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Stefan Hammond

Stefan Hammond

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New year, new opportunities...new problems

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Although there's weeks to go until the Year of the Dragon, the new calendars have arrived and we're getting used to writing "2012" on various forms. Happy New Year to all our loyal readers! 2011 saw seismic shifts—literally—in the tech landscape. The March quake/tsunami near Japan's coast first and foremost caused tragic loss of life and property. But it also stopped factories from operating, and some of those factories were the main or sole supplier of a critical part, halting entire supply... MORE
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2011: Year of technology uprising

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If technology can be said to have done one thing during the year of 2011 – I would argue that it has given people a voice of real purpose. When I say technology I more than likely mean the Internet and the technologies it has spawned in recent years. Al Gore spoke at the recent AsiaD: All Things Digital Conference in Hong Kong, held for the first time ever in Asia, and spoke of the Internet re-democratizing the media and giving a voice back to the mass populations of the world. He noted how in... MORE