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Woolly risk analysis is hastening a housing crash
Comment Performance reporting of loans in their initial stages: performance data from the past three years indicates that defaults are manifesting themselves earlier than in the 1990s. But there's a better way to ease the situation, argues Steve Boyle. [03 Jul 2008]
How many people will it take to fill Gates' shoes?
Comment Burton Smith Smith is charged with expanding the company's efforts in parallel and high-performance computing. It's not that Bill Gates has an inflated sense of his own importance. But anyone who thought there'd be a single successor for the great... [24 Jun 2008]
Name that tune...the rise of Shazam
Comment Company CEO Andrew Fisher explains: "We cut up a song into slices and look at the vocal performance and the instruments, and it's a sound wave… At any point in the song you've got peaks and troughs… It's a unique fingerprint. [12 Jun 2008]
Catherine Doran
CIO Profile She embarked on a career in technology after initially studying maths and geography at university in Ireland and has played a lead role in improving the performance of major organisations through IT transformation programmes. [11 Jun 2008]
Who voted on the CIO50?
Comment He is an authority on CIO career development and performance and has helped scores of CIOs achieve better insight into their personal strengths and drives. The silicon.com CIO50 2008 list was compiled using the votes of 25 CIOs and an expert... [11 Jun 2008]
Richard Williams
CIO Profile As CIO for pharmaceuticals giant AstraZeneca, Richard Williams is leading a company-wide IT transformation which has already seen boosted business performance through the use of shared services along with improved customer connectivity and IT... [11 Jun 2008]
Kevin Berry
CIO Profile He looks after everything from strategic business analysis to systems implementation, and also the operational support, maintenance and performance of all systems. As systems director of Waitrose, Kevin Berry is responsible for all IT and... [11 Jun 2008]
Computing on the go
Comment Performance also falls a little short of the competition but it sports excellent battery life - measured at nearly 3.5 hours in silicon.com sister site CNET.com's DVD playback test. Business travellers may feel they are being bombarded with new... [04 Jun 2008]
Vodafone chief's departure is a sign of the times
Comment Reporting the company's latest financials in emerging markets this week, Sarin led with Vodafone Essar's "very strong" performance - saying revenue increased by more than 50 per cent during the year as it added customers at an average of 1.5... [29 May 2008]
Minority Report: Why I am a Mac user
Comment The lack of 3G was also criticised, though this may be as much to do with clever marketing as it is with allegations of poor battery performance. On the 10th anniversary of his Damascene conversion from the PC to the way of the Mac, Seb Janacek... [17 Apr 2008]
Recession fears hit IT budgets
Comment Alastair Behenna, CIO at Harvey Nash, said "enhancing business performance with a declining budget" will be his main challenge for 2008. The state of the economy and its potential impact on IT budgets will be the key challenge for IT chiefs this... [04 Apr 2008]
What governance can really mean to business
Comment Business intelligence (BI) fulfilled corporate performance management requirements for some. Forget the hype, what does governance amount to in practice? New research suggests there are signs it is finally taking centre stage in many progressive... [28 Mar 2008]
Outsourcing - life after the contract
Comment Only by doing this will it be possible to drive performance by the supplier in line with those objectives or, if things go wrong, make a clean break and terminate the contract without undue expense. But the work is not all done just because the ink... [12 Mar 2008]
Editor's Blog: Ever tried to sack a CIO?
Comment So regardless of how bad a performance CIOs put in, they can't be touched. Over lunch the other day the chief executive of a large technology company advanced an unusual argument. His claim: of all the senior managers in a business, the CIO is the... [06 Mar 2008]
Dear silicon.com...Illegal file-sharing, biometrics flying high, ID fines…
Comment More so, biometric technology introduces a consistent identification performance and contrary to the all too common rhetoric, biometric technology works and performs reliably. What's got silicon.com readers reaching for their keyboards this week? [28 Feb 2008]
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