One of Grace Hopper’s most frequently used utterances was – “The only phrase I’ve ever disliked is, ‘…we’ve always done it that way. ‘ I always tell young people, ‘Go ahead and do it.’” She was a computing pioneer and a Rear Admiral in the United States Navy. Both of these achievements were phenomenal for […]
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Katherine Johnson is another of the people celebrated in the film Hidden Figures (2016). She had a long and illustrious career working for NASA as a computer, when mathematicians were known as computers. She also pioneered the use of computers as we know them today. Born in 1918 as the youngest of four children, Katherine
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October celebrates Ada Lovelace day by shining a spotlight on women who have made significant contributions in the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM for short). Many of these women are uncelebrated, so I will attempt to redress the balance in a small way by dedicating our articles this month to female pioneers
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As this month’s newsletter theme is AI, I would like to tell you about how I used AI to help me to go through a legal document. I became aware of this document very recently and it is the Master Agreement we have with one of our suppliers. This supplier is a very large company
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We recommend all our clients to have an IT and Cyber Security Audit, but many business people are not sure what that involves or whether it is even necessary, particularly if the business is very small. In times of economic uncertainty, it is logical that business owners will look for value for money and an
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If you are a business owner, you wear many hats, particularly whilst your company is growing. Big corporates can employ specialists – management accountants, financial accountants, tax specialists, contracts lawyers, employment lawyers, recruitment specialists, marketing gurus – and the list goes on. You have to be all of those people, so how do you find
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Mobile phone security is something that can just be taken for granted. We all carry our mobile phones with us everywhere and do everything on them – but when it comes to using those phones for business, they often drop out of the company’s IT support. They shouldn’t – that’s why you come to us
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Robots? Clive did not know for sure but he gave a good answer… A couple of weeks ago we were invited to speak to a Zoom meeting and this was basically a Question and Answer session. After reassuring the group that no question was too silly to ask, just that nobody had been brave enough
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Today, is a a day worth celebrating. Today we published our thousandth post over on the Smart Thinking Solutions cyber security news site. Clive has written a good article that covers how and why we started Smart Thinking and he has picked out 10 topics that we write about, illustrating them with example posts from
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