A New Privacy Concern
Mobile Usage Becomes a New Variable in Credit Worthiness Companies in the US currently use social network behaviour to determine credit risk for thousands of consumers, but the data doesn’t…
A 3.5mm Controversy
Apple’s First-Obsolescence Advantage It seemed like a crazy idea to sell a computer without a disk drive. The cloud would replace the need for the 3.5-inch diskette and its 1.4…
Walmart Pay: Picture Perfect
Will People Use Walmart’s New Mobile Payment Service? We’ve heard of Apple Pay, Samsung Pay and Android Pay. Now there’s Walmart Pay. Yesterday Walmart announced a mobile payment service called…
Here Come the Smart Cities
As Urban Density Increases, Cities Aim to Optimise At the end of 2014 more than half the world’s population lived in urban areas. This is expected to increase to 75…
Five Terms to Know from 2015
These Will Matter during 2016 Device addiction. Concerns about smartphone addiction continue to grow. Excessive and compulsive use among both younger and older users has caused a “heads down” society…
Five New Names from 2015
Companies Worth Knowing for 2016 Alphabet. This name takes some getting used to. Google search is still Alphabet’s cash cow, but as the company grew in new directions, it needed…
Li-Fi the Disruptor? Not So Fast.
The Illumination Communication Technology Is Light on Standards Li-Fi has been back in the spotlight in the past week after start-up Velmenni said it was live-testing a light-based communications technology…
India Reaches 400 Million Internet Users
Another 800 Million Mostly Mobile Connections to Go India’s a market of big numbers. Reaching mass scale is a standard part of most business models in the country of 1.3…
Watson Says It’s Mobile Black Friday
In the US, One Third of E-Commerce Sales Will Come from Mobile Today, Black Friday, the 2015 holiday season kicks off in earnest. Trend analytics indicate this could be the…
The Leisure Class of Wearables
The Travel Industry and Smart Bands: A Perfect Fit German TUI Group is the world’s largest leisure and travel company. The firm offers package holidays to destinations around the world…