Educating staff about IT security risks and measures they should take to avoid compromising system integrity is a critical enterprise activity, according to a senior federal government security official.
The scope of a closely watched survey of computer crime and security in Australia has been expanded with critical infrastructure providers in particular urged by the Attorney-General's Department to participate.
Interest in Voice over Internet Protocol technology has reached fever pitch amongst Australian businesses, an Optus survey claims, but competing research by Pacific Internet suggests otherwise.
Customer service at the Commonwealth Bank (CBA) is still not making the grade despite an AU$1.5 billion, three-year transformation project nearing the end of its life, according to new CBA chief Ralph Norris.
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While UK businesses worry that Linux lacks the technical support options to make it an enterprise player, Australian businesses believe the open source operating system already enjoys the robust support they need to put it to work.
Forty-one percent of Australasian CIOs will increase their IT spending in 2004 with new infrastructure their top priority. But dampening the good spending news is CIOs' resolve to fight vendors for every cent spent, according to a new survey by Forrester Research.
PeopleSoft's chief technology officer, Rick Bergquist, tells Simon Sharwood why the company has taken the Linux plunge, where the future lies for enterprise software and why some installations are failing.
Multicore processors have been around since 2005, when Intel shipped its first dual-core processor and the advantages of many cores have been widely touted, but a working model for costing software to work with them is still on its way.
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A leading analyst house is urging mobile operators to abandon their plans for third-generation (3G) networks.
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Sun Microsystems is building a Java-based development kit for its StarOffice software to help corporate programmers customise desktop applications, a move that better pits it against Microsoft's dominant Office.
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