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  • Government CIO 2.0: Networking gurus not techies

    The new wave of government CIOs is business and relationship focussed, with IT knowledge being pushed into the background, according to analyst firm Gartner.

  • Customs CIO: Vista gives our staff PCs that work

    Australian Customs' chief information officer, Murray Harrison, says the department has almost completed rolling out Vista to its 6,000 PCs, and has improved security for its laptop fleet using Microsoft's encryption tool, Bitlocker.

  • Government, vendors giving each other a raw deal

    Vendors are facing an uphill battle when competing for government tenders as bureaucratic and political obstacles continue to make the process more cumbersome than necessary, analysts believe.

  • Want to be a successful CIO? Here's how

    Gartner today outlined the attributes of the "new breed" of chief information officers (CIO) for IT enterprises.

  • Gartner's top 10 technologies in 2004

    Open source and proprietary software backers are going head-to-head for all the wrong reasons, and their resources and efforts could be better spent concentrating on beefing up applications, says Gartner.

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  • Of sales quotas and CIOs

    At the rate the role of CIOs are changing, non-traditional responsibilities such as sales and marketing could soon come under their purview.

  • Gartner's top 10 technologies in 2004

    Open source and proprietary software backers are going head-to-head for all the wrong reasons, and their resources and efforts could be better spent concentrating on beefing up applications, says Gartner.

  • Microsoft's 'big bang' could be its last

    When Microsoft releases its SQL Server 2005 database on Nov. 7, it will have been five years since the last version debuted. If Windows Vista arrives as scheduled next fall, it too will follow its predecessor by five years.

  • Next big step for the Web?

    Is the "Semantic Web" the new Internet, or a complex technology in search of a problem to solve? Tim Berners-Lee and company make a pitch for new ways to get the most out of the Internet.

  • Ex-cybersecurity czar issues gloomy report card

    This year alone, cyberattacks have shut down an ATM network, slowed the railroads, cancelled airline flights, and forced a nuclear power plant offline. If current trends continue, the cybersecurity situation will worsen exponentially.

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