Sunday | 20 July, 2008
Stories by: Julian Bajkowski
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NAB standardizes 33,000 desktops on XP 09/11/2005 08:00:15
After some five years of successfully resisting unnecessary upgrades from Microsoft, the National Australia Bank has revealed it will finally retire Windows NT for a Windows XP standard operating environment - more than 10 years after the product was first launched. - +
Best of breed roars at Lion-Nathan 09/11/2005 08:09:53
Best of breed software specialists are winning out over mega-vendor application suites in the vital national industry of beer brewing, with beverage giant Lion Nathan toasting smaller brands as proving better value for its manufacturing operations. - +
Tiny electric robot planes skylark in Iraq 03/11/2005 15:14:18
The Australian Defence Force is to send four, tiny robot planes to Iraq to provide protection and support to troops serving on the ground with the Al Muthanna Task Group (AMTG). - +
Keep marketing away from IT strategy or lose customers 31/10/2005 08:16:58
Marketers fixated with short-term hype must not be trusted with product or enterprise technology strategies if companies want to maintain customers, according to former Telstra group managing director for technology, innovation and products, Ted Pretty. - +
Commonwealth Bank staff sit mandatory CRM exams 28/10/2005 09:29:46
It may be called CommSee but for nearly 5000 staff the Commonwealth Bank's latest attempt at customer relationship management (CRM) is a must-see, with thousands of bank staff required to sit mandatory exams on the new technology. - +
Lonely Trujillo looks for tech solace to ease network pain 26/10/2005 08:23:08
Having survived the wrath of hundreds of bitter and poorer shareholders at his first annual general meeting, Telstra CEO Sol Trujillo has been publicly revealed as feeling just a little like the only geek in the boardroom. - +
Customs CEO says system will not be switched off 21/10/2005 15:49:00
Having survived a two-hour verbal beating from angry industry representatives during crisis talks last night, the Australian Customs Service will keep its besieged Integrated Cargo System (ICS) running rather than revert to its old system. - +
Enterprise import data exposed by Customs system 20/10/2005 15:32:26
The Australian Customs Service has admitted some users have been able to access and view each other's import documentation under the latest phase of its beleaguered new Integrated Cargo System, despite security assessment under Defence Signals Directorate's I-RAP (Infosec-Registered Assessor Program). - +
NAB group CIO resigns 18/10/2005 17:04:19
The continuing overhaul of strategy, business process and technology at the National Australia Bank (NAB) has seen another veteran IT strategist take the option of comfortable retirement, with 34-year veteran and group chief information officer Ian MacDonald announcing he will retire in 2006. - +
Former watchdog warns IT costs for compliance to rise 18/10/2005 13:57:54
Technologists forced into cash-guzzling IT projects by corporate compliance requirements should brace for more budgetary pain, with Australia's former chief corporate cop warning legal requirements will only continue to escalate. - +
Give government ICT image a makeover: federal CIO 30/09/2005 08:52:32
When it comes to an intellectually satisfying and financially rewarding career in ICT, the federal government has an image problem and could do with a marketing makeover, according to Australian government CIO Ann Steward.
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Computerworld Live Podcast #96: Security at the Edge 11/06/2008 09:22:22
CW Live speaks with Amol Mitra, HP ProCurve Director of Marketing for Asia Pacific and Japan. Today's topic: how enterprises are starting to shift away from simply controlling security via server logins, firewalls and moving to more adaptive security frameworks. - +
Data Management Edition #10: Multi-Petascale Systems 02/05/2008 09:12:33
This week we look at sustainability and the development of multicore technologies to build multi-petascale systems. - +
IT Security Edition #11: How to poison the Storm botnet 01/05/2008 08:51:55
This week CW Live presents a case study on how to poison the notorious Storm botnet . Plus we take a look at Cisco's plans for Ironport. - +
IT Security Edition #10: Cyber-battles fought and won 24/04/2008 11:09:47
Vendors bow to end user pressure to improve product security, and we take a look at the latest concepts shaping the cyber-battlefield of the future. - +
Data Management Edition #9: Data centre makeover 24/04/2008 07:43:06
This week CW Live looks at the death of the old style data centre which is undergoing its first makeover in more than 30 years.
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