Tag: data
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – To understand Intel’s $15.3 billion proposed acquisition of Israel’s Mobileye, imagine the data created and compiled by a self-driving car scanning the road and objects around it as a potential source of revenue. That data, says Intel Corp Chief Executive Brian Krzanich, is the key to the deal, and may see […]
BARCELONA, Spain (Reuters) – Spanish telecoms giant Telefonica announced a new strategy on Sunday promising to give customers back control of their own data with the help of a new digital personal assistant. The so-called “fourth platform” comes after Telefonica faced questions about its growth strategy last year following a dividend cut and asset disposals […]
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – European Union data privacy watchdogs will seek assurances from U.S. authorities that a move by U.S. President Donald Trump to crack down on illegal immigration will not undermine a transatlantic pact protecting the privacy of Europeans’ data. European concerns have been raised by an executive order signed by Trump on Jan. 25 […]
BERLIN (Reuters) – Telefonica Deutschland’s O2 chief executive, Thorsten Dirks, called for a debate about data privacy in Germany and said he was looking into ways to monetise customer data. “We need to have a wide discussion about data in Germany,” Dirks told journalists late on Tuesday. Data privacy is a sensitive issue in Germany […]
YANGON (Reuters) – Norwegian telecoms company Telenor will focus on improving data services in Myanmar, the head of the local business said on Wednesday, as an era of rapid subscriber growth following the opening up of the economy has ended. The liberalization of Myanmar’s telecoms sector has been a rare example of successful reform since […]
Get the most from eye tracking Why combine eye tracking with other biometric sensors? Take up again the milk bottle situation in (Part 2). Although you looked straight at the bottle, you didn‘t realize it was standing in front of you. Based on eye tracking alone we would have argued that, since your gaze was […]
The UK has just seen a very impressive first, with National Grid and Reactive Technologies partnering to send data via the power lines that bring electricity to homes and businesses. This demonstration opens the door for grid-scale demand response projects, in which end-node usage can be dynamically adjusted to achieve better load balance. The trial […]
We are angry. We want our privacy back. When Mark Zuckerberg said that we ‘now live our lives in public’ we chuckled and didn’t believe him. What he didn’t say was that he, and many others, would track our every movement, online. It is our fault. It is our fault because we were offered free […]
“Keep Calm and Carry On” seems a fitting theme for the finally-published General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) – a new European wide legislation which is designed to give individuals greater control over their personal information. However, this is only the case if you’re one of the organisations already valuing customers’ data. Unfortunately, for too long, […]
Countries used to go to war over oil, and may do again. Right now, it seems increasingly likely that companies will go to war over data. After all, it is the new oil (although its value may be going the same way). For a long time, we were in the thrall of the big tech […]
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