Comment wire
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23 Jan
Facial recognition in public spaces could be banned by the EU
Facial recognition (FR) technology is under scrutiny by the EU.
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23 Jan
Quibi – a brave move but an unconvincing business model
Quibi is framing its release as a watershed moment in the history of video content.
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22 Jan
Disaster recovery – the key factor in business continuity
Disaster recovery – didn’t that go out with the mainframe computer?
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22 Jan
Huawei marching to a different beat with TomTom partnership
There’s never been a tech story like the Huawei-Trump bust-up.
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22 Jan
Why consumers need to think twice about smart home services
Charter Communications’ decision to shutter its home-security service next month is yet another cautionary tale from the emerging smart home services segment.
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21 Jan
Artificial intelligence developers need external regulation
Artificial intelligence (AI), we are told, will transform our lives.
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20 Jan
Low-code platforms are paving the way in software automation
Last year’s consolidation of low-code platforms, in which AI played the most prominent role, has helped in addressing operations’ most pressing issue: the need for software automation.
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17 Jan
CES 2020 consumer electronics highlights revealed
CES, held in January in Las Vegas every year, is one of the biggest shows in consumer electronics.
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16 Jan
Interior design by tech firms will drive car companies to up their game
In-car entertainment and increasing autonomy will pose new challenges and opportunities for designers.
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15 Jan
Deepfakes – a bit of fun or politically weaponized content?
Deepfakes are on the rise.
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13 Jan
Challenging year ahead for tech giant Huawei
Challenging conditions face Huawei Technologies even though they have continued to post solid revenue growth over the past few years.
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13 Jan
Robocalls legislation in US faces relaxed implementation timeframe
Robocalls sparked a rare moment of bipartisanship when both houses of the US Congress and the President were in near-unanimous agreement.
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10 Jan
CES product demonstrations wow high-tech consumers
While most people go to CES to see exciting new devices and technologies for consumer applications, many of the same technologies enable compelling enterprise use cases.
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9 Jan
5G latency has a new champion in Walmart
In 5G, latency is a big deal.
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8 Jan
Biggest companies trending on disruptive tech in December 2019
GlobalData research has found the top companies trending based on their performance and engagement online.
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3 Jan
Internet of things growth predicted for Africa and Middle East
Interest in the internet of things (IoT) is gaining momentum in the Africa and Middle East (AME) region.
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24 Dec
Fibre subscriptions to support the rollout of broadband to Costa Rica’s underserved
Fixed broadband lines will increase at a 7.7% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) over 2019-2024 to reach 1.6 million by 2024, supported by robust growth in fibre subscriptions on the back of the government’s initiative to provide broadband service to its underserved population.
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23 Dec
Qualcomm chipsets will drive affordable 5G phones
Qualcomm is one of the leading telecom chipset makers in the world.
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23 Dec
Outages on the internet increasingly used to quell unrest
Outages on the internet are becoming a political tool of oppression.
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23 Dec
Security compliance needs to evolve with business practices
Some 15 years after the payment card industry settled on a single data security standard with PCI DSS, there are indications that too many organizations practices haven’t risen to the level of maturity that would have been anticipated at this point.
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20 Dec
Connected home device manufacturers must lock down security
A survey released in December sends a clear message to connected home device manufacturers.
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20 Dec
Facebook may face scrutiny from governments across the globe
Facebook (FB) has built and acquired a solid family of assets during the last decade.
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20 Dec
Cobalt sourcing provokes legal case against tech giants
A recent legal case launched against tech giants has renewed concerns over cobalt mining in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
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19 Dec
Three key technologies in 2020 that will make or break enterprise transformation
The success or failure for enterprises looking to deploy large-scale cloud-first development projects has very little to do with the development of actual solutions. Whether the solution is something as simple as an AI-driven customer support chatbot or as complex as an automated global supply chain, success will depend upon work done very early on
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18 Dec
New Orleans City shutdown by hackers is a sign of things to come
We’ve long known that malware can bring corporate and private computers, together with entire IT systems, to their knees.
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18 Dec
AME telco partnerships have their heads in the cloud
This year has marked an important milestone in the development of telco cloud market strategies in Africa and the Middle East (AME), as the first regional presence was opened by Microsoft in South Africa and the UAE as well as AWS in Bahrain. Microsoft further announced plans to establish a cloud datacentre in Qatar in
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18 Dec
Collateral damage from streaming wars is inevitable
The streaming wars are entering full flow.
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18 Dec
Denmark’s fixed broadband coverage to reach 100% in 2020
Denmark’s digital strategy aims to deliver 100Mbps downlink and 30Mbps uplink broadband speeds to all households and businesses across the nation by 2020. The Scandinavian nation is close to delivering on its targets.
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17 Dec
FBI says connected TVs may be viewing the viewers
The Oregon office of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation recently issued a warning about the privacy and security dangers of smart TVs. The end-of-year holiday shopping period is a great time to caution consumers about the likely privacy intrusions enabled by the intelligent electronic goods they are bringing in their homes following Black Friday.
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17 Dec
Pitfalls on the road to an Amazon-NHS data-sharing deal
Access by Amazon to NHS data could help reduce the burden on public services but the price may be access – if limited – by Big Tech to people’s personal data.