Being an IT manager isn't a very attractive proposition at the moment. With lots of pressure and little room for failure, it is hard to find an upside.
HR expert Peter Woolford explains why you should support your team member's quest to move into another department, as well why you need to cut dead weight even if new replacements aren't on the agenda.
Only a decade removed from the days when EDI was considered cutting edge, the subsequent digital transformation of the corporate world still remains a work in progress for Raphael Amit.
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Say what you will about Senator Stephen Conroy, but he is clearly not a man afraid of confrontation. Well, he'd better not be, because by killing off the OPEL WiMax project he has just set himself up for a battle with Telstra of Biblical proportions or a big meal of crow washed down with a $4.7 billion gift to SingTel Optus.
I spent enough time at CeBIT last week to know the telecommunications industry was well represented ... but not always without controversy.
HR expert Peter Woolford explains why you should support your team member's quest to move into another department, as well why you need to cut dead weight even if new replacements aren't on the agenda.
Some suggest thebest way to encourage communication between help desk pros and network admins is to make them share office space. But what about sharing managers?
Only a decade removed from the days when EDI was considered cutting edge, the subsequent digital transformation of the corporate world still remains a work in progress for Raphael Amit.
Early this decade, Microsoft weathered unrelenting criticism over a controversial set of technologies known as Palladium, which the company envisioned as creating a kind of secure vault to store passwords or medical records.
Facing a major upgrade of its core SAP environment, Victorian electricity distributor Powercor last year found itself facing a mountain of issues -- and riding a steep learning curve to testing management.
QNAP's TS-209 Pro offers a compelling mix of server functionality and straight-up NAS backup options.
Palm pioneered the smart phone, but if rumours prove true, the Treo maker may not survive as an independent company to watch its creation move from the corner office to the street corner.
Vodafone's enhanced notebook PC Card delivers what the mobile telco calls 'business class 3G broadband' -- but until more of the 3G network is upgraded with HSDPA, most users will remain stuck in economy seats.
Acer's T620 runs Microsoft's Media Center OS, which has a radical new interface for multimedia users who want to manage their digital pictures, music files, TV, and video via remote control.
This tough microdrive player has a lot of selling points but holds only 1.5GB.
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In this exclusive video interview, Optus chief information officer Lawrie Turner speaks to ZDNet.com.au about being the IT head for Australia's number two telco.
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