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  • 3G networks get reality check

    Several years back, when wireless carriers broke ground on third-generation cell phone networks, some businesses bragged of systems fast enough to blow by the 56kbps experience of Web providers like America Online.

  • It's reality check time for Lindows

    Lindows.com, the operating system maker, is being forced to re-evaluate its strategy to lure the average consumer away from Windows. The company has increasingly moved away from its original claim to fame--running popular Windows applications on a non-Microsoft platform.

  • Linux use doubles in financial organisations

    Support for Linux in the traditionally conservative world of financial services has more than doubled in the last year according to the latest market intelligence.

  • Tech leaders benefit Aust businesses

    Australian companies benefit from having CIOs and IT managers with a technical bent, with industry peers arguing that experience is key.

  • Corporate IM not an instant success

    Converting free consumer products into paid services tailored to a business clientele can be harder than it looks.

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  • Read the blog post - Paul Montgomery, ZDNet Australia

    The Bangla village way of Web 2.0

    The Web 2.0 meme is percolating through all manner of media and has now reached as far as Bangladesh.

  • Read the blog post - Paul Montgomery, ZDNet Australia

    Is enterprise Web 2.0 a KM issue?

    In my last post I covered the knowledge management press's first impression of the Web 2.0 phenomenon. But should we be looking at enterprise Web 2.0 as a KM issue?

  • Read the blog post - Paul Montgomery, ZDNet Australia

    Corporate Portishead mashups wouldn't be dumb

    You hear a lot about mashups in Web 2.0 -- where one data source is combined with another to produce a new application where the whole is greater than the sum of its parts -- but the musical version of the term is far more apposite to corporate uses of 2.0 techniques than anything which relies on Google Maps APIs.

  • Read the blog post - Paul Montgomery, ZDNet Australia

    Start-to-meta: the meta metric

    Seeing this week's Crate Tetris public art piece on the Wooster Collective Web site, installed next to a Melbourne highway as a sequel to Crate Man in Richmond, put me in mind of an old article written for infamous computer game site Old Man Murray.

  • Read the blog post - Paul Montgomery, ZDNet Australia

    Catenaccio football 1.0 wins 1-0

    It's hard to think about anything else today other than Australia's ludicrous 1-0 defeat this morning by Luis Medina Cantalejo, oops I mean Italy.

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  • A Gates reality check

    Microsoft's chairman talks about taking on the big guns in the business software market. "We are patient people," he says.

  • It's reality check time for Lindows

    Lindows.com, the operating system maker, is being forced to re-evaluate its strategy to lure the average consumer away from Windows. The company has increasingly moved away from its original claim to fame--running popular Windows applications on a non-Microsoft platform.

  • Tech leaders benefit Aust businesses

    Australian companies benefit from having CIOs and IT managers with a technical bent, with industry peers arguing that experience is key.

  • Analysis: Enterprise IM a tough sell

    Converting free consumer products into paid services tailored to a business clientele can be harder than it looks.

  • Stingy boss? Ask for a pay rise

    If you want more money, by all means ask for it. But don't run down the hall to talk to your boss about a raise just yet. Here's how to step back and get some perspective.

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  • Mobile mockery

    The choices are endless -- but do we really need everything our mobile phone sells us?

  • Intrusion detection: caught in its own web?

    Intrusion detection appears to have hit the bottom of its hype cycle with a particularly loud thud. Is there value beyond the hot air, and how can you make it work productively?

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