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silicon.com old school
Comment Journalists who worked there have gone on to such organisations as Al Jazeera, the BBC, Channel 4, CNN, The Guardian and Times Online. That's a grand old age for a publication launched at the height of the dot-com madness, says Julian Goldsmith. [07 Jul 2008]
How many people will it take to fill Gates' shoes?
Comment In a new video interview posted to Microsoft's Channel 9 website on 23 June, Gates adds a third group to the list of those who will be filling his shoes after he leaves Microsoft as a full-time employee this month. [24 Jun 2008]
Andrew Clarke
CIO Profile At HMV he oversaw formulation and the delivery of the group's multi-channel IT strategy covering physical, mail order, internet and digital channels for its UK and worldwide operations of the HMV and Waterstone's brands. [11 Jun 2008]
Ian Buchanan
CIO Profile His strategy involves the development of new customer-facing channel technology and the replacement of legacy core banking platforms - working in partnership with Accenture and IBM. As a member of the Alliance & Leicester's executive committee, Ian... [11 Jun 2008]
Minority Report: What's in store for the iPhone?
Comment It recently slashed the price of the lower storage-capacity iPhone by £100 to shovel units out of the channel and had trouble meeting demand soon after. Whether it's a rather deft bit of marketing by Apple to remove devices from the channel as... [23 May 2008]
Profile: Nottingham Building Society head of IT Jack Cutts
Comment Subsequently, he has had extensive experience with multi-channel retailing at Argos, Boots and travel company Gold Medal Travel, before joining Nottingham Building Society. Jack Cutts is a name to conjure with. [11 Mar 2008]
Editor's Blog: If you want to know about Microsoft-Yahoo!...
Comment in studios for Channel 4 News, CNBC and the BBC. It's often the case, when a big tech news story impinges on the consciousness of the broadcast media, silicon.com gets called in to provide the industry experts who can explain what it all means. [12 Feb 2008]
Retail in a rut: IT to the rescue?
Comment With high street sales struggling to keep pace with inflation and online trade increasing by 54 per cent from 2006 to 2007 - according to the latest IMRG Capgemini Index - any retail CEO looking for growth in 2008 will be taking a long hard look... [25 Jan 2008]
Geography lessons for online retailers
Comment They expect a personalised experience regardless which contact channel they use. Despite the broad reach of the internet, successful online traders need to focus tightly on individual customers. One way of doing that is to identify exactly where... [09 Jan 2008]
Banking can execute change in real-time
Comment Real-time management is a strategic technology, which includes the real-time capabilities of customer, product and channel data, and how this can be used to provide real-time business information. The financial sector is 10 years behind the times... [02 Jan 2008]
Leader: Missing Xmas parcels highlight online fulfilment dangers
Leader More power to them and if there is a customer backlash on multi-channel retailers, they deserve what they get for not grasping a business opportunity when it is handed to them. It can't be denied that the holiday period has been a bumper haul for... [02 Jan 2008]
Tech Visions: New media is IT's next frontier
Comment But video in particular eats up network bandwidth while raising issues relating to copyright and idle channel surfing. Experts argue new media will spell the demise of the IT professional. Not true, says Silicon Valley-based Howard Greenfield. [29 Nov 2007]
Editor's Blog: CIO central
Comment I take my hat off to people such as Gartner and IDC whose CIO events attract hundreds, though of course they don't have the media channel to report on what happens, nor would they always want to. On Monday we held our fifth silicon.com CIO Forum... [17 Oct 2007]
Dear silicon.com... DNA database, lie detector tech, sat-nav blunders...
Comment Integration of multi channel businesses is a very achievable goal, which, for those who have changed the culture to allow it, has reaped considerable rewards in greater understanding of the customer's interaction, channel preference and behaviour... [07 Sep 2007]
Far from quiet on the virtual front
Comment These tools will similarly be rebranded as vConvertor, vOptimizer and vPackager and sold through Vizioncores's sales and distribution channel as part of its suite of products. This summer's intense activity in virtualisation could shape the options... [05 Sep 2007]
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