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  • IBM's PC business running at loss for years

    IBM is going ahead with the sale of its PC operations to China's Lenovo Group, despite a recent revelation from a Securities and Exchange regulatory filing which has found that this sector has been running at a loss for the last few years.

  • Getting to know the CIO

    Continuing our new series of profiles of Australia's Chief Information Officers, IDM chats to Dallas Stower, who has been CIO of Queensland Rail since March 2001, to get an insight into the particular demands of the CIO position at a high ...

  • Heavenly hospitality

    It is one thing to deliver good service inside a restaurant, but the overall reputation of the establishment could still suffer if email requests for bookings are not answered quickly, or worse, are completely ignored. Rodney Appleyard rep...

  • Use it or lose it

    IT gets quite a rough ride these days. In recent years, the failure and difficulties of rolling out major information systems in organisations have all received a great deal of attention in the media. Meanwhile critics, such as Nicholas Ca...

  • A quiet revolution

    From typewriters and triplicate to the electronic era, Hazel Dobbie, of Archives NZ, takes us through the biggest change to records management legislation across the Tasman in almost half a century.

  • Well preserved

    In 2003, the National Archives of Australia (NAA) established the Digital Recordkeeping Initiative. Laurie Varendorff, of the ARMA (Association of Records Managers and Administrators), talks to Dr Andrew Wilson, project manager, Managing D...

  • Flying the flag

    There are an abundance of Australian companies that have made their presence felt on the global stage. Here, Stuart Finlayson and Austrade's (Australian Trade Commission) Karla Davis profile three local technology developers that have done...