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How much is your personal data worth?
At a time when governments snooping on communications data is top of the news agenda it is time for people to realise exactly how much of their private information is out there on the internet. From...
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Nokia and Microsoft – two drunks at the end of the party?
This week’s takeover of Nokia’s handset division by Microsoft is easy to see as a marriage of desperation, or as Robert Peston put it, “two drunks supporting each other at the end of the party.” Wind...
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Will Apple take a bite out of Cambridge?
Rumours are currently rife that Apple is about to open an office, albeit a small one, in Cambridge. The research and development centre would initially employ 20 people, so while it is a coup for the...
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Are online monopolies a good thing?
European flag outside the Commission (Photo credit: Wikipedia) The cover story in last week’s Economist looked at the growing global dominance of internet giants such as Google and Facebook. This was...
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How smart can a smartphone get?
If you needed evidence of the growth of the smartphone market and its move into every part of our lives, then this week’s Mobile World Congress (MWC) provides it. It wasn’t that long ago that the event...
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The battle for banking – Amazon enters the fray
In a previous post I talked about how the big four internet companies Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon (GAFA) had quickly developed their businesses. They’ve all moved beyond the sector they started...
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Why technology companies have to play by different rules now
In the 1970s and 1980s the business world was dominated by big oil companies, with energy giants becoming the largest corporations in terms of market capitalisation. These were followed by banks and...
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Will Artificial Intelligence kill creativity?
Listening to the news recently, one of Microsoft’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) researchers was extolling the virtues of the technology, and how it could help humans. Many of the examples mentioned –...
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Brand safety on the wild internet
The internet has always had contradictory roots. The infrastructure may have begun as a DARPA-funded project to create a network with no single point of failure, but its first major users were...
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Elon Musk and brand safety – a cautionary tale
Consumers increasingly want to engage with genuine brands with a personality. And in many cases this goes back to the founder and CEO. Think of Apple and Steve Jobs, Microsoft and Bill Gates, Burt’s...
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