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Douglas Coupland: "To say the machines have won over people, is like saying people won over people..."
Comment Coupland describes his attitude towards technology as "McLuhanesque" after Canadian thinker, Marshall McLuhan, who came up with the view that communication technology is merely an extension of the human senses, body and... [08 Sep 2009]
Time for businesses to open up - or else
Comment Today, the web hosts an ever-increasing range of open informational resources - from the growing body of content licensed under Creative Commons, to the collaboratively produced online encyclopaedia, Wikipedia - the... [03 Sep 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Can tech end bloody wars?
Comment Just a tap on any part of the body with a real weapon eliminated a player from the war. Compiled on the M6 driving to Birmingham, edited later in my hotel, and dispatched to silicon.com from Leeds via a free wi-fi... [28 Aug 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Singapore's fibre paradox
Comment Having arrived in Singapore during the late afternoon, I went for a walk to help my body normalise after the flight. Compiled at my Singapore hotel upon arrival and despatched to silicon.com on the day of my departure... [30 Jul 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 17.07.09
Round-Up The idea is by using full body motion capture and facial recognition, Natal means you can control games with your actions rather than having to rely on a controller (and it also means you won't face the frustration of... [17 Jul 2009]
Neil Cameron
CIO Profile and a board member of IT industry skills body e-skills UK and The Research Board. At Unilever Neil Cameron is responsible for a 2,700-strong global IT department, 85,000 desktops and an annual IT budget of around €800m. [03 Jun 2009]
Richard Williams
CIO Profile Leading a root and branch transformation of the company's IT, Richard Williams has delivered better customer connectivity and a shared services body serving AstraZeneca's operations across the globe. Since becoming... [03 Jun 2009]
Paul Coby
CIO Profile Coby is also chairman of UK CIO board for IT skills body e-skills UK and has a keen interest in Roman military history and world music, which includes regular visits to Womad festivals around the world. [03 Jun 2009]
When will organisations pay for data breaches?
Comment The role of the Information Commissioner's Office (or ICO) as the independent body charged with policing and enforcing data protection legislation is to promote good practice and ultimately, as the regulator, to take... [02 Jun 2009]
Catherine Doran
CIO Profile Doran is a member of Network Rail's Executive Committee, the body charged with devising and delivering the strategy for the company, and has responsibility for the Network Rail business transformation programme. [02 Jun 2009]
David Tidey
CIO Profile A member of the local government technology body Socitm, Tidey has been a British Computer Society member for 15 years, sits on the BCS Professionalism Board, and chairs the BCS Elite group. David Tidey moved to the... [01 Jun 2009]
Bangalore bashing: Recession gets nasty
Comment Bangalore's magic formula is quicker, better, cheaper," says Kiran Karnik, former chairman of India's outsourcing trade body, Nasscom. The West becoming hostile towards Indian outsourcing hubs such as Bangalore, says... [28 May 2009]
How e-coding can prevent NHS slip-ups
Comment The main challenge for an initiative of this scale is that each NHS trust is responsible for its own decision-making rather than being led by a centralised body. How can electronic coding help hospitals? [20 May 2009]
"I am frankly not much excited by technology per se"
Comment After working with the DoH, Creese - who is also vice-president of local government IT professional body, Socitm made the move into IT management by joining Hampshire County Council. Hampshire County Council head of IT... [22 Apr 2009]
From army officer to IT chief - CPS CIO David Jones
Comment It's these bodies that in some ways have to determine the CPS' tech strategy: no one body can move ahead of the others in terms of IT, in order to ensure that the transit of information between them is a smooth one. [08 Apr 2009]
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