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• Hiring manager: Q&A with CTO of Dex One

  As senior vice president and CTO at Dex One, Atish Banerjea manages not only enterprise IT at the marketing-services firm, but also product development, reflecting a move away from the traditional CTO role. In today's world, he says, IT organizations must break out of silos and support growth with innovative approaches and emerging technology. Banerjea outlines how he's building an agile IT team with a digital mind-set.

• Public sector restructures fuel CIO movements: Recruiter

  Public sector restructures have fuelled movements at the CIO, CTO and general management level of IT, according to the latest The Quarterly report from recruiting group, Hays.

• YOURasp CTO gives top cloud tips

  Being flexible and looking at a variety of options is important for CIOs looking to move their data to the cloud.

• YOURasp CTO gives top cloud tips

  Being flexible and looking at a variety of options is important for CIOs looking to move their data to the cloud.

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  Online voting: a psychological, not technological challenge

  The past two weeks of Australia’s political history may yet prove to be a spur toward electronic voting but several barriers stand in the way of a nation-wide adoption of e-voting, according to Symantec’s chief technology officer, Mark Bregman.

• New Yahoo CTO: Standardize then personalize

  Raymie Stata, named Thursday as Yahoo chief technology officer, has a tough job ahead of him: Yahoo has experienced flagging user interest of late and although it started as a search company, it has since farmed out that area to Microsoft Bing, repositioning itself as an online content and service provider.

• Facebook CTO: Don't forget Facebook is for sharing

  Attention to privacy on Facebook has been intense in recent months after the company made more profile information public by default, added options to its already-complicated privacy settings and introduced features to personalize external Web sites using people's profile information.

• Yahoo appoints new chief technology officer

  Consumer Web portal company Yahoo has appointed a new chief technology officer, with former Chief Architect Raymie Stata taking on the role immediately, Yahoo announced Thursday.

• Unisys tames virtualisation for more innovation

  Embracing virtualisation through an eight-year transformation journey at Unisys is paying off with 700 fewer servers and innovation up from 8 to 30 per cent of IT spending, according to one of the chief architects of the change, vice president of global services for systems and technology, Brian Ott.

• Cisco CTO could be tapped by Obama

  Cisco's CTO Padmasree Warrior is one of the top two candidates for the first US CTO, expected to be named any day now, according to published reports.

• Dell CTO to leave the company

  Dell's chief technology officer, who has been with the company for 13 years, will retire in mid-January, Dell said on Wednesday.