CTO

A CTO, or chief technology officer, makes critical decisions about the use of technology to advance a company's business mission. The responsibilities of a CTO vary greatly among companies and may include governance of huge organizations in large enterprises or personally creating and implementing technology solutions in a small startup. The role of a CTO also varies, with CTOs in technology companies often having great prominence and many companies outside of the technology sector relegating a CTO role to a chief operating officer or other executive. A CTO job decription provides an example of the work of a CTO in a web startup.

In the technology sector, many CTOs maintain a blog to write about technical issues that interest them. Fewer CTOs find time to blog about the critical decisions that impact the success of their organizations. However, several consulting CTOs offer blogs with web startup help and technology guidance for nontechnical entrepreneurs.

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• Shiny Development announces Balloons! and Balloons! Lite For iPhone

  
  iPhone News at Desinformado.com | The Complete Source for iPhone News — Authority: 143
  Shiny Development Ltd. today announces Balloons!, the new iPhone app that lets you launch virtual helium balloons and track their progress around the world. Choose a balloon, attach your photo and message to it, then launch it into the sky. It then drifts around the world where it gets caught by other users. They add ...
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• Of CTOs

  
  Fighting Monsters — Authority: 417
  Community Treatment Orders – Supervised Community Treatment – however it is termed it is one of the aspects of the amended Mental Health Act that I thought I would likely not have significant contact with on a day to day basis. I was right. But my experience might be far from typical as the take-up of these ...
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• List of All 2009 Clean Tech Open Winners

  
  Green VC — Authority: 422
  Clean Tech Open , a business plan competition that will provide more than $1 million in prizes for early-stage clean technology startups, has announced the winners of its three regional competitions.  Below is a list of all winners: Pacific Northwest Region Green Lite Motors Hydrovolts LivinGreen ...
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• Clean Tech Open Announces Winners of 2009 Pacific Northwest Competition

  
  Green VC — Authority: 422
  Clean Tech Open , a business plan competition that will provide more than $1 million in prizes for early-stage clean technology startups, has announced the winners of its 2009 Rocky Mountain competition. The winners - Green Lite Motors (Portland, OR), Hydrovolts (Seattle WA), and LivinGreen Materials ...
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• Clean Tech Open Announces Winners of 2009 Rocky Mountain Competition

  
  Green VC — Authority: 422
  Clean Tech Open , a business plan competition that will provide more than $1 million in prizes for early-stage clean technology startups, has announced the winners of its 2009 Rocky Mountain competition. The winners - New Sky Energy  (Boulder, CO), Rivertop Renewables  (Missoula, MT), and SunTrac Solar ...
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• Ebay Suggests Identity API – Can They Do it Alone?

  
  Stay N' Alive — Authority: 568
  Ebay’s CTO, Mark Carges, today announced at Paypal X Innovate plans by Ebay, Inc. to begin incorporating the Paypal login process as an identity platform for consumers to eventually open up to developers.  The platform, Carges said, aims to use the existing Paypal login ID which includes address and phone number ...
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• CTO Tuesdays #3: BPMN and BPEL events

  
  VOSibilities — Authority: 462
  This week on CTO Tuesdays Active Endpoints CTO Michael Rowley presented how events are represented in BPMN 2.0 and BPEL. I think you will find Michael’s explanation of BPMN 2.0 event notation especially valuable. I have attached two versions of the recorded webinar to this post. The first is an iPod-formatted ...
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• T-Mobile: Carrier Billing, T-Mo Channel Coming to Android Market

  
  Great Product Direct — Authority: 157
  Today T-Mobile USAs CTO Cole Brodman said that the company is planning to offer a T-Mobile channel in the Android Market. This channel will host content that T-Mobile recommends to its Android customers. T-Mobile also said that it will ... (follow link to read)
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• Caribbean Tourism Day: celebrating diversity

  
  eTurboNews - Travel and Tourism Industry News — Authority: 540
  On the occasion of Caribbean Tourism Day, Hugh Riley, Secretary General of the Caribben Tourism Organization sends this message. read more
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• DCGS Worldwide Conference 2009

