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• IT pros rein in salary expectations

  Australia's IT professionals are curbing their salary expectations, opting instead to look at ongoing career opportunities when on the job hunt.

• What makes a successful IT manager?

  To succeed as an IT manager, and to advance your career, you need some very specific traits--11 to be exact. Here are the skills you need to be at the top of your game.

• Where else but Queensland?

  Australia's IT industry needs to follow the example laid down in Queensland this week and band together to lobby for more government support instead of individual firms fruitlessly pushing their own campaigns.

• Giant Aussie 2009 predictions round-up

  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.

• Should ISPs be accountable for Internet security?

  The debate over the relationship between ISPs, customers, and Internet security is definitely a complicated one, but who should bear the responsibility for protecting users online?

• 10 security problems unique to IT

  Organisations face a host of security concerns driven by the power of technology and the vulnerabilities inherent in its use. IT pros have to be vigilant about all these issues, from system penetration threats to hardware portability to employee turnover.

• Being mentored: aid or interference?

  It's hard to work in a vacuum, even if you're a CIO with years of experience. But is having a mentor the answer to your dilemma?

• Integrated VPNs secure remote workstations

  Securing remote workstations once meant implementing a VPN. Increasing network threats require more protection, such as integrated VPNs that offer strong internal security controls.

• AJAX gives software a fresh look

  An emerging Web development technique promises to shake up the status quo in PC software and blur the line between desktop and Web applications.

• Australian companies rate IT skills low on list

  Australia's bosses are displeased with their employees' overall skill levels, but rate the importance of improving skills in information technology very low on their list of priorities, new research claims.

• The ICT labour market: Where agendas collide

  Companies want cheap labour, universities depend on international student dollars, industry needs key skills, and local graduates just want a job. Mark Wheeler investigates the drama playing out over the ICT labour market.

• Promoting IT services internally

  Knowing that promoting IT to the company was his number-one priority, one CIO found a communication model in an unlikely source.

• The security paradox

  Distributed systems and the Web have helped create a security paradox: providing workers enough access to do their jobs, while maintaining enough control over the network to keep it secure.

• 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.

• Creative options for overtime compensation

  There's little debate about the negative impacts of overtime, as well as the related management and morale issues. But there are also some quick, easy, and commonsense solutions.

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