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CLIVE Whincup has been promoted to chief information officer at Westpac Banking Corporation.

CLIVE Whincup has been promoted to chief information officer at Westpac Banking Corporation.

So you're at the company Christmas party, and you've drank too much. The next day, an unflattering photo is on Facebook, but you don't know it since you haven't been tagged.

SOME of the nation's largest internet providers are refusing to sign formal contracts with NBN Co.

THE legal feud over whether Samsung can sell its new tablet computer in Australia this Christmas may be heading to the High Court

THE Pharmacy Guild will not support the personally controlled e-health records rollout unless operating system concerns are addressed.

In the world of Ruby development, there are two primary cloud-based, platform-as-a-service offerings: Engine Yard and Heroku. Both provide an easy-to-scale, managed hosting environment, both are built on Amazon EC2, and both have a long and intimate history with the Ruby community. Nevertheless, they offer contrasting approaches and features that will appeal to different audiences.

With the U.S. release of the first Android 4 "Ice Cream Sandwich" devices expected in December, more Android devices are likely to head into the enterprise as strong customer adoption and emerging enterprise capabilities begin to break down the barriers that have kept Android largely out of business use, says Ojas Rege, products vice president at mobile device management (MDM) tool provider MobileIron. To address that trend, MobileIron today released version 4.5 of its MobileIron MDM tool.

MobileIron hopes to help businesses prepare for what it believes will be an onslaught of Android phones in 2012 with an updated version of its mobile device management software.

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