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How Zavvi lost its Virginity
Comment Part of that project has been to build up solid, long term relationships with what he considers to be best of breed partners - system integrator Javelin, ecommerce platform supplier Hybris and search navigation and... [09 Oct 2008]
The five products Apple must make
Comment A fat and profitable niche but a niche nonetheless - by opening up the Mac OS X platform to other manufacturers, there's a huge growth bump to be had. A platform that's locked down is a strategy that's... [07 Oct 2008]
Marc Benioff
AS Profile Highlights over the past 12 months include Salesforce successfully distributing its software-as-a-service platform - Force.com, on which businesses can develop and run their own on-demand applications - and integrating... [07 Oct 2008]
Werner Vogels
AS Profile Since joining the company in 2004 Vogels has been at the heart of Amazon's transformation from a mere purveyor of goods to a platform for conducting business online. A newcomer to the Agenda Setters list, Werner Vogels... [07 Oct 2008]
Aaron Seigo
AS Profile The KDE project also offers an application development framework to encourage programmers to create apps for the platform, and many applications already available to use include an in-progress office suite. [07 Oct 2008]
Minority Report: Here come the iPhone competitors
Comment Last week saw the launch of the first phone developed on Google's Android platform. Other more accomplished devices are likely to follow, however, and the presence of a new platform will undoubtedly... [01 Oct 2008]
Naked CIO: Virtual worlds will disappear
Comment By that I mean they failed to create a technology platform that business has bought into as a collaborative tool set. I have also been sceptical of Second Life as a strong business commerce, marketing and sales... [21 Sep 2008]
Outsourcing changes are afoot
Comment Outsourcing is an ideal platform to achieve these goals. Josie Sephton looks at what's changing - and why. Outsourcing comes in many guises, from full management of a voice and data network, to management of a broad... [16 Sep 2008]
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. Greenbaum thought he had the... [11 Jul 2008]
Dear silicon.com: Tech teacher shortage, Kangaroo and phones on planes
Comment This means that it only needs to be stored once (backed up of course) and require a single distribution platform. The issue that got readers talking this week was the IT-teacher drought - is "boring" IT to blame? [03 Jul 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Is convergence a fiction?
Comment This approach might be the route to true convergence - by spanning the gulf created by OS wars and allowing anything, on any platform, in any format. Written on the London Liverpool Street to Stansted Express and... [02 Jul 2008]
How many people will it take to fill Gates' shoes?
Comment He allegedly is part of the All-Star Team working on Microsoft's Live Mesh platform, formerly known as the Windows Live Core effort. David DeWitt The most recently minted Tech Fellow, working in Microsoft's Data and... [24 Jun 2008]
The McCue Interview: Martin Taylor, group CIO, LCH.Clearnet
Comment Taylor joined as an interim CIO in the summer of 2006 with the organisation's IT strategy in a mess - a complex clearing IT platform, called the Generic Clearing System (GCS) was going off the rails while plans to... [17 Jun 2008]
The Naked CIO: Business misintelligence
Comment I have just been asked to talk at a conference about what not to do when implementing a business intelligence platform. Just because business intelligence sounds impressive and has spawned a whole industry doesn't mean... [16 Jun 2008]
Pascal Emile
CIO Profile He was also instrumental in rationalising the bank's market risk infrastructure, as well as promoting a common technology platform supporting derivatives' products trading activities. Pascal Emile was appointed global... [11 Jun 2008]
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