CeBIT is a big, serious conference so it was perhaps unsurprising that (alongside the gadgets and pole-dancing robots) there were some big, serious questions asked. These tended to centre on the relationship between ICT and its effects on security, privacy and the ways we govern and defend...
Let’s face it: CeBIT is a show best observed at a remove. Characterised by ferocious howling winds, long taxi queues and a dearth of accommodation that forces many delegates to camp out in spare bedrooms of private apartments, the Hanover conference is not a byword for fun.
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So that was Mobile World Congress 2012 and as staffers in company branded polo shorts and lanyards offer their first-born children for a flight back home, the janitors of Barcelona ask the old, old question: ‘What am I going to do with 43,000 spare USB memory sticks?’ At the...
There is no doubt that 2012 was always going to be a challenging year for employer/employee relations across both the public and private sectors. Employers may have to make the difficult decision to reduce staff numbers or remove benefits in order to control costs, while unions will be under...
It’s show-time again and, in technology at least, the times are defined by the shows. Barcelona this week is consumed by Mobile World Congress, an event has grown so quickly it’s had to change its name twice and move from Cannes to Barcelona to keep up with...
Rupert Murdoch, Founder, Chairman and CEO of News International
News International has hit the headlines again this weekend as five of its top reporters were arrested in the early hours of Sunday morning....
I recently had the pleasure of attending a round table dinner with a selection of Next Fifteen clients as well as some fellow Next Fifteen colleagues including Tim Dyson, CEO, Next Fifteen, Richard Eyre, Chairman, Next Fifteen, Kath Pooley, GM for Bite EMEA...
The audio backing track to the close of the WEF 2012 was the sound of scurrying journalists looking for an angle. There was no outstanding character, story or theme, so the media did the decent thing and squeezed 500 words of wrapper copy out of that fact and filled...
“You should definitely go. If I were a journalist, I would definitely go. You’d get a lot of stories and everybody is there. Everybody.”
So said Marc Benioff to me back in, I dunno, maybe 2006, at the door of his Soho Hotel, London suite after showing me, a journalist...