Tag: Cloud

Here we go again

It’s happened again, this time to “The World’s Online Marketplace” – eBay. The online auction giant announced yesterday that a database, holding the personal details of up to 223 million users, was hacked. Ebay has asked 128 million users to change their account passwords in the wake of the breach.  The cybercriminals were able to […]

If money is going to the cloud, and connectivity is…

Continuing our Mobile World Congress influencer Q&A series, Tim Green from Mobile Money Revolution has asked why we need NFC when our money is going to the cloud and connectivity is everywhere. He believes that we could use email or apps instead. Do we think some new form of OTA mobile payment is the future? […]

What end-user experience do you expect from your cloud service?

Let’s imagine that you’ve just signed up for a new solution for your cloud service; this really should be a time for celebration as your information is now easily manageable and secure. However, this is unfortunately, for many, the beginning of a long process where you’re required to validate all relevant parameters and pay special […]

The office of the past, present and future – Part…

The future is smart, and smarter often means smaller (although this might not be the case with smart phones at the moment). And, as you will undoubtedly see from the sliding image of the office past and present, the components of the office of the future take up considerably less space than that of the […]

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Security and the mythical ‘business user’

We often talk about ‘business applications’ or ‘business software’ as if they belonged to a separate universe of applications. This makes sense – some applications (like HR software) only make sense in a business context. But there’s a lot of overlap in the people using the software. In fact, the people using your business applications […]