Sacked CTO John Linwood is taking legal action against the BBC over his involvement in the broadcaster’s failed £100 million Digital Media Initiative (DMI).
Apple hires ex-Amazon exec for software role
Apple said it has hired technology executive Jon McCormack as a vice president working on software, according to Bloomberg.0 1731BBC sacks CTO over failed £100m digital transformation project
The BBC has fired its CTO John Linwood over its failed Digital Media Initiative (DMI).
Symantec appoints Amit Mital as CTO
He will be responsible for driving the company’s technology strategy with a focus on accelerating innovation, product development and R&D.
Throwing down the gauntlet
At the Airheads Conference 2013, Aruba’s CEO and CTO promised to “fire back” at Cisco, which they accused of unfair and underhand tactics.
Software AG buys complex-event processing technology from Progress
Software AG is building out its portfolio of CEP (complex-event processing) software with the acquisition of Apama from Progress Software, …
Time to phase out VLANs, says Aruba CTO
The Virtual LAN (VLAN) model of networking must be phased out to make way for bring-your-own-device (BYOD)-ready networks, according to …
Middle East CIOs must learn more about Hadoop, says Teradata CTO
CIOs in the Middle East need to start to learn what Apache Hadoop is in order to understand the true …
‘People are buying dumb storage’
At Hitachi Data Systems (HDS), Hu Yoshida is the CTO responsible for defining the company’s technical direction. For everybody else, …
FireEye launches new threat protection platform
Security company, FireEye, has announced a new threat protection platform designed to help enterprises deploy new security models to counter …
Financial malware authors return to basics
Financial malware authors are returning to traditional, phishing-like, credential-stealing techniques in order to evade detection, according to researchers from security …