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How many people will it take to fill Gates' shoes?
Comment Research Labs who is the founder and director of Live Labs, a combo of Microsoft's research and Windows Live organisations. It's not that Bill Gates has an inflated sense of his own importance. But anyone who thought there'd be a single successor... [24 Jun 2008]
Martin Frick
CIO Profile Frick studied physics and received a PhD from Heidelberg University in Germany, doing research work at IBM's labs in Switzerland and the US. One of the rising stars on the CIO50 list, Germany-born Martin Frick took up the CIO position at car rental... [11 Jun 2008]
Tech innovation goes global
Comment Cities that make the list might be there because of the number of start-ups and tech research labs they host. Few CIOs can rely on local suppliers for all their technology needs. Instead, the hunt for tech has become global, with businesses... [03 Jun 2008]
Dear silicon.com... Tech skills slump, gov't snooping, Segway safety
Comment Editor's choice silicon.com editor Steve Ranger flags up his picks on the site this week.¦ The Naked CIO: Madness in the method ¦ Photos: Microsoft beams outer space to the desktop ¦ Photos: Welcome to Satyam's R&D labs ¦ Is SOA... [22 May 2008]
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]
Martin Frick
CIO Profile Frick studied physics and received a PhD from Heidelberg University in Germany, doing research work at IBM's labs in Switzerland and the US. What they say about him: "He is one of the few examples of continental Europe-based CIOs moving into UK... [06 Jun 2007]
India diary, day 12: Searching for the next big thing
Comment Thursday 15 February - Bangalore As well as taking advantage of the cost arbitrage that India offers, some companies are looking to the country for their next big thing as well. That means looking at India not just for cheap labour but also putting... [15 Mar 2007]
Editor's Blog: The meaning of innovation
Comment Just as many readers of this piece will have started off with a sneer at the mention of 'Microsoft' and 'innovation' in the same sentence they should see that the company, despite impressive labs in places such as Cambridge - part of what Lawn... [02 Mar 2007]
Nicholas Negroponte
AS Profile Nicholas Negroponte heads up the influential MIT Media Labs but that's not the reason he makes the top 50. Why? Building a $100 laptop Negroponte has been picked for his sideline, the One Laptop Per Child (aka $100 laptop) project. [25 Sep 2006]
Philip Rosedale
AS Profile Philip Rosedale runs Linden Labs - developers of Second Life, a virtual world which boasts more than 700,000 so-called 'residents'. Why? Visualising virtual worlds More than just games, these worlds blur the lines between real and imagined... [25 Sep 2006]
Analysis: A globetrotter's guide to cyber crime
Comment That puts the country down in sixth place, according to Kaspersky Labs, supporting security expert Eugene Kaspersky's understandably patriotic debunking of this theory. The US also accounted for about one-fifth of internet attacks and probes last... [09 May 2006]
Inside Kaspersky Labs: AV at the cold heart of Russia
Comment It's -40°c outside as I'm driven through the barren, ice-bound outskirts of Moscow to meet up with Russian antivirus company Kaspersky Labs. News of this incredible cold snap - the city's coldest in 50 years - reached London the day before... [25 Jan 2006]
Microsoft v Google, round two
AS Analysis A hard core of teens and techies tinkering in their bedrooms and labs might not sound like a huge threat to Redmond but, in mimicking the Apple faithful, Google's fan boys and girls are ensuring the wider public remain in a honeymoon phase with... [26 Sep 2005]
Why less wireless?
AS Analysis Last year threw up Bristol University's Joe McGeehan, a wireless innovator and also Toshiba Labs MD, as a wireless wild card. Mobile and wireless has never dominated Agenda Setters polls despite the influence the technologies and the wider industry... [26 Sep 2005]
Linus Torvalds
AS Profile Among the few who have appeared on every Agenda Setters list since its inception, Torvalds spends his days at the Open Source Development Labs in Portland. Though down four positions from last year, Linus Torvalds for the first time ranks above... [23 Sep 2005]
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