Heavy traffic on the information superhighway
– Jeff Smith is Senior Director Infrastructure Services, Global Crossing EMEA. The opinions expressed are his own.– For many years now, number crunchers have obsessed over the growth of data,...
View ArticleStartup accelerators and Internet bubbles
–Joe White is COO of Moonfruit.com. The opinions expressed are his own.– All this week Seedcamp, a UK-based internet startup accelerator, has been running its headline annual event Seedcamp Week in...
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What real Internet censorship looks like
Lately Internet users in the U.S. have been worried about censorship, copyright legalities and data privacy. Between Twitter’s new censorship policy, the global protests over SOPA/PIPA and ACTA and the...
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Why we are not witnessing a tech boom
By Kathleen Brooks. The opinions expressed are her own. The words ‘tech bubble’ have been bandied about since the Apple share price really started to climb at the end of 2011. Earlier this month, its...
View ArticleThe regulatory maze of a pan-European cloud
–Ian Winham is Chief Information Officer of Ricoh Europe. The opinions expressed are his own.– Cloud computing is widely regarded by policymakers and business leaders to be one of the biggest keys for...
View ArticleUS-China research ties should be a wake-up call to Europe
–Dirk Jan van den Berg is President of Delft University of Technology, and was formerly the Dutch Ambassador to China and the Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York. The opinions...
View ArticleUK startups need to get big enough to fail
–Amanda Jobbins is Group Chief Marketing Officer of The Sage Group. The opinions expressed are her own.– Start-ups are hot on the business news agenda. Their importance to the UK, and the economic...
View ArticleThe digital divide and inspiring young people into science
By Dr Juha Ylä-Jääski, President and CEO, Technology Academy Finland – The opinions expressed are the author’s own – Don’t let them be the lost generation. The young have borne the brunt of the current...
View ArticleScience’s innovators are to be prized
–Juha Ylä-Jääski (D.Tech.) is President and CEO of Technology Academy Finland. The opinions expressed are his own.– The 2013 Nobel season is once again gorging on a Grand Cru vintage of scientific...
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Apple: ‘Early adopter’ as fashionista
To much fanfare, Apple announced Tuesday that Angela Ahrendts is resigning as chief executive officer of Burberry and joining the inner circle in Cupertino, California. “Apple-polishing” has become the...
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How technology widens the gender gap
The Internet and mobile phones have transformed our connections to people around the world. This technology has also, however, led to a widening gender gap in poorer countries. For it is largely men...
View ArticleThe Great Sleep Debate
Not that long ago everyone was lamenting the slovenliness of the British public. We didn’t work hard enough, took too many holidays and anxiety was rising about how we would ever keep up with our...
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Tim Cook’s pride may expand corporate talent pool
By Robert Cyran The author is a Reuters Breakingviews columnist. The opinions expressed are his own. Tim Cook’s pride may expand the corporate talent pool. The Apple chief executive’s decision to speak...
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