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6 Shifts In The Use Of Digital Platforms

Sohini Bagchi | CXOtoday | July 16, 2013

With digital activities growing rapidly in every sphere of life, consumers – both enterprise and end users - are changing the ways they use digital platforms today. Read More »

Can Slow-Moving Universities Adapt Quickly Enough To Teach In The Digital Age?

Gary Kebbel | PBS.org | August 28, 2013

The start of classes this fall will also bring renewed debate about what journalism and mass communications colleges should teach in an age of disruption. Professors are trying to figure out how we should be preparing students for jobs that don’t exist yet. Or for jobs that will exist in two years, but won’t in four. Read More »

Electromagnetic Pulse Could Knock Out U.S. Power Grid

Kedar Pavgi | Nextgov | September 12, 2012

U.S. power grids and other civilian infrastructure are not prepared for electromagnetic pulses that could result from weapons or violent space weather, according to testimony at a congressional subcommittee hearing Wednesday. Read More »

Social Change And New Media In Africa

Cathal Gilbert | International Business Times | November 2, 2012

Cathal Gilbert looks at technologies being used by activists and discovers that many of most innovative ideas have come out of Africa. Read More »

Space Storms Could Knock Out The World’s Entire Critical Communications Infrastructure

Alan Woodward | Quartz | August 12, 2013

In 1859, from Aug. 28 to Sept. 2, we were given an important lesson about how vulnerable we are to the Sun’s power. The Carrington Event, named for the amateur astronomer who recorded it, Richard Christopher Carrington, was a coronal mass ejection: a huge burst of solar wind... Read More »

Storm's Impact On Amazon Data Center Renews Cloud Concerns

Wyatt Kash | GovLoop | July 2, 2012

Federal agencies and regional data center operators, including one operated by Amazon Web Services, are still taking stock of the impact of widespread power outages that began Friday night and continue to leave large swaths of greater Washington, D.C., region without electrical power. Read More »