  
  CTOvision.com — Authority: 108
  Yesterday I was on a Chief Technology Officer (CTO) panel at the 2009 Distributed Common Groundstation (DCGS) conference in Virginia Beach VA.  The panel, which was pulled together by JFCOM J2 CTO John Marshall, included Ms. Michele Munson of Aspera, Mr. Lewis Shepherd of Microsoft, Mr. Rudi Ernst of Pixia, Dr. Kari ...
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• Digium, 451 Group Launch Open Source Adoption Survey

  
  The VAR Guy — Authority: 570
  Digium — which promotes Asterisk, the open source IP PBX — is gathering data to help accelerate the company’s push into corporate enterprises. The effort includes a comprehensive survey, conducted with the 451 Group, about the potential financial benefits of open source. Here’s the scoop. First, a little ...
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• CTO Tuesdays #2: Introduction to WS-HumanTask

  
  VOSibilities — Authority: 462
  This week’s topic on CTO Tuesdays was an introduction to the new WS-HumanTask standard for workflow. In this informative session, Michael Rowley describes the importance of the new standard for workflow, how it separates tasks from processing and how WS-HumanTask enables human activities to be seen as services in ...
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• Spotify loses its brain

  
  ShareConnector — Authority: 455
  And cuts prices Spotify has lost its CTO and slashed the price of subs in the UK by over a third, for a limited period.… View original post here: Spotify loses its brain Related posts: Spotify scores over £1m a month from subs Sweden loses The Pirate Bay case Yahoo! loses spot at Britain’s ...
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• DoD Clarifies Guidance on Open Source Software

  
  CTOvision.com — Authority: 108
  As friend John Scott points out on his blog, Dave Wennergren, DoD CIO, has just signed out a very well coordinated, well staffed and well thought out clarification of guidance regarding Open Source Software (OSS).   A copy is attached. Some key points:- Open Source Software meets the government’s legal definition ...
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• Ahead Of US Launch, Spotify’s Playlist Doesn’t Include Its CTO

  
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• Job Search: Four Ways to Stand Out In Today’s Market – Marketing Your Expertise

  
  CIO - Blogs and Discussion - — Authority: 443
  In my first post in this series on how to differentiate yourself in today’s job market, I relayed one executive recruiter’s advice to me: “If you’re doing all the right things right (with your targeted job search, networking, resume and interviewing), then the key to job search success is being in the ...
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• Plumbing the depths with Wolseley

  
  Interactive Investor Blog — Authority: 411
  I’ve caught a big fish in my net, and I’m not altogether happy about it. Wolseley ( WOS ) is the world’s largest distributor of plumbing, heating, and building supplies, Unless you’ve come across it as an investor you might never have heard of it. The company owns an army of businesses that go by their own ...
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• ZaReason Prepares Ubuntu 9.10 Server, Expands Customer Base

  
  Ubuntu Look — Authority: 131
  As Canonical delivers the first Ubuntu 9.10 release candidate to users, niche PC makers like System76 and ZaReason are preparing to offer Ubuntu 9.10 on their systems. We’ve already heard from System76. Now, let’s take a look at ZaReason’s system plans for the new Ubuntu — including thoughts about a new ...
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• 10 Tips for Technology management in startups

  
  Parisista — Authority: 99
  This piece is for software technology startups (or startups using technology) with 2-5 developers, who are short on money, are on a continuous bouts of brain freeze, etc etc. However, for people who are managing 100 people teams, I’m gonna write one on how not to manage technology, but that’s coming after rebirth. ...
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• Aneesh Chopra–Videos

  
  Pronk Palisades — Authority: 432
  Aneesh Chopra, U.S. Chief Technology Officer discusses priorities – Part 1   U.S. Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra   The Communicators: Aneesh Chopra   Aneesh P. Chopra: Chief Technology Officer for the Office of Science and Technology Policy   Part 1 of 4 Education ...
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