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Obama's search for a national CTO
News Genachowski chaired the group that helped shape Obama's 'Technology and innovation plan', in which Obama calls for a CTO. Genachowski is considered to be a strong contender for the CTO position. However, the chief technology officer (CTO) would...
[November 7, 2008, 10:49]
Is it a bird, a plane? No, it's Super CTO
Blog Commenting on SAP's appointment of Vishal Sikka as chief technology officer David Mitchell, software practice leader at Ovum writes: central CTO roles are increasing. Microsoft had Ray Ozzie as CTO, before he succeeded Bill Gates as chief software...
[May 31, 2007, 17:45]
CIO or CTO?
Talkback CTO, Technical Director or the technical aspects of a CIO role) in favour of business-alignment, financial excellence etc. This means the CTO role (however it may be filled) becomes all the more crucial to drive innovation and technological...
[April 26, 2008, 13:04]
Obama CTO site lets users vote on tech priorities
News Using an application from UserVoice, Seattle-based programmers have launched a website, Obama CTO, which allow citizens to list and vote on what should be the top technology priorities for the new administration.
[November 13, 2008, 14:33]
Bergen's CTO: Why we moved to Linux
News We spoke to the city's CTO, Ole-Bjorn Tuftedal, to get his take on why Norway's second-largest city was making the move. The City of Bergen recently announced plans to migrate many of its servers to SUSE Linux.
[June 15, 2004, 17:55]
Microsoft CTO lauds BlackBerry, iPod
Talkback I am with the MS CTO: I carry a PDA, a phone, an iPod, a camera - whatever I will be using. With apologies to Mr. Chandler, I believe you missed the whole point of the discussion. While it may be possible one day to have devices that "do it all...
[January 20, 2005, 6:08]
Mozilla CTO offers glimpse of Firefox's future
News Brendan Eich, chief technology officer of Mozilla, talks to CNET News.com's Dan Farber about why the company now commands 20 percent of the browser market and what they're doing to grow. He also discusses the company's mobile-browser strategy...
[November 20, 2008, 12:33]
Microsoft CTO lauds BlackBerry, iPod
Talkback Finally - someone who gets it. All this talk about convergence completely overlooks the fact that some functions simply do not go together. I love my iPod - it carries my music and my data, making it my constant companion when I travel for work.
[November 18, 2003, 9:08]
Microsoft CTO lauds BlackBerry, iPod
Talkback Handheld devices must converge full PC functionality with phone technology. Carrying around a pda and a phone is just not acceptable. The demand is there otherwise there wouldn't be a pda market. The current Microsoft PocketPC offering falls way...
[December 2, 2003, 6:27]
Open source is key, says Lastminute.com CTO
News Previously head of technology for Walt Disney Internet Group, Chip Steinmetz has been quietly overhauling the dot-com favourite's architecture since his appointment as CTO almost a year ago. Lastminute.com has earned its place as the UK's dot-com...
[March 1, 2004, 13:20]
Bergen's CTO: Why we moved to Linux
Talkback I guess in some situations it makes sense. Is this the sign of a wave? First Munich, now for the world!
[June 27, 2004, 14:57]
Bergen's CTO: Why we moved to Linux
Talkback Life is silly in Linux land. Stick with windows if you want stuff to work without spending hundreds of hours "configuring"
[June 16, 2004, 17:57]
Bergen's CTO: Why we moved to Linux
Talkback Its good to see common sense has prevailed. Theres much more to Linux than its low price - namely real security that just works and excellent stability with uptimes in excess of a year. Its utter madness to waste such huige amount of money on...
[June 16, 2004, 23:12]
Bergen's CTO: Why we moved to Linux
Talkback To McSpank, How did you become an IT Manager ? Statements like that are blatantly ignorant.
[June 17, 2004, 10:20]
Bergen's CTO: Why we moved to Linux
Talkback We have had similar experiences albeit on a much smaller scale. Our migration to Linux started about 7 years ago when we moved from dial-up Internet access to a dedicated IP line. We were already using Netware for our LAN infrastructure and simply...
[June 17, 2004, 11:24]
Yahoo's CTO quits
News Yahoo chief technology officer Farzad Nazem has resigned, the company revealed in a filing on Wednesday with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Nazem, who joined the company in 1996, said in a statement on Yahoo's website that he intends...
[May 31, 2007, 10:58]
Intel boots Gelsinger upstairs to become first CTO
News Intel has appointed Pat Gelsinger as its first chief technology officer, and has created a new division to deal with the demands of convergence. Gelsinger, 40, is promoted from his position as chief technology officer of the Intel Architecture...
[September 26, 2001, 11:44]
CTO resigns: Will Palm lose its grip?
News Palm chief executive Carl Yankowski wrote in a company-wide email Monday that Bill Maggs, the chief technology officer, will be leaving the company. Maggs is resigning to "pursue outside opportunities related to the next phase of the Internet...
[January 17, 2001, 7:37]
Verizon's CTO looks to a 4G future
News The old technology wars that divided the wireless industry are being laid to rest as operators begin marching toward building the next-generation 4G networks. While there are still technology debates, most of the world's mobile operators, including...
[February 23, 2009, 12:45]
Sun CTO to form cloud security forum
News Sun's UK chief technology officer is working with major British public and private organisations to set up a cross-sector forum to resolve cloud-computing security issues. Cloud-computing systems could become as important as the UK critical...
[May 26, 2009, 16:50]
