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• Top 10 worst IT disasters of all time

  From faulty satellites nearly causing World War III to the Millennium Bug, poorly executed IT has had a lot to answer for over the years

• Making virtualisation a reality

  SWsoft president and chief executive Serguei Beloussov discusses what the future holds for his company, its Parallels product, and the virtualisation market as a whole.

• Vodafone: Paul Wybrow, CIO

  In this CIO Vision Series interview, Wybrow explains how he fosters a culture of innovation against a backdrop of IT consolidation and outsourcing across Vodafone's mobile communications empire and 4,000-strong global IT workforce.

• Y2K legacy creates PC-disposal headache

  Fears of the Millennium Bug drove a generation of companies to upgrade their PCs, but four years on, those systems need to be replaced and such a mammoth task has serious environmental implications.

• $100 Laptop: Great for the world, great for Linux

  Mike Evans from Red Hat discusses his company's involvement in the One Laptop per Child project, which aims to develop and distribute a $100 PC to millions around the world.

• How government Web sites stack up

  Government Web sites around the world are not reaching the public as effectively as they might.

• The importance of IP in Australia

  With an increase in patent activity across the globe, we ask if businesses need to be concerned with their intellectual property.

• Intel's medical ambitions

  In the future, your hospital room will be online, and so will your gastric system.

• Spreading your storage eggs

  If Australia ever experiences the kind of widespread power-outage seen in Italy recently, mirrored SANs could provide one way to keep data safe.

• IMac emulators will always fail - design guru

  PC manufacturers have failed to learn the lessons dealt out by Apple--a failure that could lead them to obscurity--according to a UK finalist in the International Forum Design awards, Alloy Total Design.

• The importance of being 64-bit

  IT vendors such as Microsoft and Intel have grand plans for 64-bit computing and the improved processing potential it promises but convincing customers may not be so straightforward.

• Microsoft: SMEs' favourite software vendor?

  Who do small businesses consult before purchasing IT solutions? Vendors, consultants or the press? We take a peek inside their decision-making process.

• It's time to put ethics into IT

  A report published this week finds sweatshop working conditions at the contractors who make the components for Dell, HP, IBM and other brand manufacturers. It should be taken as a wake-up call for the industry.

• Is Sun quietly subverting Linux?

  Industry watchers claim Sun Microsystems is playing a dangerous game with its decision to position Solaris as open source -- a move which will see it go head to head with Linux.

• Lessons from Microsoft

  Microsoft's venture into online news and digital music proves how volatile and inconsistent the IT industry is. What if the software giant decides to make PCs and servers next? How will this affect IT spending?

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