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Why CIOs are saying yes to open source software
News Continued on page two it should be assessed carefully, according to Mark Foulsham, head of information technology for esure and Sheilas' Wheels. It's a question many CIOs are wrestling with: can open source help make... [28 Oct 2009]
Keeping IT green in tough times
News Mark Blowers, principal analyst at research house Ovum, explained: "If you have to make a large investment, I don't think you could swing it just on sustainability benefits in the current climate, whereas perhaps 18... [22 Oct 2009]
Success Story: NaviSite
White Paper "In a sense, our IT infrastructure is our product, says Mark Clayman, senior vice president of hosting services for NaviSite. By building a best-in-class delivery platform—storage, service, networking devices and... [08 Oct 2009]
Windows 8: The 'dying gasps' of the desktop OS or the next big thing?
News There is the chance that Windows 8 could mark the end of the line for the pure packaged OS as the technology world moves irrevocably away from packaged software towards online platforms. Just as the marketing hype around... [08 Oct 2009]
Mark Zuckerberg
AS Profile As founder and CEO of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg topped the Agenda Setters list in 2007 after the social network really took off, but he plummeted to 47 last year as judges felt his time had passed. This year's return to... [08 Oct 2009]
Lord Stephen Carter
AS Profile Lord Stephen Carter made his mark in his former guise as UK Minister for Communications, Technology and Broadcasting - or in other words the brains behind the government's Digital Britain blueprint for the nation's tech... [08 Oct 2009]
Windows 7: Not as fast to boot as Vista
News Windows 7 may not be as fast off the mark in start up as Vista after all. Despite claims that the new OS will be faster to boot up, one software company has reported that in many cases Vista actually outdoes Windows 7 in... [08 Oct 2009]
Working with Telecommunications: Churning in the Telecommunications Industry
White Paper ISP's have hinted at churn rates as great as 50 percent, the mobile telecommunication rate appears to vary around the 30 percent mark. Churn is the process of customer turnover. In the mobile telecommunications market, a... [07 Oct 2009]
Amazon will be king of the cloud: Mark Shuttleworth
News Canonical chief Mark Shuttleworth has said Amazon will emerge as triumphant in the battle for the cloud. Shuttleworth told a BT open source event yesterday that Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud, or a closely related... [06 Oct 2009]
Why CIOs are saying no to Macs
News Apple's desktop market share has been inching up for some time and, if analyst stats are right, now hovers around the eight per cent mark. But the business world remains immune to the pull of Apple's hardware, with few -... [02 Oct 2009]
U-turn for HP: Printers and PCs to pair up again?
News The plans, which are contingent on CEO Mark Hurd's final approval, would put both units under the leadership of Todd Bradley, the chief of the company's PC group, according to the report, which cited people close to the... [01 Oct 2009]
Ray Kurzweil
AS Profile But its Kurzweil's conviction about the transformative potential of IT and his ability to apply these ideas across various industries that mark him out as an Agenda Setter. Ray Kurzweil is a futurist who's been thinking... [29 Sep 2009]
Erik Huggers
AS Profile Since becoming director of the BBC's Future Media and Technology division in July 2008 following the departure of Ashley Highfield, former Microsoft-employee Erik Huggers has certainly made his mark. His main achievement... [29 Sep 2009]
Is open source software finding a home in Whitehall?
News Mark Taylor is founder and former president of the Open Source Consortium and CEO of open source consultants Sirius Corporation, which will manage and localise the NDRB. The UK government may have been slow to adopt open... [29 Sep 2009]
Photos: Intel's latest technology on show
Photo At left is Intel's senior research scientist Bill Mark in front of a demonstration of live ray-traced video. Sean Maloney, newly-promoted and heir apparent to CEO Paul Otellini in the eyes of many, was the first to take... [28 Sep 2009]