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- CTO
- Chief Technical Officer The executive responsible for the technical direction of an organization. See CIO and salary survey.
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- HP CTO predicts the future of technology
- Russ Daniels, CTO of cloud services strategy for Hewlett-Packard, predicts that in the coming years, technology will move towards being customizable for every aspect of our lives. At the Interop Conference in Las Vegas, he discusses with M.R. Rangaswami, co-founder of the Sand Hill Group, what the barriers to this...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., CTO, Technology, Strategy, Management, Russ Daniels, Hewlett-Packard, Interop
- Videos 2009-05-26
- O'Reilly: Chopra is the Government 2.0 choice for CTO
- Is the pick of Aneesh Chopra as the nation's CTO a snub for Silicon Valley? After all, Chopra comes from Virginia state government and CIO Vivek Kundra was most recently in D.C. government. You'll recall in the midst of the speculation about who Obama would pick for these posts, I...
- Tags: Job, CTO, Health Care, Government, Vertical Industries, Recruitment & Selection, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-04-21
- Does Kundra have an impossible job as Obama's federal CIO?
- On Thursday, U.S. President Barack Obama named Vivek Kundra as the CIO of the federal government. Kunda below is a 34 year-old IT leader with a strong reputation in the tech community. He has track record for driving efficiency and transparency, and has shown a penchant for bold actions such...
- Tags: Job, CIO, CTO, Information Technology, Vivek Kundra, Government Operation, Federal Government, Government, Strategy, Management, Jason Hiner
- Blog posts 2009-03-06
- Does Kundra have an impossible job as Obama's federal CIO?
- On Thursday, U.S. President Barack Obama named Vivek Kundra as the CIO of the federal government. Kunda below is a 34 year-old IT leader with a strong reputation in the tech community. He has track record for driving efficiency and transparency, and has shown a penchant for bold actions such...
- Tags: Job, CIO, CTO, Information Technology, Vivek Kundra, Government Operation, Federal Government, Government, Strategy, Management, Jason Hiner
- Blog posts 2009-03-06
- Obama names D.C. CTO Kundra as federal CIO
- President Obama today named Vivek Kundra, Washington, D.C.'s chief technology officer, to the position of federal chief information officer. Kundra, who previously served as a technology policy adviser for President Obama (and who ZDNet Open Source blogger Dana Blankenhorn considers "Obama's tech daddy"), will be responsible for...
- Tags: Washington, Barack Obama, CTO, Vivek Kundra, Government, Cellular Phones, Strategy, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Management, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-03-05
- Ken Silva, CTO, Verisign
- Ken Silva, CTO of Verisign, speaks to ZDNet Editor in Chief, Larry Dignan about the biggest security threats facing companies in 2009, and what Verisign is doing to out-innovate the hackers. Silva also discusses the company’s strategy to expand domain name capacity, secure mobile devices, and his philosophy on the...
- Tags: CTO, VeriSign Inc., Domain Name, Domain Names, Security, Internet, Administrator
- Blog posts 2009-02-10
- Verisign CTO: Aligning security and innovation
- Ken Silva, CTO of Verisign, says blocking new technologies from coming into your company isn't a smart strategy. Eventually, he says, someone at the top will want to use their iPhone or other mobile device, so planning to do this securely is more savvy.
- Tags: Innovation, CTO, VeriSign Inc., Security, iPhone
- Videos 2009-02-10
- 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
- Judy Estrin: my choice for CTO USA
- Judy Estrin would make a great choice for Chief Technology Officer of the USA. Here is why: - she is a successful serial Silicon Valley entrepreneur. - she is a former CTO of Cisco Systems. - she has studied the subject of innovation in great...
- Tags: Silicon Valley, U.S., CTO, Entrepreneurship, Corporate Governance, Leadership, Strategy, Management, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2009-01-21
- Kentucky tries to lead health IT train
- CTO is the only major position in the new government that the Obama people have yet to fill. Given that reality it makes sense for states to do their own planning, and to just ask Washington for a check. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: CTO, Information Technology, Kentucky, Health Care, Stimulus, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Benefits, E-health, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-01-12
- From grassroots to government: Looking for a FOSS friendly national CTO
- Will the first national CTO embrace open source? Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales hopes so. In a piece on CNN's Web site, Wales and Andrea Weckerle argue that the first national CTO needs to commit to open source and open standards: For the same reason that all government publications...
