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Granger to depart NHS IT at end of year
News Ashley Highfield The head of the £12.4bn NHS IT programme will step down from his role in charge of the project at the end of this year. NHS IT director-general Richard Granger announced his plan to... [05 Dec 2007]
Steve Jobs top of the Power pops
News Ashley Highfield BBC Apple co-founder and chief executive Steve Jobs has topped a list of the 25 most powerful business people in the world. Jobs took the top spot in Fortune magazine's Power 25 for... [29 Nov 2007]
CIO Essentials: Vista, Kindle and data breaches
News Ashley Highfield Ever wondered what CIOs are reading on silicon.com? Our CIO Essentials feature puts you in the picture. Each week a leading IT chief picks his or her top stories from the past seven days... [27 Nov 2007]
European software industry gets big thumbs up
News Ashley Highfield BBC The European software industry is booming at the moment, according to IT trade association Intellect. At an awards ceremony in Brussels, Intellect announced the top European IT... [22 Nov 2007]
Cost still main reason for outsourcing
News Ashley Highfield Cutting costs remains the primary reason for most organisations going down the outsourcing route, despite unsustainable or unrealistic targets for savings. But companies lured into... [21 Nov 2007]
Gartner: CIOs - develop business analytics or IT loses out
News Ashley Highfield BBC Pressure on IT budgets should be relieved by 2010, said Gartner analyst Marcus Blosch, but only among those IT shops that effectively align themselves with business goals. Each year,... [21 Nov 2007]
Diamond trader spends $16.5m on IT outsource
News Ashley Highfield The Diamond Trading Company (DTC) has signed a seven-year IT outsourcing services contract with Unisys worth around $16.5m. Under the contract, DTC - the London-based sales and marketing... [20 Nov 2007]
CIO Essentials: MS licensing, Tesco CIO and online shopping
News Ashley Highfield Ever wondered what CIOs are reading on silicon.com? Our CIO Essentials feature puts you in the picture. Each week a leading IT chief picks his or her top stories from the past seven days... [20 Nov 2007]
Betfair betting engine goes supersonic
Case Study Ashley Highfield Betfair has developed a new core betting engine that can process staggering volumes of bets per second and significantly reduce the cost of each transaction. Agenda Setters 2007 - Top 20 [15 Nov 2007]
Tesco IT chief steps down
News Ashley Highfield Tesco's IT chief is stepping down from the retail giant after six years to pursue a new challenge. Group IT director Colin Cobain is leaving at the end of November after leading the IT... [14 Nov 2007]
Online Wall Street Journal goes sub free
News Ashley Highfield Rupert Murdoch plans to give away the digital version of The Wall Street Journal for free, making News Corp the latest company to steer away from paid subscriptions. Agenda Setters 2007... [14 Nov 2007]
Web 2.0 techies sacrifice pay for shares
News Ashley Highfield The majority of people looking to work for web 2.0 start-up companies are prepared to sacrifice pay in exchange for shares in the venture they're joining. More than 75 per cent of... [13 Nov 2007]
Dear silicon.com... petty cash, Vista sales, swelling SMEs...
Comment Editor's choice silicon.com news editor Steve Ranger flags up his picks on the site this week.¦ Peter Cochrane's Blog: Generation X ¦ Q&A: Ashley Highfield, head of BBC's Future Media and Technology... [01 Nov 2007]
BBC tech chief hits back at iPlayer critics
News But in an exclusive interview with silicon.com the BBC's head of Future Media and Technology unit, Ashley Highfield, said the criticism has been unfair. The BBC, however, is still unable to commit to a... [30 Oct 2007]
Q&A: Ashley Highfield, head of BBC's Future Media and Technology unit
Comment As head of the BBC's Future Media and Technology unit Ashley Highfield, one of this year's silicon.com Agenda Setters, is responsible for dragging the Beeb into the digital age through initiatives such... [30 Oct 2007]
