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John Thorp
CIO Profile His senior exec roles have taken him to Australia, Brazil, Europe and the US and he has developed a niche as a bit of a mergers-and-acquisitions specialist. John Thorp has been the group CIO for electrical retail group DSG International (DSGi... [11 Jun 2008]
Editor's Blog: Time for 'listed' computers?
Comment Alternatively, find out what BlackBerry's top exec in Europe thinks of the iPhone. It's some old news that has me fascinated this week. Really old news. Ancient even.silicon.com has been to visit Bletchley Park, home of the World War II... [20 Mar 2008]
Dear silicon.com... NHS 'savings', e-crime coppers, skills crisis?...
Comment Editor's choice silicon.com editor Steve Ranger flags up his picks on the site this week.¦ Video: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine ¦ How to detect data leaks ¦ Photos: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine ¦ Photos: US... [20 Mar 2008]
BlackBerry exec on women in tech, iPhones, Facebook - and finding the off switch
Comment Charmaine Eggberry is vice president and managing director of EMEA at RIM - a position that gives her responsibility for the company's growth targets in the region, expansion into new European markets, strategic partnerships and sales and... [18 Mar 2008]
Editor's Blog: Ever tried to sack a CIO?
Comment Now, I'm not sure I buy the idea that the CIO is the hardest exec to sack - but I do think there is a danger that many see 'career by obscurity' as a good way of protecting their job. Over lunch the other day the chief executive of a large... [06 Mar 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 06.07.07
Round-Up It was only when I actually managed to get the email address for Charles Dunstone [chief exec at Carphone Warehouse] that I finally got some action. Wimbledon will probably be concluding sometime this side of Christmas and large parts of the... [06 Jul 2007]
Editor's Blog: DIY enterprise mobility
Comment The bank the Avanade exec mentioned at the Mobility Summit will be equally security-minded. I was at the Mobility Summit earlier this week (good event, terrible tag line: 'Delivering Business Value in the Mobile Enterprise') and heard about an... [03 Jul 2007]
Richard Rundle
CIO Profile A fan of musicals, golf and Tottenham Hotspur football club, Rundle also contributes to the wider IT industry and is a member of a number of professional institutions and supplier advisory groups, as well as being a non-exec director of a tech... [06 Jun 2007]
Alex Robinson
CIO Profile Over the years he has also bolstered his commercial experience through several non-executive positions both inside and outside of Norwich Union and he currently sits as a non-exec on the supervisory board of Aviva Russia. [06 Jun 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 25.05.07
Round-Up And nobody other than a marketing exec would ask them to. If, like the Round-Up, you always used to get a copy of the Guinness Book of Records from your uncle and auntie at Christmas time you will have a preternatural interest in world records... [25 May 2007]
Editor's Blog: Define this
Comment But the HP exec I saw presenting was nothing if not clear. But usually in the name of marketing, though sometimes out of confusion or for cultural reasons, they vary too much. One way of defining technology types is through long and often complex... [23 May 2007]
Leader: Laptop as the most personal device?
Leader Long-time Intel exec Sean Maloney - credited with much of the company's recent success in wireless - even demoed a machine that had been hit by a virus, hung but was heroically repaired by a remote engineer tapping in thanks to vPro technology... [10 May 2007]
Editor's Blog: The green revolution and Everything 2.0
Comment I read this week that the former boss of wi-fi provider The Cloud has gone to a venture that has the lofty goal of tackling global warming. I think we'll increasingly hear the sound of execs exiting IT for what we'll soon call the 'green economy'. [03 May 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 30.03.07
Round-Up For example, when a senior exec at a large telecoms company recently described burgeoning sales opportunities in the Middle East just so: "The Middle East is exploding right now", you can imagine the clenched buttocks of his PR advisors and the... [30 Mar 2007]
McCue Interview: Norwich Union CIO Alex Robinson
Comment Robinson also sits as a non-exec on the supervisory group of Aviva Russia, a new small start-up business in the life and savings sector there. He tells silicon.com: "Having non-exec positions gives you the chance to develop - you learn things - but... [27 Feb 2007]
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