Month: October 2013

Software as Silo

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Software is a funny thing. How important is it? Apple has just announced it’s giving most of its away for free — effectively costing it some $900 million in the short term. Samsung has just convened its first developer conference in the hope of persuading more people to write software for its devices. Microsoft, known … Read more

Autopsy as a Service

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This is a piece I’ve recorded for the BBC  Is it possible to disrupt a business that is, well, dying?  Malaysian entrepreneur Matt Chandran thinks so. He wants to revive the post-mortem by replacing the scalpel with a scanner and the autopsy slab with a touchscreen computer. He believes his so-called digital autopsy could largely … Read more