 Shaygan Kheradpir
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Barclays Appoints New Head of Operations and Technology
British bank Barclays appointed a new head of operations and technology on Thursday and said it had no plans to fill the chief operations officer position left vacant after the exit of Jerry del Missier last year... Click here to view the article
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Barclays banks on cloud and Linux to slash development costs Barclays Bank plans to slash software development costs by 90% by building a private cloud infrastructure and moving more applications to machines running the Linux open source operating system.
The plans, which the bank believes will save it billions of pounds in development costs and speed time to market for new applications, were outlined in an unsourced report in the Sunday Times... Click here to view the article
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Verizon's Technology Chief Kheradpir Departing For BarclaysVerizon Communications Inc. (VZ) said Chief Technology Officer Shaygan Kheradpir plans to retire this month and will be heading to Barclays ... Click here to view the article
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Dial-a-bank Over at Barclays, its retail banking boss Antony Jenkins is looking to boost his division’s technological capabilities, poaching the chief information officer of US telecoms group Verizon Communications. Shaygan Kheradpir is becoming chief operating officer of the retail banking operations, replacing David Skillen who becomes chief operating officer of Barclays Africa. Mr Kheradpir is to focus on mobile banking, internet banking and branch network infrastructure support. Click here to read entire article
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| Live TV on iPad Shaygan Kheradpir said... the real technology behind the app is pretty much done, and the company is currently in discussions with content partners to make sure they’re comfortable with streaming content to the iPad.  Link to the article... http://venturebeat.com/2010/08/18/verizon-to-bring-live-tv-to-the-ipad-video-on-demand-to-pcs-and-mobile-devices/
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Verizon bets big on network infrastructure From Verizon CIO Shaygan Kheradpir's 38th floor apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan with panoramic views of the East River, I saw first-hand the fruits of the company's $23 billion gamble to build a new fiber network directly to customers' doorsteps and a glimpse into where the strategy will lead next.
Kheradpir had invited a handful of journalists to his swank pad to show off the latest enhancements to Verizon's Fios TV service. The new features, which include everything from new widgets for getting weather and local traffic to a specially designed ESPN fantasy football application to remote control of DVRs, are rolling out across Verizon's Fios footprint right now with New York, Verizon's largest market, expected to get the enhancements starting October 9th. Read more |
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CTO Forum: Meeting Held to Discuss Opportunities for Collaboration Recently Shaygan Kheradpir was part of the President’s Strategy for American Innovation meeting with Chief Technology Officers from a dozen of the Nation’s most innovative technology firms. Intention was to explore collaboration opportunities that would foster more digital infrastructure investment, unleash a mobile broadband revolution, and encourage innovations in health, energy, and education powered by technology... click here for more |
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Verizon Advances Video Agenda with Cloud TV, iPad and FiOS TV Online...  Late last week Verizon CIO Shaygan Kheradpir hosted an event in New York City and offered a sneak peek of new features coming soon for FiOS customers, as well as some of the company’s long-term plans for FiOS TV.... click here for the entire article. |
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Verizon plans to offer live TV on Apple’s iPad... Think you need another TV in the home? Maybe the iPad, Apple Inc.’s tablet computer, will do the job instead.
 In the latest example of the slim device attracting the attention of the TV industry, Shaygan Kheradpir Verizon Communications Inc. Verizon CIO yesterday demonstrated an application that turns the iPad into another screen for its cable TV service
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Cisco, Verizon push for 3D video and more...  Read more: click here |
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 For Clues to Why the tech Sector Is Still Down, See Mr. Kheradpir...
Mr. Kheradpir, the chief information officer of telephone giant Verizon Communications Inc., was reviewing this year's technology budget with his top lieutenants in late January. He didn't think their savings projections were ambitious enough. They told him that $50 million would be saved by firing consultants. Mr. Kheradpir dismissed that as something already "in the bag" from negotiations last year. "What are you going to do for the rest of the year?" Click here to view entire |
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Message to CIOs: Ignore Consumer Technology at Your Own RiskInnovation today centers on the digital consumer and is spilling over into business, said Verizon CIO Shaygan Kheradpir at last month’s IDC IT Forum. There’s a flood of cool, simple, creative new stuff emerging online every day. With the Internet as a platform for testing out ideas, the cycle time to determine market acceptance is insanely short. (And, by the way, your new competitors know that, even if you don’t.) So why is this a problem for CIOs? For one thing, too many of you don’t spend any appreciable time online. You don’t know what a vlog is, or a machinima (I didn’t either before this week), and you’ve probably never spent time in MySpace and rarely communicate by IM. You’re dinosaurs. I am too. Click here to view the entire article |
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Verizon Chief Information Officer Shaygan Kheradpir Named to CIO Magazine's Hall of Fame...  Click here link for the entire article...
