Green light for super-fast broadband that could change our lives. By Sean Poulter Updated: 08:21 GMT, 4 March 2009 A superfast broadband system that will transform home and working lives was given the green light yesterday. Download speeds across a new £1.5billion fibre-optic cable network will be more than 25 times faster than the current service most people get. The delivery of superfast broadband has been described by the telecoms regulator Ofcom as the biggest step forward in communication since Alexander Graham Bell made the first telephone call in 1876. In future, a broadband speed of 100megabits per second will allow downloads of songs in just under a second and DVD quality films in less than two minutes. More people will access TV, films and music via a broadband connection.
Home working and high-quality two-way video calls will become commonplace. However, the cost of installing the new fibre-optic cable - replacing copper wires - will be passed on to consumers through monthly bills. Details of the plans were set out yesterday by Ofcom. LSE-Superfast-Broadband-Report-May-2012[1].pdf (application/pdf Object) Febuary's 5 Must-Reads on Enterprise Social Networks. Great Debate: Social Enterprise: Real or Fiction? ZDNet.com – Summary: Dion Hinchcliffe calls social media in the workplace “viable and valuable”, while Dennis Howlett dismisses it as laughable, even ridiculous. View the debate! Everything You Need to Know About Social Business and Enterprise 2.0 in Three Short Reports Andrew McAfee – That headline is, of course, a pathetic lie. But the reports are still quite good.
Throughout the second half of 2011, I worked with AIIM (the professional organization for information management and collaboration pros) on a task force to understand the state of Enterprise 2.0 / social business / call-it-what-you-will (continued…) Social Business: We’re Just Getting Started Jeremiah Owyang – Altimeter Group - Recently, folks suggested that social business space was getting washed out, especially with Social Media Week spreading across the globe and being hosted at many corporations. 3 Popular Ways to Screw Up Enterprise Social. RFID Journal - RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) Technology News & Features. Technology-risk-evaluation-framework. The risks of introducing new technology can -- if not properly managed -- exceed the technology's benefits. For example, in February 2001 Nike CEO Phil Knight blamed a 28% earnings miss on a poorly implemented $400 mm supply chain software installation. In fact, new technology introduces a variety of risks into a company and executives must be aware of these potential risks and take steps to manage them.
The table below illustrates some of the more common risks that different technologies may introduce and highlights measures that may be taken to control these risks. While these examples are not exhaustive, they form the basis for a more comprehensive thinking process that executives should follow to protect their companies from the risks of new technology. E-Procurement -- Electronic procurement can open up new risks such as employee theft. The risk of fraud here refers to online entities who appear to be paying customers, but ultimately prove to be thieves. Is new technology worth the risk? High performance access to file storage Irish businesses are holding back from taking advantage of modern technologies because they are concerned about potential risks. According to new research from CA, 100 per cent of Irish IT managers surveyed said risk-related concerns were enough to stop them implementing new technologies. This figure fell to 80 per cent among European/Middle eastern businesses, but still remained a significantly high number.
The survey took in some 715 senior IT managers in Europe and the Middle East, including 20 senior IT managers in enterprise-sized organisations in Ireland. The study found that many firms across the region are failing to adopt an integrated business risk management service, leaving IT departments out of the decision making process. Not only does this create the potential for unforeseen vulnerabilities throughout a business, it also holds companies back from deploying new technologies that could give them an advantage over competitors. How to Use Web 2.0 Inside Your Company. Last Updated Apr 14, 2008 6:42 PM EDT Today the business world is undergoing a significant transformation thanks to a set of technologies collectively known as "Web 2.0.
" Although it's tempting to dismiss Web 2.0 as Silicon Valley hype, that would be a mistake. Web 2.0 represents an important step in the evolution of Internet-based tools, and in the years ahead, it's likely to have a major impact on the way information is managed and distributed within your company. What's the fuss all about? If you're not convinced that Web 2.0 matters to you, consider this: Not only are Web 2.0 tools simpler to deploy and manage than traditional software, they're often significantly cheaper as well — in some cases, they're even free.
Start Small and Simply Goal: Identify a Web 2.0 service that will actually accomplish something for you. If corporate managers learned anything during the 1990s dot-com boom, it was that big software applications are a big headache to install. Technically Speaking Hot Tip. Collective knowledge systems: Where the Social Web meets the Semantic Web 10.1016/j.websem.2007.11.011 : Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web.
Volume 6, Issue 1, February 2008, Pages 4–13 Semantic Web and Web 2.0 Edited By Mark Greaves and Peter Mika Summary What can happen if we combine the best ideas from the Social Web and Semantic Web? The Social Web is an ecosystem of participation, where value is created by the aggregation of many individual user contributions. The Semantic Web is an ecosystem of data, where value is created by the integration of structured data from many sources. Keywords Collective intelligence; Collective knowledge systems; Collected intelligence; Human–machine systems; Snap-to-grid; TagCommons; RealTravel; Structured and unstructured data; Travel recommendation engine; Web 3.0; Learning from semistructured data Copyright © 2007 Elsevier B.V. Best Business Card EVER!
Demo: How Data is Collected from a Virtual Shopping Test (Heat Map) 2010 Horizon Report » Technologies to Watch. The six technologies featured in each Horizon Report are placed along three adoption horizons that indicate likely time frames for their entrance into mainstream use for teaching, learning, or creative inquiry. The near-term horizon assumes the likelihood of entry into the mainstream for institutions within the next twelve months; the mid-term horizon, within two to three years; and the far-term, within four to five years. It should be noted that the Horizon Report is not a predictive tool. It is meant, rather, to highlight emerging technologies with considerable potential for our focus areas of teaching, learning, and creative inquiry.
Each of them is already the focus of work at a number of innovative institutions around the world, and the work we showcase here reveals the promise of a wider impact. On the near-term horizon — that is, within the next 12 months — are mobile computing and open content. Each of these technologies is described in detail in the body of the report. Eetimes. Can Lytro bring light-field cameras to the masses? Rarely does a purely optical innovation grab the attention of the world’s media in the way that Lytro’s did last week.
The Stanford start-up’s combination of plenoptic technology and slick image processing software will allow refocusing of images after they have been taken – however poorly focused the original image - is a prospect that has got many amateur photographers salivating, even if some of the professionals remain skeptical. Lytro is the brainchild of Ren Ng, a Stanford University PhD who, along with investment partner Ben Horowitz - co-founder of “TiVo” and now of the venture capital firm Andreesen Horowitz - sparked the media frenzy with a pair of blog posts unveiling the company and its plans on June 21. Within hours, hundreds of major news outlets had covered Lytro and its magic camera. But neither the technology nor the company is new. Originally, Ng had called his start-up “Refocus Imaging” – naturally enough, given that this is what the technology actually does.
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