Mike Wheatley
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Why CIOS Need To Embrace Failure
It’s pretty depressing for CIOs and IT staff when their projects fail to get off the ground, but don’t be too disheartened if it happens to you. So long as these failures can lead to changes in your attitude towards experimentation and management, they don’t have to constitute a net loss. At least, that’s the ...
Android Gobbles Up The Competition, Runs on 59.5% Of All Devices Sold in Q1
The Android operating system might only be five and a half years old, but you would never of guessed that by its overwhelming dominance of the world’s mobile landscape. And according to at least one research firm, its grip on mobile is getting even stronger, as it now runs on a staggering 59.5% of all ...
NTT Docomo Invests $50M into Smart Car Traffic Services
NTT Docomo, Japan’s number one mobile carrier, is revving up for a push into the Smart Car space by using location data from the 61.5 million odd devices registered to it to create a platform that monitors traffic conditions in the country. Docomo, which made its announcement via press release, said that it plans to ...
Faceook Home Flops In Just One Month
So it’s not looking good for Facebook’s big push to takeover Android. One month on from its grand launch of Facebook Home, less than 0.1% of its 1.1 billion or so active users have actually installed the app, and even worse, it’s popularity’s dropping like a lead balloon. Facebook Home actually got off to a ...
The Industrial Internet – The New Front Line in the Battle for the Enterprise
Information flows follow a similar route within most organizations. Proprietary information builds up in databases, from where its funnelled into reports that rise up the chain of management. Then there’s external data, that which is gathered from public sources, accumulated from feedback, purchased from information suppliers, or simply harvested from the internet. Most Big Data ...
The Future of SaaS – Its Cloudy on the Horizon [Infographic]
The arrival of software-as-a-service (SaaS) has revolutionized the way that enterprises manage their IT infrastructure. Just as businesses replaced the water wheel or wind power with electricity from the national power grid, software and IT systems have evolved beyond simple fat fingers, floppy disks and CDs. SaaS is a new economy that is rapidly marginalizing ...
How The Onion Was Hacked (And How to Prevent it Happening to You)
When the popular satirical publication The Onion fell victim to a hack by the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) last week, it didn’t see the funny side of it. The breach led to The Onion’s Twitter account being taken over for several hours by the SEA, during which time the hackers launched a volley of insults ...
Strange Big Data: The World, According to the Twitterverse
What with something like 3% of the world’s population now confirmed as active users and around 370 million-odd tweets sent each and every day, Twitter is home to a pretty vast amount of information. But what can all of that data tell us about the world we live in? Quite a lot, as it happens, ...
Microsoft Wants A Piece Of Nook: Lets Read Between The Lines
Reports today have surfaced saying that Microsoft’s looking to splurge a billion readies on Barnes & Noble’s Nook Media business. The report, which came from the website TechCrunch, was based on leaked internal documents that were later confirmed as being genuine by the New York Times. What’s more, the documents also disclose the fact that ...
How To Stalk The Web Like A Spy
When it comes to information resources, nothing can compare to the sheer enormity of the world wide web. For all the talk of wiretaps and surveillance techniques, the internet can probably provide more data on someone or something than any other resource, so long as you know how to sift through it. And that’s the ...