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RSS europeanThe McCue Interview: Nigel Underwood, CIO, DHL
Comment It's a €27bn-per-year business with 160,000 employees across its three main businesses: global forwarding, air freight and ocean freight; ground-based European transport; and global contract logistics supply chain. [08 Oct 2008]
Editor's Blog: When CIO becomes Charity Illumination Officer
Comment Nic Evans, European IT director at Key Equipment Finance, added: "The sleep-out itself brought home to me what sleeping rough must be like. The evening has raised a great amount of money for a fantastic cause, and shown... [07 Oct 2008]
Mike Lynch
AS Profile As one judge described Lynch: "[He is] a truly inspirational UK entrepreneur who is leading a world class organisation, which probably stands out only behind SAP in the European technology landscape as a true innovator. [07 Oct 2008]
Viviane Reding
AS Profile Viviane Reding, the formidable European commissioner for information society and media, makes her second appearance on the Agenda Setters list. Up two spots from last year, she continues to have a significant impact on... [07 Oct 2008]
Neelie Kroes
AS Profile and Google on the European market. As one panellist put it, Kroes is "a key force for the return of competition into the European IT market". Although Europe competition commissioner Neelie Kroes didn't... [07 Oct 2008]
Microsoft turns to Europe to fight the Google might
News Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer said at the end of last week, in the midst of a five-city European tour. Microsoft is soon to complete a $500m European data centre in Dublin. Aside from Fast,... [06 Oct 2008]
Why CIOs aren't on the Chrome straight
News Nic Evans, European IT director, Key Equipment Finance, raised the same problem, saying that too many of his company's business applications are only certified for use with IE, meaning it will be a while before any... [03 Oct 2008]
Large Hadron Collider puts a grid on it
News Funding for Cern's contribution has come from national governments and the European Union. One of the world's largest computing grids, capable of streaming the equivalent of 3 million DVDs a year was officially launched... [03 Oct 2008]
Facebook to set up international home in Dublin
News Google and eBay all have offices in Dublin as well, and Dell has chosen another Irish city, Limerick, for its European headquarters. As it expands across the globe, social network Facebook will establish its official... [03 Oct 2008]
ID cards, driverless buses and virtual shipwrecks
Photo Owen Memanin of Wood Lane in North London shows his support for Nasa hacker Gary McKinnon outside the Home Office following the refusal by the European courts to block McKinnon's extradition to the US. [02 Oct 2008]
When CIOs tighten their belts, what feels the squeeze?
News Some of the European and UK firms are not as well equipped and that will be difficult. Offshore IT services and software companies are likely to be among the few to benefit from the ongoing financial crisis. [02 Oct 2008]
Brits lose £120m to foreign card fraud
News While the three years since the introduction of chip and PIN has seen a cut in the UK's card fraud rate, criminals in European countries - where the technology has yet to be rolled out - are siphoning millions of pounds... [01 Oct 2008]
A GPL Linux Device Driver for the EIB
White Paper This paper deals with a Linux low-level hardware driver for the RS-232 Data Interface of the European Installation Bus (EIB). The RS-232 Data Interface is based on the widely used Bus Coupling Unit 1 (BCU1), which... [01 Oct 2008]
Editor's Blog: Hoping for a dry Friday
Comment The 'silicon.comrades' team of CIOs will be braving the cold too - including Steve Clarke, director, systems and operations at AOL Broadband; Graham Benson, IT director at M and M Direct; Nic Evans, European IT director... [30 Sep 2008]
Back to reality for Bangalore
Comment One large call centre with European and US customers is now refusing to hire anybody that does not stay within a five-mile radius of their centres: the costs are just too high. Once a high-flying tech hub, Bangalore is... [30 Sep 2008]
