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The U.S. and Japan have the top national environments for their IT industries to grow and flourish, including intellectual-property protections and IT infrastructure, according to a study released by the Business Software Alliance (BSA) Wednesday.

Business Service Management (BSM), according to BMC Software Australia and New Zealand managing director Mike Davies, can be a lifeline for businesses taking the ITIL detox.

Without adequate broadband infrastructure, Australia will continue to lag behind the rest of the world when it comes to creating business online.

Changing business environments and requirements are the major factors for failure in IT initiatives, according to a survey conducted by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) and sponsored by Mercury Interactive, a business technology optimization (BTO) software provider.

As viruses and malicious software bloom, senior executives across a range of industries see security as their top concern in implementing converged Internet Protocol) (IP) networks, according to a joint study released by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) and AT&T.

Global offshoring of IT services, manufacturing and other business functions will continue to grow over the next three years, with countries in Eastern Europe taking on India and China as leading destinations, according to a recent report.

AT&T on Wednesday announced a number of VOIP (voice over Internet Protocol) initiatives, such as a program to develop common standards for the technology and an expansion of its international VOIP remote worker pilot project. But as the company tries to draw more corporate users to VOIP, its own research, also published Wednesday, showed that concerns about quality of service continue to dog the market.

More than 80 percent of large organizations are implementing, or planning to implement some form of converged network.

Most of the world's top executives now consider security the single most important issue for their corporate networks. While at the same nearly four in five admit they open email attachments from strangers.

In order to become the world's best electronic-business player, a country needs to have a various mix of factors -- not only economic wealth, but a good business infrastructure and, especially, cooperative government policies. The need to have such factors in place was underscored in new "E-readiness" rankings from the Economist Intelligence Unit Ltd. (EIU) and its communications unit, Pyramid Research Inc.

Australia ranks second behind the US in e-commerce readiness worldwide, according to a report commissioned by the Department of Communications, IT and the Arts.