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Businesses are more burdened with regulation than ever before, according to a new report. The bulk of the current rules may be financial but, if we’re reading the runes correctly, it looks as if privacy regulation is catching up fast.

Companies needed to keep track of about 60 new announcements every ...

I was intrigued by a dispatch by BBC business editor Tim Weber out of the World Economic Forum in Davos late last month. As his piece relates, the attendees of the forum were invited to participate in a simulation of where in the world they would invest US$1bn right ...

Facebook is becoming a major source for finding and sharing news, as reported by Nancy Davis Kho here last year. This was confirmed in November by a Lightspeed Research survey, which showed that in the UK 15% of all news consumers and 30% of all 18-24 year old ...

Contrary to current popular perception, IT heads are dealing with issues like consumerisation better than people tend to think. But they are having to do more with less, and they are concerned that their customers are getting away from them.

Fed up with outdated corporate IT, staff members are increasingly alarming ...

The precarious job market has hit one online employment site hard, although another is branching out with new data on hiring trends. All the same, what value your formal CV when Facebook has just made it so much easier for bosses to dig the dirt?

First the good news – in ...

Mobile news and business information content is on the rise, as many of our contributors have been reporting. Newspaper publishers have long seen apps as the only way to keep their business afloat, while information users are expressing an increased interest in consuming content via mobile devices – link ...

It seems hardly a day goes by, or a few days here on the LiveWire, when the cloud is not mentioned. My husband too announced, at the dinner table no less, that he was investigating the cloud for asset data management for the utilities sector. I nearly choked on ...

As a subscriber to IBISWorld Industry Reports, I recently received an email from the company with the title “The Seven Deadly Sins”. I have to admit to a few seconds of trepidation as I clicked on the link wondering what I was going to view. I had ...

The information vendor business model which I’ve often referred to as “hybrid” (those who offer both a free and fee-based tool) I just learned is actually called the Freemium model. It makes sense (Free+Premium=Freemium). I recently had to research the Freemium model as it relates to the software industry and ...

“Cloud Computing will change our economy. It can bring significant productivity benefits to all, right through to the smallest companies, and also to individuals. It promises scalable, secure services for greater efficiency, greater flexibility, and lower cost.” So says Neelie Kroes, Vice-President of the European Commission responsible for the Digital ...

Long anticipated, the European Commission has released its proposals for restructuring its data protection laws. They’re tough – but recent actions by a couple of major American information companies suggest that they'll need to be.

To be sure, elements of the proposals are billed as pro-business. There will be a ...

In light of the recent departure of Clare Hart from InfoGroup USA, as reported by Tim Buckley Owen, I thought it might be time to check up on her predecessor, Vin Gupta. Gupta founded the company that came to be known as InfoUSA back in 1972, providing direct mailing ...

Last night, during a dinner at Pier 60 in New York at the Information Industry Summit, the Software and Information Industry (SIIA) announced this year's winners of its annual CODiE Awards, which recognise excellence in the business software, digital content and education technology industries.

The judging process involves several ...

Kodak files for bankruptcy and already there are talks around the true worth of the intellectual property (patents) holed up in this organisation. The expected jockeying of position for the patent portfolio from smartphone manufacturers and other technology companies may not be as frenzied as first thought.

Patent experts are ...

In December 2011 I was reporting from #Online11 where publishers are looking at different ways to add levels of granularity to peer content. Hurrah – but the problem remains in the current publishing model that negative data is very rarely published.

Negative data has merits. Consider too the volume of ...

As we all know, information overload is the bane of our lives, so we should welcome any tool that helps us understand the salient points of a text and save time. Well, it looks like a London schoolboy may have come up with just that.

While most teenagers of my acquaintance ...

How many times have we heard that email is on its last legs? It’s just, like … so yesterday. Everyone hates it, it’s the bane of our working lives, the spammers have highjacked it and besides, we’re all using social media now – right? 

An article in last week’s UK edition ...

It was clearly only a matter of time before tablets started ousting the erstwhile near-ubiquitous PC. But, given the speed with which it seems to be happening, anyone responsible for workplace data security will need to be ready.

Dominant for around 30 years, the PC is at last being seriously challenged, ...

As we spent Wednesday 18 January in the United States pondering whether a partial internet blackout was going to have any effect on future legislation, or who it might affect, I’ve been reading about a group of professionals who have traditionally not collaborated or shared information online as ...

Today was a bad day to be a high school student with a term paper due, or a senator whose name is listed under "Co-Sponsor" for two controversial pieces of legislation designed to crack down on internet content piracy. In protest at the Stop Internet Piracy Act (SOPA) currently passing through ...