'Big Data' is this year's black and it's often seen as being about size or volume. But for companies it's really about the combination of data available inside the organisation coupled with data that may come from outside, Aimie Chapple, Managing Director, Management Consulting at Accenture, tells Martyn Warwick. The key -  and where M2M crosses over with Big Data - is to combine different data sources and types to create value? 

This interview was conducted in London at FT Innovate 2012, an international conference designed to showcase ways of employing new technologies and big data to unlock new markets.

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Huge businesses, such as YouTube or Tumblr, have in recent years been built around the trend to user generated and curated content. But already change is in the air, according to Charlie Marshall, Strategy Lead, Media & Entertainment Industry, Accenture, talking to Martyn Warwick at IBC 2012.

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Stuart Orr, Managing Director of Accenture’s Communications Industry sector for Europe, Africa & Latin America, picks his top five talking points that will feature at the 2012 Mobile World Congress: 4G rollout, the Android market, mobile payments, quad-core devices and the consumerisation of IT.

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Despite a lack of representation at Singapore International Energy Week ICT companies are essential to the design and implementation of smart energy systems as Accenture and ST Electronics' recent deal with the Energy Market Authority proves.

Participants: Neal Moore, Correspondent, TelecomTV; Ravi Krishnaswami, Director of Energy & Power Systems APAC, Frost & Sullivan; Sharon Tan, Deputy Director of External Relations, Energy Market Authority

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After investing heavily in IP technology throughout their networks, is IPTV the killer application that carriers have been searching far and wide for?

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