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RSS director's cutOutsourcing: CIOs' tips on getting it right
News On joining the organisation in 2005, Highways Agency director of information Denise Plumpton inherited the whole portfolio of outsourcing deals - different contracts for helpdesk, different contracts for application... [24 Nov 2009]
How to squeeze the last drops of savings from an outsourcing contract
News Antony Hayes, commercial director for RMG, was appointed a year ago to reduce the £110m the RMG was spending on running its IT operation each year. Such an approach was taken by the Royal Mail Group (RMG), which has... [20 Nov 2009]
Maemo and Android: Symbian's open source rivals up the pressure
News But speaking to silicon.com the Symbian Foundation's executive director Lee Williams said there is still plenty of life in Symbian. New OSes such as Android and Maemo will cut away at... [02 Nov 2009]
Why CIOs are saying yes to open source software
News Nicholas Bellenberg, IT director at Hachette Filipacchi, said all of the publishing house's web development is based on open source technology: "I can't imagine why anyone would use anything different! [28 Oct 2009]
'Wi-fi hack makes plan to ban file-sharers unfair'
News In a blog post last week, Andrew Heaney, TalkTalk's executive director for strategy and regulation, said a test carried out by the ISP found a high percentage of domestic wi-fi connections are at risk... [19 Oct 2009]
It's down to you to save the world, IT industry
News With high-resolution video becoming increasingly affordable, we do now have an increasing number of viable options for replacing physical business travel with other alternatives," service director of analyst house... [13 Oct 2009]
Sainsbury's tech shopping spree revealed
News As a result, trading director Mike Coupe told silicon.com that stock availability has come on significantly. Responsibility for running the chain's tech recently passed to former CSC exec Rob Fraser, who... [09 Oct 2009]
Tom Steinberg
AS Profile Steinberg is the director of mySociety, a not-for-profit, open source organisation that set up the TheyWorkForYou website, which uses the official parliamentary record to chart what MPs say and... [30 Sep 2009]
London Stock Exchange picks MillenniumIT as TradElect replacement
News LSE director of information and technology David Lester said that as well as serving existing and new clients, MillenniumIT will be the group's in-house software development team, "gradually replacing... [16 Sep 2009]
Offshoring is bad for IT skills, say UK tech chiefs
News Peter Birley, IT director of Browne Jacobson, said: "By its very nature [offshoring] must have an impact on UK IT skills. Mike Roberts, IT director at The London Clinic, added: "I have been trying to... [28 Jul 2009]
Buying a netbook? Should you go faster or cheaper?
News We're expecting that to level off and there will be some new competition from CULV systems this fall," said Loren Loverde, director of analyst house IDC's PC Tracker program. CULVs will by definition... [17 Jul 2009]
Cheat Sheet: Google Android
Cheat Sheet Since Android's acquisition, Rubin has been employed as Google's director of mobile platforms. That said, Robert Ainger, director of corporate marketing at Orange -... [10 Jul 2009]
iPhone 3.0, holograms and the shed birthplace of Silicon Valley
Photo Pictured here is the winner of this year's CIO50 list - Catherine Doran, director of corporate development at Network Rail. Other improvements to the iPhone include cut and paste, and a... [03 Jul 2009]
Whitehall IT to pack its bags for pastures new?
News According to Alexis Cleveland, director of transformational government for the Cabinet Office, sending some areas of tech work abroad could result in cheaper and better-quality IT services. With predictions that a £50bn... [24 Jun 2009]
'Innovation, not cutbacks, is right prescription for NHS IT'
News Ken Lunn, NHS Connecting for Health's director of data standards and products, said earlier in June that the organisation is agnostic toward open-source software, and that CfH is helping develop such... [22 Jun 2009]
