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Comment Editor's choice silicon.com editor Steve Ranger flags up his picks on the site this week.¦ Exclusive report: silicon.com CIO50 3008 ¦ Female CIOs break through glass ceiling ¦ The CIO's route to the top ¦ Mars -... [12 Jun 2008]
Exclusive: UK's top CIO revealed
News Our analysis also looks at all 50 CIOs' routes to the top to see whether a tech background is a help or hindrance, and why many of the UK's top CIOs have passed through the management training ground at Mars. [11 Jun 2008]
Jane Scott
CIO Profile A mathematics graduate, Scott is another product of the legendary graduate management scheme at Mars. Jane Scott joined food service distributor 3663 in 2003 where she has developed the IT strategy needed to support the... [11 Jun 2008]
Nigel Underwood
CIO Profile Throughout his career, Underwood has had senior roles at some of the biggest consumer and retail brands in the shape of Boots, Coca-Cola Schweppes and Mars and he was also senior VP for IT at the Hilton Group. [11 Jun 2008]
Rod Angwin
CIO Profile Since that time he has spent 10 years in various roles with Information Services International, part of Mars, and two years with software house JBA, before moving into the world of retail and wholesale distribution. [11 Jun 2008]
Mars - The CIO training ground
Comment A Mars a day may help you work, rest and play - as the old ad for the chocolate bar claimed - but it also makes for a top CIO. One of the themes to come out of the silicon.com CIO50 both this year and last year is the... [11 Jun 2008]
Trevor Didcock
CIO Profile Previous to that, Didcock was group IT Director at the RAC for four years, head of IT at Mars Confectionery for three and in IS roles across disciplines in Mars and JP Morgan before that. Before arriving... [11 Jun 2008]
Robin Dargue
CIO Profile Dargue started out in the late 1980s at Logica Financial Systems before joining Mars as an IT analyst in 1989 and rising to the position of systems manager for UK and Ireland by 1995. What bigger challenge is there after... [11 Jun 2008]
Martin Taylor
CIO Profile He started his varied IT career at British Airways in 1976 and then spent a decade at Mars during the 1980s - including a stint on its legendary management training scheme, and a year in the US - where he drove materials... [11 Jun 2008]
What scores in the global tech league?
Comment But if beautiful surroundings are the only reason to work in a particular city then why are major companies like O2 or Mars located in Slough, in the UK's drab M4 corridor? What really matters when it comes to chosing an... [03 Jun 2008]
Nasa Mars probe safely touches down
News The first images from the Phoenix Mars Lander have confirmed that the solar panels needed for its energy supply unfolded as planned and that masts for its camera and weather station are in position. A successful... [27 May 2008]
Photos: Microsoft beams outer space to the desktop
Photo Here is Mars. As it's a telescope simulation the detail is not quite as clear as a Mars rover. Somewhere near the Martian North Pole is the proposed destination for the Mars Phoenix... [19 May 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 04.04.08
Round-Up Both companies put a fair bit of effort into the stunt - sign up to colonise Mars in a grand 100-year plan - which the Round-Up imagines involved a fair amount of chortling and self-congratulatory back slapping. [04 Apr 2008]
Amazon goes 'social shopping' on Facebook
News Confectionery company Mars recently launched a Facebook app allowing users to buy chocolate snacks for friends using a combination of PayPal and mobile phone vouchers. Online retailer Amazon has launched two applications... [14 Mar 2008]
BBC signs up with iTunes
News Shows available include Life on Mars, Spooks and Robin Hood. A range of BBC television programmes are now available for download at Apple's UK iTunes store. BBC iPlayer: all the coverage BBC signs up with iTunes ... [19 Feb 2008]
