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Why are people so unkind?

01 Jul 2008 | MIS.Online | Ben Woodhead

It was a long kiss goodbye but Bill Gates has finally punched off the clock at Microsoft for the last time.

Any takers?

30 Jun 2008 | MIS.Online | Chris Jenkins

That no one found anything in Affinity worth buying must surely cast a big shadow over Personal Broadband Australia.

Standing on the outside

27 Jun 2008 | MIS.Online | Paul Smith

With smaller players perennially sidelined by preferred supplier agreements, Australia is unlikely to be the breeding ground for any global IT giants.

Software upgrade asleep at the wheel

23 Jun 2008 | MIS.Online | Michael Crawford

Fast moving metal objects such as cars generally benefit from the addition of brakes, and these brakes are usually applied when you need your metal object of choice to do one thing. Stop.

Gershon flies into heated reception

20 Jun 2008 | MIS.Online | Julian Bajkowski

When Sir Peter Gershon files into mid-winter Canberra next week to cast his ruler over the Federal Government's sprawling computer inventory, he will be treated to a small-town spectacle that strikes at the very heart of why so many public sector IT projects here often fail

Face up to .au facts

18 Jun 2008 | MIS.Online | Renai LeMay

The news that global social networking giant Facebook successfully confiscated the local version (facebook.com.au) of the domain name which it has built its business on should come as a surprise to nobody.

Spam works - unfortunately

16 Jun 2008 | MIS.Online | Michael Crawford

Last week Cisco shot out a press release stating their security division Ironport has tracked sales of counterfeit pharmaceuticals to the amount of spam pumped out through botnets - netting drug manufacturers behind the spam network almost $US150 million annually.

Join the dark side

12 Jun 2008 | MIS.Online | Paul Smith

Is jumping ship for a vendor a viable career option for a CIO? The recent examples of AAPT's Bob Hennessy, AGL's Cesare Tizi, and Westpac's Michael Coomer seem to suggest it is.

Dishing the dirt

12 Jun 2008 | MIS.Online | Julian Bajkowski

Government procurement in Australia has long been a cut and thrust affair, especially when it comes to exerting influence over politicians and bureaucrats to get a big deal over the line. But it's a new low to try to dynamite a CIO out of their job through accusations of largesse and corruption.

Telcos must be quick to share in bonanza

11 Jun 2008 | The Australian Financial Review | Renai LeMay

There is no doubt that Apple's iPhone is a game-changing device for Australia's mobile carriers.

Don't just say no

02 Jun 2008 | MIS.Online | Chris Jenkins

It's no secret that happy staff tend to make more money for a company than grumpy ones.

Back from black

30 May 2008 | MIS.Online

Is the idea of using white lists to automate the applications you actually want on your network a return to normalcy?

No news is bad news, even if it's good

29 May 2008 | MIS.Online | Renai LeMay

I am constantly reminded of the famous quote from Alfred Harmsworth, otherwise known as Lord Northcliff, once publisher of the The Times.

Don't call it a cloud

28 May 2008 | MIS.Online | Ben Woodhead

It's surprising how many small and mid-sized businesses still shy away from software-as-a service, or cloud computing as Google and Amazon.com prefer to call it.

Where did it all go wrong

26 May 2008 | MIS.Online | Chris Jenkins

According to the man at the helm of Centrelink's $400 million-a-year IT operation, John Wadeson, dwelling a little on failure mightn't be such a bad thing.

Yes, Minister

22 May 2008 | MIS.Online | Renai LeMay

Sitting in CeBIT's e-government conference, I got a reminder of some of the political realities for technology in Australia's public sector.

Dilbert meets Brett Easton Ellis

21 May 2008 | MIS.Online | Julian Bajkowksi

There's something just a little disturbing about 30-something entrepreneurs who've made their fortune by spinning a great idea into a neat little tech company that is then bought by a great big tech company for a small fortune, and Jason Calacanis is no exception.