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Accessibility: A New Outlook for IT
August 01, 2008  Editor's Pick
Societies face a major challenge in providing access to technology to all people regardless of their physical or cognitive abilities.
Social networking: Trends and Traps
January 16, 2008
The web has outgrown the stage of personal websites and crude file swapping, as well as the age of "pure" electronic commerce. The web of today is based upon social networking.
Designing for Privacy
July 18, 2007
Without doubt, privacy is an issue we all feel strongly about. We see the growing numbers of TV cameras in the streets. We hear about biometric passports and are warned frequently by the media about the dangers of identity fraud. We know that, on the one hand, advances in surveillance and identity management technology have the potential to provide great benefits. On the other, they also carry the risk of damage and failure, depending on their usage and depending upon their design.
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The 43 Hour Day
April 25, 2007
Every morning, most of us wake up to the sound of an alarm. The radio is playing. We turn on the television. We log onto the Internet, check our E-mail, answer the phone. We text message a friend, join an IM conversation, often all before 8am. And this is just the warm up for a typical day in 2007.
Beyond Web 2.0
March 28, 2007
Just as we keep hearing and reading enough about Web 2.0 to realize that something “hypernew” is happening to the web, here is another term to digest: Web 3.0.
Language Translation in the Global Age
January 24, 2007
Most business and technical people all over the world are fluent in English. With globalization and communications technology spreading standards and uniformity, the natural expectation would have been for the English language to marginalize the usage of national languages in business. Yet globalization has brought along an unlikely companion: localization.
Web 2.0: The Next Generation World Wide Web
January 03, 2007
The internet has set remarkable precedents for change within the past decade. Since the late 1990’s, when Netscape revolutionized the internet by making it possible for people to publish their own web pages and use it for more than just email, the world wide web (WWW) has brought startling innovations to the ways we conduct business, to our social interactions and to the ways in which we find, store and retrieve information.
Service-Oriented Architecture
November 01, 2006
SOA (short for Service-Oriented Architecture) is one of the latest buzzwords in the IT community.
Sarbanes-Oxley: Four Years Later
July 26, 2006
On July 31, 2002, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (commonly referred to as SOX) became law in the United States following a series of corporate financial scandals, including Enron, Tyco International and WorldCom (now MCI), that shook the foundations of the North-American securities business. This landmark legislation becomes effective this year for all publicly traded companies.
Next Generation IT
May 10, 2006
IT has spent the last 40 or some odd years automating business processes. Now it is being called upon to step forward and be a leader in business process innovation.
Riding The Age Wave
March 01, 2006
The IT industry approached the millennium under threat of the Y2K "bomb", yet was able to defuse it in time for the first of January, 2000. But another time-bomb has been ticking for some time now, one which holds more far-reaching implications than Y2K. Some experts are calling it the "Age Wave".
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