CIO Essentials: Xmas gadgets, mobile ban and green IT

Ever wondered what CIOs are reading on silicon.com? Our CIO Essentials feature puts you in the picture. Each week a leading IT chief picks his or her top stories from the past seven days and explains why they matter.

This week we hear from Mark Beattie, head of IT for waste management company LondonWaste.

Why IT Must Go Green?
As a waste management company, LondonWaste always wants to be as green as possible. We see this as an important part, not only of our corporate responsibility, but also of our business.

Agenda Setters 2007 - Top 20

Find out who made it into silicon.com's Agenda Setters top 20 by clicking the links below…

1. Mark Zuckerberg
2. Steve Jobs
3. Eric Schmidt
4. John Chambers
5. Ashley Highfield
6. Nicholas Negroponte
7. Niklas Zennström
8. Diane Greene
9. Jonathan Ive
10.Viviane Reding
11.Paul Coby
12.Marc Benioff
13.Emily Bell
14.Larry Ellison
15.Jeff Bezos
16.Ben Verwaayen
17.Nandan Nilekani
18.David Yu
19.Satoru Iwata
20.Mark Hurd

Fall in drivers flouting mobile phone ban
As the person responsible for telephony in our business I know we spend a lot on providing car kits to employees. In addition, as a magistrate I am delighted that drivers are getting the message about how dangerous this activity is.

Photos: 10 gadgets to wish for this Xmas
Some great ideas here and I hope my loved ones are reading this article. Having been cynical about the iPhone, once someone lent me one I was a convert. Here's hoping Santa thinks I've been good this year - yeah right!

Experts tip six technologies to watch
Interesting how many of these are green initiatives, which fit with what LondonWaste is already doing. By generating electricity from waste for over 20 years, we're amazed that the rest of the world has only just caught on.

BT lags in broadband satisfaction stakes
As a personal BT broadband customer at home, I understand why they did so badly in the survey. Having to spend 20 minutes going through a script with a person from a call centre - when I know what the fault is - drives me mad.

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