(Chief Technical Officer) The executive responsible for the technical direction of an organization. See CIO and salary survey.
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- News items 2009-10-29
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- Blog posts 2009-10-27
- Amazon launches relational database service: Think MySQL in the cloud
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- Blog posts 2009-10-27
- Ubuntu 9.10 launch - 29 October
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- Blog posts 2009-10-26
- 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:...
- Blog posts 2009-10-23
- Boomi issues Dream Widget challenge ahead of Dreamforce show
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- Blog posts 2009-10-22
- U.S. CTO: Health care needs better billing systems
- At the Web 2.0 Summit in San Franicsco, U.S. CTO Aneesh Chopra talks about IT changes that need to be made to the current health care system. He believes one of the biggest areas of waste is the money spent on billing within the system, with 17 cents of every...
- Blog posts 2009-10-22
- U.S. CTO: Health care needs better billing systems
- At the Web 2.0 Summit in San Franicsco, U.S. CTO Aneesh Chopra talks about IT changes that need to be made to the current health care system. He believes one of the biggest areas of waste is the money spent on billing within the system, with 17 cents of every...
- Videos 2009-10-21
- 'Evil Maid' USB stick attack keylogs TrueCrypt passphrases
- Security researcher Joanna Rutkowska has released a PoC proof of concept of a keylogger that is capable of logging TrueCrypt's disk encryption passphrase enabling the attacker to successfully decrypt the hard drive's content. Dubbed, the 'evil maid' attack due to its 'plug-and-exploit' functionality requiring 1-2 minutes for...
- Blog posts 2009-10-19
- Future ERP
- Brian Sommer's provocative post that juxtaposes SAP's technology thinking around the 'old' and 'new' worlds provides insights into something SAP was talking about last year - the two speed world of ERP. At the back end there is still plenty to do, hardening applications, winkling out recurring bugs...
- Blog posts 2009-10-19
- Two Views of the Software Market
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- Blog posts 2009-10-16
- VA now loves its VistA software
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- Discussion threads 2009-10-15
- CTIA: Qualcomm, AT&T execs reflect on Mobile's past, future
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- Blog posts 2009-10-08
- Verizon reshuffles units as operating chief retires
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- Blog posts 2009-10-05
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- Blog posts 2009-09-30
- SmartSynch touts progress in Texas
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- Blog posts 2009-09-25
- News to know: Intel's IDF; Google; Microsoft; Yahoo
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- Blog posts 2009-09-23
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- Blog posts 2009-09-22
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- Blog posts 2009-09-21
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- Blog posts 2009-09-18
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