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Dear silicon.com... T5 chaos, mobile maladies, and laptop losses…

Comment Editor's choice silicon.com editor Steve Ranger flags up his picks on the site this week.¦ Photos: High-tech Bangalore ¦ The McCue Interview: Steven Bandrowczak, CIO, Nortel ¦ Photos: Road testing wi-fi at 320kmph ¦ Peter Cochrane...

Tags: laptop, t5, heathrow, mobile

[03 Apr 2008]

The McCue Interview: Steven Bandrowczak, CIO, Nortel

Comment Being the CIO for a tech vendor can often be something of a double-edged sword. Sure, you get access to cutting-edge tech and some of the smartest engineers around but the nature of the business means you're often a beta guinea pig for all those...

Tags: bandrowczak, cio, nortel

[01 Apr 2008]

Dear silicon.com... Ageism, broadband row, ID cards…

Comment Editor's choice silicon.com editor Steve Ranger flags up his picks on the site this week.¦ Video Cheat Sheet: ID cards ¦ Photos: Zoom in on London from the air… ¦ Photos of the month - January 2008 ¦ Legal Eye: Scrabble-Facebook...

Tags: broadband, id cards, skills, data

[31 Jan 2008]

The McCue Interview: Dave Lynch, CIO, Go Ahead Group

Comment Dave Lynch, a no-nonsense northerner hailing from the seaside town of Blackpool, has come a long way since starting out on the trams and buses that parade up and down the Golden Mile promenade - although he still holds a season ticket for the town...

Tags: go ahead group, dave lynch, cios, wi fi

[30 Jan 2008]

Dear silicon.com... Vista uptake… HMRC blunder… iPhone too cool or too costly?

Comment Editor's choice silicon.com editor Steve Ranger flags up his picks on the site this week.¦ Peter Cochrane's Video Blog: Finger of fate ¦ Photos: The best of Google Sky ¦ Cheat Sheet: Encryption ¦ Photos: US Army's Black Hawk goes...

Tags: vista, iphone, hmrc, microsoft

[29 Nov 2007]

The <strong>McCue</strong> <strong>Interview</strong>: eSure head of IT Mark Foulsham

The McCue Interview: eSure head of IT Mark Foulsham

Comment Given the image problems associated with both areas, working in IT in the insurance industry a few years ago would probably have ranked high on the 'careers to avoid' list. The internet, however, has shaken up the insurance industry where dot-com...

Tags: mccue interview, mark foulsham, esure, style

[27 Nov 2007]

Video: The tech behind golf's PGA European Tour

Video At the HSBC World Matchplay Championship 2007 at Wentworth, PGA European Tour CIO Mark Lichtenhein talks exclusively to silicon.com's Andy McCue about the challenges of this unique IT role in ensuring the success of 100 golf tournaments in 36...

Tags: golf, mark lichtenhein, pga european tour, andy mccue

[19 Nov 2007]

Tesco IT chief steps down

News A key part of this global expansion is the standardisation of business processes and IT systems across Tesco in a project called 'the operating model', which Cobain explained in a recent video interview with silicon.com.

Tags: tesco, cio, colin cobain, retail

[14 Nov 2007]

BBC tech chief hits back at iPlayer critics

News But in an exclusive interview with silicon.com the BBC's head of Future Media and Technology unit, Ashley Highfield, said the criticism has been unfair. In the interview Highfield also talks about the future of DRM and 'BBC 3.0'.

Tags: bbc, iplayer, ashley highfield, xp

[30 Oct 2007]

Q&A: Ashley Highfield, head of BBC's Future Media and Technology unit

Comment In this exclusive interview with silicon.com, Highfield answers those iPlayer critics and talks about the future of DRM and 'web 3.0'.silicon.com: Has criticism of the iPlayer, both around non-PC versions and DRM, been fair?

Tags: windows xp, bbc, iplayer, audience

[30 Oct 2007]

Photos: UK tech leaders gather for the CIO Forum

Photo Photo credit: Tim Ferguson silicon.com's community editor and chief reporter, Andy McCue, quizzed Unilever's global CIO, Neil Cameron, in a live version of the McCue interview. Here's Tony Hallett, editor and site director of silicon.com, as he...

Tags: cio jury, cio50, neil cameron, paul coby

[16 Oct 2007]

How to stop "runaway" ERP projects

Comment Big complicated and expensive enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems can still cause headaches for many companies, admits Harry Debes, CEO of Lawson Software. Lawson isn't a familiar brand in the corporate IT world, especially in the UK and...

Tags: project, erp, lawson

[01 Oct 2007]

Stories of the Month - September 2007

News Meanwhile, silicon.com's community editor Andy McCue interviewed the IT director of the Tesco Group, Colin Cobain, who discussed how tech is supporting the supermarket's ambitious expansion plans. Interview: Tesco CIO Colin Cobain

Tags: iplayer, europe, contactless payment, vista

[28 Sep 2007]

CIO Essentials: Nerdy techies, SaaS and social networks

News The McCue Interview: The AA IT director Trevor Didcock. Ever wondered what CIOs are reading on silicon.com? Our CIO Essentials feature puts you in the picture. Each week a leading IT chief picks his or her top stories from the past week and...

Tags: cio essentials, ipsos, ben booth

[25 Sep 2007]

<strong>Interview</strong>: Tesco CIO Colin Cobain

Interview: Tesco CIO Colin Cobain

Comment In this exclusive interview with silicon.com, Tesco group IT director Colin Cobain - just crowned CIO of the year at the CNET Networks UK Business Technology Awards 2007 - talks about the supermarket giant's move to standard global systems, green...

Tags: colin cobain, tesco

[25 Sep 2007]

Tesco aims to cut data-centre carbon footprint

News In an exclusive interview with silicon.com, Colin Cobain, group IT director at Tesco, said the IT department is already looking at ways to reduce energy consumption and is in the process of developing a green strategy to help meet these goals.

Tags: colin cobain, green, tesco

[25 Sep 2007]

Video: Tesco CIO Colin Cobain

Video In this exclusive interview with silicon.com's community editor & chief reporter Andy McCue, Tesco's group IT director Colin Cobain talks about the supermarket giant's move to standard global systems and processes, reveals plans to cut IT energy...

Tags: colin cobain, tesco

[24 Sep 2007]

The McCue Interview: The AA IT director Trevor Didcock

Comment Click here to read page 2 of the interview. It's a time of transition again at the AA. Just four years after a private equity buyout and separation from its then parent company, Centrica, the motoring organisation is putting the finishing touches...

Tags: trevor didcock, the aa

[21 Sep 2007]

Exclusive: AA terminates £50m IBM deal

News In an exclusive interview with silicon.com just before he left the AA, Didcock said: "We have terminated our deal with IBM. Read the full interview with Didcock here. The AA has terminated its £50m seven-year IT outsourcing deal with IBM three-and...

Tags: trevor didcock, ibm, the aa

[21 Sep 2007]

Judge calls for "universal" national DNA database

News In an interview on BBC Radio 4's Today Programme Lord Justice Ledley called the situation with the existing DNA database "indefensible" because of the numbers of innocent people acquitted and the disproportionately high number of ethnic minorities...

Tags: database, dna

[05 Sep 2007]

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