What a difference a year makes. Up until last year, we had one group debating the merits of ‘X’-as-a-Service: Software, Infrastructure, Platform, Collaboration, Devices, Hats, Cats, etc. and which business model would reign king. While on the other side, Google, Amazon, Microsoft and others were espousing the benefits of both public and private cloud for the enterprise. Hardware providers like Dell and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) pursued a hybrid cloud path that created heterogeneous environments that support multiple technologies and providers. Cloud is no longer a business strategy. Cloud does not provide a competitive advantage anymore. Cloud has become something we just do. I anticipate that over 80% of businesses will have at least one application in a hosted environment.

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If Facebook can keep its stock spigot in check, the world’s biggest social network has a real chance of entering 2017 at a valuation that doesn’t scare investors.

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Following the drop in shares after Nintendo re-stated that they didn’t develop Pokémon GO, many people seem to have gotten the wrong end of the stick on how games are actually made. However, in this case it’s worth realizing that without Nintendo there would be no Pokémon GO in the first place.

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Murder victim’s Samsung is opened with a 2D fingerprint copy created using a cheap printer and specialist ink. Cops now have a reliable way into phones they have otherwise struggled to hack.

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Pokémon GO is currently littered with bugs and glitches, but for most of them, you can learn a few workarounds that can help you avoid them.

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Pokémon GO is currently littered with bugs and glitches, but for most of them, you can learn a few workarounds that can help you avoid them.

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For anyone that follows Level-5’s output you’ll know it has flirted with a few mecha based properties over the years. From Little Battlers eXperience to Gundam AGE, the results haven’t been great. However, the studio is now trying again with a new mecha themed cross media project called Megaton Musashi.

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This article first appeared as a “think piece” in the IDEAS Center (Geneva) series on “The Future of the WTO and the WTO of the Future” and is reproduced here with their permission.
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