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Should the NHS have been better prepared for the cyber-highwaymen?
Science, Maths & Technology

Should the NHS have been better prepared for the cyber-highwaymen?

...money or your files? In a matter of hours, the NHS was effectively placed on lockdown with computer systems being held ransom and further machines powered down to prevent the spread of malware. Critical patient information has been inaccessible and several hospitals urged people to avoid accident and emergency departments, except in cases of real emergencies. [The...
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Supreme streets: an adventure into employee-ownership
Money & Business

Supreme streets: an adventure into employee-ownership

...associated with The Open University's Business and Management courses and qualifications. [Supreme Streets - start] Select the image above to begin your adventure into employee-ownership or click here. Instructions For best results, use a modern web browser. Upgrade to the latest version of Internet Explorer or try a free alternative like Google Chrome, Firefox or Safari....
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Eric King and Bill Binney: Some thoughts on their interview
Society, Politics & Law

Eric King and Bill Binney: Some thoughts on their interview

...money. Eric King puts to him that the military industrial complex is perhaps not so well established in the UK as the US, so it seems reasonable to ask why GCHQ would be so insistent about the importance of their continuance of bulk communications data collection and retention for target development. Without bulk collection, the argument goes, they can't find new threats....
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Jack Perks - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Jack Perks - Earth in Vision

...money up, and buy a camera. But it turned out, that where I’d planned to go they didn’t want me . So I had to go early and do it. Looking back on it, I’m glad I did because obviously it gave me more drive to do camera-work. It’s not easy, but it’s definitely do-able and I have kind of pushed away at it and my marketing myself, and trying to find niches...
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Dominic Ball testimonial
Education & Development

Dominic Ball testimonial

...Business Management Degree with The Open University. He explains why it’s important other current players start planning for the future, plus how the support of the Professional Footballers' Association (PFA) helped...Dominic recalls his upbringing and how his parents influenced him: "Mum and dad trained as teachers, so I was always pushed in school. Even when football...
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Peter Tuddenham On Using Systems Thinking In Practice
Society, Politics & Law

Peter Tuddenham On Using Systems Thinking In Practice

...Business from Regis University in Denver, Colorado in 1982. He went on to study Systems Design at Saybrook University in California with Bela Banathy. As an executive in residence at Arizona State University Center for Ethics he studied the deregulation of the telephone industry. He was a guest faculty at the US Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania from 1988-1990...
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How can Facebook decide who you really are?
Science, Maths & Technology

How can Facebook decide who you really are?

...business model. We all know that Facebook makes most of its money from data that it sells to advertisers. Part of what makes this data so valuable and powerful in the global data economy is that it seems, in large part, to be tied to “real” people. Since Facebook cannot actually verify the identities of all of its users, it instead exercises a combination of machine...
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New Entrepreneurs 2015
Money & Business

New Entrepreneurs 2015

...a new type of bag for bikes... Kleio Mikhail Devitt, winner of the New Business Challenge award in the OU Entrepreneurship Competition 2015, talks about Kleio - an app to help children learn to read. Bikeroo Caroline Hearne, the winner of the Innovation Award in the OU Entrepreneurship Competition 2015, talks about her invention - the Bikeroo, a new type of bag for bikes....
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