TECH TALK: The UK government is again looking at introducing identity cards, writes BILL MAGEE Identity cards are like Marmite, donor kebabs and Donald Trump. You either love ’em or hate ’em. But one thing is clear: Brits are just not wired up towards sharing their personal information willy-nilly. As an island we appear strongly resistant to their […]
Global chip shortage offers opportunity for a health check
TECH TALK: A slowing of mobile phone sales should trigger important research into their impact, says BILL MAGEE Grand Theft Auto gamesters know well a stratagem called “You’ve Had Your Chips”, but beyond GTA’s twilight fictional world is a real-time drama, summed up by headlines declaring “A Global Chip Shortage”. COVID-19 is taking the blame for being uncomfortably close […]
Banishing WFH is a big risk for employers
TECH TALK: Those firms resisting the work from home trend could be the big losers, says BILL MAGEE “Strategy should evolve out of the mud of the marketplace, not in the antiseptic environment of an ivory tower” – Al Ries, marketing guru and author “11 Immutable Laws of Branding on the Net” “Policies that emerge […]
Let’s go digital, but avoid false promises
TECH TALK: A largely unnoticed plan to send Universal Credit claimants on digital training courses has its drawbacks, writes BILL MAGEE News of a UK Government link-up with Google was easy to miss. A low-key announcement made without fanfare, that Universal Credit claimants are to be sent on a digital training course. Attracting hardly any […]
Build your defences to stay cybersafe
TECH TALK: Bill Magee explains why everyone in an organisation needs to know the cyber rules The business world’s apparent inability to be cyber-canny is at the crux of some rather unsettling online security words of warning winging their way to me from across the Pond. They arrive as the global marketplace is put on […]