I used to talk a lot about ‘Shadow IT’, the increasing tendency for non IT staff to use simple web-based technology to solve their own and their local business unit’s requirements without the involvement, or even knowledge, of the IT department. Back in 2006 when I first mentioned this, and wrote about it in my first book on the new world MashUp Corporation, it was considered a shocking thought. Today it seems inevitable, and the …

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I am finding it increasingly difficult to know what the readership of this blog does as a role. Given the common thread is how technology supports business, in the past the readership would have been CIOs in large enterprises looking at matching the business requirements. The term technology would have been synonymous with computerisation of process delivered by Information Technology. Today the term technology means … well anything that is now on the market. This …

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There is little doubt that the credit crunch has brought about a fault line in the business continuum by creating extreme circumstances that have sped up interest in innovation through technology to put business growth back on the table. In some ways the previously little-known volcano in Iceland and the resulting impact on air travel has also been a catalyst for change in business behaviour with respect to how we interact. Add pressure on budgets …

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HTML 5.0 is on the verge of being ratified with draft comments posted at the end of June promising to deliver all the features necessary for the web of today around Rich Internet Apps, and to many that means video. So the industry is on the verge of delivering what we all want, right? Well may be not, because the biggest consumer question is why Apple, the multimedia champion, doesn’t support Adobe Flash which is …

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