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• Gershon slams govt technocrats

  British efficiency expert Sir Peter Gershon has castigated the federal public sector for poor governance mechanisms on technology projects and a spending model which gave individual departments and agencies too much autonomy.

• AU$49 billion man recruited by Tanner's Razor Gang

  Sir Peter Gershon, the procurement expert responsible for slashing 23 billion (AU$49 billion) from the UK government's budget through ICT efficiency reviews has been recruited by Finance Minister Lindsay Tanner for the Federal government's budget Razor Gang.

• Managing IT spend biggest priority for managers

  According to a new IDC report, IT budgets have increased across the Asia-Pacific region, but the management of these budgets has become the top priority for CIOs and IT managers.

• Aust and Kiwi CIOs bank on higher budgets

  Australian and New Zealand chief information officers (CIOs) expect IT budgets to increase by 3.6 percent in 2005, higher than last year's 1.2 percent and well above the 2005 global average of 2.5 percent, according to Gartner.

• Think-tanks: Stretching the tech budget

  Tighter budgets are prompting tech leaders to re-evaluate, reprioritize, and replan how technology monies will be spent this year. It’s a familiar scenario that often involves deciding which projects get cut, which get postponed, and which need to be eliminated.

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• Rudd awakening: Govt's plans for ICT

  Ahead of the election, with promises for nationwide broadband networks and digital revolutions in schools, the ICT industry could hope the government was on their side. But now the glamour of a sparkling new government has worn off, how ICT-friendly is the Rudd government really?

• Think-tanks: Stretching the tech budget

  Tighter budgets are prompting tech leaders to re-evaluate, reprioritize, and replan how technology monies will be spent this year. It’s a familiar scenario that often involves deciding which projects get cut, which get postponed, and which need to be eliminated.

• 10 ways the credit crunch will hit IT

  As job losses mount and with HP announcing it will lay off tens of thousands of workers following its purchase of EDS, we look at what the crunch means for the IT industry.

• San Francisco International Airport: John Payne, CIO

  The CIO of San Francisco International Airport talks to ZDNet about protecting the airport's network and providing new services such as passenger WiFi.

• Can the government solve its IT woes?

  Whatever happens in the election, government departments at both state and federal levels are facing major changes to how they build and manage their IT infrastructure. Is the answer shared services, an increased focus on SOA, enhanced Web delivery -- or just telling everyone in your department to get a clue?

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• Nine lives for Mac OS 9

  Apple Computer has pulled back from a plan that would have made Mac OS X the primary operating system on all new Macs starting in January.

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