesh networking are among the key emerging technologies set to have a significant impact on businesses over the next 10 years, Gartner says. Read more »

Should large firms skip Windows Vista?

Companies planning on waiting for Vista's successor may face software support issues and a rushed migration, analyst firm Gartner has warned. Read more »

Westpac turns to Web 2.0 free for all

Westpac has bucked the trend on policing Internet use in the workplace -- allowing staff to access Facebook from work, building a Web 2.0-like portal in-house and a Westpac-branded site on Second Life. Read more »

iPhone success depends on Windows?

Apple traditionally caps off its worldwide developer conference with a bang -- releasing a piece of news that coders, enthusiasts and journalists can stew over for days and weeks afterwards. Read more »

Technology hype comes under scrutiny

Collaboration tools, podcasting and desktop search are emerging as key technology themes but other once-fashionable technologies are stuck in the mud, says Gartner Read more »

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Security in the Web 2.0 Era

At the Gartner Symposium ITxpo 2008 in Sydney this week, Andrew Walls, the research director and security analyst at Gartner presented "Security in the Age of E-Commerce and Web 2.0". Read more »

Mobile development in Australia--Part 1

In the first of a three-part series on mobile development in Australia, Simon Sharwood explores the real market opportunities for mobile applications. Read more »

Build next-generation applications

Reduce time to market and meet the requirements of Web-aware applications by adopting one or both of the new virtual machine standards. Read more »

Certification essential for all IT security staffers

Those aspiring to work in security management need to begin earning some certifications right away. Find out why these certs are vital for any security role. Read more »

Selling developers on .Net

He's hardly as well-known as Bill Gates but Eric Rudder will have more influence over the future of Microsoft's bet-the-company .Net software strategy than his more famous boss. Read more »

Building a security response team

With security an ever-increasing concern, enterprises are building security response teams to combat and solve problems. Learn who you should include on such a team, and some models around which you can structure your task force. Read more »

Wireless pundits spin chicken and app debate

Which has to come first--the mobile application, or demand? The answer is neither, and it's time developers and network operators rethought the entire question. Read more »

Embed me: Career opportunities in embedded software

Writing software designed to be embedded in an appliance, phone, or some other real-world device is a growth area, but has its own set of challenges. Read more »

Is government switched on?

E-business can do a lot for improving government and health services, but is Australia taking advantage? Read more »

Longhorn beta unlikely this year

Microsoft's efforts to bolster security in Windows XP will likely delay the release of a widespread test version of its forthcoming operating system until next year. Read more »

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The Portal of the Future

Lana Kovacevic [blogs:webanatomy] -- 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 »

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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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