Jack McCarthy

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Polycom targets high-quality desktop conferencing

Conferencing and collaboration equipment provider Polycom Inc. on Monday announced a series of offerings designed to bring business-quality conferencing features to personal desktops. The products follow up on a collaborative agreement struck with Microsoft earlier this year to develop rich media services.

Linux is getting more enterprise play

At financial services giant Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc., CTO John McKinley is blazing a trail to boost productivity and enhance ROI with his strategy. And that trail has led him to pursue a company-wide deployment of Linux open-source software.

Some critical Linux apps still lacking

At financial services giant Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc., CTO John McKinley is blazing a trail to boost productivity and enhance ROI with his strategy. And that trail has led him to pursue a company-wide deployment of Linux open-source software.

CTOs find ways to integrates

Curtis Brown, CTO of New York-based Princeton Review, said the down economy has forced him to approach the future in a more creative way.

Starting a supply-chain revolution

John Duker, e-business infrastructure services architect at consumer products giant Procter & Gamble Co., says things are moving fast these days as America's largest consumer products maker refashions its supply-chain technology to maximize its efficiency.

A platform for development

A team of more than 30 people at the American Stock Exchange are working to develop applications for the country

CTO: Reading the times

Sam Negahbani says that as a young man, he switched from electrical engineering to network design after seeing how infrastructure can deeply affect people's lives.

Supply-chain redesign

Joe Neuhaus sometimes felt as if he were riding a whirlwind as the CTO of Prime Advantage, a business-to-business e-commerce marketplace provider in a sector experiencing one of the more spectacular flameouts of the tech downturn.

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