Twine - connecting objects and people in a simple, cool way

December 30th, 2011 by Tim Greenhalgh

Two US designer-engineers are about to launch a very cool device called Twine.
Twine is 2 ½ inches square and will enable anyone to connect with their physical objects through texts, tweets or email wherever they are.

MIT Media Lab graduates David Carr (above, right) and John Kestner (above, left) developed the wireless device to integrate with [...]

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Cyber threats increase as the world goes mobile and networked

December 23rd, 2011 by Tim Greenhalgh

Cyber threats continue to grow as the world becomes more mobile and networked. Next year, we can expect the number of successful network defence attacks to grow rapidly, partly because legislation will make data breach reporting mandatory but also because, increasingly, everything that moves will become a target – as a controllable mobile networked device.
What [...]

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How long will we wait for the new EU data protection laws?

December 8th, 2011 by Tim Greenhalgh

How quickly things change in politics. In June, European Commission vice-president and Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding announced that she would introduce new rules that would make data breach reporting mandatory.
At the time, advice given was that these regulatory changes would be enacted by end-January 2012.
Six months later, the EU inertia, fuelled by intense lobbying [...]

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Exchanging ideas, building networks and the detail of content curation

December 1st, 2011 by Tim Greenhalgh

Content curation as an online concept has matured quickly since Brian Solis laid out terms in his book Curation Nation in April this year.
I found the book a puzzle but it helped me form new ideas around content curation online. I went back to basics and developed a working model of how to store, link [...]

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PwC Global State of Information Security survey exposes network fragility

November 30th, 2011 by Tim Greenhalgh

The Pricewaterhousecoopers (PwC) ‘2012 Global State of Information Security Survey’ is an astonishing document – a searchlight on the fragile state of network defence.
It reveals telling contradictions between the confidence of organisations in their network security strategies and the actual state-of-play in the rapidly evolving commercial hacker culture.
There is a clear subtext in the survey. [...]

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The remembrance poppy – some brands are sacrosanct

November 11th, 2011 by Tim Greenhalgh

It was said in jest this week but the idea that the remembrance poppy is ripe for a re-brand has been doing the rounds in the UK.
On the face of it, the idea of a re-brand makes commercial sense. People bought 38 million remembrance poppies in 2010 and that raised £36 million. The organisers are [...]

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The young will lead war on cyber-crime if we deliver the trusted tools and knowledge

November 3rd, 2011 by Tim Greenhalgh

My take-away from the London Conference on Cyberspace was the recognition that young people are just as concerned as business and government about hackers and cyber-crime.
The two-day conference (November 1-2 2011) ran in binary form – a neat format given the context. A youth conference rolled at the same time as government leaders were discussing [...]

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Japan cyber-attacks penetrate defence, government to the heart – it’s time to change network security

October 26th, 2011 by Tim Greenhalgh

Cyber-attacks on Japan’s leading companies and its government must surely present a definitive case for a change in network security.
I’ve followed the story of network breach at Mitsubishi Heavy since the first reports in September. The breach was in August and it took some weeks before the company admitted that its network defences had failed.
The [...]

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Son of Stuxnet exposes the fragility of global network security

October 23rd, 2011 by Tim Greenhalgh

Reports this week of a new variant of Stuxnet, the military-grade malware that attacked Iranian nuclear power servers, exposes the fragility of global network security.
The malware variant, Duku, is an information-gathering threat that targets specific organisations, including industrial control system manufacturers.
It is a spy tool, rather than a systems wrecker and might be seen as [...]

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When customer service goes social

October 14th, 2011 by Tim Greenhalgh

Nick Roach and the team at Conversocial ran a packed Chinwag session in London last week: When Customer Service Goes Social.
The Conversocial/Chinwag Live event illuminated what is happening, and what will happen, to customer service through social networks - social CRM.
Gavin Sathianathan from Facebook talked about the significance of recent Facebook changes for business while [...]

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