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David Dale (Global) - Flash Changes Everything
Posted by CompanyNetApp 05/09/2012
In April, Toshiba issued a press release in celebration of a milestone - the 25th anniversary of Toshiba's invention of NAND flash memory. I believe this technology is the most transformational we have seen in the past decade. A semiconductor device designed as non-volatile memory, flash evolves at the... Read more
Vincent Smyth (Global) - Licensing Strategies Give Application Producers a Competitive Edge
Posted by CompanyFlexera 02/16/2012
43% of enterprises expect their software budgets to increase in the next two years – up from 33% in 2010, according to a joint annual Flexera Software-IDC survey of software vendors, intelligent device manufacturers, and enterprise IT executives and managers. 72% of enterprises indicate that compared... Read more
Igor Kravchenko (Russia): How e-Government is Making Russian IT Companies More Competitive
Posted by CompanyReksoft 01/12/2012
The way Russian outsourcing companies make their money from overseas markets – their export income structure – has undergone nothing short of a paradigm shift. Last year, custom software development projects made up an overwhelming proportion of their revenue – 72%. Such projects are generally... Read more
Armin Hopp (Europe) - Why it Pays to Communicate in Local Language
Posted by CompanySpeex 10/26/2011
In an increasingly globalized and digitized corporate environment, businesses are operating more frequently outside their own country. Moreover businesses that operate across borders, or in a different language, are more likely to improve productivity and profitability if their workforce can confidently... Read more
Sean A. Hays (North America) - What is an Exponential Technology?
Posted by CompanyArizona State University 07/28/2011
What, exactly, is an exponential technology? Ray Kurzweil-and nearly everyone else at Singularity University has taken to referring to an amorphous suite of technologies as "exponential technologies," when, in reality, we only have credible evidence of exponential growth in one field of technologies,... Read more
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Srini Addepalli (South Africa) - To South Africa and Beyond - Barriers and Opportunities for Investment in Emerging Markets
Dear Sir, It is refreshing to notice your optimism in forecasting SA future economic growth but looking form the perspective of technical education...
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Si Kellow (Global) - Encryption: Is it Useful?
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