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Unravelling the hype behind IT for creating useful CIO strategies.

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  • Infotainment systems end up like vintage car radios

    Cliff Saran - Managing Editor 05 Aug 2025
  • The most visible electronics in the cars people drove 40 or more years ago, was the transistor radio. And in every town, there were car radio shops, to upgrade these to better quality models. These ...

  • A role for AI and people in software lifecycle management

    Cliff Saran - Managing Editor 28 Jul 2025
  • Consider this common scenario: a line-of-business manager has a great idea and wants IT to provide a software platform to support the new business initiative. It’s another IT project on a growing ...

  • Enterprise IT risks of AI and agentic AI

    Cliff Saran - Managing Editor 09 Jul 2025
  • Everyone involved in IT needs to be focused on the implications of artificial intelligence (AI) on enterprise cybersecurity. Yet precious little energy is being expended on making sure AI is ...

  • Quantum Computing: A UK moon shot or £670m research indulgence?

    Cliff Saran - Managing Editor 27 Jun 2025
  • Among the questions raised during the inaugural Quantum Datacentre Alliance forum held at Battersea power station in London, was one from a delegate from the government’s Quantum testbed programme, ...

  • A G7 AI roadmap lacking IP protection is one with potholes

    Cliff Saran - Managing Editor 19 Jun 2025
  • The G7 meeting of world leaders is a clear indication of how the leading economies see AI. With the stagnation of economic growth alongside rising costs of maintaining existing public services, ...

  • GenAI: Talk to me

    Cliff Saran - Managing Editor 12 Jun 2025
  • Who would have thought that a black slab of Gorilla Glass in a titanium frame that fits in the palm of your hand would not necessarily offer the best user experience? A recent YouTube video ...

  • Putting a price on the value of IP

    Cliff Saran - Managing Editor 28 May 2025
  • The government sees artificial intelligence (AI) as a high octane fuel to boost productivity and drive the economy forward. The Regulatory Innovation Office (RIO) aims to cut bureaucracy to ...

  • Microsoft entices developers to build more Windows AI apps

    Cliff Saran - Managing Editor 21 May 2025
  • Microsoft’s annual developer conference is rather like a litmus test, showing the general direction of travel of the software industry. Given the massive footprint of Windows in desktop computing, ...

  • Risk of corporate hospitality to IT teams

    Cliff Saran - Managing Editor 08 May 2025
  • The practice of making deals on golf courses seems to be alive and well. And it is IT leaders and their teams that are having to pick up the pieces following the agreed purchase of unsuitable tech ...

  • It's the end of coding as we know it

    Cliff Saran - Managing Editor 01 May 2025
  • During a fireside chat at LlamaCon 2025, Meta CEO, Mark Zuckerberg asked Microsoft chief, Satya Nadella about the use of AI for coding. Nadella responded that up to 30% of the code in Microsoft’s ...

  • Making America great, but at what cost?

    Cliff Saran - Managing Editor 09 Apr 2025
  • It is highly unlikely any country facing US tariffs will want to curb the ability of their citizens and businesses to buy software and IT services from US firms. Yet the current tariffs affecting ...

  • Avoiding AI lock-in

    Cliff Saran - Managing Editor 01 Apr 2025
  • One of the big problems with deploying a software as a service (SaaS) product across an entire organisation is that once it is widely used, swapping it out becomes an extremely costly exercise. In ...