In Depth
In Depth
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Berlin plays growing role in Europe's startup race for innovation
California's Silicon Valley has had 30 years to develop a thriving tech startup scene. And now Berlin is fast becoming a tech capital in its own right Continue Reading
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The changing course of collaboration software
There has been a major shake-up in the collaboration software market, with revenue up 12% year on year in 2013. Continue Reading
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Case study: Is e-health a cure for European healthcare?
E-health – the use of technology in healthcare – has so far failed to fulfil its potential. But that could be about to change Continue Reading
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Collaboration: Building Yammer into a SharePoint world
With market penetration of well over 100 million seats, SharePoint is a strategic investment for many organisations. Where does Yammer fit? Continue Reading
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Flash storage gains a foothold in Turkey
Turkish businesses see the benefits of flash storage for high performance apps, but some think the big suppliers dominate Continue Reading
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Cloudera v Hortonworks: Hadoop to complement or replace data warehouse?
As the market for enterprise Hadoop heats up, the battle lines between two suppliers - Cloudera and Hortonworks - become more clearly defined Continue Reading
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Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Trust secures government backing for £6m IT modernisation programme
CIO interview: Joanna Smith, CIO. Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust Continue Reading
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Erasure coding vs Raid as a data protection method
Erasure coding is mooted as a potential successor to Raid and backup software Continue Reading
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Write-through, write-around, write-back: cache explained
Cache is vital for application deployment, but which one to choose – write-through, write-around or write-back cache? We examine the options Continue Reading
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The pros and cons of WAN optimisation
For many businesses, WAN optimisation can provide significant performance improvements, but projects can prove to be costly and complex. Continue Reading
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Collaborative conversation in the post-email enterprise
Email is no longer an effective means of collaboration and some companies have even banned it - but what is the alternative? Continue Reading
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University of Huddersfield revamps Wi-Fi with Meru Networks
University ditches Cisco and adopts a new Wi-Fi network to support more voice and video applications over mobile devices Continue Reading
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Get datacentre cooling under control
Reviewing existing datacentre cooling designs and exploring new ones for efficiency may not be as hard as you think. Here's how Continue Reading
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Supplier profile: Workday
Computer Weekly analyses the strengths and weaknesses of the rapidly growing cloud HR and finance software company, Workday Continue Reading
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Businesses are beginning to adopt context-based security
It is more than 10 years since context-aware security was proposed. We look at how the technology has evolved. Continue Reading
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Nordics lead initiative to share European patient records data
The Nordic countries have played a leading role in epSOS, an EU project to establish infrastructure for patient records data exchanges Continue Reading
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Undercover economist Tim Harford decries data visualisation dazzle
The Undercover Economist author says 200 years of statistical science should not be cast aside for the blandishments of ‘big data’ propagandists Continue Reading
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Protect your business by encrypting the network
Enabling encryption across different points of the network can provide significant protection from the most advanced of attackers Continue Reading
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Can telcos tap into the datacentre business?
Telcos have always run datacentres, but now many are hoping to give commercial providers a run for their money Continue Reading
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VMware versus Hyper-V storage comparison
VMware versus Hyper-V storage: How do the two leading hypervisors compare when it comes to deploying storage and in terms of their key storage features and functionality? Continue Reading
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CW500: Bring your own IT department?
Bring, your and own (BYO) are the first three words of an acronym being discussed in IT as the next phase of the consumerisation trend Continue Reading
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Bywaters waste management uses BI to improve customers’ recycling
Bywaters, a recycling and waste management company, has improved productivity by 4% using Pentaho data integration and business intelligence software Continue Reading
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Would the real flash storage successor please stand up?
