Opinion
It’s really hard to be James Bond these days. Apart from health & safety restrictions on the use of poisoned umbrellas and the legal restrictions on the murder of henchmen (even foreign ones), and all the paperwork around the expenses and what is VATable and what isn’t, you’ll be rumbled in an instant by your […]
Fake news is big news at the moment. Presumably if D. Trump esq had lost the US election, he would have made it bigger. Whether or not Facebook’s fake news issue swung or influenced the result, the whole fake news fiasco brings a dose of real life to another very current issue. Artificial intelligence. Machine learning. The […]
The relentless decline in the number of bank branches in the UK and elsewhere features regularly in the press. In May 2016 BBC News stated that 600 branches had closed in the previous year. It’s no surprise that customers are using apps and online for managing their banking and using branches less and less; it’s […]
Tom Wheeler said he has made no decision regarding stepping down as FCC Chairman. “I think it’s an important thing to remember that taking a fast, fair, and open Internet away from the public and away from those who use it to offer innovative new services to the public, would be a real mistake,” Wheeler […]
When it comes to fraud, three things are undeniable. First, fraud is now more sophisticated than ever before. Fraudsters provide 24/7 customer service support to stay competitive and to differentiate themselves. The value of a stolen credit card is less than a pound/dollar/euro. Yet 20 years ago, it was worth flying boxes of them out […]
“Calling something the IoT, the ‘Internet of Things,’ simply means you haven’t found the value in it”. So said Mark Gregory, senior economist with EY, at the recent Great Telco Debate. Others, including Marcus Weldon, President of Bell Labs, echoed the sentiment. Indeed, as Weldon says of the state of the telecoms industry, “we are […]
There are no Greeks hiding in the wooden horse of Harman. Samsung’s acquisition of Harman is about increasing its penetration of the automobile rather than offering a sneaky challenge to the car industry. Samsung has announced that it will acquire 100% of Harman International Industries for KRW9.3bn / US$8.02bn in cash with the deal expected to […]
Amongst the many interesting and informative discussions at the Great Telco Debate in London this week was one about 5G. It touched not only on the benefits it would bring but also questioned if it was even needed at all. Rahim Tafazolli, founder and director of the 5G Innovation Centre at the University of Surrey […]
As America and the world generally freaks out over Donald Trump’s surprise election victory, inevitably experts and pundits are dithering over the role of social media in this election – particularly in regards to the possible role of fake news in influencing the outcome. Facebook in particular has come under fire for this, and Mark Zuckerberg’s […]
Five Russian banks have been battered by DDoS attacks, with a Mirai botnet being blamed for the incident. The state of IoT security (or collective lack thereof) seems on track to provoke national responses to the sorry state of affairs, but how will an emerging industry avoid having the margins legislated out of it by […]
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