As we are entering the final stage of quite an interesting year, let’s see what the collective wisdom of the contributors to our CTO and Capping IT Off blogs has come up with. Here is our compiled list of 2009 Technology predictions: 1....
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43 IT Things to do in 2009
No better timing than right now to contemplate your plans for 2009. And why not use good old 43Things to do it in true web 2.0 style? Until now, I have been using the site to write down and share my own personal, silly targets. Meditate more. Pick up...
Read moreBack to the Future with Business Week and the EU ICT events
It was as the Chinese say, an ‘interesting’ week. At the beginning of the week there was the BusinessWeek European Leadership Forum, held in London and (well) attended by CxOs including some from very well known household names. At the end of the...
Read moreThe Mouse That Roared
Today sees the 40th anniversary of a rather special mouse (and my personal thanks to Chris Yapp for his encyclopaedic memory). On 9 December 1968 hi-tech visionary Douglas Engelbart first used one to demonstrate novel ways of working with...
Read moreHP and Capgemini try not to have ‘clouded judgement’ – what a pun!
I had thought that in the month of December that there might be a slow down for the Technology Industry, but seems not so, or at least if the topic is Virtualisation or Cloud Computing. I did get to go to the HP Software Universe event in Vienna, but...
Read moreTech Predictions 2009: the end of the user
User. To quote Wikipedia ‘Users in a computing context refers to one who _uses_ a computer system’. Already we are lost. Already, we have a split between the user and the computer. Here, in the word user, we see the essence of the business/IT...
Read moreGooglenomics; and OAuth MashUp security
I guess many people will know of, or have read, Don Tapscott, and Anthony Williams, book ‘Wikinomics’, a fascinating look at ‘How Mass Collaboration changes everything’ which describes impacts on business models, and companies. It has become...
Read moreVoicemail
“… Hi, this is John’s voicemail. I am currently unavailable. You see, we have our annual strategy session with all of the IT management and the leaders of the business units. And it seemed perfect timing to make a change this year. Think about...
Read moreWhat Happens Next? EU and Obama ask the same question
The European Commission hosted what it claims to be Europe’s biggest research event for Information Communication Technologies, ICT, in Lyon during the 25th to the 27th of November with an expected 4,000 plus attendees. The main site gives the...
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