Flash storage will hit a wall in development terms by around the end of the decade. But which successor is best placed to replace it: Memristor, MRAM or phase-change memory? Continue Reading
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Messier-Bugatti-Dowty gears up BI with QlikView toolbox
Messier-Bugatti-Dowty, an aviation industry specialist in aircraft landing and braking systems, is using QlikView to support business process improvement Continue Reading
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Check the state of network security and stay safe
Many organisations are planning to increase their investment in proactive security controls and threat intelligence measures. Continue Reading
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BAFTA nominates cloud to boost web performance
Arts organisation moves to Rackspace to handle awards-season peaks and help meet the ever-growing demand for rich media content Continue Reading
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Essential tips for your first 100 days as an IT leader
IT leadership coach and martial arts teacher James Knight offers six tips on the critical first 100 days in an IT leadership role Continue Reading
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Accenture’s UK analytics head sees clients reorganising for digital
Ray Eitel-Porter is managing director of analytics for Accenture UK & Ireland. He talks to Computer Weekly about how data management has assumed a more elevated strategic role as companies go digital Continue Reading
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Spring cleaning your datacentre
Although domestic spring cleaning seems to have faded somewhat, perhaps we should consider whether a datacentre spring clean is a good idea Continue Reading
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IT security analytics: the before, during and after
Effective IT security calls for intelligence ahead of, during and following an attack. Continue Reading
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Flash hits the motherboard with memory channel storage
Memory channel storage puts flash storage into the DIMM slots on servers, offering unprecedented speed of access to hot data. Who’s making it and what are the pros and cons? Continue Reading
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The business case for next-generation hotspots
Next-generation hotspot (NGH) is an emerging technology set to redefine how our devices interact with wireless networks Continue Reading
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How to manage the tension between agility and discipline in IT
Agility requires a new level of discipline that is redefining IT project management Continue Reading
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Can the mainframe remain relevant in the cloud and mobile era?
IBM mainframes run more than 1.1m transactions per second, yet the mainframe has remained largely unfashionable. We investigate Continue Reading
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The CIO supplier relationship: How to get the best from your suppliers
Professor Merlin Stone offers some insights to help CIOs manage their suppliers while avoiding potential pitfalls Continue Reading
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Blackrock: measuring risk in a datacentre
How the investment giant handles the risk of managing $13 trillion of other people’s money Continue Reading
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Understanding the real value of IT and proving it to the business
At a time when costs are being continually squeezed, there is more pressure than ever to demonstrate the business value of technology Continue Reading
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Using NoSQL databases to gain competitive advantage
NoSQL is attracting growing interest from businesses - we examine three case studies: Amadeus, i2O and Temetra Continue Reading
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Target data breach: Why UK business needs to pay attention
Late last year, US retailer Target was hit by one of the biggest data breaches in the industry's history. So what happened and why is it relevant to UK businesses? Continue Reading
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Where next for the new EU data protection regulation?
For many people in business, the proposed new EU data protection regulation has become obscured by a storm of controversy Continue Reading
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Mölnlycke Health Care and Axfood demonstrate divergent ERP strategies
Two Swedish firms, Mölnlycke Health Care and Axfood, demonstrate divergent ERP strategies - one standardised, one customised Continue Reading
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Where is all the innovation in the PC industry?
PC manufacturers need to innovate to reverse the continuing drop in hardware sales Continue Reading
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Opportunities and threats to cloud storage adoption in Turkey
Turkish organisations are taking up cloud storage and other services, but adoption is tempered by concerns over privacy, latency, lack of internet provision and regulatory issues Continue Reading
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The private sector answer to exploiting public sector data
The big IT suppliers emphasise the importance of transparent governance and maximising the benefits of open government data. Continue Reading
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The digital CIO: How digital technology will change the way organisations work
If you are an IT leader, digital technology is likely to be a pivotal factor in your career over the next five years Continue Reading
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CW500 Security Club: The next threat landscape - what to expect
The next threat landscape -- what to expect: IT security experts discuss the challenges facing organisations today Continue Reading
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The digital CIO: How digital technology will change the role of IT leaders
We have now reached the point where corporate IT as we know it will succeed or fail Continue Reading
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Managing Wi-Fi and mobility
Wi-Fi is a critical system, but it’s also the point where BYOD meets your network. New tools promise to simplify things, but can they? Continue Reading
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Using public sector open data to benefit local communities
Tech City’s Flood Hack shows how open data can help communities - an aspect attracting interest in Leeds council and other UK cities. Continue Reading
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How to make the most of your annual appraisal
Industry experts share their tips on how to make the dreaded annual appraisal successful and productive Continue Reading
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Hacktivism: good or evil?
