This paper explores the extent to which public cloud computing is in fact being used in practice by banks operating in the EU, including global banks. It is based primarily on anonymised interviews with banks, cloud providers, advisers, and financial services regulators. This paper describes how...

Este artículo es producto de la revisión bibliográfica sobre la utilización de las Tecnologías de la Información y Comunicaciones (TIC's) y su nivel de aplicación en la industria colombiana a través del análisis de algunos estudios existentes. Para esto se parte de conceptos generales...

Spanish Abstract: Este artículo es producto de la revisión bibliográfica sobre la utilización de las Tecnologías de la Información y Comunicaciones (TIC's) y su nivel de aplicación en la industria colombiana a través del análisis de algunos estudios existentes. Para esto se parte de...

In this paper, we report the results of a detailed survey of the standard contracts for 40 major cloud computing services, including Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. We cover a broad range of contractual issues, including clauses dealing with choice of law, termination,...

This paper assesses some of the key legal and regulatory questions arising from the integration of physical robotic systems with cloud-based services, also called “cloud robotics.” The literature on legal and ethical issues in robotics has a strong focus on the robot itself, but largely...

IT service businesses can achieve economies of scale and scope faster than in traditional product businesses. In particular, as IT service platforms will become the founding infrastructure of our economies, the analysis and understanding of the value that a service platform can generate is of...

This article analyzes the paradigm of Cloud Computing technology adoption in current global business environment in order to optimize expenditures, cash-flows and revenues for various commercial and even non-commercial entities. The subject is treated in a holistic approach emphasizing both the...

America is in the midst of a “fantasy sports revolution” that is changing the way sports fans interact with one another. With more than 30 million Americans playing fantasy sports, today’s sports fans spend as much time predicting the performance of professional athletes as Wall Street...

The knowledge-based economy, along with the impact of information society technologies, presents the service organizations and their customers with many potential opportunities as well as challenges. Therefore, this study explores how the knowledge-based economy could influence the quality...

Modern information technologies (it) can increase the digital divide between countries. Using information theory this article distinguishes between semantic and pragmatic information showing how it can increase or decrease the digital divide. Semantic information (like email) interacts primarily...