The next session of the Forum will take place in New York City on October 17-18 2012.
Preliminary Session Topics for New York City – October 2012
Following a great session in Napa, the CIO Global Forum is proud ...
Repairing a broken RIM
RIM has announced that Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazairidis have resigned their ...
On the docket: Topics announcement for Napa April 25-26 2012
After compiling many great suggestions from our October session in Washington DC, ...
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Napa Panel Topic: Innovators and Disrupters
The marketplace is flooded with small, nimble and innovative companies that are creating the potential for significant disruption to existing ecosystems – through services, technologies and alternate business models. This CIO Global Forum panel discussion will include three exciting startups that will discuss their approach to moving the needle on innovation and their thoughts on [...]
BYOD and mobility: Perspectives on approach
Telwares Inc. has just released a perspectives document on BYOD and mobility, authored by Michael Voellinger of the CIO Global Forum. Go here to download now.
Infoworld: America’s wireless broadband problem just got a lot worse
The CIO Global Forum’s Michael Voellinger on FCC Lightsquared ruling. FCC veto of LightSquared’s plans for massive wireless network may have also put the brakes on widespread 4G deployment. The issue of America’s crumbling infrastructure isn’t just about bridges, highways, and railroads. It’s also about the overburdened cellular networks that power our wireless broadband and [...]
Data Center Knowledge: Upgrading a Landmark Data Center Hub
From Data Center Knowledge How do you expand the power and cooling capacity for an 80-year-old building with historic landmark status and limited roof space, located in the middle of a noise-sensitive neighborhood in the middle of New York City? All those challenges come together at one of the most familiar addresses in the telecom [...]
Business Insider: Why Scott Thompson is right CEO for Yahoo
From Business Insider: “Yahoo is the biggest turnaround challenge in the Valley. Investors want them to sell. Talent is leaving out the back door to hot start ups. Innovation appears to be lacking. Valley opinion of Yahoo has never been more negative. Right now, Yahoo badly needs two key things: positive leadership for a team [...]
HP gives webOS to open source community
On Friday, HP announced it will make its webOS mobile operating system available to software developers and device-makers as an open source platform. The move comes on the heels of heavy ongoing speculation about the sale of the operating unit, and HP’s long term intentions in the mobile marketplace. Open source could prove to be a [...]
On Steve Jobs from the WSJ
“Those who knew Mr. Jobs say that one reason why he was able to keep innovating was because he didn’t dwell on past accomplishments or legacy but kept looking ahead and demanded that employees do the same. Hitoshi Hokamura, a former Apple employee, recalls how an old Apple I that was displayed by the company [...]
From InfoWorld, The iPhone 5 letdown: We’re all to blame
From the Mobile Edge, by Galen Gruman “This time, the mania got nuclear, if such a metaphor can exist. And during the iPhone 4S reveal, I could hear my fellow journalists — and the not-journalist bloggers — mutter in our various electronic forums that the event was a letdown, boring even. Well, we let down [...]
Business Insider: Get Ready For Long Lines, And Big Sales For iPhone 4S — Piper Jaffray
Apple’s decision to release an iPhone 4S, instead of a redesigned iPhone 5, will not have an impact on sales, says Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster. He’s sticking with his sales estimates of 25 million iPhones for the December quarter, and 111 million units for all of 2012. Despite an initial let down to the [...]
From ChiefExecutive.net: Transform Your Techie
Michael J. Naatz was the chief information officer at transportation company USF Corp. in 2005, when it was acquired by what is now YRC Worldwide, (a $4.3 billion, Kansas-based global transportation and logistics services company). Within four years he was promoted to that same title at the new company. But he found out that at [...]