- Tags: CTO, F/OSS, Government, Open Source, Joe Brockmeier
- Blog posts 2009-01-08
- Forget MacWorld and the keynote. Jobs as Obama's CTO? No.
- So Mike Contaxis at MacSoda had the "real reason" why Steve Jobs was not going to give the keynote today at MacWorld. This was before Jobs' disclosure of the "hormonal imbalance" that his medical team has determined is leading him to lose weight. Jobs is set to...
- Tags: Job, Steve Jobs, Eric Schmidt, CTO, Macworld, Obama, Internet, Recruitment & Selection, Strategy, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Management, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2009-01-06
- Linux Foundation goes from Novell to IBM CTO
- This recycling of leadership with private industry is the real story. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Novell Inc., CTO, IBM Corp., Linux Foundation, Ted Ts'o, Linux, Leadership, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Management, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-12-19
- CIO Sessions: Mozilla CTO: Brendan Eich
- Brendan Eich, CTO of Mozilla, talks to CNET News’ Dan Farber about why the company now commands 20 percent of the browser market and what they’re doing to grow. He also discusses the company’s mobile browser strategy, making Firefox faster than the competition, and taking chances with the company’s core...
- Tags: CTO, Web Browser, Mozilla Corp., Web Browsers, Strategy, Internet, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-11-20
- Mozilla CTO: Brendan Eich
- Brendan Eich, CTO of Mozilla, talks to CNET News’ Dan Farber about why the company now commands 20 percent of the browser market and what they’re doing to grow. He also discusses the company’s mobile browser strategy, making Firefox faster than the competition, and taking chances with the company’s core...
- Tags: CTO, Web Browser, Mozilla Corp., Web Browsers, Strategy, Internet, Management, Administrator
- Blog posts 2008-11-18
- Tech czar job: CTO or CIO?
- Is the national "chief technology officer" job promised by Obama going to be more of CTO or CIO job? The consensus seems to be leading towards the latter. The Washington Post quotes Gary Arlen of Arlen Communications: It seems to be much...
- Tags: Job, CIO, CTO, Information Technology, Government, Recruitment & Selection, Vertical Industries, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-11-17
- EIC podcast: Best Buy's fall; Obama's CTO, Microhoo; Search wars
- On this week's EIC squared podcast Dan and I talk about the tech economy, Obama's CTO, Yahoo and Microsoft's potential deal with Verizon Wireless. On the economy, Dan and I talk about the downward spiral that's going on with consumer spending. Best Buy is the latest company...
- Tags: Best Buy Co. Inc., CTO, Microsoft Corp., Verizon Wireless, Podcasts, Operating Systems, Internet, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-11-12
- Schmidt says no to CTO job
- Photo by WorldWidePhotography Fresh from his stint on Barack Obama's economic transition team, Google CEO Eric Schmidt made an appearance on Jim Cramer's "Mad Money", where he put to rest speculation -- like that from TechRepublic's Jason Hiner -- that he would be the top pick for...
- Tags: Job, Google Inc., Eric Schmidt, CTO, Schmidt, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-11-10
- News to know: Rigged PDFs; Obama's CTO; Android bug; Windows 7
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Jason Perlow: Can we finally realize Alan Kay's Dynabook for $100? CNET News: Memo to Intel: Netbooks morphing into notebooks Ryan Naraine: Rigged PDFs...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, CTO, Adobe PDF, E-waste, Microsoft Windows, Robots, Operating Systems, Software, Emerging Technologies, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-11-10
- Can the U.S. CTO avoid being steamrolled by bureaucracy?
- There has been a lot of chatter about President Elect Barack Obama's plan to name a U.S. chief technology officer and the biggest challenge for anyone who takes the job is this: How do you avoid being consumed by a bulky bureaucratic machine known as the government? ...
- Tags: Eric Schmidt, CTO, Bureaucracy, Government, Vertical Industries, Hardware Upgrade, Advertising & Promotion, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware, Marketing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-11-09

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