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    The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) released draft guidelines for IT security last Friday, which laid out practices to improve areas of "potential weakness" in the financial services industry.

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    In the Australian market, banks are the archetypal large IT customer: they've got lots of technology of differing vintages, have to spend a fortune on services to stitch it all together, and are also obliged to meet a super-strict regulatory regime which would make most lesser enterprises quake in their virtualised boots.

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    Get an insider's look at Commonwealth Bank of Australia's technology operation with chief information officer Michael Harte in the first of our Changing of the guards series examining generational change in the nation's big four banks.

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    What will 2009 hold for Australia's ICT industry? We asked dozens of local leaders for their predictions; and this is what they came up with.

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    What do Australian CIOs think of Green IT? Read the summary notes from the latest CIO Network peer-to-peer working group on the issue.

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    Suncorp CIO Jeff Smith talks about the the challenge of integrating a number of cultures and brands, usage of the agile management system, and his approach to the task at hand, despite uncertainty over whether the banking side of Suncorp will be sold.

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  • Torvalds wraps up current Linux core

    Linus Torvalds has published the last release of the current Linux development kernel, clearing the way for work on the next version of the operating system core.

  • Talking computers nearing reality

    Machines that listen and talk like humans are becoming a reality, researchers and tech executives say.

  • IM compatibility closer to reality

    The Internet's governing technical body gives a stamp of approval to a group intent on creating an open standard for instant messaging.

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