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It may not be common knowledge over here but the US government is preparing a law to curb piracy of intellectual property in a way that could have far reaching consequences for people and businesses in and outside the US. While there is hardly any doubt that defending intellectual property is a good thing, the […] Read more »
Most weather forecasts institutions run weather models that deal with a lot of data. But they are not really good at predicting the weather. For all the hardware power, the sophistication of the models and increased use of more and different data, forecasting the weather has not improved a lot. The atmosphere is such a […] Read more »
For decades analysts have discussed the success of the IT industry and the brilliance of IT developments; all from a technology point of view. But the IT industry’s success is fading and, fueled by M&A, it is clear that it is quickly becoming a very mature sector where it is all about share and hardly […] Read more »
Amsterdam, 2 December 2011 – Dutch businesses (from very small to very large) will spend €324 million on public cloud services in 2011, an increase of 41% compared to €230 million spent in 2010. Going forward, The METISfiles predicts that: Driven by increased general business uptake, spending on SaaS will increase from €222 million in […] Read more »
And there it was, a local language Kindle. Amazon has taken the plunge and moves yet again into other language territories. After having launched a German- and a French-language Kindle it was clear that the Amazon train would not stop there. This time Italy and Spain got their local Kindle. But the train moves on. […] Read more »
Ask a prison guard what he thinks about his work and he will answer ‘I hate my job’. The good news is that in Korea the government has listened carefully to the overworked prison guards and has come up with a plan to lower the workload by assigning robots as prison guards. In our blog […] Read more »