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The third keynote at this year’s BAI is Bob Geldof.  I was a bit concerned about him being here as I know there’s a six-figure speaker fee and thought: "has Bob sold out and gone onto the speaker circuit on the back of Live Aid or is he being philanthropic and giving this money to…

The third keynote at this year’s BAI is Bob Geldof.  I was a bit concerned about him being here as I know there’s a six-figure speaker fee and thought: "has Bob sold out and gone onto the speaker circuit on the back of Live Aid or is he being philanthropic and giving this money to…

I am glad to see someone takes me seriously. Amir from Austrolabe took my suggestion on a Google Maps mash-up and ran with it. The result can be seen here. He has taken up to nine news feeds and the map then takes a pretty fair guess at where the story relates to. The locations…

So yesterday we had Alan Greenspan in the morning at the BAI Retail Delivery Show.    Caesar’s Palace if they were put in the ring together so I guess they don’t like each other very much. Forbes, who is chairing Rudy Giuliani’s campaign for the Presidential office this year, was outspoken and funny.  His role…

So yesterday we had Alan Greenspan in the morning at the BAI Retail Delivery Show.    Caesar’s Palace if they were put in the ring together so I guess they don’t like each other very much. Forbes, who is chairing Rudy Giuliani’s campaign for the Presidential office this year, was outspoken and funny.  His role…

So yesterday we had Alan Greenspan in the morning at the BAI Retail Delivery Show.    Caesar’s Palace if they were put in the ring together so I guess they don’t like each other very much. Forbes, who is chairing Rudy Giuliani’s campaign for the Presidential office this year, was outspoken and funny.  His role…

Fascinating report in today’s Forbes around social networks being easy fodder for hackers and therefore criminals.  The firms at stake include everyone from Google through Facebook, and it is all due to the fact that the more open these communities become for developers to provide common applications, the more flawed they become to vulnerabilities.  Here’s…

Fascinating report in today’s Forbes around social networks being easy fodder for hackers and therefore criminals.  The firms at stake include everyone from Google through Facebook, and it is all due to the fact that the more open these communities become for developers to provide common applications, the more flawed they become to vulnerabilities.  Here’s…

As many know, I’m a great fan of science fiction and the future.  So I get an email today from Forbes where Arthur C. Clarke has given his vision of 2500 A.D.  It’s an interesting story, not a new one in some ways, about the biggest danger to the planet being an e-bomb.  An e-bomb…

  So this week I’m in Las Vegas, land of Elvis Presley impersonators.  Funnily enough, it’s a line I use in many presentations.  What line you ask?  Well, it kinda goes: "Hi, I’m Chris Skinner.  I’m not an analyst as analysts tend to talk in numbers.  By way of example, there are 39,000 Elvis Presley…