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Little hope for Commander's creditors
19 Aug 2008 | MIS.Online | Julian BajkowskiMost of the creditors that attended today's Commander creditors' meeting, chaired by Ferrier Hodgson administrator Max Donnelly, held out little hope that they could recover unsecured debts.
The non-English web
11 Aug 2008 | MIS.Online | Chris JenkinsThe Olympics are always a timely reminder, if ever we needed one, that not everyone speaks English.
Whose turf?
04 Aug 2008 | MIS.Online | Michael CrawfordFor the security executive, telling employees to follow policies can be unrewarding as shaking a fist in the air and screaming at kids on the nature strip to "get off my front lawn"?
Allison? GoFigure
31 Jul 2008 | MIS.Online | Paul SmithWhen I asked for his name -his name, mind - he told me it was Allison. I suppose I have to take him at his word on that point.
Pop the clutch in
31 Jul 2008 | MIS.Online | Chris JenkinsWhen I was learning to drive, my Dad wisely told me that stalling the car wasn't that big an issue. Far more important was how long it took you to recover and get going again.
A trillion reasons for IPv6
28 Jul 2008 | MIS.Online | Julian BajkowskiSearch and advertising giant Google has estimated that the number of page addresses, known as URLs (uniform reference locators) has now hit one trillion, a new milestone for the internet.
Jobs for the bots
25 Jul 2008 | MIS.Online | Michael CrawfordIf security pundits are to be believed, then the world is being taken over by botnets.
The undressed Olympics
22 Jul 2008 | MIS.Online | Chris JenkinsGoing to Bejing to check out the games on the company or taxpayer coin? Good for you. Just know that your hosts have already made plans to get you undressed. Electronically.
Is the brick back?
21 Jul 2008 | MIS.Online | Michael CrawfordIs the return to the bulky brick phones proof that fashion is cyclical?
iPhone surfing starts to make sense
15 Jul 2008 | MIS.Online | Ben WoodheadThe endless paeans to the iPhone that Apple fan bois and grls have spewed forth over the past year went a pretty long way to turning me off the damn thing. But I have to admit, I'm coming around a bit.
The old one-card trick
14 Jul 2008 | MIS.Online | Chris JenkinsWhen politicians in NSW and Victoria ask just how good smartcard public transport ticketing systems are, the conversation frequently turns to Oysters and Octopus.
That other mobile platform
10 Jul 2008 | MIS.Online | Chris JenkinsSure there's been a lot of iPhone hype, but have you heard much about Windows mobile lately?
Carbon's silver lining
09 Jul 2008 | MIS.Online | Ben WoodheadCorporate Australia is expected to paint a grim picture of the next 12 months when 2008 financial results are handed down, but there are still some big opportunities out there for technology companies despite the looming threat of budget cuts.
Why are people so unkind?
01 Jul 2008 | MIS.Online | Ben WoodheadIt 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 JenkinsThat 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 SmithWith 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 CrawfordFast 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 BajkowskiWhen 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 LeMayThe 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 CrawfordLast 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 SmithIs 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 BajkowskiGovernment 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 LeMayThere 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 JenkinsIt's no secret that happy staff tend to make more money for a company than grumpy ones.
Back from black
30 May 2008 | MIS.OnlineIs 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 LeMayI 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 WoodheadIt'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 JenkinsAccording 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 LeMaySitting 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 BajkowksiThere'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.
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