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Verizon readies Fios TV app store  Verizon Communications is about to open up its new Widget Bazaar to third-party developers to create an "app store" for its Fios TV service in a move that could forever change how people watch TV. Verizon first announced the Widget Bazaar just a couple of weeks ago. Initially, the company described it as a storefront for new widgets or applications developed by Verizon partners for its Fios TV customers. At the time, Verizon executives downplayed the possibility of a sprawling Widget Bazaar teeming with thousands of applications developed by third parties. Read more |
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Twitter widget for Fios TV... The first two applications created for the new Widget Bazaar were for the social-networking applications, Twitter and Facebook. Shaygan Kheradpir wouldn't share usage numbers, but he said he has been surprised by the quick uptake in usage over the past couple of weeks. And already the company is evolving the applications based on subscriber feedback. For example, when the widgets launched, Fios TV subscribers were only able to read and access only basic information through the Twitter and Facebook services. But as of this past weekend, users are now able to post updates both on Twitter and Facebook. Read more |
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| Fios TV app store Verizon Communications is about to open up its new Widget Bazaar to third-party developers to create an "app store" for its Fios TV service in a move that could forever change how people watch TV. Verizon first announced the Widget Bazaar just a couple of weeks ago. Initially, the company described it as a storefront for new widgets or applications developed by Verizon partners for its Fios TV customers. At the time, Verizon executives downplayed the possibility of a sprawling Widget Bazaar teeming with thousands of applications developed by third parties.  Read more |
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Innovative IT Departments? Are You Kidding? Click here for the complete article..
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| How Verizon Flies by Wire... Every 15 secs, a new set of charts telling the story of Verizon Communications performance flash into a giant LCD screen in CIO Shaygan Kheradpir's office -- everything from the percentage of customer calls resolved by the Voice System and how many repair trucks are in the field to the resolution of IT systems problems... |
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Sleepless in Manhattan... Click here for complete article...
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The Consumer Effect In Beantown... As an example, Kheradpir referred to Shawn Fanning, who wrote Napster, the infamous file-sharing site, while he was a student at Northeastern in Boston.
Kheradpir says he remembers thinking, when he first became aware of Napster, "this is the end of media as we know it." Napster was Fanning's "empire of the mind," and it "moved media," Kheradpir pointed out.
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Forecast: 19 Million Notebooks Lost to Tablet Cannibalization (Meaning iPad) in 2011...  Click here for complete article...
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Is IT Being Consumed by Consumer IT? CIO Executive Editor Christopher Koch continues his conversation with Verizon CIO Shaygan Kheradpir and explores the impact of consumer IT on the enterprise and CIOs. Click here to listen to the podcast
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makes a new vow to marry phones to the PC Article: Calls That Follow You Anywhere: Verizon makes a new vow to marry phones to the PC. It's one of the most maddening features of all the technology in our lives.
There are so many gadgets to connect us--cell phones, e-mail, land-line
phones--yet most of the gadgets aren't connected to each other. Verizon's answer is the new Digital Companion service, which marries Caller ID, Call Forwarding and the Web. The result: no matter how you try to reach some-one, you'll likely get through. The system, launching in phases throughout the year, revolves around private Verizon Web sites that track phone calls in real time and allow users to decide, with one click, which calls should be routed to which phone as they come in. Click here for complete article... |
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Giving The Boss The Big Picture  The dashboard is the CEO's killer app, making the gritty details of a business that are often buried deep within a large organization accessible at a glance to senior executives. So powerful are the programs that they're beginning to change the nature of management, from an intuitive art into more of a science. Managers can see key changes in their businesses almost instantaneously -- when salespeople falter or quality slides -- and take quick, corrective action. At Verizon, Seidenberg and other executives can choose from among 300 metrics to put on their dashboards, from broadband sales to wireless subscriber defections... Click here to view the article |
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