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The New New CIO Role: Big Changes Ahead CIOs know all about change management–from jettisoning legacy apps, to prodding line of business VPs to share virtualized resources. But today, CIOs themselves are in the midst of a make-or-break personal change-management project: CIOs who can only take orders, who can’t speak the language of the business, who can’t step out of the proverbial back-office and into the front lines of customer service, social media or supply chain management will soon go the way of ancient tech gear–remembered fondly on occasion but sidelined in the future. …

The dotFree Group intends to apply for the .FREE generic Top Level Domain assuming ICANN approves the concept and begins accepting applications.

RIM Giving Another Crash Course In Encryption Research In Motion’s hawk-like attention to security in the Blackberry service has helped the company gain an ardent following in the business world. But the Blackberry’s encryption has been a double edged sword, as RIM often has to explain how encryption works to curious national governments who’ve just figured out that it could be used to conceal nefarious behavior.

Building Botnets For Fun And Profit If you’re thinking about a life of cybercrime, then building a botnet might be the best place to start, a security researcher said here last week. Gunter Ollmann, vice president of research at Damballa, gave a talk on the business of building botnets, aptly titled, “Becoming The Six Million-Dollar Man.” The presentation was a step-by-step description of the technical and business processes required to become a botnet operator

UKFast, the Manchester-based web hosting company, has revealed ambitious expansion plans for the next year that will see the group launch a recruitment and training division. Founder Lawrence Jones, who is understood to have recently rejected a £50m+ offer for the business, told TheBusinessDesk that major expansion and diversification plans for the next year will see turnover rise 70% to  £17m in 2010

Widespread discontent persists with ERP projects More than half of companies that implement ERP (enterprise resource planning) systems end up garnering no more than 30 percent of the business benefits they expected, according to a new study released by systems integrator Panorama Consulting Group. Some 72 percent of the 1,600 organizations surveyed said they were “fairly satisfied” with their ERP package. But this can be misleading, according to the study: “Some executives are just happy to complete projects, protect the company from risk and give little thought to whether or not the company is better off with the new software or whether or not they’re getting as much out of the system as possible.” ..