Of Cobblestones, Solomon, Paula, Gunter, Joseph and the GDPR.
I’ve been reading a fair bit of software vendor marketing and press from around the world about the GDPR. It seems to me that a lot of it misses the point. GDPR is seen as a compliance burden, an unwelcome dose of EU bureaucracy or at best a useful opportunity sell security software. It is […]
Customers, colleagues, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and my writing day.
I have been spending the last few months deep in accessibility law, testing, standards, universal design, GDPR, the early history of business computing and of course my old friend, Sarbanes Oxley. I am an expert on Heidelberg and Sandton coffee shops, and I have spent far too long debating the value of one font over […]
Social as Enabler for Digital Transformation (or is it the new Black?)
It’s been a while since I’ve been to CeBIT in Hanover. At its height during the late 90s and early 2000s, the time of the dot-com boom, it had over 800,000 visitors and covered everything form of technology from consumer electronics to enterprise IT. The consumer electronics part happens elsewhere now but it has a dozen […]
PRISM Projected To Cost U.S. Cloud Computing Industry $35B
U.S.-based cloud computing providers are projected to lose up to 20% of foreign market revenues or $35B over the next three years as a result of disclosures involving PRISM. The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF), a Washington, D.C.-based think tank published How Much Will PRISM Cost the U.S. Cloud Computing Industry? (free to download, […]
