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Technology: IPv6 is the New Normal

By Dick Weisinger

Last week on June 6th was launch day for IPv6 (celebrated on the sixth day of the sixth month).  Major ISPs and Internet companies around the world turned on IPv6, the next-generation networking addressing technology. Every device connecting to the…

Intellectual Property: Large Companies Increasingly Rely on Huge Troves of Patents and IP to Block Competition

By Dick Weisinger

In recent weeks, there have been numerous prominent news stories focused on Intellectual Property (IP) rights.  Companies have been exchanging billions of dollars to obtain patents and there have been court room battles over licensing and intellectual property ownership. Intellectual…

CIOs: Can the Role of CIO Survive? Not as it's currently defined.

By Dick Weisinger

CIOs get no respect.  Gartner found in a survey of CEOs that only 4 percent of them consider their CIO as a partner in managing their strategy and innovation. CIOs want to change that perspective.  And increasingly the CIO is…

Machine Intelligence: Will Machines Soon Be Able to Ace the Turing Test?

By Dick Weisinger

In a 1950 paper, Alan Turing proposed the question ‘Can machines think?’.  That question inspired scientists and engineers working in the field of ‘artificial intelligence’.  Turing proposed that a machine could be considered as able to ‘think’ if it could…

Business Continuity: Many Organizations Remain Unprepared

By Dick Weisinger

Business continuity is the activity organizations undertake to ensure that all critical business functions remain available to customers and suppliers despite any potentially disruptive events.  The goal is to maintain service, consistence and recoverability under any conditioons.  Business continuity activities are…