Pontiff 'pontwittercating'

It has been announced that Pope Benedict XVI has begun posting messages on Twitter under the handle @pontifex, a term for the pope that means “bridge builder” in Latin. The one man on earth with a purported direct line to God now has a direct line to his flock as...

The digital services balancing act

I wrote in a previous column, “Telcos at the crossroads”, that the telecom industry is reaching a junction where a direction has to be taken and that decision could be critical to its survival. It is becoming increasingly apparent that the move into digital services...

The other side of the smart meter story

Despite all we read and hear about the benefits of smart meters, there is a growing public movement against them in some countries. That may sound surprising considering what we are told about better management and distribution of power generation via the smart grid,...

At the crossroads

Every industry sector and every business, at some stage or another, reaches a crossroads where a direction has to be taken, and that decision could be critical in its survival. The telecom industry has had to navigate a number of crossroads in its relatively brief...

The business of social business is tricky business

“The Business of Social Business – what works and how it’s done” is IBM Global Business Service’s latest survey of more than 1,100 businesses around the world and extensive interviews with more than two dozen widely recognized leaders in social business....

Penny dropped early at Dropbox

If there was ever a perfect example of how the Cloud should work for normal people like you and me it must be Dropbox. It you don’t know what it is, you are either a hermit living in a cave or don’t have an issue with storing and forwarding big files, or any files for...