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My 15 minutes with Bill Gates
Comment Then he went through the hardware and software spec that would be the foundation of this new computing platform, followed by a demo of what we could look forward to once this new era arrived. The Naked CIO: What makes a great IT leader? [11 Jul 2008]
Bill Gates on the future, the past and the brilliance of fertilizer…
Comment And so in the biggest foundation programme, global health, the key miracles we're looking for are vaccines, a vaccine for malaria, a vaccine for tuberculosis, a vaccine for AIDS, a vaccine for pneumonia, a vaccine for the various diarrhoeal diseases. [26 Jun 2008]
Yasmin Jetha
CIO Profile She is also vice chair of the National Committee of the Aga Khan Foundation (UK), a charitable organisation. Before joining the FT, Jetha was a board member of the Abbey National Bank. She obtained a BSc in Mathematics at London University and... [11 Jun 2008]
Toby Redshaw
CIO Profile Redshaw is a board member of World Cataract Foundation, which works to cure blindness in developing countries. He's also worked in Silicon Valley where he helped build up a dotcom business, running international business units in both Europe and... [11 Jun 2008]
Christopher Martin
CIO Profile The new technology backbone means customers will have unprecedented access to flight details and other travel related info but it is also the foundation for further international expansion of the growing company. [11 Jun 2008]
The ISO is right to back Microsoft's OOXML
Comment This argument portrays ODF as clean, well structured and designed for extensibility, while OOXML is a poor foundation for the future because its confused specification has been bloated to support the features of generations of Microsoft Office. [04 Apr 2008]
Retail leaders will open up in tough times
Comment Mayfield was particularly proud of the Waitrose Foundation, a fair-trade initiative currently being conducted with a number of produce suppliers. The rest have a chilly winter ahead. The danger is that a downturn will bite into IT spending even... [13 Mar 2008]
It's time Indian IT took the lead
Comment And a new study by the Nasscom Foundation has explored and measured the social and wider economic impact of the industry. Retiring Nasscom president Kiran Karnik has increasingly pressed this issue and sought a greater focus on practical work. [20 Feb 2008]
The Naked CIO: Recruitment nightmares
Comment The importance of this cannot be overstated as these people are the foundation by which successful IT delivery in the organisation will be measured. Lying on CVs, exaggerated skills and inflated egos are the petty recruitment problems facing our... [11 Feb 2008]
The McCue Interview: Dave Lynch, CIO, Go Ahead Group
Comment I see group systems as a foundation - necessary evil. Dave Lynch, a no-nonsense northerner hailing from the seaside town of Blackpool, has come a long way since starting out on the trams and buses that parade up and down the Golden Mile promenade... [30 Jan 2008]
Tech Visions: Wireless sale of the century
Comment But it takes a foundation. Wireless from A to Z This event could turn out to be a defining moment for the future of mobile computing, says Silicon Valley-based Howard Greenfield. The golden spike of the fully connected internet completed in the... [17 Dec 2007]
How closely are you monitoring?
Comment Effective asset management, using a combination of automated discovery and manual cataloguing, is a useful foundation for any monitoring project, although some forms of monitoring can be done without it. [10 Dec 2007]
The McCue Interview: eSure head of IT Mark Foulsham
Comment It was a great foundation. Given the image problems associated with both areas, working in IT in the insurance industry a few years ago would probably have ranked high on the 'careers to avoid' list. The internet, however, has shaken up the... [27 Nov 2007]
Cory Doctorow
AS Profile From 2002-2006 Doctorow was the director of European affairs for the digital rights group the Electronic Frontier Foundation, of which he remains a fellow, as well as publishing a number of science fiction novels and short stories. [12 Oct 2007]
Linus Torvalds
AS Profile The father of Linux re-emerges in the rankings due to his ongoing contributions in the open-source world - including setting up the Linux Foundation this year from the merger of the Open Source Development Labs and the Free Standards Group in an... [12 Oct 2007]
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