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Teens losing interest in IT
News Earlier this year, IT industry skills body e-skills UK's CEO, Karen Price, called for a radical overhauling of IT teaching in schools, claiming it is putting kids off a career in technology. Meanwhile, 12,277 male and... [15 Aug 2008]
BlackBerry exec on women in tech, iPhones, Facebook - and finding the off switch
Comment Tiscali CEO: Bandwidth is key to fat pipe nation LinkedIn CEO: On 'grown up' social networking When you consider that over half the working population of the UK are female but less than... [18 Mar 2008]
Women told: Tech isn't 'boring'
News Discussing the lack of women in IT with silicon.com last month, Tiscali UK CEO, Mary Turner, said IT is just part of this bigger picture. To this end, the Commission has been running an IT work-shadowing programme for... [07 Mar 2008]
Surprise omissions and trends
AS Analysis Last year eBay CEO Meg Whitman led the female representation at 13, whereas this year there are three women in the top 15 alone, with Whitman down 14 places at 27. Whether that's the CEO... [12 Oct 2007]
UK top for techie training - almost
News Karen Price, CEO of e-skills UK, said it is "very encouraging" that the UK is among Europe's leaders in terms of investment in IT professional skills but it is vital the country does not become "complacent" over training. [14 Aug 2007]
Profile: CIO from the business
Comment She says: "At the time there was a lot of hype about the CIO being a route to being CEO because a lot of us reported directly to the CEO during that time. At British Gas she moved back into a CIO role... [18 Oct 2006]
Fiorina keeps mum on HP's Dunn
News As a boardroom scandal casts a cloud over HP, former CEO Carly Fiorina has been talking about her own experience of being a high-flying female executive but has dodged questions about HP's embattled... [18 Sep 2006]
The Yearly Round-Up: 22.12.05
Round-Up Now the Round-Up isn't quite sure how many ladies you can get to dance for you for $241,000 but in October Robert McCormick, the CEO of IT services firm Savvis, found his name all over the media after he ran up that sum... [22 Dec 2005]
Former HP CEO dies at 64
News But Platt's greatest claim to executive fame came from his time as CEO of HP from 1992 to 1999. Platt said in a July 1999 interview: "Even before the announcement of the splitting of the company and the new... [12 Sep 2005]
The Weekly Round-Up: 29.04.05
Round-Up The accusation of sexism was aimed at CEO Steve Jobs ('for the boys') by shareholders at the company's AGM who had grown concerned about the absence of any top level female execs within the firm's... [29 Apr 2005]
Jobs annoyed at criticism of not-so-green Apple
News CEO Steve Jobs defended the company's record on recycling and other environmental concerns, which were the subject of a picket that attracted about a dozen protesters outside the shareholder meeting, held at the... [22 Apr 2005]
Leader: Corporate ethics - don't pass the buck to IT
Leader The fact that IT bosses sit at the heart of a company's 'nerve centre' overseeing email, phone and internet use by all employees - from the CEO to the receptionist - seems to be putting them in something of an... [10 Mar 2005]
CIO Jury: Are IT departments the new "corporate police force"?
News The issue has been highlighted by the firing of Boeing's CEO earlier this week after what appears to be the leak of one of his emails to the board revealing his relationship with a female co-worker in... [10 Mar 2005]
Leader: Honour at the top
Leader On the other hand, this week began we were also told Boeing CEO Harry Stonecipher - a man brought in largely as a trusted old-school exec to steady a rocking ship - had been let go for a relationship with a... [08 Mar 2005]
Xansa's Cropper loses cancer battle
News Dame Hilary Cropper, former CEO of Xansa, respected business leader and one of the first women to break into the top tier of the UK IT industry, has died of cancer at the age of 63. Cropper joined computer programming... [04 Jan 2005]
