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Cash won't cut it: Time to get creative in attracting skilled workers
Comment They are more plentiful among self-employed professionals, portfolio workers, freelance entrepreneurs, forward-thinking start-ups, self-organising online communities and skilled people overseas with valuable new... [13 Oct 2009]
Photos: 10 of the best open source mobiles
Photo Google, for example, cooked up its Android mobile OS platform to be open from the start. Smartphones have come a long way in the last few years. Not so long ago, a smartphone all too often meant a... [12 Oct 2009]
How a tech 'watch list' can save CIOs from being caught out
News Companies should also ask other firms what's on their watch list and why, and start working on strategies for highly complex and high-impact technologies now. Companies should create their own "technology watch lists" so... [12 Oct 2009]
Sainsbury's tech shopping spree revealed
News Responsibility for running the chain's tech recently passed to former CSC exec Rob Fraser, who took over as Sainsbury's IT director from Angela Morrison at the start of September. Technology has helped Sainsbury's keep... [09 Oct 2009]
Niklas Zennström
AS Profile As well as co-founding Skype - and selling it on yet keeping hold of the P2P technology which underpins the service - Zennström has a raft of other start-ups to his name. Niklas Zennström is best known as co-founder of... [08 Oct 2009]
Photos: Amazon's Kindle comes to the UK
Photo Best-selling books will start from $11.99 - $2 more than in the US. Amazon also hopes to eventually start selling the e-reader via its UK site. Amazon is preparing to launch its Kindle e-book reader in... [08 Oct 2009]
Windows 7: Not as fast to boot as Vista
News Windows 7 may not be as fast off the mark in start up as Vista after all. Windows 7 may not be as quick as Vista when it comes to start up times Despite claims that the... [08 Oct 2009]
Acorn co-founder on the BBC Micro and the early days of personal computing
Comment Andy Hopper says that today's technology start-ups need to be savvy to survive (Image credit: University of Cambridge) The BBC Micro, with its beige box and chunky keys, gave many people in the UK their first taste of... [07 Oct 2009]
Time to polish up your CV: The IT job market is getting better
News If you've put your job hunt on hold during the recession, it could well be a good time to start sending out your CV once again. IT workers can start polishing up their CV once again... [05 Oct 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Linking up with Barack Obama?
Comment If politicians start to use online social networking in the same way as the rest of society and business - and I can't see why they wouldn't - we could see new modes of influence develop where government (at all levels)... [05 Oct 2009]
Netbooks, Apple goodies, vintage kit and a futuristic datacentre
Photo Technology start-ups from Cambridge unveiled their hottest gadgets at the Diving with Dolphins exhibition last month. Bonhams previewed some vintage tech last month as the London auctioneer prepared to put a selection of... [02 Oct 2009]
Former MySQL boss joins Benchmark Capital
News As CEO of MySQL AB for seven years, Mickos grew that company from a garage start-up to the second largest open-source company in the world. Mickos is also on the board of cloud computing... [01 Oct 2009]
Minority Report: Is Microsoft competing with imaginary Apple tablets?
Comment With reports abounding of the mythical Mac tablet being unveiled at the start of 2010, the timing can hardly be coincidental. You start off by talking of how Apple take the existing and innovating it... [01 Oct 2009]
Shai Agassi
AS Profile Like fellow Agenda Setter Elon Musk, Shai Agassi has a history of notable achievements in tech - in Agassi's case, founding start-ups and working his way up the ranks of SAP - but he got the panel's nod... [30 Sep 2009]
Nicholas Negroponte
AS Profile He has also provided start-up funds for more than 40 companies. Nicholas Negroponte, the man behind the XO - the device formerly known as the $100 laptop - makes his third appearance on the Agenda... [30 Sep 2009]
