By Ron Tolido
When I first read Carl Honoré’s bestseller ‘In Praise of Slow’ I was devastated by his now famous example of speed-parenting. A few years ago, he was so obsessed with speed and efficiency that he actually liked the idea of One-Minute bedtime...
Read moreOne of the greatest privileges in any field is working with the next generation, and specifically, listening to their perspectives on the issues. A little while ago I met one of Capgemini’s ‘BTC-ers’, Sham Mitra. (BTC stands for Business...
Read moreSun has been in the news a fair bit recently, and not always around their product portfolio either. We should all be watching Sun in the news as this is the company that ‘owns’ Java, one of the fundamental pieces of the current mix of...
Read moreI have written already two times about the XO laptop, an extremely important initiative of the One Laptop Per Child Foundation. But I think you should all know that the Give One Get One action has started again through Amazon. Just a case of very...
Read moreThe launch of the Blackberry Storm, the ‘answer to the iPhone’, produced all the coverage you might expect. And of course it all centred on the features of the Storm, and the comparison with the other touch phones features, the old ‘speeds and...
Read moreYou probably won’t be stunned by my prediction that 2009 looks like a bumpy year indeed. No matter how we put it, many IT departments will need to cut down on their costs. Applications and infrastructure will be consolidated, innovative projects...
Read moreI have wondered for most of the last couple of years just how long ‘free’, meaning paid for by advertising, services on the web could go on for, and with a recession looming this seems to be the time that this could get cut back. However when I...
Read moreYou thought you got it all worked out. Used the Web 2.0 like no one else to mobilise a huge crowd of supporters. Announced to appoint a national CTO, in charge of using technology pro-actively to create new jobs and restore competiveness. Created an...
Read moreA couple of years ago if you wanted a high impact post that would generate a lot of comments, all you had to do was post something on Second Life. It was very much the hype topic at the time and supporters and detractors were pretty well balanced in...
Read moreDr Chris Yapp has been working for some time with UK government on its Digital Inclusion agenda. As the digital economy expands, and its inter-relationships with the ‘real-economy’ deepen, the issues raised present important macro factors for our...
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