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News Jeff Bezos BT's CEO Ben Verwaayen is to step down as CEO on 31 May 2008 after more than six years at the telco where he championed its push into broadband and helped it dodge regulator Ofcom's axe. Verwaayen, who will also step down from the BT... [08 Apr 2008]
Google, Yahoo! and MySpace announce OpenSocial Foundation
News Jeff Bezos Google, Yahoo! and News Corp's MySpace.com have announced they have formed the OpenSocial Foundation, a not-for-profit group to support the OpenSocial initiative that Google kick-started last year to promote a universal standard for... [26 Mar 2008]
Profile: Nandan Nilekani, co-chairman, Infosys
News Jeff Bezos Amazon Nandan Nilekani is pretty much a legend in his own lifetime. Co-founder of Indian outsourcing giant Infosys, foundation board member of the World Economic Forum, co-founder of the Indian National Association of Software and... [03 Mar 2008]
Steve Ballmer's $44.6bn letter to Yahoo!
News Jeff Bezos Amazon Microsoft today made a $44.6bn offer for web giant Yahoo! valuing the company 62 per cent higher than its latest stock value. According to Microsoft, the bid is intended to better position the two companies in the online world... [01 Feb 2008]
CIO Essentials: Xmas gadgets, mobile ban and green IT
News Jeff Bezos 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 and explains why they matter. This week we hear from Mark Beattie, head of IT for waste management... [11 Dec 2007]
Oracle users demand better support
News Jeff Bezos Amazon Ronan Miles, chairman of the UK Oracle User Group, told silicon.com: "Areas of issue are in the support sphere. What we want to do with Oracle is identify the issues. He explained that many of the concerns expressed by Oracle UK... [10 Dec 2007]
Granger to depart NHS IT at end of year
News Jeff Bezos 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 leave his role in charge of the National Programme for... [05 Dec 2007]
Steve Jobs top of the Power pops
News Jeff Bezos Amazon Jobs took the top spot in Fortune magazine's Power 25 for 2007, for having "twice altered the direction of the computer industry". Apple's launch of the Apple II in 1977 "kicked off the PC era", wrote Fortune, which also praised... [29 Nov 2007]
CIO Essentials: Vista, Kindle and data breaches
News Jeff Bezos 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 and explains why they matter. [27 Nov 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 23.11.07
Round-Up Bezos is hoping the Kindle will do to literature what the iPod has done for music. Seconds before its own moral high horse careered uncontrollably into a tree, the Round-Up somersaulted from the saddle landed on the ground and performed a neat... [23 Nov 2007]
Photos: Amazon enters the e-book world
Photo Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos has unveiled the company's e-book reader, the Kindle - the latest entry into the long unspectacular market for electronic handheld devices for reading material ranging from novels to newspapers. [23 Nov 2007]
European software industry gets big thumbs up
News Jeff Bezos Amazon At an awards ceremony in Brussels, Intellect announced the top European IT companies for 2007 - the 'Truffle 100'. Agenda Setters 2007 - Top 20 Find out who made it into silicon.com's Agenda Setters top 20 by clicking on the links... [22 Nov 2007]
Cost still main reason for outsourcing
News Jeff Bezos 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 outsourcing by promises of cost savings are letting... [21 Nov 2007]
Gartner: CIOs - develop business analytics or IT loses out
News Jeff Bezos Amazon CIOs that want to protect their IT budget from being slashed need to develop business analytic capabilities, according to new research from IT analyst group Gartner. Pressure on IT budgets should be relieved by 2010, said Gartner... [21 Nov 2007]
Diamond trader spends $16.5m on IT outsource
News Jeff Bezos 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 arm of the De Beers family of companies - will... [20 Nov 2007]
