The CTOvision.com Tech Titans list has just been updated with a new snapshot of the globe's top Information Technology (IT) firms by market cap. The firms on the list are all important for enterprise chief technology officers (CTO) and chief information officers (CIO) to track. Links to financial information and news sources are provided with the list. For reference, links are also provided below. Click on the links to bring up news on each: Microsoft … [Read more...]
Update of the CTOvision.com Tech Titans List
Announcing: The CTOvision.com Technology Titan List
I've long sought to track disruptive IT on the CTOvision.com site, and have featured several firms on the CTOvision.com Disruptive IT list. A new feature on the site is the CTOvision.com Technology Titan List, where I'll more closely track the activities of the Information Technology firms with the largest market cap. This is the first entry on this theme. One thing has become very clear through the years. The great powerhouse's of the Information … [Read more...]
The Future of Cyberspace Security: The Law of The Rodeo
This is an update of my now annual assessment of the future of technology associated with good and evil in cyberspace which was first posted here. Predictions of the future of technology are increasingly starting to sound like science fiction, with powerful computing grids giving incredible computational power to users and with autonomous robots becoming closer and closer to being in our daily lives vice just in computer science departments. … [Read more...]
Is Your CTO Making You Stupid?
Nicholas Carr writes in ways that makes people think. I really enjoyed reading his latest in the Atlantic titled "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" This article covers some rather significant trends that IT is pushing into the global social fabric. The changes he talks about are disturbing. They are infecting people like a fast spreading disease. There is a chance you are suffering some of these symptoms yourself, so by all means read the … [Read more...]
The greatest new technologies (and great drama too!)
I like technology and I like drama. These are two of the greatest of human creations. And they can be even more interesting when combined. There has been some real drama in the West Coast tech scene the past few weeks, heating up to a boil in the last few days, and about to come to a head tomorrow. The story is this: - Two great expos for high tech startups are the DEMO conference and the TechCrunch50. - DEMOfall08 will be in San Diego. … [Read more...]
A Google Knol on Disruptive Technology
Google just opened up their Knol capability to all Internet users. The Google concept for a Knol is that it is an authoritative article about a specific topic. It is a unit of knowledge. People can write what they want, but the idea is that they should put their name on it so there is some way to measure credibility. Others can contribute to the knol in measured ways. For example, a setting can be selected so that anyone can edit the entry, … [Read more...]
Disruptive Technologies List Updated
The list of the positive technologies I believe all enterprise Chief Technology Officer s should be tracking has now been updated. Please check it out at: http://ctovision.com/disruptive-it/ I try to keep this list up by remaining in dialog with enterprise CTO s and soliciting their feedback on the list. I also keep watching what the venture capital folks are investing in and try to closely track what the big IT firms are up to. The result is … [Read more...]