Archives : April 2010

Data breaches: mixed picture for regulation

published on 2010/04/30 by Stewart Baines

Regulations governing disclosure of data breaches vary across the world - and so do the costs of declaring a breach...

M-health market to boom, says analyst

published on 2010/04/29 by Anthony Plewes

Analyst Juniper Research has recently published the report Mobile Healthcare Opportunities: Monitoring, Applications & mHealth Strategies 2010-2014. The report looks at m-health opportunities worldwide, such as patient monitoring, remote diagnosis and even appointment reminders via SMS. One of the most promising markets is remote patient monitoring using mobile networks and Juniper forecasts that market revenues will rise to almost $1.9 billion globally by 2014. The bulk of early mobile health roll-outs are currently heart-based monitoring in North America, and on this blog we have reported on this market and on the work that Orange has done with Sorin in......

M-health market to boom, says analyst

Want to improve collaboration ROI? Improve the user experience

published on 2010/04/28 by Yann Gourvennec

This entry is a guest post of J. Scott Tapp, SVP & GM of Global Collaboration Services at PGi. I'm often asked about return on collaboration. Is it real? How do you measure it? I'd like to share with you some real numbers that one large software company achieved through looking at collaboration as a whole system vs. separate pieces--and putting the user experience front and center. The company was like many others in thinking they had improved collaboration just because they had web and audio conferencing. At one point a few years ago, they were actually advanced in the......

Want to improve collaboration ROI? Improve the user experience

pan-African research network gets green light for funding

published on 2010/04/27 by Anthony Plewes

The European Commission has approved funding for the first phase of the AfricaConnect Initiative which aims to link African research centres and link them to the existing European research and education network GÉANT. The approval follows a one-year feasibility study called FEAST - 'Feasibility Study for African-European Research and Education Network Interconnection' - which reported that there is now sufficient IT infrastructure in the continent to support the Initiative. Much of the reasoning behind that readiness appears to rely on the arrival of the series of submarine fibre optic cables that have landed along Africa's eastern seaboard in the last......

pan-African research network gets green light for funding

published on 2010/04/27 by Anthony Plewes

The European Commission has approved funding for the first phase of the AfricaConnect Initiative which aims to link African research centres and link them to the existing European research and education network GÉANT. The approval follows a one-year feasibility study called FEAST - 'Feasibility Study for African-European Research and Education Network Interconnection' - which reported that there is now sufficient IT infrastructure in the continent to support the Initiative. Much of the reasoning behind that readiness appears to rely on the arrival of the series of submarine fibre optic cables that have landed along Africa's eastern seaboard in the last......