start-up in comment and analysis
Beijing Olympics diary: Testing times…
Comment Volunteers and full-time staff from Atos Origin and the other IT partners will be joining us every day between now and the start of the games. When new members join the team, the first step for them is an induction course to ensure they are up to... [21 Jul 2008]
Why I'm planning a change of career
Comment Today I can look back at episodes of the industry's history with real nostalgia: the start of a small company called Novell (UK) in London's Regent Street or when I shared a Boston taxi with a chap named Ray Ozzie, who had just been demonstrating... [17 Jul 2008]
Time to green-light sustainable IT
Comment It sums up perfectly the approach that an organisation needs to take to understand its requirements and adopt an IT strategy to help achieve them. To make a start on an environmental initiative that has any chance of succeeding, an organisation... [17 Jul 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Out of range?
Comment A couple of weeks ago I received a call from one of my start-up companies gearing up for an exhibition and demo that was dependent on having online connectivity. The rough and ready set-up is shown below. [15 Jul 2008]
Mentoring: Tech charity's recipe for success
Comment The Prince's Trust's Technology Leadership Group (TLG) arm has passed the £5m milestone in its fundraising for young people setting up tech or heavily technology-dependent businesses - and continues its record in being more successful than banks... [09 Jul 2008]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: A game of two halves
Comment As you patch this one master copy, all the models that require an operating system will pick up the new patched version automatically as the stack is created dynamically. Here, the general approach is to create a complete stack made up of the... [30 Jun 2008]
Editor's Blog: Less data equals more privacy
Comment For a brief time data protection and the impact of data breaches was staple tea-break conversation up and down the land. Perhaps if they realised this wasn't an inexhaustible well of data for them to dip into whenever their leaky databases start to... [26 Jun 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 13.06.08
Round-Up The Round-Up would like to assure you that this week's column is an iPhone-free zone. The Round-Up had no good reason to anthropomorphise a fiscal rate other than to make it seem scary and its former bespectacled, jowly history teacher was the... [13 Jun 2008]
Dear silicon.com... Vista gets down to business, caught on camera, ID cards…
Comment Editor's choice silicon.com editor Steve Ranger flags up his picks on the site this week.¦ Exclusive report: silicon.com CIO50 3008 ¦ Female CIOs break through glass ceiling ¦ The CIO's route to the top ¦ Mars - The CIO training... [12 Jun 2008]
Yasmin Jetha
CIO Profile After leaving Abbey National at the end of 2004, Jetha pursued wider interests including becoming governor at the University of Bedfordshire, and acting as an advisor to senior directors of start up, as well as established companies. [11 Jun 2008]
Mike Wright
CIO Profile He also founded and ran a software products company for four years, and was also a non-executive director of another software start up specialising in digital rights management. Mike Wright is head of technology at global investment provider Man... [11 Jun 2008]
Neil Cameron
CIO Profile Cameron had harboured more artistic ambitions but as a self-confessed art college dropout he opted instead to start on the IT career ladder at RHM Management Services in 1973. Following a series of management roles at Dixons, AerLingus and IBM... [11 Jun 2008]
Toby Redshaw
CIO Profile Redshaw's early career was spent at FedEx - where he was CIO for one of the major business units - but he has also advised several tech companies and been executive chairman of start-up MediaRiver. He's also worked in Silicon Valley where he helped... [11 Jun 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Healthy mobility
Comment At the time I thought this could be the start of a development thread that could well be profound - and I still believe it is. What happens if you are not up and about as usual, and especially if you are not mobile in any way? [10 Jun 2008]
Where will the Silicon Dragon swoop next?
Comment I've heard of other start-ups setting up there, so innovation is spreading out from the major cities. On China catching up with Silicon Valley Right now it's really bubbling up to the surface. Sino-tech expert Rebecca Fannin gives Steve Ranger the... [03 Jun 2008]
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