Archive for the 'Digital Futures' Category
Gartner hosted the 4th annual Europe based “Gartner : Portals, Content & Collaboration Summit” (pcce4) in London this week. From statistics given the delegates had a good cross industry and European countries (and further afield) representation.
The summit host Toby Bell and his colleague Debra Logan welcomed us by providing a grounding for the event through [...]
Overview:
A major set of vendors were present in Manchester to promote their products and services. The focus was in small & medium business spectrum but there were elements that were relevant to the enterprise scale as well. The vendors represented were also across the spectrum of the IT and computer services industry – memory [...]
On Google:
Google gave a keynote on Cloud Computing, their stand was focussed on promoting their cloud based Enterprise computing suite – Google Apps. What came across in my discussions with their representative was the keenness to compete with Microsoft in the area of cloud based productivity services. They were also eager to emphasise their [...]
On Microsoft:
The Microsoft stand had demonstration available on Exchange 2010, BPOS (S), Dynamics, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, and ForeFront their security and perimeter protection product.
Microsoft gave a keynote on Windows 7 (with a short preview of Office 2010), given by James Akrigg – head of technology for [...]
This took a look at the digital economy, and how creative economic activities can evolve, be supported and help promote this area. There was of course some focus and mention of the recent publication of the government report "Digital Britain", mainly in the negative sense.
This session was delivered by several speakers and was structured in [...]
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This was the opening keynote speech from @stoweboyd, looking at the evolution and impact of ’social tools’ on the connections, communities and constructs used by society and the manner how that could effect social interactions in the future.
It was part of the Digital Futures strand of the social technologies summit @futuresonic [...]
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