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"Europe must open its digital borders," says European commissioner Viviane Reding

Posted by James Lawrence | Mon 18 Jan 2010

For the past five years, EU commissioner Viviane Reding - the most powerful person in European ICT - has pursued the vision of a single digital market for Europe. In our exclusive interview, she explains what that means for global CIOs ...Read more

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Diversity on the desktop

Posted by Kevin White | Mon 14 Dec 2009

Will the launch of Chrome OS - Google's free, lightweight, Linux-based PC operating system - finally mark the beginning of the end for Windows' dominance on the x86 desktop? ...Read more

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This Way Up: ABB's Haider Rashid

Posted by Kevin White | Mon 19 Oct 2009

As group CIO and head of real estate at power and automation engineering company ABB, Haider Rashid manages nearly $2 billion of costs and around 4,000 internal and outsourced employees. His management roles at some of the world's largest life science companies, where he led major consolidation and strategy projects, provided the grounding for a shift into one of the top jobs in global IT ...Read more

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Cells forecast: are femtocells the future?

Posted by Andrew Donoghue | Mon 21 Sep 2009

Femtocells mean mobile providers would be able to compete with fixed broadband networks – but success depends on persuading consumers to buy into the idea ...Read more

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Essential reading for CIOs

Posted by James Lawrence | Mon 10 Aug 2009

Successful environmental strategies from "green" business leaders and the inside track on Apple's ruling genius - two of the latest must-reads for CIOs ...Read more

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The business of micro-blogging

Posted by i-cio.com staff | Tue 26 May 2009

The growth of micro-blogging sites, such as Jaiku, Plurk and Twitter, has been startling. Now businesses are beginning to work out how they can benefit from them ...Read more

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This Way Up: 3663's Jane Scott

Posted by Andy McCue | Fri 1 May 2009

Jane Scott is CIO of food service distributor 3663. She joined the company in 2003, after seven years of working internationally, including in the US and Japan, for Mars and Coca-Cola Schweppes. Here, we chart her rise to the top ...Read more

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Technology investment key to recession survival

Posted by Jessica Twentyman & Andrew Donoghue | Mon 30 Mar 2009

Smart companies recognise that IT isn’t an overhead – it could also be key to dragging their business back into the black. Investment in innovation is just as important to boosting financial performance as cutting overheads ...Read more

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Offshore Brazil Beckons for BP

europe.wsj.com: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:17:55 +0000

British oil giant BP is set to acquire a big swath of oil assets from Devon Energy. The deal, worth up to $6 billion, would vault BP into the hot new oil region off the shores of Brazil.

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Climate Panel to Face Review

europe.wsj.com: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:50:10 +0000

An international scientific body will conduct a wide-ranging review of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and make recommendations by August about how the organization should change.

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FSA Outlines Tougher Stress Tests

europe.wsj.com: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:47:10 +0000

U.K. banks have been getting more optimistic, but the regulator is assuming a more-severe fall in GDP in the U.K. than in previous scenarios.

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