The World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) has detailed a nine point 'Digital Agenda' following its Geneva summit last week. According to Dr Kamil Idris, director general of WIPO, the agenda maps out the best course for moving commerce...
Indeed, patent experts say, those are the ground rules for a game that is being played with increasing frequency online and elsewhere, as more companies attempt to turn intellectual property into royalties in a time of economic malaise.
I want those people internally because I want to retain my intellectual property and continuity. Consequently, the people that produce the software solutions such as Java and C++ programmers are more likely to end up working for third-party service...
On first-party, you can calculate the value of property and look at business interruption," he says. In the UK, for example, Chubb Insurance insures companies against the impairment of computer services as part of its commercial property policy.
So businesses are increasingly turning to co-location providers that will house such applications in highly resilient, purpose-built data centres and in many cases provide IT management services either directly or through third-party specialists.
Businesses chose London for just four per cent of the data centre space taken up across Europe in the first quarter of this year, according to real estate advisor CB Richard Ellis. Uncertainty in the financial sector is blamed for the sluggish...