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is glad to announce a partnership agreement with AXESSIO, an IT consulting and
due diligence services firm, opening its first office in the US.
With offices in Paris and London, AXESSIO has become a service
provider of choice for Private Equity funds.
Because of the scale of their investments and the risk of
operational disruption, Private Equity investors are increasingly
concerned about IT when looking at potential deals:
- Poorly designed software products can destroy the reputation of
a technology company
- Obsolete IT systems and infrastructure can threaten the
competitiveness of a company, disrupt operations, and induce undue
costs during mergers and acquisitions
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AXESSIO helps Private Equity investors detect, evaluate and
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Christian Leman at +1 512 963 0467.
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Data
Explosion
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This
two-month old ReadWriteWeb article by
Richard MacManus gives interesting predictions about the coming
data explosion. While people can always naively predict an
explosion anywhere along an exponential curve, the addition of
sensor-generated data does seem to indicate an additional
acceleration of the growth. Last year, HP CEO Mark Hurd said that
"more data
will be created in the next four years than in the history of the
planet."
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Consulting
Recovers?
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According
to an early 2010 report from Plunkett
Research, global consulting revenues in 2010 (including HR, IT,
business strategy and operations) should bounce back to $345
billion, after dipping from $330 billion in 2008 to $310 billion in
2009.
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Machine-to-Machine
Authentication
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With
the development of the "smart grid" concept, embedded devices
connected to the Internet will proliferate, and the fear of attacks
on this "Internet of things" is growing. Authentication of devices
(as opposed to human users) is generally simplistic, but solutions
exist to bring the benefits of PKI to this brave new world, as
explained in this paper written
for Embedded Computing
Design by Nadaradjane Ramatchandirane of Renesas.
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Outlook
Gets Social
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Rich
Hoeg, Manager of Knowledge Sharing at Honeywell, recently blogged about Microsoft's
Outlook Social Connector, which shows your e-mail correspondents'
profiles (pulled from LinkedIn, Facebook or Windows Live Messenger)
in a pane at the bottom of any e-mail you've exchanged with them.
Although you have to separately install the base connector, then
the connectors for each separate network, the whole process is
reasonably easy and the results are impressive.
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If
You Do It So Much, At Least Do It Faster
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It's
puzzling that so many people who spend a lot of time typing don't
seem interested in learning to do it faster. You don't have to type
at 160+ words per minute, like the winner of the Ultimate Typing Championship, but if you don't
type at around 50-60 wpm, which is quite achievable, you're wasting
precious time you could use for more interesting work or play. You
can test your speed, solo or against others, at TyprX.
If you can't resist the temptation to look at the key labels while
you type... get rid of the labels! That's the idea behind one model
of the DasKeyboard from Metadot Corporation.
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Seen
Recently
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"Computing may someday be organized as
a public utility."
-- John McCarthy, Computer Science
and AI pioneer,
at the MIT Centennial in 1961,
quoted by Mitchell Ummel in his 2010 Cutter webinar
"Cloud Computing: Separating the Hype from the Reality"
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