Digitally abused Digital technologies are changing everyday business in all business, even the national security business. Especially when agencies learned that the 9/11 attacks were planned and executed mainly over the internet, governments increased their pressure on every major…

Cooperate, that’s an order! Technology is the most important sector in Finland. The industry directly employs around 29,000 people and for each job the sector indirectly provides at least 1.5 extra jobs. When you think that only 590,000 people…

The differences of startup cultures; North vs. South There are many cultural differences between Nordic and southern countries. The rules, for example, are steel-like in the north, whereas everything can be bendable in the south. Both ways have…

Base station trees and copper treasures Information and communications technologies changed our world forever in a very short period of time. It was in 1965 that the Moore’s Law was first quoted. Moore’s Law is the observation that…

We must STOP it and we must do it now The current government is really doing well on many fronts. I have some doubts about it but this seems to be the consensus among the intellectuals. Many think that…

CIOs are worried about cloud safety The Turkish ICT industry was lacking a gathering where CIOs could socialize and discuss the newest trends and technologies. In it is fourth year the IDC’s CIO Summit is filling this gap. The…

The dark side of social media Social media is one of the most talked about topics of our time. Many writers and journalists have helped to create a buzz around it. A buzz that has made people believe…

The Robert College method for innovation According to Richard Florida, there are three T’s that are necessary for innovation. Those T’s are talent, technology and tolerance. This is the third time that I have quoted this statement this…

The forth T is trust Last week I mentioned tolerance as the lacking factor in Turkey in Richard Florida’s “3T” (technology, talent, and tolerance) formula for innovation. May 1 proved me right one more time. I am trying to…

Turkey is lagging behind as usual Last week I received two press releases about new 4G establishments in two very different countries: Spain and Qatar. The releases were as follows. TeliaSonera’s subsidiary Yoigo will launch 4G services in…