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The McCue Interview: eSure head of IT Mark Foulsham
Comment It was a great foundation. Given the image problems associated with both areas, working in IT in the insurance industry a few years ago would probably have ranked high on the 'careers to avoid' list. The internet, however, has shaken up the... [27 Nov 2007]
Linus Torvalds
AS Profile The father of Linux re-emerges in the rankings due to his ongoing contributions in the open-source world - including setting up the Linux Foundation this year from the merger of the Open Source Development Labs and the Free Standards Group in an... [12 Oct 2007]
Richard Stallman
AS Profile Founder of the GNU Project and the Free Software Foundation, Stallman reappears in the rankings for bringing popular free software tools into the public domain, developing the open-source software replacement for Unix and campaigning against... [12 Oct 2007]
Cory Doctorow
AS Profile From 2002-2006 Doctorow was the director of European affairs for the digital rights group the Electronic Frontier Foundation, of which he remains a fellow, as well as publishing a number of science fiction novels and short stories. [12 Oct 2007]
Mohamed Ibrahim
AS Profile Ibrahim now chairs the Mo Ibrahim Foundation, which was set up to promote good governance and government accountability in Africa and to reward African leaders for good government once they have retired. [12 Oct 2007]
Location, location, location...
Comment This is the foundation of location intelligence. Quocirca's Louella Fernandes shows why the location dimension should be a key part of the business intelligence process. The global digital age has had a profound impact on consumer access to maps... [09 Oct 2007]
Tech can make or break a merger
Comment Rapid integration of the infrastructure creates the foundation for new and more complex business-facing systems and capabilities. Andrew Morlet sets out five rules to help CIOs ensure acquisitions succeed. [25 Sep 2007]
Learn to love your network again
Comment The end result of such a process is having a strong foundation on which to manage the network going forward, given you cannot effectively manage anything you do not know you have. Before securing or managing their networks companies must first... [26 Mar 2007]
India diary, day 2: Emergency calls and rural life
Comment My day starts with a journey across to Hyderabad's ugly twin sister city of Secunderabad to visit the Byrraju Foundation, a charitable organisation working to improve the lives of rural Indians. Over cups of extremely sweet coffee its lead partner... [05 Mar 2007]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Recycling is rubbish
Comment It turned out to hold the foundation insights to almost all processes and mechanisms we confront in the real and information world spanning physical, biological, chemical and data systems. Written in the lobby of a Vancouver hotel and dispatched to... [23 Jan 2007]
ITU 06 diary - Buzzword bingo, too much text and a one-on-one with Negroponte
Comment Despite the blanket of technology at ITU, my planned meeting with Nicholas Negroponte, head of the One Laptop Per Child foundation - better known as the makers of the $100 laptop - is beset with communications difficulties. [05 Dec 2006]
Will's Web Watch: Life on Google Earth
Comment But simply making all this information and imaging available is really only the foundation for innovations that are even more impressive. I've always been fascinated by travel and able to lose myself in maps and the potential they promise but... [06 Nov 2006]
Oracle - how to make friends and influence people
Comment Fusion could generate significant revenue as existing application customers upgrade to the common software foundation, analysts have said. Oracle may still be digesting a raft of big-name acquisitions - from PeopleSoft to Siebel - but, suggests... [25 Oct 2006]
Upwardly Mobile: Sente and sensibility
Comment The Grameen Foundation even finances the creation of these micro-businesses in places including Bangladesh, Rwanda and Uganda, helping entrepreneurs to buy mobiles and set up village phones. Operators must spend a lot of their time wondering about... [25 Oct 2006]
Ray Ozzie
AS Profile Ozzie will work alongside Gates on all technical architecture and product development strategy ahead of Gates stepping down completely next year to concentrate on his charity foundation. Why? Leading Microsoft into the post-Bill Gates era [25 Sep 2006]
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