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IT as a catalyst for business transformation: Strategies for CIOs

CIO Business Intelligence

Enterprise application vendors such as Oracle and SAP now have cloud infrastructure offerings that rival those of Google, AWS, and Microsoft Azure. How can IT teams manage multiple devices, keep them patched, and ensure they are compliant with vendor licenses and security policies? Is data traveling to countries where it shouldn’t?

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Mobile social networking, meaning virtual networks bringing people physically together, will inevitably be a pervasive application - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

Arrington writes: A few years from now we’ll use our mobile devices to help us remember details of people we know, but not well. What is a certainty is that we will be using mobile social networks even more centrally to our lives than the role of Facebook and other browser-based social applications today.

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Mobiles leapfrog the fixed internet in Africa - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

One of the many insights on this fascinating trip was how mobiles are leapfrogging the Internet across Africa. Mobiles have already leapfrogged fixed line telephony across the continent. Now phone companies are taking the opportunity to offer mobile data services and internet access. Free chapters) Implementing Enterprise 2.0

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What accelerates – and slows – the development of social networking mobile platforms - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

Although the mobile phone offers an "extremely appropriate platform for social networks," he said current pricing structures were holding back the market. Although the mobile phone offers an "extremely appropriate platform for social networks," he said current pricing structures were holding back the market.

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Prepaid mobile airtime becomes currency in Africa – what happened to e-cash? - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

in Australia: Showcasing the best | Main | Particls switches on the power of RSS » Prepaid mobile airtime becomes currency in Africa – what happened to e-cash? Ross Dawson, May 28, 2007 3:17 PM US PT Om Malik has a very interesting article on how pre-paid mobile minutes are effectively becoming a currency across Africa.

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Asian Healthcare Group Develops Vital High-Tech Platform, Beating Back COVID-19

CIO Business Intelligence

The solution is powered by SAP’s ERP Central Component (ECC) , an on-premises enterprise resource planning system, along with SAP HANA data management software. With the SAP software, eZRx could integrate finance, inventor, and product data seamlessly on the web as well as on mobile devices.

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Device convergence in our pockets - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

examines how mobile phones, PDAs, portable computers and more are converging. It quotes me as follows: According to Ross Dawson, chairman of the Future Networks think tank, other obstacles will also frustrate users looking for a portable mobile computing solution. When you do that you cannot see it.

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