As I’ve written before most mobile phone subscribers are unaware of the sweeping usage rights they give to their network providers in relation to their usage, and location data when they sign up to a mobile phone contract. The reporting this weekend in the UK of the partnership between EE, the largest UK mobile provider…
When most people hear the words ‘hacker’ or ‘hack’ they probably conjure up an image of a teenager trying to hack into a government mainframe or a hardened criminal trying to get into a banks computer network. Such an image is of course only one interpretation of those words and over the weekend TechCrunch hosted the Disrupt…
The Ubiquity of Apps – An Opportunity in Education (via innov8-Ed) It’s difficult to think about a world without apps, however, it is only five years since the launch of the iTunes App Store. In this time apps have become ubiquitous and found across all platforms and not just the Apple iOS. Over the past…
I was recommended to a TED lecture called ‘use data to build better schools’ given by Andreas Schleicher. Andreas is from an OECD funded organisation called PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment). It was a great use of 15 mins and gave some great insights into the difference between access to education and equality of…
In a business world where companies are adjusting their business model to outsource all but the business critical and core activities, in the consumer world we seem to be increasingly insourcing more and more to meet our value for money aspirations. A good example of this is the way in which many of us plan…
When I saw this piece of work by Eric Berlow and Sean Gourley of Quid who are both TED Fellows, what struck me was that by using visualisation the snapshot above had created insight from what appeared data with limited linkages. In my case what came to mind first was that, based on the various…
In the ‘age of big data’, I read Tim Cummins’ recent post, ‘Contracting as a Data Centre‘ with interest. The comparison of the contracting function as a data centre is an interesting one. The value of a company is largely made up of the value of its contracts, agreements, and relationships. As Tim points out,…
Some had said that the release of the new Blackberry 10 device and OS was its last chance. There was certainly a lot riding on it. Since Blackberry’s high point in terms of innovative poster child, other players, notably Apple, have taken that crown. Apple in particular, from its consumer roots, has created some revolutionary…
There have been many column inches given over to the changes announced by Facebook to the T&Cs for Instagram. Having paid ~$1Bn for Instagram, Facebook is obviously keen to leverage the synergies and find a way of monetizing their new acquisition. In their move towards these goals, what they seem to have miscalculated is that in approaching…
SearchCIO.com’s recently published an article on ‘Six ways the CIO job description is changing‘ which focused on the top 6 new skills that CIO’s are expected. A number were unsurprising in the context of today, however, there were some which showed a change and maturing of this increasingly important role as part of an organisational…