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News Speaking at Alcatel-Lucent's 2009 Enterprise Forum in Paris, CEO Ben Verwaayen said the world is facing up to not one but two crises: the current financial turbulence and the ongoing threat of climate change. [05 Mar 2009]
Netbooks and recession-busting tech headline at CeBit
News CeBit has drawn a number of high-profile managers from the international IT sector to attend its conference panels, including SAP's co-CEO Leo Apotheker, Alcatel-Lucent's CEO Ben Verwaayen, Intel chairman Craig Barrett,... [02 Mar 2009]
Moon mobiles, Windows without Gates and DIY wi-fi signal boosting
News Various tech CEOs have also 'moved on' this year - or announced plans to do so - including BT's CEO Ben Verwaayen, Vodafone's Arun Sarin and Yahoo! One notable gadget in the latter category that launched this year runs a... [15 Dec 2008]
Ex-BT CEO to head up Alcatel-Lucent
News Alcatel-Lucent has appointed former BT CEO Ben Verwaayen as its new chief executive. Verwaayen acknowledged the job ahead of him wouldn't be an easy ride: "I'm truly delighted to become the CEO of... [02 Sep 2008]
Yahoo!'s board gets shareholder backing
News Ben Verwaayen BT Yahoo! s board of directors won strong backing from shareholders at its annual meeting on Friday, with Jerry Yang, the company's embattled CEO, receiving 85 per cent of the vote in his favour. [04 Aug 2008]
Infosys launches radical retail tech services
News Ben Verwaayen BT Infosys CEO Kris Gopalakrishnan is an unassuming man, who doesn't use his position to be imposing. It's less important for him to be the company's controller than to look like he is. Perhaps it comes... [01 Aug 2008]
BT CEO Ben Verwaayen to step down
News BT's CEO Ben Verwaayen is to step down as CEO on 31 May 2008 after more than six years at the telco where he championed its push into broadband and helped it dodge regulator Ofcom's axe. Verwaayen, who... [08 Apr 2008]
Google, Yahoo! and MySpace announce OpenSocial Foundation
News Ben Verwaayen Google, Yahoo! and News Corp's MySpace.com have announced they have formed the OpenSocial Foundation, a not-for-profit group to support the OpenSocial initiative that Google kick-started last year to... [26 Mar 2008]
Profile: Nandan Nilekani, co-chairman, Infosys
News Ben Verwaayen BT Nandan Nilekani is pretty much a legend in his own lifetime. Co-founder of Indian outsourcing giant Infosys, foundation board member of the World Economic Forum, co-founder of the Indian National... [03 Mar 2008]
Steve Ballmer's $44.6bn letter to Yahoo!
News Ben Verwaayen BT Microsoft today made a $44.6bn offer for web giant Yahoo! valuing the company 62 per cent higher than its latest stock value. According to Microsoft, the bid is intended to better position the two... [01 Feb 2008]
CIO Essentials: Xmas gadgets, mobile ban and green IT
News Ben Verwaayen Our CIO Essentials feature puts you in the picture. Each week a leading IT chief picks his or her top stories from the past seven days and explains why they matter. This week we hear from Mark Beattie, head... [11 Dec 2007]
Oracle users demand better support
News Ben Verwaayen BT Ronan Miles, chairman of the UK Oracle User Group, told silicon.com: "Areas of issue are in the support sphere. What we want to do with Oracle is identify the issues. He explained that many of the... [10 Dec 2007]
Granger to depart NHS IT at end of year
News Ben Verwaayen The head of the £12.4bn NHS IT programme will step down from his role in charge of the project at the end of this year. NHS IT director-general Richard Granger announced his plan to leave his role in charge... [05 Dec 2007]
Steve Jobs top of the Power pops
News Ben Verwaayen BT Jobs took the top spot in Fortune magazine's Power 25 for 2007, for having "twice altered the direction of the computer industry". Apple's launch of the Apple II in 1977 "kicked off the PC era", wrote... [29 Nov 2007]
CIO Essentials: Vista, Kindle and data breaches
News Ben Verwaayen Our CIO Essentials feature puts you in the picture. Each week a leading IT chief picks his or her top stories from the past seven days and explains why they matter. This week we hear from Graham Yellowley,... [27 Nov 2007]
