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Flexible working in and out of the cloud

February 18th, 2009 · No Comments

For those of you interested in all aspects of flexible working, I’ve located some relevant webcasts from the Act Now initiative in Devon and Cornwall…
From a conference on flexible working
A presentation from Peter James of the Sustainable IT initiative
Robert Mannings, the BT futureologist
The growth in interest in what are [now] called Cloud applications is really [...]

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Drifting along in the cloud

May 30th, 2008 · 1 Comment

There’s an interesting post on the profy blog, “Computers Without Borders: Cloud Computing and Political Manipulation” looks at the implications of political control of the developing ‘cloud’, the network of networks that is increasingly providing the opportunity to deliver services down the wire, rather than off a local drive or server. Political control of the [...]

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