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    MIT Dean Richard Schmalensee puts Microsoft's antitrust controversy into historical context and explains why he believes e-business will disappear in ten years.

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    A growing number of academics, analysts and executives are placing blame, cracking history books, rethinking careers, and otherwise attempting to determine how the Internet Economy went from boom to bust so quickly.

  • EFF's Barlow: Trouble ahead, trouble behind

    Totalitarianism. Urban pathology. The death of creativity. These are the fears that keep John Perry Barlow, co-founder of Electronic Frontier Foundation, awake at night.

  • Tech workers: union challenge

    After years of seemingly futile organising efforts, labour leaders are hoping that the dot-com crash and some unique new training partnerships with high-tech giants will make this the year they can turn the tide and bring the union label into the New Economy.

  • At Microsoft, the yin and yang of Linux

    What's Microsoft up to in its Linux research centre? Chief penguin dissector Bill Hilf offers a peek.

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  • Working in IT: 10 dirty little secrets

    If you are preparing for a career in IT or are new to IT, many of the "dirty little secrets" may surprise you because we don't usually talk about them out loud.

  • Top tech jobs for 2006

    After years in the wilderness, the Australian IT industry is again booming as major industries invest heavily in their IT infrastructure. Find out which skills are most in demand and how much remuneration to expect.

  • Defining CTO and CIO job roles

    When the CTO role first arrived in the dot-com years, its lack of definition made it difficult to develop a successful CIO-CTO relationship. Where does each role start and end?

  • Dumb technology ideas

    Technology companies don't always think things through before they start coming up with concepts. Neither do I.

  • Bill Gates goes to college

    Microsoft's chairman says that despite today's outsourcing trend, the United States needs to refocus on leading in computer science -- starting at its universities.

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