Tag: Big Data

Modern football is huge business. Every season millions of fans take their seats in stadiums, pubs and homes up and down the country to witness excitement and entertainment unrivalled in any other medium. It also seems to get bigger every season. We live in an era of £200m transfer fees, £500m sponsorship deals and Television […]

News highlights for 6 August 2017 UK Government issues security guidelines connected cars LONDON (Reuters) – The British government issued new guidelines on Sunday requiring manufacturers of internet-connected vehicles to put in place tougher cyber protections to ensure they are better shielded against hackers. Read more… Prosecutors want 12 year jail term for ex Samsung […]

The telecoms sector is expanding its services around the world with faster connections and more connected devices. However, new services create not just new revenue opportunities but also associated risks for operators. The challenge is to secure the upside, while at the same time, minimise potential losses incurred via fraudulent activity. One of the main […]

News highlights for 13 July 2017 French Government will appeal Google tax ruling PARIS (Reuters) – The French government said on Thursday it would appeal against a court ruling in Google’s favour with regard to 1.1 billion euros ($1.25 billion) in tax. Read more… Carmakers write to Chinese Government to relax quotas on electric cars […]

(Reuters) – In today’s U.S. shale fields, tiny sensors attached to production gear harvest data on everything from pumping pressure to the heat and rotational speed of drill bits boring into the rocky earth. The sensors are leading Big Oil’s mining of so-called big data, with some firms envisioning billions of dollars in savings over […]

There is much dithering over the move by the US Congress to scrap broadband privacy rules that would prevent ISPs from selling customer data without their permission. A lot of that dithering is politically motivated and misinformed, and really misses both the point of the repeal and the bigger picture in play here. For a start, […]

LONDON (Reuters) – Additional rules may be needed to monitor growth in Big Data, or collection of high volumes of information, which could pose security, privacy and accountability risks, European Union regulators said on Monday. Entire business sectors are being reshaped by building on data analytics and Big Data has the capability to transform the […]

While linear TV is dying, other forms of TV are thriving. The good thing – and the bad thing – is that TV seems to be a) coming at you from everywhere and b) comes in many different varieties. According to a new paper from real-time specialist Openet, this creates some serious challenges for services […]

As an industry observer, I’m never quite sure how much hype to believe. When it comes to big data there has certainly been plenty of hype, but not a lot of facts from independent sources to vouch for the hype. I recently wrote that the telecoms industry was lagging behind in the rush to implement effective big […]

(BPT) – What does it take to feed a world with a growing population? Or lift a family out of poverty and set them on a new path in life? Sometimes just a few soil samples. That’s what Springg CEO Wouter Kerkhof discovered. The Netherlands-based technology company (part of DutchSprouts) developed an app called SoilCares, which provides farmers […]
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