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Amitabh Apte The Time magazine has selected Mark Zuckerberg as the 2010 Person of the Year. In its Person of the Year article Time magazine states, “For connecting more than half a billion people and mapping the social relations among them, for creating a new sys…
We are redefining and rejuvenating the BCS Enterprise Architecture Specialist Group these days. Since last elections the newly elected committee is driving a new, refreshing agenda of events, calls, and social media to bring some new thinking through t…
Following my recent blog on the topic of Cloud Hype, there have been some further interesting views being expressed in the popular IT media. For instance the latest CIO magazine debate dedicated to the similar topic is generating thoughts along similar…
“I am really getting tired of this Cloud Hype!” said a senior IT executive of a large, multi-national organisation. We were sitting in his freshly painted offices in London and going over his mid-term technology roadmap. It was a typical cold, cloudy…
I recently came across an article in the Business Week where CIO profile was outlined (and very well if I may add) as the Chief Innovation Officer and not as Chief Information Officer which you and I would readily recognise. I enjoyed reading through t…
So how will you describe the relationship between Social Networking and E-Mail? Marriage made truly in heaven or this is one of those affairs which were always destined to be short-lived? If analysts at Gartner are to be believed then the Social-Networ…
I just love the folks at Google! I really do. You know why? Because they never stop reinventing what the company stands for. If it was a typical tech start-up company then they would be satisfied after reinventing search and then controll…
Oscar Wilde the great Irish poet, writer and thinker wrote in his 1889 essay The Decay of Lying that “Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life”. Now why would a CTO start his new blog entry with this quote? The reason is simple. What I experie…
I recently attended a Retail Technology Summit here in London where a healthy mix of CIOs, CTOs, and business leaders exchanged, shared and debated the emerging trends of IT in the Retail sector. With technology and business leaders from retail players…
So what we long suspected is now official – Google’s Android is projected to overtake it’s more popular rivals iPhone and Blackberry in coming years. There are more and more exciting phones being launched using Google’s platform – see for instance the …
So where do you go from the position of being the most successful chip maker in the industry? What do you do to evolve your business and revenue model? Well how about buying an antivirus company (sorry! security technology company)? Sounds bizarre? Wel…
Jim Peters, CTO at SITA wrote an interesting blog a few days back – though it started off with an Intel announcement, Jim was really commenting on increasing demand for computing power. I posted the following comment to his blog post.In a sense the bus…