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State of California CIO: E-governing with Web 2.0

Teri Takai, CIO of the State of California, discusses how she plans to use collaboration and knowledge sharing tools to help communicate with the federal government on various programs such as homeland security, health care and education.

Tags: Web, CIO, California, Web 2.0, Homeland Security, Federal Government, Internet, Government, State of California CIO, CIO Sessions

Videos 2008-11-25

CIO Sessions: Colonel John Hayes of the Air Force Reserve

In this CIO sessions interview, Colonel John Hayes, Chief Information Officer of the Air Force Reserve command, talks about the challenges of managing IT in battlefield situations, deployment of wireless technologies, Web 2.0 and about tapping into the technology expertise of its recruits and 'citizen warriors' for the development of...

Tags: Business Intelligence, CIO Sessions, General, Government, Hardware Infrastructure, Innovation, IT Management, Mobile, Security, Software Infrastructure, Telecommunications, Web Technology, Wired & Wireless

Blog posts 2007-06-06

CIO Sessions: San Francisco Giants CIO Bill Schlough

In this CIO Sessions interview, SF Giants CIO Bill Schlough outlines his multiple roles, managing back-end operations for the business of Giants baseball and AT&T Park and applying technology to improve profits and player performance and development with sophisticated digital video systems. He also talks about the free wireless access...

Tags: Entertainment, CIO Sessions, General, Mobile, Web Technology, Wired & Wireless

Blog posts 2007-05-15

CIO Sessions: Alcatel-Lucent's Ray Gilbert

In a CIO Sessions interview, Ray Gilbert, assistant vice president for IT Enterprise Collaboration at Alcatel Lucent discusses how the telecom services provider is addressing mobility needs and convergence challenges for the next generation of devices. Watch the video More CIO Sessions videos Boeing CTO: Vaho Rebassoo...

Tags: Alcatel, Alcatel-Lucent, CIO Sessions, Dan Farber, General, IP Telephony, Mobile, Ray, Ray Gilbert, Telecommunications, VOIP, Web Technology, Wired & Wireless

Blog posts 2007-04-30

CIO Sessions: Tim Stanley, Harrah's Entertainment

In this CIO Sessions video, Harrahs Entertainment CIO Tim Stanley talks about his high-tech vision for attracting customers to the world’s most popular casino destinations, from implementing business intelligence software to deploying wireless gadgets and RFID. Stanley is also Harrahs chief innovation officer. As part of his innovation mission, he...

Tags: Business Intelligence, CIO Sessions, Datacenter, General, IT Management, RFID, Software Infrastructure, Telecommunications, Wired & Wireless

Blog posts 2007-03-07

CIO Sessions: Harnessing wireless wagering at the Kentucky Derby

In a CIO Sessions video, Jay Rollins, the CIO of Churchill Downs, talks about turning around the venerable race track with 21st century technology, such using wireless networks and mobile devices for wagering. He equates the technology requirements of horse racing for wagering elements and data collection and analysis to...

Tags: CIO Sessions, General, IT Management, Web Technology, Wired & Wireless

Blog posts 2007-02-22

CIO Sessions: Vanguard's Paul Heller

According to Paul Heller, CIO of The Vanguard Group, over 80 percent of client contact is done via the Web. In our CIO Sessions interview Heller explains how Vanguard applies technology to lower the cost for Vanguards financial investors."We’re just very well situated in a sense right now, because there’s...

Tags: General, IT Management, CIO Sessions

Blog posts 2007-02-20

CIO Sessions: Gideon Sasson of Charles Schwab

As part of our CIO Sessions series, I interviewed Gideon Sasson, CIO at the financial services giant Charles Schwab. He has been with Schwab for 11 years, mostly in technology management, but he also did a three-year stint as president of Schwab’s Active Trader retail business. Sasson talks openly about...

Tags: Charles Schwab & Co. Inc., CIO Sessions, IT Management, General

Blog posts 2006-12-08

CIO Sessions: Harvard Medical School CIO John Halamka

John Halamka is a practicing emergency care physician, but in the course of his medical career he caught the technology bug. As the CIO and Associate Dean for Educational Technology at Harvard Medical School, as well as CIO at CareGroup Healthcare Systems with 14,000 employees and 3,000 doctors, Halamka is...

Tags: CIO Sessions, General, IT Management, Software Infrastructure, Security, Wired & Wireless, Web Technology, Mobile, John Halamka

Blog posts 2006-11-28

CIO Sessions: Randy Spratt, McKesson Corp.

