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Who is Obama's tech daddy?

The President said during the transition he would appoint a national Chief Technology Officer, charged with crafting a tech strategy for the 21st century. Names were offered. Speculation was made. Magnetic ink was spilled onto screens. Since January 20, nothing. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: President, CTO, Chief Technology Officer, Government, Sales Strategy, Open Source, Sales, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2009-02-10

10 candidates who could become Obama's CTO

As a presidential candidate, part of Barack Obama's technology policy platform included hiring the U.S. government's first chief technology officer CTO. If Obama follows through on this, who is likely to get the job? Here are 10 top candidates. by Jason Hiner

Tags: Candidate, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Jason Hiner, Chief Technology Officer, Padmasree Warrior Warrior, Vint Cerf Cerf, Leadership, Internet, Management

Blog posts 2008-11-10

Who will be the nation's CTO?

John Doerr left and John Heilemann at Web 2.0 At the Web 2.0 conference, Kleiner-Perkins VC John Doerr recommended Sun cofounder Bill Joy or tech gadfly Danny Hillis for the position of the nation's chief technology officer, News.com's Rafe Needlman reports. On...

Tags: Job, Chief Technology Officer, Government, Recruitment & Selection, Web 2.0, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Internet, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-11-06

Sun Microsystems' Jonathan Schwartz on CIO / CTO differences

Blogger Jonathan Schwartz, who also happens to be CEO of Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ:JAVA), has written an insightful post describing issues raised by Chief Information Officers CIO and Chief Technology Officers CTO during meetings with Sun. His comments reveal distinct differences between the two groups. ...

Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Jonathan Schwartz, Chief Information Officer, Chief Technology Officer, Tools & Techniques, Data Centers, Leadership, Strategy, Management, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2007-12-18

Obama outlines federal CTO position; Where's the power?

Barack Obama unveiled plans for a chief technology officer, support for Net neutrality, improving education, next-generation broadband networks and more research spending. Oh yeah, and there will be more open government and feds using wikis and blogs. This agenda, outlined in this PDF, makes for good fodder....

Tags: CIO, Agency, Information Technology, Chief Technology Officer, News, Reality, Barack Obama, Government, Vertical Industries, Advertising & Promotion, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2007-11-14

Photos: Scanning brain waves

Upstart EmSense reads people's brain waves to gauge their emotional response to advertisements and video games.Hans Lee, chief technology officer of EmSense, wearing the company''s wireless headband, which includes a dry EEG electroencephalogram sensor to measure the electrical activity of the brain without the use of gels; an accelerometer, which...

Tags: Mice, Games, photograph, Upstart EmSense, Lee, rabbit, mouse, sensor, video game company, cage, gel, Monterey, THQ Inc., Santa Monica, Super Bowl, game company, headset, chief technology officer, video, sales, video game, gamer, advertiser, Hollywood, California, monitor, photogra

Image galleries 2007-08-21

Solar start-up nabs BP exec

Bob Oswald, who directed solar tech efforts at BP, will be chief technology officer at HelioVolt. Bob Oswald, who headed up research efforts at BP Solar and Solarex over the past two decades, has joined HelioVolt as chief technology officer. HelioVolt specializes in copper-indium-gallium-selenium solar technology....

Tags: BP Plc, Photovoltaics, Chief Technology Officer, HelioVolt, CIGS Cell, Manufacturing, Michael Kanellos, Hardware

News items 2005-12-15

Content deployment strategies

Now that you finally have all that content, you need to do something with it. Jack Jia, Interwoven's CTO, makes the case for an efficient distribution system. Let's say you've effectively launched an Internet portal, you have an online ordering system, and your automated CRM application is up and...

Tags: Strategy, Content, Distribution System, Mutual Funds, Servers, Human Resources, Benefits, Retirement Plans, Hardware, Jack Jia, Chief Technology Officer, Interwoven, Jack Jia, Chief Technology Officer, Interwoven

News items 2002-10-15

Palm's chief technology officer resigns

Wanted: chief technology officer for leading handheld company. Please beam resumes to Palm palm HR. Palm CEO Carl Yankowski wrote in a companywide e-mail Monday that Bill Maggs, the chief technology officer, will be leaving the company, according to a source close to the company. Full story to follow....

Tags: Palm Inc., Chief Technology Officer, E-mail, Handhelds, Online Communications, Hardware, ZDNN Staff, Technology News

News items 2001-01-16

Legal Technology Provider Achieves Competitive Advantage Through Innovation

Leading United Kingdom software developer and Microsoft Gold Certified Partner FWBS specialises in IT solutions for law firms. When the Microsoft .NET Framework was first launched in 2001, FWBS Chief Technology Officer and Development Director decided to redevelop one of the company's core products, Matter Centre, using the new technology....

