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‘And with iPods and iPads; and Xboxes and PlayStations — none of which I know how to work — information becomes a distraction, a diversion, a form of entertainment, rather than a tool of empowerment, rather than the means of emancipation.’ US President Barack Obama spoke these words at a graduation speech to the Hampton University class of 2010. It only took a day for the World Wide Web to erupt, …

A consortium of IT companies, legal firms and other organisations has launched a web site designed to help UK businesses better understand the risks associated with the growth of information. InfoRiskAwareness provides information such as news, blogs, Q&As, whitepapers and newsletters to help promote ‘a better understanding of the risks associated with electronic information’. Craig Carpenter, …

Walk into a restaurant these days and you might be able to check the calorie count of your enchilada, the salt content of your fries, the heart healthy status of your asiago peppercorn steak and in at least one pioneering place the carbon footprint of your vegetable lasagna. Welcome to the era of the menu as a spreadsheet.More restaurants, either by mandate or by choice, are bombarding diners with …

Iain Thomson in San Francisco, V3.co.uk , Friday 14 May 2010 at 08:02:00 Companies need to prepare for avalanche of traffic, warns IDC An IDC analyst has warned that upcoming estimates of the explosion in data traffic are hugely underestimated. IDC analyst Frank Gens warned at the Citrix Synergy 2010 event that the… …

We live in an age of information overload. Nearly 40 million Tweets are sent every day, detailing everything youve ever wanted to know about your customers (as well as a lot that you never cared to know). However, none of this information is useful to your company if it isnt harnessed to make informed decisions that will affect the bottom line. If organizations want to compete successfully …

At a recent speech at Hampton University, President Obama had this to say about our web 2.0 information age: With iPods and iPads and Xboxes and PlayStations, ‘ none of which I know how to work ‘ information becomes a distraction, a diversion, a form of entertainment, rather than a tool of empowerment, rather than the means of emancipation. There is simply no worse argument for or against something …

‘History is written by the victors’ is a phrase with which most of us are familiar. It may have been coined by Winston Churchill, though opinion on the matter varies, but the relevant point here is that written history was once immutable and permanent, whoever penned it. Back in the days when information was stored on flattened sheets of mashed up trees, the written word was all powerful and in most …

In a commencement address to new graduates at historically black Hampton University on Sunday, President Obama emphasized the importance of education in an economy where a high school diploma is no longer enough. And with that in mind, he then proceeded to call out a new enemy of the state: gadgets that have turned information into a “distraction” that hurts democracy. …

The recruitment industry possibly more than any other service business has been transformed by the advent of the internet and email communication. This makes it all the more challenging to get the best out of very powerful communications technology without feeling at times enslaved by it. Challenges unique to the recruitment industry include the frequent need to be in contact with candidates outside …

Information overload overwhelms nearly half of Canadian … Daily corporate correspondence, e-mail, voicemail, SMS messages, online video, business stats and graphs — the typical Canadian executive is deluged by a sea of information, according to recent survey. …