Randy Spratt heads up IT for McKesson, the $88 billion healthcare giant headquartered in San Francisco. In our video interview transcript here Spratt described one aspect of McKessons business as the Amazon.com of healthcare. "We’ll do a billion and half dollars of pharmaceuticals every month through our online capabilities," he...

Tags: Spratt, General, IT Management, CIO Sessions

Blog posts 2006-11-22

CIO Sessions: Motorola's Patricia Morrison

Last week I interviewed Patricia Morrison, Motorolas CIO. She joined Motorola in July 2005 after stints at Office Depot, Quaker Oats where she engineered the integration into PepsiCos systems after the acquisition and GE Industrial Systems. She is used to working with budgets in the hundreds of millions and trying...

Tags: General, IT Management, Software Infrastructure, Wired & Wireless, Web Technology, Mobile, CIO Sessions

Blog posts 2006-11-21

Additional Resources

News to know: Windows 7, Net Neutrality, Nokia-Apple; Kindle

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Windows 7 Coverage Andrew Nusca: Liveblog: Microsoft CEO Ballmer kicks off Windows 7 availability Adrian Kingsley-Hughes:...

Tags: Nokia Corp., Andrew Nusca, Apple Inc., Net Neutrality, Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Blog posts 2009-10-23

CIO Sessions: Verizon Telecom's Shadman Zafar on Internet TV

Shadman Zafar, CIO of Verizon Telecom talks to ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das about the company’s promise to deliver the Internet to television with its new Fios platform. The service will include social media widgets like Facebook and Twitter. Zafar describes the company’s approach to innovating in an economic downturn and...

Tags: CIO, Internet TV, Verizon Communications Inc., Telephony, TVs, Telecom & Utilities, Tv & Home Theater, Telecommunications, Networking, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-22

Conference alert: let's make SOA work for a living

Welcome to Service Oriented Architecture, Phase 2. It's bigger, It's badder, it's all business.  None of this namby-pamby JBOWs stuff. None of these SOAPY-REST tantrums. SOA is all grown up now, and it's time it starts earning the bacon. I am serving as conference chair and...

Tags: SOA, Conference, Dave Linthicum, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-10-15

eBay names Sun veteran head of data center strategy

EBay has appointed Dean Nelson, a Sun Microsystems veteran, to be in charge of its data center strategy. Nelson will be senior director of global data center strategy, architecture and operations. Nelson is founder of Data Center Pulse, a non-profit data center industry group. ...

Tags: Strategy, Data Center, Sun Microsystems Inc., eBay Inc., Dean Nelson, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-09-08

European SaaS vendors: not quite comfortable in their skins

This week in Amsterdam, our own Phil Wainewright was compering and moderating panels for the annual SIIA On Demand conference. If you've not met Phil he is the overseas person's image of the 'perfect English gentleman.' He did a great job herding the cats aka the saas industry's spokepeople and...

Tags: Channel Management, Dennis Howlett, Google Inc., Management, Marketing, Retail, Strategy

Blog posts 2009-06-10

News to know: Windows 7; Apple; Yahoo bonuses; Palm

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily.  For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Verdict: Windows 7 - Like Vista, just a bit easier to use and less annoying Ed Bott: Database glitch causes Windows 7 download...

Tags: Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows 7, Yahoo! Inc., Palm Inc., Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Blog posts 2009-05-01

CIO Sessions: Sony Electronics' Drew Martin

Drew Martin, CIO of Sony Electronics, speaks to me about how IT is facilitating product development at the consumer electronics giant. Martin also shares his views on what the company is doing to get an edge on the likes of Nintendo and Apple in the competitive electronics space. ...

Tags: Sony Corp., CIO, Electronics, Product Development, Product Marketing, Research & Development, Business Operations, Marketing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-04-24

News to know: IBM layoffs, Google, T-Mobile, Microsoft, Dell

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily.  For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Sam Diaz: WSJ: More IBM layoffs in U.S.; jobs shifting to India Larry Dignan: Union: IBM layoffs accelerating as...

Tags: Google Inc., Layoff, Dell Computer Corp., Dana Blankenhorn, T-Mobile, Microsoft Corp., Sam Diaz, IBM Corp., Revenue Recognition, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Data Centers, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Software As A Service (SaaS), Workforce Management, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Internet, Emerging Technologies, Human Resources, Finance

Blog posts 2009-03-26

CIO Sessions: Adobe's Gerri Martin-Flickinger

Gerri Martin-Flickinger, CIO of Adobe, speaks to me about her top priorities at the graphics software maker. Martin-Flickinger shares her views on new ways the company is collaborating internally and the future of Rich Internet Applications for businesses. 2 minute Video Shorts Short on...

Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., CIO, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-03-25