Australian businesses and US businesses are adopting totally different strategies for the year ahead. Our chief executives are going down a dangerous path, says Robert Gottliebsen of Business Spectator.
Information technology
Vodafone’s infosec balls-up a symptom of wider problems
Vodafone’s apparent information security breach, if it’s being described accurately, certainly suggests a botched approach. But corporate Australia’s blasé attitude to our personal identity information is as much to blame.
IT: More NBN vagueness, border control and cyber-safety re-allocation
You might think “the single largest nation-building infrastructure project in Australia’s history” would figure prominently in the Budget. It doesn’t. For the third year running, the bulk of the NBN’s cost to taxpayers remains unspecified.
From hype to backlash, Twitter’s path is inevitable
The Hype Cycle for 2009 places microblogging services like Twitter at the start of their descent into the Trough of Disillusionment — along with green IT and e-book readers, where they’ll join public virtual worlds like Second Life and online video.
Going, going, gone: 40 technologies on life support
Do you remember receiving a grainy fax? Using a public phone booth? Making someone a mix tape? PC World examine the top 40 nearly obsolete technologies.
NSW Public Service Association’s sexist Facebook campaign
The NSW Public Service Association has hoodwinked The SMH into publishing a very high-minded story about freedom of opinion, neatly masking the fact that the union’s members have been running a dirty and s-xist campaign of abuse via the Internet.
Computers for kids are useless without backup
Unless additional money is spent on the peripheral costs of implementing and operating new computers in schools they’re pretty useless, write Elissa Baxter and Simon Sharwood.
