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Ollila Joins Exodus From Nokia September 14, 2010 
The revolving door is spinning fast at Nokia, as the company tries to reposition itself to compete with a wave of new smartphone competition. The latest news from the boardroom is that Chairman Jorma Ollila, the executive credited with turning Nokia into the world's largest cellphone maker, will step down in 2012.
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The Subscription Prescription: Q&A With Zuora CEO Tien Tzuo July 14, 2010 
Zuora, a provider of on-demand subscription billing and payment services, was cofounded in March 2008 jointly by Tien Tzuo, who serves as its CEO; Cheng Zou and K.V. Rao. It received $6.5 million in Series A funding later that month and $15 million in Series B funding in October of 2008. It has been profitable since.
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Security Is an Infrastructure Problem: Q&A With Trend Micro CEO Eva Chen April 19, 2010 
Eva Chen, CEO of security vendor Trend Micro, wears many hats. She's a mom, a chief executive, a philosopher, an idealist and a highly savvy technologist who's guided the development of several award-winning security technologies while serving first as the company's executive vice president, then as its chief technology officer.
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Whitman and Fiorina: Why Tech CEOs Don't Have a Chance in Politics April 12, 2010 
I seem to be getting an increasing number of calls asking me whether Meg Whitman and Carly Fiorina have a chance as a governor or a U.S. senator respectively. Both are uniquely capable, and both have histories that suggest good management skills that would be critical in California -- a state that desperately needs them.
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Google's Long-Term Prognosis: Death by CEO March 08, 2010 
Last week I was asked to comment on a study of CEOs. It found that young ones do better than old ones do, which kind of pissed me off. At the same time, like a lot of folks in my business, I've been looking back at the lessons learned from Steve Jobs, who is kind of the CEO gold standard, and comparing him to Eric Schmidt, who appears to be the most highly paid empty suit since John Sculley.
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Phone-Hater Linus Torvalds Blesses Nexus One February 09, 2010 
Google's Nexus One phone is a winner, according to Linus Torvalds, founder of the operating system it's based on. "I generally hate phones," explained Torvalds, who is known as "the father of Linux," in a blog post on Saturday. "At the same time I love the concept of having a phone that runs Linux, and I've had a number of them over the years," he wrote.
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Sir Tim Unveils Slick UK Government Services Site January 22, 2010 
Move over Data.gov. The United Kingdom has unveiled its own version of an open source database for its citizens, and the U.S. version pales in comparison. The site, data.gov.uk, which has been running in beta since last September, opened to the public this week to much fanfare.
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Best Things From the Dismal Aught Decade December 28, 2009 
From a technology perspective, this decade -- with Apple and Google being exceptions -- sucked. There were some interesting things that happened that set us up for the teen decade, though, and that fuel anticipation for the 20s, which a hundred years ago, was actually a decade of wonder and excitement -- and had a better name.
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Is 'Ethical Malware' an Oxymoron or a Best Practice? December 07, 2009 
Every community has its heroes, and here in the world of Linux there's no doubt that Linus Torvalds is one of them. Linus featured more prominently than usual in the Linux blogosphere over the past week. There was serious discussion of the possibility of a Nobel Peace Prize for our favorite Finn!
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IBM and Apple: Why We Love Monopolies and Then Kill Them October 12, 2009 
The age of the computer started in the 1950s, and one of the first things that happened to a then relatively tiny IBM was it got nailed by the Department of Justice. The result was competition and the modern age of computing. Last week, the DoJ opened another, very similar, investigation of IBM. It was -- you'd never guess -- on the mainframe.
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Shuttleworth and the Raging Inferno of the Great Sexism Debate October 05, 2009 
If the success of a conference can be judged by the duration of the conversations that follow from it, LinuxCon was a hit beyond measure. Here it is, two weeks later, and the repercussions are still being felt. What we might call "The Great Sexism Debate" gained considerable fuel there and, in fact, is now raging out of control. Put those safety glasses on!
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Ellison: Oracle Hearts MySQL September 23, 2009 
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison can be a wellspring of newsworthy comments. Little wonder, then, that for close to an hour on Tuesday, IT journalists were rapt as he ruminated on the subjects of the day in an interview with Sun Microsystems' Ed Zander at the Churchill Club in Silicon Valley.
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Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Freedom July 06, 2009 
In the United States, the 4th of July is celebrated as Independence Day, recalling the time when Americans stepped away from a government they viewed as repressive and forged a new future. Over the years, I've worked for a number of harsh managers and companies. Some were actually good for me -- others not so much.
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Grumbling Over Transparency Intensifies as Jobs Returns to Apple June 30, 2009 
Apple has confirmed that CEO Steve Jobs has officially gone back to work, according to numerous media reports. Beyond saying that Jobs would be working both at his office and from home, and that the company was happy to have him back, Apple provided no details about its chief's future involvement with the company.
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Reports Fan Flames of Speculation Over Steve Jobs' Health June 23, 2009 
Once again, the technology mediasphere is engrossed with Apple CEO Steve Jobs' health, and the questions are ricocheting off the virtual walls: What did Apple know? When did it know it? What is it legally obliged to reveal? This latest round of speculation was prompted by a weekend Wall Street Journal report revealing that Jobs had a liver transplant in April.
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Jobs Hails iPhone 3G S Sales Milestone as Transplant Rumors Swirl June 22, 2009 
News-wise, it's been a big weekend for Apple. First came reports that its ailing CEO, Steve Jobs, recently underwent liver-transplant surgery. On the heels of that news, the world learned that sales of the new iPhone 3G S have passed the 1-million mark. Whether investors remain confident in Apple's strength despite Jobs' illness remains to be seen.
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The Undoing of ubExact, Part 2: Market Malaise January 23, 2009 
When ubExact.com's CEO Wilhelmina Stephenson started work on her innovative beta platform last year for a new search engine concept, she had every reason to believe consumers would gravitate to the new search technology designed around the way they searched the Internet. However, what she did not count on was a marketing industry that failed to go for the money-making model she was pitching.
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The Undoing of ubExact, Part 1: Searching for Answers January 22, 2009 
What started out on Sept. 2, 2008, as a potential innovation in the search engine space ended this month as the latest technology sacrifice to the economic gods. ubExact.com went out of business, unable to sustain enough financial traction to make the innovation viable.
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Can Carol Bartz Put the Yodel Back in Yahoo? January 14, 2009 
Struggling Internet portal Yahoo has tapped former AutoDesk CEO Carol Bartz as its new CEO. Bartz, 60, will face a monumental task in attempting to turn around Yahoo, which was the No. 1 destination on the Internet before being supplanted by search engine powerhouse Google a few years ago.
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After Their Tech Empires Are Built November 20, 2008 
What's left to do after you've earned your first billion in the technology business? For some, it's legacy building -- finding a way to make a mark of a different sort in the world. Philanthropy calls. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is perhaps the archetype with its multipronged worldwide operations focused on eliminating poverty, disease and hunger.
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