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Leader: 'Changing of the guard' for the 2006 Agenda Setters
AS Analysis One surprise Agenda Setter already shaping corporate IT is BP VP Jim Ginsburgh (17), who was chosen for his ground-breaking scheme of giving employees an allowance in exchange for not using the company's IT support. [25 Sep 2006]
Jim Ginsburgh
AS Profile This led to the ground-breaking 'digital allowance' scheme whereby select BP employees are given a set amount of money to take care of their own computing needs in exchange for not using the company's IT service and support teams. [25 Sep 2006]
Editor's Blog: Social networking faux pas
Comment But I like the approach of those that can provide a platform either for actual networking (something like LinkedIn) or personal info exchange (like Plaxo). An annoying service isn't the same thing as smart software - though the latter can lead to... [25 Aug 2006]
Q&A: Microsoft chairman Bill Gates and CEO Steve Ballmer
Comment Something like Xbox or the next version of Exchange, I'm not the expert on those things. I meet the specialists. One is a vision of how a software-driven tool could empower people and the idea that the hardware could be standardised and you could... [16 Jun 2006]
Interview: NHS IT director general Richard Granger
Comment Granger responds that the Spine already has basic demographic information on patients, has 228,000 registered users, and that it is already acting as a message exchange for the Choose and Book and Electronic Prescription Service systems. [26 May 2006]
Analysis: How to catch a cyber criminal? Do it yourself
Comment If they catch the culprit, they are likely to let him go free in exchange for keeping his mouth shut. Though law enforcement has come a long way in fighting e-crime, its efforts are still only scratching the surface and businesses are learning they... [24 Apr 2006]
Will Zopa's P2P loans mean the death of the bank manager?
Comment Put simply, it is a web-based borrowing and lending exchange that is seeking to do to bank managers what Betfair has done to the average high street bookie - disintermediate them. Behind Zopa are some of the people who launched Egg, the internet bank. [18 Apr 2006]
Devil's Advocate: Open source for government
Comment They are akin to the equally strongly positive effects of the free exchange of scientific knowledge, something that is being increasingly stifled by commercialisation. Despite the UK government's reluctance to embrace open source, Martin Brampton... [21 Feb 2006]
Analysis: How does the CIO become the CEO?
Comment The appointment of IT guy David Yu as CEO of online betting exchange Betfair is evidence that CIOs are becoming equipped with the right skills and commercial savvy to challenge the finance and sales directors for the top job in the company. [06 Jan 2006]
Leader: Are IT bosses ready to run the company?
Leader As an online betting exchange, Betfair's business model is dependent on technology, and no-one is in a better position to take the company forward than Yu, who detailed some of his vision in this interview with silicon.com last year when he was... [05 Jan 2006]
The Weekly Round-Up: 16.12.05
Round-Up The scam was eventually rumbled when greed took over and staff at online betting exchange Betfair.com became suspicious of very large bets being placed on what are essentially novelty markets. It seems organised crime has tired of running drugs and... [16 Dec 2005]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Online shopping spree
Comment When the entire history of production, sale, ownership and use can be logged, then the exchange of clothing might migrate toward the CD, DVD, book and car model. Written on BA296 flying Chicago to London Heathrow and dispatched to silicon.com from... [16 Dec 2005]
Devil's Advocate: Microsoft's new allies
Comment We should also be encouraging the EU in its struggle to force non-proprietary standards for the exchange of information. The EU should stand firm on advocating independent, open standards for software - despite the new offence Microsoft appears to... [15 Nov 2005]
The McCue Interview: Betfair COO, David Yu
Comment The rise of UK-based online betting exchange Betfair is without doubt an astonishing one. The online nature of the betting exchange - which allows punters to set their own odds and bet against each other - and the high volume of transactions and... [14 Nov 2005]
Leader: Give Skype a break
Leader At the same time, Skype calls are free or cheap so it could be seen as a pretty fair trade - use of some of your processing power and bandwidth in exchange for cheap calls for everyone. Our recent story about whether businesses should ban Skype... [11 Nov 2005]
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