Category: Technology

  • Communication and IT: a natural partnership

    Picture the scene: sun-drenched beaches, a harbour packed with yachts and superyachts, Bentley and Lamborghini showrooms jostling next to Hermes and Chanel stores, crowded bars and restaurants, and attractive men and women strolling the wide avenues by the sea. Yes,…

  • Stories from the big connected world

    This past week has been one of those where-did-the-time-go? weeks. A mixture of work of the type that requires close attention and intense focus along with a business trip to the south of France for two days resulted in a…

  • How to understand sentiment from analysing big data

    Because analysis and interpretation of behaviours online is a big part of what my firm WCG does for its living, I pay attention to new ideas and different thinking on how to zero in on what you need from data…

  • Top German firms ban Facebook and Twitter

    Most of the 30 blue-chip firms listed in Germany’s DAX stock market index are banning employee use of social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter according to a report in the German business magazine Wirtschaftswoche, as reported in the…

  • The global embrace of the internet

    I remember when I first got online back in 1989 via CIX, I knew I’d found something magical, something that enabled me to do or discover things way beyond the confines of the computer itself. Then came CompuServe in 1990…