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Bangalore blooming into innovation hothouse
Comment Many of the nearly 700 India-based captive multinational R&D centres are located in the city. Cisco is developing next-gen intelligent networking technologies in the city. Where low costs and access to... [27 Nov 2009]
Does your business really need an office?
Comment Their new offices would be at homes and in connected 'third places', all around the city or town. In this age of mobile working, should businesses consider ditching their offices? Richard Leyland weighs up the pros and... [17 Nov 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Linking up with Barack Obama?
Comment Compiled at my hotel in Jersey City, New Jersey, US, on a rainy autumn day and dispatched to silicon.com via a free wi-fi connection Travelling as I do in the course of my professional activities, I meet a lot of... [05 Oct 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 18.09.09
Round-Up There'd be no talk of an urban-rural divide as the pigeons would love a break from the city hullaballoo. A lot of people think their broadband service is bad. You probably think your broadband is bad. [18 Sep 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 04.09.09
Round-Up Bosses at Portsmouth City Council are banning Facebook after discovering their staff spent, on average, 400 hours on the site every month. It was only last week that the Round-Up was complaining about how much like hard... [04 Sep 2009]
Let's shine a light into the public sector IT money pit
Comment This uncertainty over spending levels must play a part in the government IT budgets which are spiralling out of control more often than a city banker's bar tab. Government spends loads of cash on IT with few returns. [17 Aug 2009]
Rural Britain needs faster, more reliable broadband
Comment Country folk deserve reliable broadband as much as city dwellers, says silicon.com's Nick Heath. So why are rural areas being left behind? UK industry was brought to its knees by the miners' strikes and power brownouts... [04 Aug 2009]
Inspire creativity at the office - here's how
Comment A city is the ultimate stimulating environment. The advertising agency TWBA/Chiat/Day and the tech giant Nortel were pioneers of the city metaphor in the office. Random Walk theory is a funny little idea... [28 Jul 2009]
India's social ills soothed by outsourcing leaders?
Comment Technology can handle scale very well, unlike the paper and pen systems used in India until now," says Arun Ramu, who quit as Infosys' product engineering and testing division head to join Bangalore-based eGovernments, a foundation that... [27 Jul 2009]
Why 1970s hackers had 'whiz kid' status
Comment He gave me his name and the city he lived in and I was able to get his telephone number. One of the first computer hackers ever prosecuted, Kevin Mitnick was labelled a "computer terrorist" after leading the FBI on a... [23 Jun 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: We have plenty of radio spectrum
Comment This is an interesting outcome as a much lower figure had been anticipated for such a radio-dense city. I therefore suspected that the UK would realise similarly surprising results and decided to conduct my own survey as... [09 Jun 2009]
Richard Steel
CIO Profile Originally hailing from the City - Steel spent some time working as an assistant director of Morgan Grenfell (now Deutsche Bank). A key figure in local government IT, as well as having charge of overall IT strategy at... [03 Jun 2009]
Nigel Underwood
CIO Profile He is a passionate supporter and associate director of Lincoln City Football Club. Nigel Underwood, former CIO of DHL Logistics, is no stranger to the silicon.com CIO50 - this year marks his third appearance on the... [03 Jun 2009]
Jos Creese
CIO Profile His time at Hampshire County Council was interrupted by a short spell at Southampton City Council. Jos Creese became Hampshire County Council's head of IT in 2002, nearly 20 years after first joining the organisation. [02 Jun 2009]
Glyn Evans
CIO Profile Glyn Evans has helped save costs and increase efficiency at Birmingham City Council by spearheading a business transformation programme. Before joining Birmingham City Council, Evans worked as head of... [01 Jun 2009]
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