• Australian startup scene expanding but needs investment: General Assembly

  Australia’s startup community is growing but education, continued government support and increased capital investment are critical to supporting the community, according to General Assembly director, Riley Batchelor.

• In Pictures: Beastly robotic animals

  What a zoo! These mechanical creatures run, crawl, swim and fly not much unlike the real things

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  RIM offers cash incentive to port games to BlackBerry 10

  RIM is attempting to entice developers with cash and free gadgets to port Android and Apple games to the upcoming BlackBerry platform.

• Lost programming skills

  Today's coders may know how to whip up a PHP script or a Drupal extension, create a mobile app for both the iPhone and Android, and run DOOM on their car's GPS. But there's a lot that their predecessors knew that today's programmers don't.

• Inside the labs at Microsoft, HP and IBM

  At Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard and IBM, investment in research and development is a reflection of corporate culture. This three-part piece examines the different approaches taken by each of these influential tech companies. Hewlett-Packard prides itself on its pragmatism, while Microsoft holds the flag of basic research aloft -- and IBM continues to file more patent applications, year after year, than any other tech company.

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  The Big Six: The CIO Executive Council’s Frameworks for IT Value and Leadership

  This overview of six of the CIO Executive Council’s most important pieces of intellectual capital represents the thought leadership of literally hundreds of global CIOs spanning over half a decade. It is intended to convey the Council’s position on the current and future CIO role and the value that IT should be creating for the enterprise. We hope that it offers the IT community an intriguing and comprehensive roadmap for continued success.

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  Executive Competencies and the Future-State CIO Overview