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Driving greater mobility and efficiency with the Internet of Things The modern digital workplace is all about enabling you to work wherever you want. Work becomes a thing you do, rather than a place y...
When computers were first developed, only people who knew operating system commands could use them. The advent of graphical interfaces changed that. Before the arrival of the internet, information was...
Virtual Reality noun a realistic simulation of an environment, including three-dimensional graphics, by a computer system using interactive software and hardware. - Dictionary.com Back in early Febr...
Smart contracts are discrete computer program units, which are deployed inside blockchain network nodes. Once they are ready for deployment, one-way hash value of the code is calculated and digitally ...
The measures in the PSD2 (and in the UK, the CMA banking remedies) to open up consumer banking data to third parties will undoubtedly lead to new innovations and consumer benefits, but I see three cha...
When it comes to technology, established companies from the pre-digital era understandably think start-ups have got it made; that they can’t possibly relate to the challenges of legacy systems and inf...
There is no dearth of material to tell us what is blockchain, how it is going to transform our lives in the years to come, where it could be applied, etc and the list is endless. That it is the next b...
One of the expected outputs of digital transformation should be epic digital products. Products that engage, add value and seamlessly intertwine into the lives of users. Nostalgic reference alert… Dig...
Liquidation Only. Did your heart skip a beat? In futures and options trading when we hear “Liquidation Only” it means that something went wrong. Someone is losing money. The broker wants all new inves...
Banks are struggling with email. It’s no longer an immediate form of communication, for most of us it’s a massive headache, and most importantly it’s risky. It’s too easy to send something from the wr...
With over 100 million users a year ago, PayTM was already ahead of its digital payment competitors before the Nov. 2016 demonetization of high value currency notes in India. On the back of the push fo...
I read a fascinating blog this morning by Slava Akhmechet, a founder of RethinkDB on why they failed (see here: http://www.defstartup.org/2017/01/18/why-rethinkdb-failed.html). There are two critical ...