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Thoughts on Mobile Word Congress 2012; Why you should be there #mwc12

I returned from Barcelona on Friday after a week of lead generation, market positioning research and generally being a booth bloke at Mobile World Congress for my employer The Centre for Secure Information Technology (CSIT), an innovation and knowledge centre specialising in cyber security research based at Queen’s University of Belfast.  I have spent the weekend mulling over the experience …

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Launch of legislation website; Government skunk works

The Con-Dem government launched its new legislation.gov.uk website today which has been touted as holding every single law ever made in the UK since 1267.

Skunk works is perhaps the most interesting area of concern that the IT industry has. Coming from the JFDI school of thinking I have worked on several projects in the private and public sectors and they pose quite a threat to systems integrators (SIs), independent software vendors (ISVs), software houses and large consultancies who are the usual suspects when it comes to government IT projects.