The Data Dilemma
The strategic impact on companies of the exponential technological rate of change is both extensive and fundamental. How can you plan properly in an environment…
More, Moore, More
In 1961, one could buy a Ferranti computer for the princely sum of $360,000. Your spanking new computer would take up the whole room and have a memory of 1K. A typical…
Pass the Remote
According to the tech experts, data-driven innovation enabled by advances in global communications infrastructure is going to force through some significant changes…
Lead, follow or get out of the way!
On the tenth anniversary of the launch of Google, the company has been awarded a US patent for the ‘self driving car’. The intellectual property rights relate…
Navigating Choppy Waters
Here at Zeitgeist we’re big fans of the ‘great outdoors’ and particularly appreciate the beautiful and rugged scenery in Canada. One of the best…
I Go or MeeGo
So Nokia loses another technology chief – their fourth in five years. Nokia says that he left for personal reasons but the Finnish press are saying that he left…
Melon Mayhem
An intriguing story from China hit the news this week as a result of acres of watermelons exploding one by one! Interestingly China has long approved the usage of…
The Worm in the Apple
Apple is once again under fire over its products and, specifically, the management of collected data... However, it now turns out that this was a ‘bug in the system’…
The Blame Game
Today, on the first anniversary of the Macondo Well tragedy in the Gulf of Mexico, when eleven workers sadly lost their lives, BP issued law suits in excess of $80billion…
Embracing the Imposter
Those of you old enough to remember the classic Commodore 64 may be excited to hear that it is making a return. The good news is that the clunk has gone and inside…
3D’s and Wannabee’s
For the launch of the 3DS, the world's first glasses-free 3D hand-held games console, Nintendo pulled out all the stops to make sure that demand was high and lines…
Keeping it Real
The future for all you frustrated rock gods out there is looking promising. Until now the road to becoming a rock legend has been a long and arduous one - the prospect…
A Bite of the Apple
Apple shareholders this week rejected demands that the company disclose a succession plan for the temporarily absent Steven Jobs who announced in January that he…
Kill Switch Engaged
Recent events in Egypt have been fascinating and depending on your point of view are either good or bad for the stability of the Middle East. Ultimately time will…
Innovate or Die
Nokia, one of the giants in mobile technology is facing a crisis or, as Stephen Elop the Finnish company’s CEO puts it, “we are standing on a ‘burning platform’…
Life on Mars
In a recent general communication, Council staff in Carlisle (a town in the North of England) were instructed to clock-out if they want to talk about the weather,…
Flight of Fancy
The Harriers will be decommissioned in 2011 to be replaced by the Joint Strike Fighter by the end of the decade. Axing the Harrier is set to save £450m over the…
Taking IT to the Limit
According to a survey by networking firm Cisco, 41% of workers break corporate IT policies, saying that "they need restricted programs and applications to get…
The Knowledge
This simple experiment could suggest that as computer software becomes easier to use, making complicated tasks easier, we risk losing the ability to properly learn…
Achieving Par
For those of you thinking we are about to offer some latest golf tips, we’re sorry but you’re going to be disappointed. The ‘par’ we are talking about is…