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Nicholas Negroponte
AS Profile He also serves on the board of directors for Motorola and as general partner in a venture capital firm specialising in digital technologies for information and entertainment. Nicholas Negroponte, the man behind the XO -... [30 Sep 2009]
Marten Mickos
AS Profile He recently joined venture group Benchmark Capital as entrepreneur in residence. Marten Mickos left MySQL, the open source database company founded in 1995, at the beginning of the year, less than 12 months after it was... [29 Sep 2009]
Why Carter's putting business on the back burner
Comment So where is Digital Britain's strategy to bring more seed and VC capital to the UK? The government's Digital Britain scheme focuses squarely on the consumer. Natasha Lomas asks: so what about businesses? [19 Jun 2009]
Nigel Beighton
CIO Profile Next up in his varied career was a stint running his own venture capital consultancy during the dot-com bubble before heading to lastminute.com as CTO. Nigel Beighton has been CTO of Teletext for the past four years but... [03 Jun 2009]
Marc Earl
CIO Profile Prior to joining Deutsche Bank, Earl held numerous roles including programme and project manager for a major financial software house, head of capital markets at BNP Paribas, and CEO of a software testing and quality... [03 Jun 2009]
Catherine Doran
CIO Profile Prior to BT Doran was European CIO at Capital One and head of retail information systems at NatWest. Since becoming director of corporate development in October 2008, Catherine Doran has taken charge of a programme to... [02 Jun 2009]
David Wright
CIO Profile Since joining Capital One's European business as CIO in August 2006, Wright has been promoted to chief operating officer at the company. Having joined Capital One in 1999, Wright has previously held a... [01 Jun 2009]
'IT is the central nervous system of the company'
Comment In my conversations with other CIOs.there are IT shops trying to be efficient - consolidate datacentres, reduce capital spending where you can - but I think IT can also play a role in helping the business side to be more... [26 May 2009]
'We're not getting into the low-end phone business - it's not what we're good at'
Comment We've been for a while the voice in the wilderness crying out 'there's not enough capacity, there's not enough capacity' but with the infusion of capital, the networks have sort of kept up. They're running into limits -... [20 May 2009]
10 questions to ask before building a datacentre
Comment Determining this tier is critical, as upwards of 60 per cent of your capital budget can be determined by your tiering decision. The answers revolve around risk and reward, capital budgets, geography,... [30 Apr 2009]
Is offshoring to blame for job losses?
Comment Offshoring has never been all that popular with the man on the street, even though economists have always explained that, in a growing economy, sending work offshore results in a greater flow of capital back to the... [02 Apr 2009]
One more way to save during the downturn
Comment Many organisations have frozen new capital expenditure and are looking to make much better use of their existing assets. With the increased focus on reducing capital expenditure, MPS also provides an... [01 Apr 2009]
Naked CIO: The difference between vision and panic
Comment The danger is that without a progressive strategy, technology can quickly become costly and an inhibitor to profitability - and this compounds the economic problem because organisations are wasting precious human capital... [09 Mar 2009]
Beware - Big Brother is watching you get drunk
Comment Finally this week, the Lords' claim that the UK is Big Brother capital of the world prompted some strong responses. UK is Big Brother capital of the world say Lords This week's silicon.com inbox is... [10 Feb 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 06.02.09
Round-Up Nevertheless, the white stuff forced swathes of the capital's workers to dust down their home PCs and turn the front room into a makeshift office - albeit one without the grumpy boss and with more Murder She Wrote on in... [06 Feb 2009]
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