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Open source? No good for cost cutting, say CIOs
News If you are a CIO, CTO, IT director or equivalent at a large or small company in the private or public sector and you want to be part of silicon.com's CIO Jury pool, or you know an IT chief who should be, then drop us a... [23 Oct 2009]
How tech is helping gamblers get that casino feeling
News According to bwin CTO Thomas Kiessling, the development of tech - and the social side of online gambling in particular - will be a key way of building the business in the future. Kiessling isn't the only gambling... [23 Oct 2009]
BBC names new CIO as part of tech shake-up
News The other major part of Hall's role will be to better communicate the BBC's technology strategy to third-party tech suppliers to help them when pitching for business - an initiative instigated by her new boss, BBC CTO,... [09 Oct 2009]
Barack Obama
AS Profile Since then the BlackBerry-loving President has made a start on realising his promise to be one of the US' most tech-savvy leaders and has appointed a CIO and CTO to help him. US President Barack Obama entered the White... [08 Oct 2009]
Downturn means fewer outsourcing workers saying 'I do'
Comment Industry veteran Sridhar Mitta, formerly Wipro's CTO and head of Global R&D and currently a venture adviser at e4e, recalls the days when his HR team had to field queries ranging from work experience and salary and... [07 Oct 2009]
Vivek Kundra
AS Profile Before being appointed as CIO Kundra had served as CTO for Washington DC, where he was praised for making bureaucratic systems more efficient and transparent and drawing on applications from Google and Apple. [30 Sep 2009]
Padmasree Warrior
AS Profile Cisco CTO Padmasree Warrior is the second member of the networking giant's exec team to make it onto the 2009 Agenda Setters list. The 31st placed AS debutant shares the list with company CEO John Chambers, who ranks... [29 Sep 2009]
Daniel Ek
AS Profile He's also been CTO for virtual teen community site, Stardoll. Daniel Ek co-founded the Spotify on-demand music streaming service in 2006 with Martin Lorentzon but it has been over the past 12 months that it's really... [29 Sep 2009]
Eric Schmidt
AS Profile Prior to joining Google in 2001, Schmidt was chairman and CEO of open source software company Novell as well as CTO at Sun Microsystems where he helped develop Java. Google CEO Eric Schmidt makes the Agenda Setters top... [29 Sep 2009]
Intel takes aim at clever TVs as the gogglebox gets connected
News The company touted various elements of its plan Thursday at its Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, including a new Atom CE4100 processor for TVs, technology to automatically extract a highlight reel from a football match, companies... [28 Sep 2009]
Toptable books in new CTO
News Online restaurant booking company Toptable has appointed a new chief technology officer to develop technology to support the company's expansion. Paul Broome has joined the company from digital display maker, Litelogic.com, where he was... [23 Sep 2009]
Exclusive: BBC CIO swaps Auntie for consultancy
News Little joined the BBC in 2001, initially holding the CTO post before becoming the broadcaster's CIO. Little, who featured on silicon.com's CIO50 list of the most influential heads of IT, left the BBC at the beginning of... [17 Sep 2009]
Leveraging IT Innovation: Releasing Business Potential Through the Creative Use of IT
White Paper However, because these products must also serve a strategic need or goal of the company, the CTO/CIO may feel challenged to motivate his or her staff to innovate while simultaneously assuring company leadership that... [09 Sep 2009]
The Art of Lean Thinking: Influencing the IT Culture
White Paper Drawing on the experience of four IT vice presidents from diverse industries, this ExecBlueprint discusses "lean IT thinking" from multiple perspectives and provides guidance for how today's CTO/CIO can create a more... [09 Sep 2009]
Virtualisation: Forget datacenters, think ordinary people
News At VMworld, CTO Stephen Herrod and Srinivas Krishnamurti, director of emerging markets, also demonstrated virtualisation on a mobile phone. The era in which virtualisation directly affects ordinary people, not just those... [04 Sep 2009]
