• Opinion: You are the product for The Google

  "If you're not paying for something, you're not the customer; you're the product being sold." -- a user named "blue_beetle" on MetaFilter

• Monday Grok: Copyright — it’s only theft when it’s someone else’s work

  No sooner had the dust settled on the SOPA debate — a bad law the tech sector did a good job of torpedoing — than the nerdlingers were up in arms once again about copyright theft. But it's not what you think.

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  How to find meaning in IT change management

  There are few areas of IT that generate as much confusion as change management. Most IT organisations today have a plethora of tools with many different IT domains that are misidentified as change management tools.

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  Five lessons from LinkedIn's opt-out stupidity

  This week's storm over LinkedIn's opt-out foolishness is a valuable reminder that businesses need to maintain a close watch on social networking services (SNS) and be prepared to respond swiftly to any changes.

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  Poll: Is ICT and the digital economy significant to you as a voter in the upcoming election?

  With the date set for the next federal election, the battle to win over voters has begun and the fate of the National Broadband Network (NBN), a $467 million commitment to e-health and the computers in schools program will be in the hands of voters.

Whitepapers about policy

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  Infrastructure Security: Getting to the Bottom of Compliance in the Cloud

  In cloud environments, one of the most pervasive and fundamental challenges for organizations in demonstrating policy compliance is proving that the physical and virtual infrastructure of the cloud can be trusted – particularly when those infrastructure components are owned and managed by external service providers. Read on.