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 [...]
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 [...]
RIM has announced that Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazairidis have resigned their position as co-CEO and co-Chairman, and that RIM’s board of directors unanimously named former chief operating officer Thorsten Heins as president and CEO. Barbara Stymiest, CEO of the Toronto Stock Exchange will become independent board chair. Heins already faces a number of significant challenges. Rim [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
After compiling many great suggestions from our October session in Washington DC, the CIO Global Forum is pleased to announce the following topics for inclusion in our next session, April 25-26 in Napa: Big Thinking on a Visionary Future There is little doubt Moore’s Law is in full effect and influencing today’s business landscape. Revenues [...]
“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 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
