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Martin Veitch
Martin started his IT journalism career at PC Week. He joined Ziff-Davis UK in 1992 and helped launch PC Direct, rising to become Deputy Editor before leaving to set up ZDNet News. He joined IT Week as Executive News Editor in 1998 and was appointed Editor in 1999. He joined CIO in March 2008, and his other published work includes appearances in The Wall Street Journal Europe, BBC News Online, CFO and The Guardian. He also speaks regularly at conferences.
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March 12, 2010
If Technology Press Releases Covered Great Moments In English History
How would tech marketers handle 1966 and all that?
I don't know about you -- indeed, how could I when we hardly ever meet? -- but I get lots and lots of press releases. In my main mailbox,...
Posted by: Martin Veitch
March 10, 2010
Google opens Apps Marketplace (and scares the bejeezus out of Microsoft)
Access to thousands of complementary services is another boost for Googel's challenge to Microsoft
In the great tradition of no-brainers, Google today opened the virtual doors to its Apps Marketplace, inviting us all to download, try out and...
Posted by: Martin Veitch
March 09, 2010
Dyson's right: we need a bolder, ingenious Britain
Sir James Dyson's Ingenious Britain calls for help in rebuilding our reputation as great developers
Ruggedly handsome, hugely wealthy, highly personable and feted by all, there is a lot to dislike about Sir James Dyson* but it has to be said that...
Posted by: Martin Veitch
March 05, 2010
HP-EDS UK boss: Election will see IT spend hiatus, not drought
HP Enterprise Services MD Craig Wilson predicts IT spending pause but that's all
In the third and final part of our interview with HP Enterprise Services (the former EDS) UK MD and VP Craig Wilson, we talked about ICT services...
Posted by: Martin Veitch
March 04, 2010
HP-EDS UK boss: Civil servants are terrified by outsider views of IT projects
HP Enterprise Services UK MD Craig Wilson interview Part 2
In the second part of CIO UK's interview with HP Enterprise Services (the former EDS) MD and VP Craig Wilson we talked about the challenges to...
Posted by: Martin Veitch
March 04, 2010
HP-EDS UK boss on BSkyB, the merger and building an alternative to IBM
HP Enterprise Services boss on the 'new' EDS
In my experience at least, EDS always had a tendency to keep itself to itself. That's unsurprising as when it did appear in the press it was...
Posted by: Martin Veitch
March 01, 2010
'Twitter for business': Reed tests Salesforce.com's Chatter
Exhibitions giant pilots micro-blogging for information exchange
Being a simple bloke, I'm a big fan of Twitter as a simple way to air simple views. My only surprise is that the company is missing out on what...
Posted by: Martin Veitch
February 26, 2010
IT charge-backs can be a 'think of a number' game
Attempts to quantify IT spend are often artificial
For IT departments, the ability to charge back has long been regarded as either badge of honour or longed-for status symbol but ask CIOs about the...
Posted by: Martin Veitch
February 24, 2010
So You Want To Get Into CIO...
How to pitch CIO and a forward-features list... finally
You know, I've done a lot of things right since I started the job of Editor-In-Chief of CIO UK nigh on two years ago. My tea making wins universal...
Posted by: Martin Veitch
February 23, 2010
Jeremy Allaire weighs in on Apple/Flash stand-off
Brightcove CEO and ex-Macromedia CTO says firms must follow both Apple and Adobe dev models
The saga of Apple mobile devices and their (non-) relationship with Adobe's Flash technology has been revisited by many industry watchers ever...
Posted by: Martin Veitch
February 19, 2010
At 20, Photoshop is a spring chicken compared to veterans of PC era
Classic PC applications are in their 20s and even 30s
So Photoshop is 20 years old. Its menus and shortcuts appear to be an Enigma code to outsiders and it requires the sort of computer configuration...
Posted by: Martin Veitch
February 18, 2010
Service downs brand-infringing sites but problem won't go away
MarkMonitor's Site Staydown Service closes sites that hurt clients' brands
I've written in this space before about MarkMonitor, the self-styled "global leader in enterprise brand protection" that helps fashionable or...
Posted by: Martin Veitch
February 17, 2010
Atos Origin chief on EDS-BSkyB, Olympics, elections and man-to-man marking
Atos Origin UK CEO Keith Wilman says outsourcing deals will be less grey, more black and white
With Atos Origin announcing financials that appeared to show an improvement in the group's fortunes (and with analyst TechMarketView suggesting...
Posted by: Martin Veitch
February 17, 2010
How much is Twitter worth? Maybe $7m per employee...
At a $1bn valuation, Twitter staff rub hands in glee
Considering that it has become the catalyst for much of the world's news, the water-cooler for global gossip and the most-watched technology...
Posted by: Martin Veitch
February 15, 2010
Microsoft rips up the Windows phone book and starts again
A rewrite of the firm's smartphone software can stir things up
So Microsoft wasn't messing when it said it had come up with something radical to fight back in smartphones. The announcement today of the Windows...
Posted by: Martin Veitch
February 12, 2010
10 Random Twitter Annoyances
We're too busy to tweet!
Twitter. It's like eating a digestive biscuit. You can't see it as one of life's great pleasures but it's better than nothing. It's good to...
Posted by: Martin Veitch
February 10, 2010
Microsoft's Mangelaars on Win 8, Apple & Google's Chrome ads blitz
Microsoft's EMEA consumer and online chief interview Part 2
In part one of CIO's interview with Microsoft EMEA boss of consumer and online, John Mangelaars, we focused on what Microsoft is doing in...
Posted by: Martin Veitch
February 09, 2010
Microsoft to tighten grip on Windows smartphone designs
Microsoft will issue terms to partners to gain 'cleaner' experience
Microsoft plans include limiting handset makers to core specifications and designs as the firm seeks to stage a comeback in smartphones. The firm...
Posted by: Martin Veitch
February 08, 2010
Will Apotheker exit fuel M&A at SAP?
CEO's departure could see SAP change strategy
Oracle's blitz on leadership in enterprise applications might well be working to destablise its deadly rival SAP after CEO Leo Apotheker...
Posted by: Martin Veitch
February 05, 2010
Improving on Jonathan Schwartz's haiku (it can't get verse)
CIO launches global initiative to put the poetry back in the datacentre rack
Many watchers viewed the reign of Jonathan Schwartz at Sun Microsystems as a stint characterised by incomprehensible cryptic references and odd...
Posted by: Martin Veitch
About the author
Martin Veitch
Martin started his IT journalism career at PC Week. He joined Ziff-Davis UK in 1992 and helped launch PC Direct, rising to become Deputy Editor before leaving to set up ZDNet News. He joined IT Week as Executive News Editor in 1998 and was appointed Editor in 1999. He joined CIO in March 2008, and his other published work includes appearances in The Wall Street Journal Europe, BBC News Online, CFO and The Guardian. He also speaks regularly at conferences.
