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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.

Martin Veitch

August 18, 2010

HP UK MD Nick Wilson on the economy, government, G-cloud and life after EDS, 3Com and Palm deals

Hewlett-Packard UK chief interviewed

For readers of the business pages, it's been hard in recent days to avoid news of former HP CEO Mark Hurd. For obvious reasons, I didn't expect to...

Posted by: Martin Veitch

August 11, 2010

Microsoft SenseCam/Vicon Revue interviews and (not so) shocking pictures

Final thoughts on a fortnight with the Vicon Revue wearable camera based on Microsoft SenseCam technology

In a recent blog, I scribbled down some early impressions of the Vicon Revue, a wearable camera that snaps pictures automatically to document the...

Posted by: Martin Veitch

August 05, 2010

Premier League sponsors in 2010/11 dominated by money, tech and gambling sectors

Your guide to the Premier League's shirt sponsors and their relection on the UK economy

OK, fair enough, no need to shout and make that face. I know that a cursory examination of the Premier League's shirt sponsors for the new...

Posted by: Martin Veitch

July 28, 2010

Microsoft SenseCam/Vicon Revue intrigues but needs finesse

Four days with the automatic photograph-taking necklace that is the Vicon Revue, based On Microsoft's SenseCam technology

For the past several days I've been playing with the Vicon Revue, an intriguing device that is based on Microsoft Research's SenseCam technology....

Posted by: Martin Veitch

July 21, 2010

Q&A: MIME guru Nathaniel Borenstein on why email isn't dead (or even dying)

Modern email founding father on un-improvable Lotus Notes, non-ASCII email IDs, cloud, Facebook and IM

Almost 20 years ago Nathaniel Borenstein, then working for Bellcore, proposed to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) the notion that a new...

Posted by: Martin Veitch

July 19, 2010

In business, creative differences can be positive

From Teddy Sheringham and Andy Cole to Van Gogh and Gauguin arguments have not necessarily killed the creative spirit

It is said that a house divided against itself cannot stand and yet there are many cases that disprove the famous phrase that was coined by...

Posted by: Martin Veitch

July 16, 2010

If Great Episodes in IT Were Cheap Novels

Novels starring Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Larry Ellison and Linus Torvalds

It's been a while since we imagined a fanciful scenario whereby phenomena of the information technology industry were magicked by some strange...

Posted by: Martin Veitch

July 15, 2010

Britain the sickie man of Europe? Give us a break, then

We take more sick days than our Continental cousins -- but then we work more days too

In a moment of weakness this morning I picked up the Metro free-sheet newspaper from Whitton railway station, enticed perhaps by the large picture...

Posted by: Martin Veitch

July 13, 2010

Ocado and the complex web of online shopping history

Can online grocer Ocado be worth a billion?

For some years now, the supermarkets and grocers have provided a useful Greek chorus commentary on the development of e-commerce, providing...

Posted by: Martin Veitch

July 09, 2010

Rise of the Info-junkie: this not-so-rare breed of men

Does the once-rare breed of Twitterus messageus ubiquitus already risk extinction?

Experts are not sure how the phenomenon occurred or precisely when it began, but if you're in a public space and you look around now there's an...

Posted by: Martin Veitch

July 06, 2010

Will SSD be the next RAM in PC upgrades?

Solid state drives present an intriguing way to refresh tired corporate clients

When executives of Kingston Technology recently told me that they are appealing to CIOs to upgrade their client devices to solid state drives...

Posted by: Martin Veitch

July 02, 2010

CIO poetry contest winners named and shamed

Lines written in water

I'd like to thank the hundreds of you who sent in your poems for CIO's First Annual Poetry Prize. I'd really like to, that is, but since only...

Posted by: Martin Veitch

July 02, 2010

Red Hat's Werner Knoblich on lock-in, Oracle/Sun, IBM, cloud, JBoss and public sector

Red Hat European boss interviewed

Before rushing off to watch the tennis at beautiful SW19, I enjoyed a half-hour phone conversation with Werner Knoblich, VP and general manager...

Posted by: Martin Veitch

June 30, 2010

Six Characteristics Of Highly Successful CIOs

What, apart from the bleeding obvious, makes IT leaders tick?

The Times' excellent business writer Sathnam Sanghera had a fine piece published last week suggesting the real qualities needed to be a CEO*....

Posted by: Martin Veitch

June 29, 2010

Fabio Capello: saying 'sorry' might have been a start

A full and frank apology could have been the platform for the Euros

With his inept attempt to swerve the blame and direct it to a Uruguayan referee, Fabio Capello might well have made his farewell speech from the...

Posted by: Martin Veitch

June 23, 2010

Chunk up government IT to save spend

G-Cloud likely to get a nudge as axe falls on state IT

As I've noted in this space before, I'm a sceptic when it comes to economics, a form of betting with way too many variables to justify having a...

Posted by: Martin Veitch

June 21, 2010

Apple iPad success shows PC firms need to pursue Stella Artois tack

Dell and other PC makers must build a better mousetrap

Apple's success since the Second Coming of Saint Steve has effectively rewritten much of what we thought we knew about the computer industry. Back...

Posted by: Martin Veitch

June 18, 2010

The PC can boom again thanks to the freebie era

The age of the giveaway computer can take PCs on to the next billion units very quickly

A new Forrester Research report on the future of the PC suggests tablet devices will in five years represent almost a quarter of all sales. Maybe,...

Posted by: Martin Veitch

June 14, 2010

ITV's missing World Cup goal is a reminder that outsourcing doesn't make problems go away

Steven Gerrard's goal was missed in live action by ITV HD and shows that an outsourced problem remains a problem

Not to get too Michael Barrymore about this but executives, like kids, say the funniest things, one of which is that ancient smug...

Posted by: Martin Veitch

June 10, 2010

After Philip Clarke at Tesco, is the fabled 'CIO to CEO' switch about to become reality?

A number of changes mean that CIOs could become candidates for top jobs

A couple of you have written to suggest that my recent blog about Philip Clarke's appointment as Tesco CEO was unnecessarily downbeat, a cynical...

Posted by: Martin Veitch


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