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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• Google-backed Pixazza opens up photo tagging service to help blogs earn revenue

  
  Gadget Reviews — Authority: 153
  Pixazza, a Google Ventures-backed startup, is opening up its crowdsourced photo-tagging service which can turn any Web site into an online store.The Mountain View-based startup uses an army of taggers to identify products and link them to shopping sites like Amazon or Zappos. For example, you might see a photo of ...
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• A Walk in the Cloud with PowerVPS and Equinix

  
  CTOvision.com — Authority: 406
  Thursday, I was fortunate enough to get to walk around Equinix’s DC-4 datacenter in Ashburn, VA. In this 100,000 sq ft data center, they are carrier, equipment, and software agnostic, providing clients with energy, space, and cooling – allowing choice of carrier, equipment, and software.  Their huge facility ...
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• Got Twitter Policies In Place?

  
  MSPmentor — Authority: 525
  As managed service providers (MSPs) continue to develop social media strategies be sure to ask yourself this question: Does your company have written policies for how employees use Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and other social media services? Not sure you need such policies? I beg to differ. Here’s why. Let’s take ...
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• Job:Ericsson RNC Performance Engineer - AT&T - Cerritos, CA

  
  indonesia type approval — Authority: 144
  Company AT&T; Inc. is one of the worlds largest telecommunications holding companies and is the largest in the United States. Operating globally under the AT&T; brand, AT&T; companies are recognized as the leading worldwide providers of wireless, high-speed DSL Internet, TV, local and long distance voice, ...
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• Job: Alcatel Lucent Performance Engineer - AT&T - Cerritos, CA

  
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  Job Title Alcatel-Lucent Performance Engineer Company AT&T Inc. is one of the worlds largest telecommunications holding companies and is the largest in the United States. Operating globally under the AT&T brand, AT&T companies are recognized as the leading worldwide providers of wireless, high-speed DSL ...
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• If We Can Put a Man on the Moon: Getting Big Things Done In Government

  
  CTOvision.com — Authority: 406
  I found: If We Can Put a Man on the Moon: Getting Big Things Done in Governmentto be a book I couldn’t put down. This great read is about results and how to get them.  And, as the title implies, it focuses on big results in government.  The government is doing many things to the [...]Related posts:Government 2.0 ...
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• CTO Tuesdays #5: Engine-managed correlation

  
  VOSibilities — Authority: 462
  In episode #5 of our continuing webinar series on technical topics of interest to developers, architects and business analysts working with SOA-based business process management systems (BPMS), Dr. Michael Rowley, CTO, Active Endpoints compares and contrasts two different styles of message correlation. In episode #4 ...
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• Travel Advantage Network Selects TimeShareWare

  
  Perspective Magazine | Timeshare & Fractional Ownership News, Resort Reviews & Guides — Authority: 141
  Travel Advantage Network ( TAN ), one of the largest travel clubs in the United States with more than 85,000 clients, has chosen TimeShareWare as its enterprise technology platform. TAN sells packages of vacation weeks in as many as 1500 resorts throughout the world. They cited TimeShareWare ’s superior ...
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• Microsoft Uses Geek Elite To Make Azure Launch A Smash Hit

  
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• CTO Tuesdays #4: Message correlation

  
  VOSibilities — Authority: 462
  I have good news and bad news. The good news is that we (finally) have replays of episode #4 of CTO Tuesdays, our regular weekly webinar on BPM topics of interest to process designers and developers. The subject of this webinar is message correlation, an interesting topic that details how systems match up running ...
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• Communications’ innovation killers

  
  sascom voices — Authority: 422
  “We’re acting as the post office for Netflix, so why don’t they pay us for movie delivery?” Think about that quote from a telecom industry exec for a minute. Netflix pays the post office to deliver DVDs to consumers. If the same movie reaches the consumer as streaming video over the Internet, Netflix ...
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• Towards a Cyber Deterrent: Are we getting any closer?

  
  CTOvision.com — Authority: 406
  A year and a half ago I pulled together several thoughts on Cyber Deterrence which had come out of years of dialog on the cyber threat.   I wanted to capture some key challenges since in my view many were making foolish assumptions regarding what our nation should do in the domain of cyber.  There is [...]Related ...
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• NewTeeVee Live: Thank You All for the Show

  
  IT Professionals Database (ITPD) - The European IT Professionals Database Networking Platform — Authority: 145
  (Kevin Lynch, CTO of Adobe Systems one of our speakers. Photo by James Duncan Davidson, who snapped a whole bunch of photos that are available over on Flickr.) Unlike the spritely young team members of NewTeeVee, I am dragging my feet after what was an intense day yesterday. Well actually I has having too much fun ...
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• Olivier Baujard to take over as new Chief Technology Officer at Deutsche Telekom

  
  indonesia type approval — Authority: 144
  Olivier Baujard will assume the position of Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Deutsche Telekom starting November 16th, 2009. In this function he is in charge of Technology for the entire Group and he reports directly to Hamid Akhavan, Chief Operating Officer (COO) and Board Member of Deutsche Telekom. Prior to ...
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• Samsung launches Bada mobile platform

  
  Wireless Federation — Authority: 426
  Samsung hopes to extend its app store offering to a wider range of handsets, including less sophisticated feature phones and entry level smartphones.The Korean technology giant said Bada — which means “ocean” — was a new addition to the company’s mobile ecosystem and would give users a “fun and diverse ...
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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: 148
  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

  
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  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: 417
  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: 417
  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: 417
  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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