CIO UK Blogs: Entries for February 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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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
February 04, 2010
Fallout from EDS-BSkyB: higher prices, more red tape
The judgment against HP-EDS in the BSkyB case means more complex outsourcing deals
So HP-EDS has finally been told to pay £200m as an interim penalty in the latest installment of the saga surrounding the failure of an ancient...
Posted by: Martin Veitch
February 03, 2010
There's no such thing as a business smartphone anymore
Vendors can no longer break phones into business and consumer categories
I stumbled on a full-page display ad in the London Evening Standard on Monday that replicated the already familiar iPhone campaign promoting apps...
Posted by: Martin Veitch
February 01, 2010
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?
At the World Economic Forum in Davos last week the tone was one of uncharacteristic caution. Having been surprised by the big wave of...
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.
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