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Trending August 2013 - Gaming company Bigpoint GmbH, a German video gamer developer and the creator of Battlestar Galactica, is using predictive analytics to monetise players and increase revenue by a projected 10% and 30% a year. Battlestar Galactica has nine million registered players and notches up 5,000 events per second. Bigpoint’s predictive model is allowing it to intelligently make real-time decisions about a player’s actions. For example, if a player’s ship is destroyed, it acts as trigger for the predictive engine to analyse previous gaming behaviour.

Trending August 2013 - Christian Fredrikson, CEO, F-Secure talks mobile security: “In the last six to nine months the number of Android attacks has increased from hundreds to tens of thousands.” He says that every 24 hours there are 100,000 to 300,000 mobile virus mutations, of which 60% are new. Mobile security ties in with the company’s move into cloud content archiving. People are more worried about their content than the device. A device can be replaced, but content stored locally on a smartphone will be lost unless the device is backed up when stolen.

Trending July 2013 - As more kinds of data are being developed, many new definitions are also emerging. GovLoop, a Knowledge Network for Government, is promoting the view that big data should not be defined in terms of quantity or quality but simply as using data in new ways to deliver new insights. Big data is likely to be transformational but we are only at the tip of the iceberg. As governments collect, manage, and store increasing volumes of data, agencies are challenged to find actionable insights from the tsunami of data they are collecting.

Trending May 2013 - The CIO is usually the person that drives ICT transformations with the wider business context in mind. This is making the job much more strategically important. According to the UK newspaper, The Guardian, evaluating the model (public, private, hybrid) that best fits the business is high on the agenda of an increasing number of CIOs. The main reason for this is that CIOs are looking for flexibility and scale in a fast-paced business environment.