Tags: Innovation, Competitive Advantage, Microsoft Corp., Chief Technology Officer, Strategy, Software Development, Development Tools, Management, Software/Web Development

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Next year is THE year for cloud computing

Here is what Indu Kodukula, CTO of SunGard Availability Services thinks how cloud computing is likely to transform the computing industry landscape in 2010. Commentary - Yogi Berra had it right - it?s difficult to make predictions, especially about the future. It?s especially difficult...

Tags: CIO, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Hardware, cloud, Indu Kodukula

News items 2009-11-17

The Enterprise 2.0 Value Propositions Agenda

Time is Money: Where's the Beef? The now biannual US 'Enterprise 2.0' conference is a wrap, but disappointingly there is still little business understanding of what the term means or what the value propositions and benefits are. The general 2.0 suffix is well understood by technology...

Tags: Collaboration, Enterprise 2.0, Conference, E2.0, Susan Scrupski, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-11-05

BlackBerry the choice of organized crime

You mean police have to workand do things themselves instead of casting a massive net over everyone? What a shame...well its good for RIM ....As for gang member there is one thing i never understood .Why does the a real clean up have been never made ....you set...

Tags: Handhelds, organized crime, RIM BlackBerry, RCMP

Discussion threads 2009-10-19

Two new tomes offer tips to guide your Green IT strategy

Believe it or not, I have a stack of 10 business books on my desk right now, begging to be read and reviewed. Two are pertinent for the loyal Green IT folks in the GreenTech Pastures, so I felt it appropriate to mention them as a scan some of the...

Tags: Strategy, Data Center, Green IT, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-10-09

The 'Seven Laws of Projects'

great!Seventh Point is the one always happen.RE: The 'Seven Laws of Projects'Unfortunately very true.A successful project is typically one where someone gets lucky and manages to balance your seven points to an 'optimal' level.Accepting #2 has given us the opportunity to go for more of an agile approach. If you...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Time-to-Market

Discussion threads 2009-10-01

Dell to buy Perot Systems for $3.9 billion

Dell says it has agreed to buy the IT services company Perot Systems for about $3.9 billion as it looks to expand beyond the PC business. The Round Rock, Texas-based Dell said Monday that it will offer $30 per share in cash for Perot, which is based...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Perot Systems Corp., It Services, Corporate Governance, Mergers & Acquisitions, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Investment, Finance, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-09-21

HP Software CTO: Virtualization and cloud sourcing sprawl likely

HP Software sees a lot of sprawl on the horizon with virtualization and cloud computing. Those are the two primary key takeaways from my conversation with Jamie Erbes, Chief Technology Officer for HP Software & Solutions. Erbes right has an interesting track record. She arrived at HP...

Tags: Software, Sourcing, Hewlett-Packard Co., Information Technology, Electronic Data Systems Corp., HP Software, IT Department, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Purchasing & Procurement, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Hardware, Storage, Business Operations, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-09-17

AMD's Charlie Boswell: With cloud computing, 'follow the money' [interview]

Cloud computing can't possibly handle streaming a first-person shooter or a feature-length film, can it? Ask AMD's Charlie Boswell, and he'll not only tell you it's possible, but he'll nearly leap with excitement about it. Boswell, AMD's director of digital...

Tags: Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Cloud, GPU, OTOY, Fusion Render Cloud, Jules, Games, Cloud Computing, Internet, Virtualization, Personal Technology, Hardware, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-09-11

Meet Cliq, MotoBlur: Live blog from Motorola-Android announcement

Motorola co-CEO Dr. Sanjay Jha is addressing the audience at GigaOm's Mobilize conference in San Francisco today. I'm here to share some details as they develop. 10:29 am: Dr. Jha takes the stage and starts his keynote speech by talking about wireless broadband. For users, it means...

Tags: Phone, Network, Blog, T-Mobile, Motorola Inc., Wireless Broadband, Wireless, MotoBlur, Sanjay Jha, Social Networking, Telecom & Utilities, Broadband Internet, Wireless And Mobility, Wi-Fi, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Telecommunications, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-09-10

Rethink Your Web Gateway Security --- Why You Need More than URL Filtering

Rethink Your Web Gateway Security --- Why You Need More than URL Filtering As the web becomes more important to modern business, it is also becoming more dangerous. Cybercriminals are more organized to the point that web-borne malware has become an integral part of the Internet- in...

Tags: Web, Trend Micro Inc., Malware, URL Filtering Solution, Channel Management, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Security, Marketing

Webcasts 2009-09-01