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Leader: Why we must know more about wi-fi
Leader This week the Professional Association of Teachers will write to the Education Secretary Alan Johnson to request further research into the effects of wi-fi networks in schools and other educational facilities, fearing wireless could prove harmful... [23 Apr 2007]
CEO and CIO still don't see eye to eye
Comment With the exception of some techie leaders like Ned Johnson at Fidelity, Fred Smith at FedEx or David Glass at Wal-Mart, chief executives perceived IT/BT (I now refer to information technology as business technology, or BT) as an important... [01 Mar 2007]
Web blunder leaks Vista price tag
News Windows unit head Kevin Johnson said at a July meeting with financial analysts: "We don't expect significant changes in our pricing strategy. Gartner analyst Michael Silver said: "The thing about list prices for full versions is that no one pays... [29 Aug 2006]
CIO Jury: India can challenge the 'big six'
News Tony Johnson, IT director, Virgin Megastores Michael Elliot, IT director, Hasbro Ten of the 12 CIOs and IT directors on this week's CIO Jury panel said they view the Indian IT services companies as true competitors to the traditional western 'big... [03 Aug 2006]
Five-year court battle bankrupts former City IT manager
News Michael Johnson's problems started in 1999 when he was working for IT services company Perot Systems on a contract at investment bank UBS Warburg on a salary of £60,000 per year. Johnson claims he lost his job at Perot Systems after the Abbey bank... [09 Jun 2006]
Microsoft: 'Get ready for Vista now'
News Kevin Johnson, head of the business unit that includes Windows, said in an interview with silicon.com sister site CNET News.com this week that Microsoft is "likely" to have some kind of discount or upgrade programme to help those who buy a PC this... [19 May 2006]
CIO Jury: 'Gas-guzzling' PCs pose IT power issues
News Tony Johnson, IT director, Virgin Megastores Michael Elliot, IT director, Hasbro The rising cost of electricity and thus of running IT hardware is becoming an increasingly significant issue for organisations, according to UK IT chiefs. [17 May 2006]
CIO Jury: Legacy is biggest IT headache
News Tony Johnson, IT director, Virgin Megastores Michael Elliot, IT director at Hasbro More than half (seven) of this week's silicon.com 12-man CIO Jury IT user panel agreed and said that legacy IT systems are one of the single biggest challenges and... [15 Mar 2006]
Is Google Desktop 3 a threat to data security?
News Faisal Sehbai, system administrator and network engineer at Johnson Controls, agreed. Any amount of time that data is stored on an outside server is too long for institutions that must comply with the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act and... [16 Feb 2006]
All change in Redmond as Microsoft does a reboot
News Kevin Johnson and Jim Allchin will be co-presidents of the Platform Products and Services division, which will comprise Windows Client, Server and Tools and the MSN division. At the time, Microsoft said Johnson, who was serving as sales chief... [21 Sep 2005]
CIO Jury: Is 'business speak' damaging the IT profession?
News But Tony Johnson, IT director at Virgin Megastores, acknowledged there must still be recognition of the continued importance of skilled technical IT professionals. Tony Johnson, IT director, Virgin Megastores [10 Aug 2005]
Bush picks tech lawyer for homeland security post
News Baker is currently a partner at the Steptoe and Johnson law firm - which counts many technology companies as clients - and has been an important but polarising fixture in many privacy debates during the last 15 years. [14 Jul 2005]
Perot contests email archive trawl in £2m defamation case
News Michael Johnson, who had worked for outsourcer Perot Systems Europe, claims an employee of the company provided defamatory information to an employee-screening service for a job reference that subsequently cost him his position at Deutsche Bank. [14 Jun 2004]
The Weekly Round-Up: 04.06.04
Round-Up Fabricant, who looks like an older and wiser version of fellow Tory Boris Johnson, is concerned that the current government is failing to protect businesses from unsolicited commercial email (see here). [04 Jun 2004]
'Slough of despair': UK techies go to town on 'IT heartland'
News silicon.com reader Michael Johnson replied, simply "everything". The UK IT sector has hit out at Slough - the oft-criticised Berkshire town at the very heart of the M4 corridor, along which many of the country's leading technology companies are based. [28 Jul 2003]
