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People are beginning to talk about “keeping business running in London during the Olympics” or words to that effect. I’ll try and track some of the most helpful commentary. The Olympic planners themselves highlight the key issues. Of course the effect will be at its greatest close to the venues, but

So … New iMac with OSX Lion, installed and working. I’m taking the time to reinstal stuff as needed, and keeping a system audit as I go. In no particular order, here are a few significant issues. Problem: new machine has Firewire 800 port not Firewire 400. Need to connect to backup disk to restore [

So I’ve been struggling, the last several days, through the consequences of a hard disk crash on my trusty, but five-year-old, iMac. Application of the standard tools (Apple’s Disk Utility, and Disk Warrior) maintained access for a while but the machine now simply refuses to boot MacOS, and the tool

It’s 100 years since the birth of Alan Turing, and I’m attending the eponymous annual lecture given in his honour under the joint auspices of the British Computer Society (BCS) and the Institution for Engineering and Technology (IET). The lecturer, Prof. Ray Dolan of UCL, intends to review cognitive

Tomorrow I’m part of the team delivering the Corporate IT Forum’s Consumerisation Summit in London. That’s prompted me to create the latest InformationSpan insight services Coverage Report. Coverage Reports identify the major, second tier and niche insight providers who can effectively support enter

Don’t suppose it’ll make most of the headlines, but Jonathan Ive has been awarded a knighthood (KBE) in the UK’s New Year Honours list. Though my paper, the Guardian, in their online report, only refers to him as “designer of the iPhone, iPad and iPod”. Well, we know better! For interest, the Guardi

Christmas greetings to all friends and readers! There’s a post on the stocks which is a round up of various predictions for 2012. But it didn’t get finished so I’ll post it possibly next week Have a good break and enjoy the holiday. Filed under: Uncategorized

Frank Zimper, via one of my Circles on Google Plus, drew my attention to a thoughtful article in MIT’s Technology Review (TR). I used to read TR regularly, in a paper copy, but time allocation defeated me. I ought to get back to it because it ranges not just across a whole range of the [...]

Over the last few months, Gartner have finally and fully integrated the Burton Group services and analysts acquired in January 2010. The IT1 service is now referred to as Gartner IT1, although the Burton name is still attached to Gartner’s lead web page for the service. But the separate Burton Group