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    2007 was an eventful year for Microsoft, with the company playing what it considered to be its trump card (only to discover Vista wasn't trumps, XP was). But the lovable giant had its fingers in many other pies -- making for a year of management changes, entry into unclaimed markets and new alliances.

  • The year ahead: Skills trends for 2003

    Net development has joined the list of core technical skills demanded by employers for 2003. Meanwhile many companies now require developers with client-facing skills.

  • Saving your life in bits and bytes

    "Consider a future device for individual use, which is a sort of mechanised private file and library," wrote information technology visionary Vannevar Bush in the July 1945 issue of the Atlantic Monthly.

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    Australian Taxation Office (ATO) chief information officer Bill Gibson has moved to keep a closer eye on the organisation's security governancefollowing a number of criticisms in an audit report.

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    Queensland interim state government CIO Peter Grant and CTO Bob Gurnett tell ZDNet Australia they're making progress on statewide ICT reforms announced last year.

  • How corporate Australia battles information overload

    We look at five organisations that took different approaches to satisfying a common business requirement: to improve the management of corporate information. We hear from Jetstar, Family Court, SHFA, Count Wealth and MBF.

  • 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?

  • Keeping the team together

    Personal conflicts, external pressures--it all adds up to a tough environment in which to build team morale. How do CIOs and IT managers pull a group together when everything's falling apart around them?

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  • Making sure a firewall does its job

    Getting a firewall to do what it promises--protect the network--doesn't begin with an equipment purchase and end with the plug-in. It starts with security assessment and continues with constant vigilance.

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