platforms in comment and analysis
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Is convergence a fiction?
Comment The vision is that we will watch, play, communicate and browse on just one terminal, with all content and services appearing on all platforms. Written on the London Liverpool Street to Stansted Express and dispatched via my home LAN later the same... [02 Jul 2008]
Pascal Emile
CIO Profile In this role he has promoted global platforms and processes and internal data exchange as part of an executive agenda based on the two themes of accelerating change and focusing on growth. Pascal Emile was appointed global CIO for investment bank... [11 Jun 2008]
Ian Buchanan
CIO Profile His strategy involves the development of new customer-facing channel technology and the replacement of legacy core banking platforms - working in partnership with Accenture and IBM. As a member of the Alliance & Leicester's executive committee, Ian... [11 Jun 2008]
Claire Hamon
CIO Profile The focus in the first instance is about getting stability in the core platforms and building from there. Claire Hamon joined the construction and building maintenance company Rok Group in August 2007, with responsibility for developing an... [11 Jun 2008]
The McCue Interview: Claire Hamon, CIO, Rok Group
Comment She says: "The focus in the first instance is about getting stability in the core platforms and building from there. Whether at work or play Claire Hamon, CIO of construction company Rok Group, isn't one to shy away from or shirk a challenge. [13 May 2008]
Centralised or decentralised IT?
Comment This model is most useful in companies with legacy environments that often split their technology platforms into such categories as mainframe, distributed systems, and databases. Pool software developers and save money, or disperse them to business... [09 Apr 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 15.02.08
Round-Up There are currently dozens of different platforms for handsets. In a deafening cacophony of ringtones that could be heard from outer space (and underwater), handset vendors, mobile operators, developers and journalists descended on Barcelona for a... [15 Feb 2008]
Fixed-income electronic trading faces bleak 2008
Comment The aspiration of the major platforms must be to become the market, through the scale of deal flow such that they provide real trading connectivity between the various fixed-income markets. Electronic platforms, which compete against single-dealer... [30 Jan 2008]
What is the future for Lotus?
Comment Facebook for networking, Flickr for image sharing, YouTube for video sharing, and a whole raft of various instant messaging and VoIP platforms. And yes, Lotus also announced improved support for open source platforms such as Ubuntu. [24 Jan 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Aerial bombardment
Comment If you look closely at all their platforms you will see what I mean - aircraft, vehicles and ships that look like pin cushions, with antennas bolted onto every conceivable location. Whatever solution is selected in the short term for laptop and... [07 Jan 2008]
Dear silicon.com... Data security... e-learning a bit of a bore?... ID cards debate... skip vista?
Comment Though platforms have shown lot of innovation, platforms are no where close yet [to face-to-face interaction] What's got silicon.com readers reaching for their keyboards this week? Reader Comments of the Week showcases how our users are responding... [13 Dec 2007]
Itanium revisited - one year on
Comment My conclusion was it never stood a chance of living up to the early hype of replacing the ubiquitous x86 architecture in providing an industry standard across an unprecedented range of computing platforms. [13 Dec 2007]
Malware: From bedroom to boardroom
Comment Most people are familiar with the dangers they pose, yet millions continue to succumb to attacks that exploit unpatched holes in common platforms such as Windows or Java. Once the preserve of bedroom-bound teenagers, malware is now big business and... [19 Nov 2007]
Leader: Why the BBC must do more with iPlayer
Leader The BBC is in the process of developing a video streaming version of iPlayer, its online on-demand TV service, for both Windows XP and non-XP platforms.iPlayer is currently only available as a download service for Windows XP, despite the BBC... [19 Oct 2007]
Leader: Who's setting tech's agenda this year?
Leader From Paul Coby at 11 and Bill Maguire at 25 - airline CIOs at BA and Virgin America respectively - to Rorie Devine at 26 over at Betfair and even the BBC's Ashley Highfield at 5 and BT's JP Rangaswami at 48 - two whose time is also spent providing... [15 Oct 2007]
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