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News

  • SAP boosts portfolio with new acquisitions

    SAP announced on Monday the acquisition of an enterprise communications software developer and the planned buyout of an identity management applications maker.

  • ISO dishes up biometrics standard for banks

    The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has released a standard for the use of biometric authentication at financial institutions but banks are unlikely to invest in the technology.

  • Borland opens R&D lab in Singapore

    Borland Software today announced the opening of a global "centre of excellence" to showcase and support the development of its application lifecycle management (ALM) tools.

  • NSW fills CIO vacancy to fix e-gov worries

    The NSW Minister for Commerce, Eric Roozendaal, has the state government's new chief information officer, after a five-month interruption to its "People First" IT overhaul.

  • Developers to get standardised security test

    A standardised test on knowledge of security programming may soon be on the way for software developers.

  • HP aims to better manage business services

    Hewlett-Packard stepped up its commitment to the emerging area of service-oriented architecture Monday, announcing consulting and software that draw heavily on its acquisition of Mercury Interactive.

  • Code scanner roots out backdoors

    Security start-up Veracode updated its SecurityReview tool this week to allow companies to scan for backdoors and malicious code introduced during the development process, a class of security holes often missed by existing scanners.

  • Red Hat tries new desktop Linux angle

    Red Hat announced a new version of its Linux software on Wednesday geared for desktop and laptop computer customers in developing nations.

  • HP to acquire identity management firm

    Hewlett-Packard plans to acquire Trustgenix, a company that allows users to authenticate their identity to access accounts on multiple sites.

  • Microsoft's government head to jump ship

    The executive who leads Microsoft's government sales efforts is leaving to become CEO of a telecommunications company, the software maker said Tuesday.

Features and Case Studies

  • Offshoring: How far, how deep?

    The question on the lips of most CIOs is no longer whether to send work offshore. It's a question of how much to send.

  • Commonwealth Bank: Michael Harte, CIO

    ZDNet Australia meets with Michael Harte, CIO of the Commonwealth Bank to find out his views on security and sourcing (both out- and open-).

  • Network horror stories expose need for understanding

    As a number of horror stories reveal, corporate networks aren't the safe and tightly controlled entities they should be. Here we expose just how wrong it can go and ask leading industry figures to light the way towards effective network management.

  • 10 mobile trends: Should you care?

    silicon.com's Jo Best looks at 10 oft-debated areas in mobile and wireless and asks a simple question: how much should you care over the next 12 months?

  • CommVault boosts ANZ wins

    Data management provider CommVault Systems bagged a whopping 48 new customers in Australia and New Zealand between April and June, the company said in a statement.

  • City of London tests disaster recovery plans

    Banking firms in the City of London have conducted a trial of their back-up communications systems as part of an exercise to test the ability of the financial sector to cope following a major disaster such as a terrorist attack.

  • Who's taking the ITIL bait?

    In an industry known for its hype, it’s understandably difficult for many managers to make sense of new trends. But in the case of IT Infrastructure Library, a growing body of success stories confirms this is one trend that you should definitely be on top of.

  • Protecting our borders: IT stands guard

    Can a national ID card protect Australians against terrorist attacks? And can citizens' details be protected by Public Key Infrastructure? We look at the types of hardware and software employed to combat terrorism, and how ports and other critical infrastructure are protected.

  • Chizen: Friends, foes and China

    The big, booming nation is much on the mind of Adobe's CEO. Then there are the little matters of Apple and Microsoft.

  • 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.

Reviews

  • 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.

  • Archiving: what's in store?

    Tape, disk, or optical? We set a budget of AU$20,000 and asked three vendors to come up with a storage solution.

  • Supercomputers getting super-duper

    It's getting hard to keep a place on the list of the world's fastest supercomputers.

  • Voice over IP + wireless LAN = ?

    It seemed to be an obvious recipe: take two popular emerging technologies and stir vigorously. But the end result isn't to everyone's taste.

  • Instant messaging for business: 3 packages tested

    The ease and convenience of instant messaging has made it popular with users. But is instant messaging a curse or a boon for the office environment?

  • E-biz: Going mobile

    Online businesses are scrambling to get their Web sites on every pager, PDA and mobile phone. But they're learning that today's mobile technologies go only so far.

Blogs

  • ADSL2+: A wholesale disaster for Telstra shareholders?

    A guy I know runs a tiling business, which as far as I can see involves his drinking lots of coffee, making lots of phone calls, and making sure that around a dozen different tilers do the actual hard work. As long as they're busy, he's making money. If he finds enough new business to keep them all going for two weeks, he can take off for Hawaii -- and still be making money.

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