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Saturday, January 27, 2007 |
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A chief technical officer or chief technology officer (abbreviated as CTO) is a executive position whose holder is focused on scientific and technical issues in a company. It emerged in the United States in the 1980s as a business-focused extension of the position of Director of R&D.
During the dot-com and computer boom of the 1990s, many companies used the CTO title for their main technical person. The MIS and IT community often use the title CTO as either synonymous with Chief Information Officer, or as a subordinate to the CIO who is more versed in the technical intricacies. The role of the CTO varies between companies and industries, but usually relates to technology. The roles include:
- Short term technology direction (tactical)
- Business-focused oversight of R&D
- Software used in the corporation
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By Antonio Chagoury on
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Last week Microsoft released the Virtual Earth Map Control v6 API. Here are some of the details:
Some of the major focuses of this release are enhanced accuracy, performance, Safari Browser support as well as a new interface. There seems to have been no report of breaking changes from version 5, so a simple change in the javascript URL sh ...
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By Antonio Chagoury on
Monday, October 22, 2007
"Microsoft is unveiling a series of upgrades and additions to SharePoint that it believes will appeal to business users as well as to individual consumers."
This is a direct result of the recent Microsoft announcement of the strategic alliance with Atlassian and NewsGator.
Atlassian's Confluence product is making its way into the SharePoint's stack by way of a plug-in. This plug-in allows information to be shared between the Confluence Wiki application and SharePoint.
A beta version of the plug-in is available here.
NewsGator's Social Sites product built specifically for SharePoint will add more functionality such as an improved RSS Reader, Feed Manager, Tagging and other Web 2.0 and social networking widg ...
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By Antonio Chagoury on
Sunday, October 21, 2007
 Microsoft Live Labs, is always experimenting with new and (sometimes) useful ideas. Recently they released their latest technology preview:
Listas is a tool for the creation, management and sharing of lists, notes, favorites, and more. It allows you to quickly and easily edit lists, share them with others for reading or wiki-style editing, and discover the public lists of other users. We encourage you to try using it for meeting notes, bookmarks, shopping lists, to plan a night out, or whatever other creative ways you can think of.
In the Listas Community Section, you will find a number of highlights of the ...
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By Antonio Chagoury on
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
 Two little hands, two little feet, now our family is delightfully complete!
Proudly announcing John Hanein-Chagoury.
Born Tuesday, October 16th, 2007 at 12:35 P.M.
7 pounds, 10 ounces and 21 inches long.
Mom and John are doing great.
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By Antonio Chagoury on
Sunday, September 30, 2007
As it turns out, technology adoption is directly related to the user's experience.
Ben Gardner agrees. Ben works for a large blue chip pharmaceutical company in the UK. Ben has a very difficult job as he is responsbile for getting corporate users to adopt Windows Sharepoint Services.
He made an interesting post where he says:
If I'm going to have to promote SharePoint in my organisation then this sort of skin job would be a god send. I realise that out of the box SharePoint can already do most of this but this re ...
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By Antonio Chagoury on
Friday, June 22, 2007
Last year I founded and begun organizing the Capital DotNetNuke User Group, a group dedicated to all DNN professionals, enthusiasts and hobbyists alike.
Although running a user group has not been as easy and glamorous as I originally anticipated it does give me a great sense of accomplishment especially on nights like Thursday, June 21 st, 2007.
Thursday night I had the pleasure (again! J) to do the honors and do a presentation on building a DotNetNuke module using the DotNetNuke Visual Studio StarterKit. |
By Antonio Chagoury on
Thursday, May 03, 2007
 I am on my flight back home from Las Vegas where I had the pleasure of attending MIX07 for the very first time. I thoroughly enjoyed it and found it extremely useful and relevant to the technologies I employ on a day-to-day basis. The official announcement of the alpha release ver ...
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By Antonio Chagoury on
Friday, March 16, 2007
The issue of Net Neutrality is still very much debated. I recently stumbled through this interesting clip and thought I would share it with all of you.
It is an interesting video clip which I am sure will stimulate your thoughts in this matter. Having said that, I am still skeptical about the outcome. One can never under estimate the power of many.
For your reference I also found the following information on Google:
What is Net Neutrality?
Network neutrality is the principle that Internet users should be in control of what content they view and what applications they use on the Internet. The Internet has operated according to this neutrality principle since its earliest days. Indeed, it is this neutrality that has allowed many companies, including Google, to launch, grow, and innovate. F ...
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By Antonio Chagoury on
Wednesday, March 14, 2007
 I have heard so much about Vista's quirks lately, especially from disgruntled co-workers and friends who had decided to take the early plunge!
Their daily comments on Vista range from "G" all the way up to "R" rating, as allegedly the productivity has, since their upgrade, fallen to an all time low.
Then, yesterday, I hear this bit of news! The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) bans Windows Vista. NIST is now considering a Linux + Goog ...
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By Antonio Chagoury on
Monday, March 05, 2007
Barb Darrow from CRN wrote an interesting article this week (http://www.crn.com/software/197800215?pgno=1) outlining how hosting providers and channels are keeping "A Weary Eye at Microsoft Live".
It is a really interesting article especially since it outlines the fact that hosting partners were previously spoon-fed Microsoft Services offering only to have Microsoft turn the table on them:
"Many of these hosting partners had been recruited by Microsoft to offer SharePoint- and Exchange Server-based offerings. But now that Microsoft is hosting its own low-cost collaboration, Web page creation and e-mail service, what are they supposed to do? "
If you read the article you will also ...
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