The sky’s the limit: Raspberry Pi goes for Brazil, India and China
The tiny, credit card-sized computer, Raspberry Pi, has outsold the targets predicted by its Cambridge-based designers, reaching a million sales in 12 months. In its second year the Raspberry Pi Foundation hopes to continue selling at current volumes in existing…
Research by Cambridge MBAs for tech firm Undo finds software bugs cost the industry $316 billion a year
A team of five Cambridge Judge Business School MBA students made headlines in the press for the work they completed during their Cambridge Venture Project (CVP) for software fim Undo Ltd. As part of their CVP, Graham Carver, Lisa Jeng,…
Dr Mark Thompson speaks at the 9th Annual Government Conference in ICT 2013
Cambridge Judge Business School academic Mark Thompson was invited to chair the afternoon plenary at the 9th Annual Government Conference in ICT 2013, at QEII Conference Centre in Westminster on 15 January 2013. The conference focused on the opportunities for…
Dr Mark Thompson delivers opening plenary on Government IT at this year’s CFDG IT Conference
Dr Mark Thompson, University Lecturer in Information Systems at Cambridge Judge Business School, was invited to deliver the opening plenary at the 2012 Charity Finance Directors' Group (CFDG) IT Conference, which took place on 6 March. The theme of this…
Eben Upton, Founder: Raspberry Pi
Executive MBA programme helped inventor and alumnus Dr Eben Upton create a revolution in low-cost computing. The inventor of Raspberry Pi, a tiny low-cost computer which is about to hit the market, has no doubt that his Executive MBA programme…
Dr Mark Thompson makes an impact on Government IT
Dr Mark Thompson, University Lecturer in Information Systems at Cambridge Judge Business School, has contributed to a parliamentary report published last week on Government IT. The report, titled A recipe for rip-offs: time for a new approach: further report, was…
A quiet revolution
The government's out-of-date use of IT is poised to enter a new age with changes in service design and procurement The way government uses IT is poised to enter a new age with changes in service design and major savings…
Searching to regulate Google
Clearer regulatory guidelines are needed to prevent Internet search engines abusing their dominant positions The European Union's decision to investigate allegations against the internet search engine giant, Google, has been welcomed by Dr Michael Barrett, Cambridge Judge Business School's Reader…
Upwardly mobile
Dr Michael Barrett has been finding out how one mobile phone service called "MPESA", which is linking people in Kenya to financial services, has become a "phenomenally successful" business unit within Vodafone. It all began as a CSR project.…
Banning the BlackBerry
Security concerns are the real issue surrounding the BlackBerry ban in Saudi Arabia and UAE Jim Krane, long-time reporter for the Associated Press in the Persian Gulf region and author of recent book on Dubai City of Gold, who has…
