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Free iBeacon tech for retailers - but do they even know what to do with it?
- Business Editor 21 Jul 2014 -
Why working out the cost of Scotland replicating Whitehall's IT systems is so difficult
- Business Editor 04 Jul 2014 -
The challenges around PSN are still apparent as director leaves
- Business Editor 20 Jun 2014
A specialist company has announced its ambitious plan to kit out FMCG, alcohol and publishing retailers - big and small - with free iBeacon technology. Set up in 2013, Appflare has said it will ...
If Scots vote 'yes' in the Scottish referendum later this year, Computer Weekly has calculated that Scotland could spend over £1bn on replicating the necessary IT systems needed to run an ...
The challenges around the public services network (PSN) still remain two months after the project has moved into the hands of the Government Digital Service (GDS), as sources tell me senior people ...
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A private GDS for local government?
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The consumerisation of IT could empower and divide citizens over healthcare
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Is the connected fitting room the future of retail?
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What is the value of IT supplier events?
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Scrub commuting - give us LOOFaaS!
26 Mar 2012 -
Heard the one about the Twitter joke trial?
10 Feb 2012 -
Crowdsourcing the curriculum
13 Jan 2012
Could local government be revolutionised by a private Government Digital Service (GDS) - type organisation who could swoop in (at a cost) and make local government more digital savvy? That's what ...
Over the last couple of years a tidal wave of wearable technologies has entered the marketplace, which has changed the perception of fitness. Now at lunchtime, rather than going for the obligatory ...
While eCommerce is increasing year on year, footfall into brick and mortar shops is falling, as customers are seeing online as an easier and cheaper challenge to buy their goods. So what is the ...
Customer events hosted by IT companies are always interesting to the external observer - I mean, to someone who is not the buyer nor the seller. I am now attending the Orange Business Live customer ...
Given that everything these days is being recast 'as a service' - software as a service, platform as a service, infrastructure as a service, etc - what better time to be extending the concept to ...
Disclaimer: the blog that follows is entirely my personal opinion. It is not, however, a joke...If you're a regular Twitter user you've probably seen quite a few tweets this week tagged ...
Don't speak too soon, but there's a chance Education Secretary Michael Gove's speech at the BETT show on Wednesday - where he announced the Government would be scrapping the current ICT curriculum ...
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The myths of innovation
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Do you care about green IT?
22 Dec 2011 -
How do you get 'the business' to 'get IT'?
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The value of IT trade bodies
08 Jun 2011 -
Clinging on to the past
01 Jun 2011
This is a guest post by James Gardner, an innovation author and chief strategy officer at crowd innovation company Spigit.In the last decade, Microsoft has spent between four to five times as much ...
Last week, it was announced that Facebook has agreed to work with Greenpeace to promote clean energy, and encourage major utilities to develop renewable energy generation. So the goal is to run on ...
One of the ever-present themes in IT management is how on earth a CIO gets his/her counterparts in other parts of the business to "understand" what information technology can do for them. But how ...
I was having a chat recently with a CIO at a large multinational who worked in several countries worldwide, including Brazil and the UK, about trade bodies and their function. In Brazil, there is a ...
If you attend IT management-focused events and communities, then you have probably come across former CIOs. After stepping down from their last senior IT job, they decided to take a sabbatical to ...