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Business knowledge, management skills and being able to communicate better with business managers are among the benefits of further study cited by certain IT professionals. However, not everyone believes going back to school is the answer.
Companies are beginning to see open source software as a viable alternative for the enterprise, according to a leading analyst.
It's the worst nightmare of any company involved in the tech and telecommunications industries.
Telstra has confessed to rigging a ZDNet Australia survey which questions whether its Internet service provides value for money, just days after its ramped up Net access toll fell under the investigation of the competition watchdog for possible breaches of the Trade Practices Act.
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With the iPhone freshly launched in Europe, only now are we starting to get an idea of the true extent of Apple's power over the mobile operators.
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More than 50 percent of IT managers surveyed in a recent poll were considering other vendors and options as a result of Microsoft's changes to its licensing model.
Business knowledge, management skills and being able to communicate better with business managers are among the benefits of further study cited by certain IT professionals. However, not everyone believes going back to school is the answer.
Companies are beginning to see open source software as a viable alternative for the enterprise, according to a leading analyst.
Users yelling and complaining about a tech problem is a bugbear for most IT professionals. But with internal customer service more important, how do staff really see the IT department?
Australian companies benefit from having CIOs and IT managers with a technical bent, with industry peers arguing that experience is key.
RMIT IT Test Labs take a look at the top enterprise applications for stopping viruses from ravaging your organisation.
WhatsUp Gold v12 will satisfy existing and new users alike. And it's not just for large enterprises: small and medium-sized businesses can also monitor all their web servers, email servers, SQL servers, file servers and even critical desktops without breaking the bank.
Honey, I shrunk the iPod! The new nano has all the features of its big brother, the Classic, but in a smaller package with fewer gigabytes.
The name suggests more of the same but with more space and better value. Hard disk lag issues, video out controversy and just okay sound stop it from being a true classic though.
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.
Microsoft slams Google on privacy
Google's approach to privacy is a decade behind Microsoft, the Redmond software giant's chief privacy strategi… Watch it now
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