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June 20, 2013 10:00 AM
by Industry Insight
The consumerisation of IT and bring-your-own-device (BYOD) trends have been sweeping through organisations up and down the country, complicating the lives of many good IT managers. However, it is not just the devices themselves that create a big worry: employees...
Tags: android, appstore, blackberry, byod, ios, mcafee, mobile device, mobile device management
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June 19, 2013 6:20 PM
by Sophie Curtis
The news that G8 leaders have signed an Open Data Charter, pledging to “establish an expectation that all government data be published openly by default,” will be music to the ears of many entrepreneurs. At the G8 summit in Northern...
Tags: cabinet office, david cameron, hm revenue & customs, nigel shadbolt, open data, open data institute, open government partnership, tim berners-lee
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June 18, 2013 5:06 PM
by John E. Dunn
Last weekend The Guardian newspaper declared a dramatic victory over the ESTA (Electronic System for Travel Authorization) visa scammers that have for some years polluted the top of Google’s search engine results, ready to pounce on anyone travelling to the...
Tags: electronic system for travel authorization, esta, google, microsoft, web search engine
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June 18, 2013 2:35 PM
by Industry Insight
We have looked at migrating to a data centre while keeping downtime to a minimum. Now we will consider what you do with the old hardware and infrastructure that you are left with after completing the migration. Dealing with your...
Tags: backup, computing platform, data centre, facebook, hardware, storage, twitter, virtualisation, vmware
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June 14, 2013 7:20 AM
by David Murray-Hundley
Back in 1994, I worked for a start up financed by Barclays and Chase Manhattan. We were the first company b2b e-procurement solution. I remember doing a demo to a government department and was told, that they didn’t really use...
Tags: facebook, kim dotcom, kim schmitz. prism, new zealand, united states, world wide web
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June 11, 2013 2:26 AM
by David Murray-Hundley
As a ten year old, I loved Knight Rider. The thought of a cool looking car that could talk, interact and drive itself seemed like a lifetime away in the 80s. Not impossible, just a little too far ahead of...
Tags: apple, augmented reality, bmw, iphone, kitt, knight rider, smartphone, volkswagen group
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June 7, 2013 12:05 PM
by David Murray-Hundley
I have recently been introduced to Kickstarter. We are looking to use it to fund a restoration project I am getting involved with, getting a 1945 Spitfire back in the air. Browsing through the site today, I came across “The...
Tags: 3d printing, business, google, industrial revolution, kickstarter, silicon valley
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June 6, 2013 10:37 AM
by Accenture Technology Labs Staff
The need to support trends like social, mobile, data, and cloud is undoubtedly a necessity across the business. Hybrid-cloud offers a solution for enterprise architects to manage these platforms. The hybrid model unlocks the potential of these trends by enabling...
Tags: accenture, cloud computing, data center, paas, platform as a service, saas, service cloud, software as a service, virtual machine, vistualisation, vmware
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May 23, 2013 2:00 PM
by John E. Dunn
Or how Bob Metcalfe set out to solve the challenge of wireless data and inadvertently gave Starbucks a business model. Is there a more ubiquitous, enabling technology than Ethernet? If there is it’s hard to think what it might be. It...
Tags: bob metcalfe, ethernet, local area network, personal computer, robert metcalfe, starbucks, token ring
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May 20, 2013 12:17 PM
by Industry Insight
We’ve all experienced the shackles of a “traditional” nine to five working culture - having to take annual leave to visit the GP because it’s not open out of hours, queuing around the block for the bank during lunch...
Tags: business, citrix, employment, flextime, human resources, london borough of merton, onepoll, telecommuting, work
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