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Notes to a public sector CIO

Richard Sykes

Richard Sykes was IT leader of chemical giants ICI during the tenure of Sir John Harvey Jones


Is 2010 the year of location-based services?

Giles Nelson

Globe trotting SOA expert describes the world he sees and the technology solutions



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Improving on Jonathan Schwartz's haiku (it can't get verse)

CIO launches global initiative to put the poetry back in the datacentre rack

There's no such thing as a business smartphone anymore

Vendors can no longer break phones into business and consumer categories

Google's 'deep reading' fears lost in shallows

Google CEO Eric Schmidt fears for our reading and cognitive skills but who can change us now?

Apple searches for a market with blank sheet of iPad

Few surprises but nice price and battery for Apple's iPad

Constantly improving offering (CIO)

Making CIO UK a better online experience

Fallout from EDS-BSkyB: higher prices, more red tape

The judgment against HP-EDS in the BSkyB case means more complex outsourcing deals

3D TV, Android, In-flight internet, Tablet PCs. The future is not so far away anymore

Leaving on a jet plane

What's the problem with DLP?

DLP never came to fruition in 2009, but will become critical for CIOs

Yanking the value chain

Upstream of the CIO there are some worrying omissions that could threaten the success of the IT function

Oracle-Sun could still shake up servers

Obscured by Apple's tablet, the forgotten Oracle-Sun merger could yet put cat among pigeons


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