IT lawyer Dai Davis looks at the rise of hacktivism and its impact on business and international politics Continue Reading
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Mobile VPNs: Battered but not broken
With weaknesses exposed in mobile VPNs in recent months, we examine if they are safe for companies to deploy Continue Reading
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Big data storage in the Benelux
Organisation in the Benelux countries are turning to big data analytics, but big data storage options can vary significantly between the lab and production environments Continue Reading
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How open data can mitigate the floods of the future
Live, open government data – collated on third-party platforms – can change peoples’ lives profoundly in a wide variety of ways. Continue Reading
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Is privacy undermining trade in digital services?
BSA report highlights dangers facing European Union (EU) nations as the European Commission (EC) revises its Data Protection Regulation Continue Reading
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Converged stacks: What they are and the benefits they bring
We survey the converged stacks market: Servers, storage and networking in pre-configured product bundles for specific virtualisation and application use cases. Continue Reading
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Cloud storage options in Scandinavia
It has never been faster or cheaper to store data in the cloud and Scandinavian businesses have taken up cloud storage with gusto Continue Reading
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How to select the best hybrid cloud provider for your firm
A successful shift towards a hybrid cloud corporate environment requires a new approach to trust throughout the organisation. Continue Reading
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No more email? Why companies are turning to collaboration technology
Collaboration technologies are helping companies improve their employees' work-life balance Continue Reading
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Hadoop 2 opens new vistas beyond current UK data management practice
Hadoop 2 enables a greater range of data-crunching tasks, beyond Hadoop’s previous scope of batch processing, directly within the stack itself Continue Reading
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Let’s not forget the computing curriculum’s bigger picture: Computational thinking
Computing curriculum is about computational thinking and problem solving, not just coding/programming say education experts Continue Reading
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A guide to APM for the network manager
Has application performance management become a much needed discipline for the network manager? We examine the issues for IT departments Continue Reading
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Uppsala Ambulance, Dagens Nyheter favour Swedish-born QlikView for BI
Sweden has played a big part in data visualisation tools. QlikTech, NComVA and Tibco Spotfire have roots there. Uppsala Ambulance and the Dagens Nyheter newspaper are QlikView users Continue Reading
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Human factors in the datacentre
Whether to ensure business continuity or maximise returns, everyone from the finance director to the facilities manager needs further datacentre education Continue Reading
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No IPv6 explosion, but a ticking bomb
IPv6 could be a ticking security time bomb in Belgium if businesses fail to respond to the fact that adoption is gaining momentum fast Continue Reading
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Advanced data visualisation tools transcend traditional bean counting
Advanced data visualisation tools take Muddy Boots and Volvo beyond conventional business intelligence Continue Reading
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The UK’s problem with power
Datacentre power buyers say Britain’s deregulated energy market is as complex as trading in derivatives Continue Reading
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If the Year of Code has got it wrong, how should we teach kids to code?
Experts share their views on the Year of Code campaign and the best way to teach children to code Continue Reading
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How NSA spying disclosures influence security strategies
How have whistleblower Edward Snowden’s exposés affected the ways organisations deal with internal and external security threats? Continue Reading
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Future job of the senior infrastructure manager
Hybrid cloud architectures will need IT departments to move from core server skills to managing the capacity to let developers code Continue Reading
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Flash storage: What it is and where to deploy it
A guide to the key decisions in flash storage: MLC vs SLC, all-flash vs hybrid, whether to add flash to an existing SAN, flash as a tier vs cache, and more Continue Reading
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Troubleshooting datacentre management issues
Gaining better control of the datacentre has to be a high priority to ensure high levels of performance and availability Continue Reading
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What does 2014 hold for HR technology?
A look at the key battlegrounds in HR technology in 2014 Continue Reading
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Create a mobile policy employees can trust
With Gartner predicting a fifth of all enterprise BYOD projects would fail by 2016, we look at how businesses can embrace mobility successfully Continue Reading
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The future of the tablet computer in the enterprise
Tablets come in all manner of profiles and on a variety of platforms – but which will shape up as the workplace favourite of the future? Continue Reading
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CW500: Is the CIO still as important in 2014?
Computer Weekly's CW500 Club kicked off this year's meetings with a look at the challenges CIOs will face in 2014 Continue Reading
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Virtualisation and cloud ubiquitous in midrange backup software
Midrange backup software supports virtual environments and the cloud as a target, but like enterprise products support for mobile devices is largely absent Continue Reading
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Digital reality: When IT meets the business
The implications of companies going digital is that technology becomes a core competency to drive the business forward. How will IT adapt? Continue Reading
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Do you need tablets in your workplace?
