CIO UK Blogs: Entries for January 2010
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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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January 28, 2010
Apple searches for a market with blank sheet of iPad
Few surprises but nice price and battery for Apple's iPad
In the end it was that rare thing: an Apple announcement shorn of surprises. There was Steve Jobs, the man in black and denim, looking pretty well...
Posted by: Martin Veitch
January 25, 2010
Oracle-Sun could still shake up servers
Obscured by Apple's tablet, the forgotten Oracle-Sun merger could yet put cat among pigeons
It's only January but Wednesday promises to be one of the biggest dates in the 2010 technology calendar with Apple (we assume) announcing its...
Posted by: Martin Veitch
January 22, 2010
What the papers will say about Apple's tablet
An advance cut-out-and-keep guide to press coverage of Apple's tablet
Crumbs, I can hardly wait until Wednesday. I'm fully expecting an earth-shattering announcement that will change the face of technology. And after...
Posted by: Martin Veitch
January 21, 2010
Ingres: Oracle already protecting core biz from MySQL
Rival database firm comes out swinging on Oracle-Sun merger
With the EU finally saying 'oh, go on then' today to the Oracle-Sun combination and Larry Ellison due to talk up the new hybrid beast of...
Posted by: Martin Veitch
January 21, 2010
Dodgy fashions, dodgier drugs: the cost of brandjacking
Rip-offs of brands online can be a serious matter
One of the more minor changes occasioned by the internet is the way that we are bombarded with brand names. Once exclusive marques sold through...
Posted by: Martin Veitch
January 20, 2010
Bill Gates on Twitter? Maybe Microsoft should buy the company
Microsoft should buy Twitter as a lens onto the world
When Carlos Tevez scored each of his brace of goals last night, there was in his gesturing and facial contortions something more than the...
Posted by: Martin Veitch
January 19, 2010
CIOs are going to budget like it's 2005, says Gartner
IT budgets to be flat as proverbial pancakes for this year
If you spot a chief information officer whistling to a tune such as the Black Eyed Peas' My Humps or Mariah Carey's We Belong Together while...
Posted by: Martin Veitch
January 18, 2010
Here's how to change government IT
A competition has been launched to attract ideas about running state IT
Government IT is a bit like the weather in that everybody complains about it but relatively few do anything about it. I find...
Posted by: Martin Veitch
January 13, 2010
Microsoft and HP build stacks on Windows Azure
Giants say pre-built cloud apps are more than mere bundles
HP and Microsoft are teaming up again, this time to simplify deployment and support for Windows Azure-based Exchange, SQL Server...
Posted by: Martin Veitch
January 12, 2010
Brown's free laptops offer wins my vote
PM's giveaway plan is Old Labour at its best
Gordon Brown's plan to offer free latops and broadband access to 270,000 worst-off families is a pleasing touch of Old Labour in a political...
Posted by: Martin Veitch
January 08, 2010
If Steve Jobs were the UK's Prime Minister
Vote, vote, vote for the Apple CEO to succeed Gordon Brown
Let's face it brothers and sisters, when it comes to who could be patrolling the corridors of power for the next few years, the choice isn't...
Posted by: Martin Veitch
January 06, 2010
Whatever your politics, state IT requires proper investment
Poor Gordon Brown is the nation's whipping boy but Labour modernised state IT
Just when it seemed things couldn't get much worse, veretan Labour politicians are calling for a leadership ballot. Brown can expect one of...
Posted by: Martin Veitch
January 05, 2010
Gartner-Burton deal narrows CIO analyst options
Gartner is the Manchester United of analysts now. No, the 800lb gorilla. Or the Wagner chorus.
Gartner's deal to buy fellow IT analyst Burton Group crunches the number of firms available to CIOs seeking third-party insight into...
Posted by: Martin Veitch
January 05, 2010
That was 2010: An early round-up of the year in tech
A sneak preview of what you'll be reading over the next 12 months
January: There is spate of predictions about what will happen in 2010 with some pundits referring back to predictions from previous year and...
Posted by: Martin Veitch
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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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