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IT wages continue to rise by an average of three to six percent a year, according to the 2007 Hays Information Technology Salary survey -- with IT workers in Queensland and Western Australia starting to command wages as high as their counterparts in Sydney and Melbourne.
The government says that on a national level, the ICT sector is not suffering from a skills shortage. But the scene on the ground -- at state and territory level -- tells a different story.
A massive increase in the number of software coders in China and India is expected, while outsourcing and offshoring mean you must refine your skills.
Everything from cleaning to IT development work is outsourced by governments these days, but should security clearance processes, which dictate what access a person has to government information systems, be included in that bundle?
There's only one thing better than a convenient scorecard for measuring your performance as a storage manager: a convenient scorecard for measuring your performance as a storage manager that also lets you think about Billie Piper or John Barrowman a lot.
My interview with the government's ICT skills and professional development taskforce last week shed new light on what exactly is missing in the industry's skills shortage.
In terms of applications, the mobile world still feels like a bit of a poor cousin where the Web giants are involved. How long til it shrugs off its rags like Cinderella and bursts into the daylight in all the finery it deserves?
Computers have changed the way we learn. The getting of wisdom is no longer a linear process, but a journey where information is forever transforming and where learning is a "trip" from one Web site to another.
In October, Yahoo ran an Open Hack Day event in Bangalore, hosted by one of the company's co-founders, David Filo. Two hundred local developers were invited to a 24-hour code-a-thon to combine their own ideas with mashed-up services from Yahoo's own library of APIs.
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The government says that on a national level, the ICT sector is not suffering from a skills shortage. But the scene on the ground -- at state and territory level -- tells a different story.
Dr Jim Goodnight, CEO of SAS -- the world's largest privately owned software company -- to discuss his company's strong commitment to R&D, his thoughts about the best way to fill the skills gap and his feelings on Bill Gates and Microsoft.
If you need to make sleeker-looking documents and presentations, Microsoft Office Standard 2007 is a worthy upgrade. But stick to your current software if you don't feel that it lacks anything.
The market for collaborative applications has grown significantly with the introduction of Web-based solutions for gathering and sharing information within organisations. In this review, we look at two of the most popular commercial collaborative platforms.
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Microsoft's suite of online tools is designed to help small businesses build and maintain a Web presence and manage projects, contacts, and tasks.
The new Crystal Vision product line combines technology from Crystal Reports, Crystal Xcelsius and Business Objects' Live Office -- aimed at the mid-market segment in Australia.
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