Consumers have shown a massive appetite for tablets, but IT departments have not presented the same level of eagerness Continue Reading
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The hidden threats facing your unsupported XP devices
Exorbitant custom support deal fees may not be the highest costs organisations running Windows XP will face after support ends in April. Continue Reading
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Enterprise backup embraces VMs and cloud, but lags on mobile
We survey enterprise backup products and find the top five tightly meshed with hypervisors and integrated with cloud, but lacking mobile device support Continue Reading
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Storage startup survey: Funding tops $1.2bn in 2013
IPOs are in the air and storage startups are magnets for investors, with $1.2bn of funding flung at flash arrays, hybrid flash, converged storage, cloud and object storage Continue Reading
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Why computing curriculum fails to light academics’ flame of inspiration
Roundtable reveals disappointment over computing curriculum and calls for more focus on importance of informal learning Continue Reading
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How to navigate the IT supplier jungle
Being a CIO is interesting and satisfying, but there is a relentless pressure on them to improve Continue Reading
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Big banks' legacy IT systems could kill them
A banking T-Rex is dying and nimble competitors will pick at its carcass. Is it too late for the retail bank giants to overhaul their IT and survive? Continue Reading
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Cloudera CTO: enterprise ‘data hub’ is smartphone to data warehouse SLR
Amr Awadallah is the chief technology officer and a co-founder at Hadoop distributor Cloudera. Here he briefs Computer Weekly on how the supplier is advocating the concept of an ‘enterprise data hub’ Continue Reading
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Failure to migrate from Windows XP could torpedo your business
As the end of Windows XP support looms, what are the options available to CIOs using applications that run on nothing else? Continue Reading
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VDI storage basics and persistent versus non-persistent desktops
A look at the fundamentals of VDI storage and how to specify storage for likely workloads and persistent versus non-persistent desktops. Continue Reading
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Get ready for the datacentre storm
With a wave of innovations rolling ever faster towards the datacentre, analysts say 2014 is the year organisations must plot their course through choppy waters Continue Reading
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SAP execs predict more innovation as economic outlook improves in 2014
SAP executives are looking to 2014 as a year to establish the supplier’s innovation agenda of in-memory database technology, cloud and mobile Continue Reading
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Windows XP support will end this year – are you prepared?
April 2014 marks the point when Microsoft will finally end technical support for Windows XP. What should you do if you can't migrate by then? Continue Reading
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Minerals firm Imerys upgrades IFS ERP as economy lifts
Imerys has 30 different ERP systems around the globe. A plan to move to a single instance of ERP, thrown off course by recession, was achieved in 2012; other business benefits have accrued Continue Reading
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Top 10 information management stories of 2013
Top 10 information management stories of 2013. Putting analytics to work emerged as the most popular theme, with Tesco, McLaren, and Telefonica Ireland among those leading the data analytics pack Continue Reading
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Putting software security in the hands of the buyer
For far too long, businesses have been at the mercy of software suppliers for ensuring that critical applications are secure Continue Reading
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Next generation hotspots: The future of Wi-Fi?
A new solution for connecting to wireless hotspots could change the user experience forever. But as Steve Evans points out, there will need to be more collaboration in the telecoms and networking industries before we start to reap the benefits. Continue Reading
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Internet of things set to unleash deluge of disruption
Universal connectivity will yield insights in fields as diverse as aviation and hospitality, but will challenge conventional practices. Continue Reading
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Realising the benefits of a totally connected world
The internet of things will transform everyday life, from managing airports’ passenger flow to heating buildings and caring for the elderly. Continue Reading
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BlackBerry Enterprise Server – Should you stay or should you go?
John Chen’s recent open letter to BlackBerry customers holds many promises for the future Continue Reading
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Internet of things will drive forward lifestyle innovations
Internet-connected devices have been predicted to become popular for many years, but have been held back by many issues Continue Reading
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The pros and cons of putting Wi-Fi into high street stores
As the high street fights the tide of online shopping, retailers have adopted the ‘digital store’ model – but there are drawbacks for some Continue Reading