UK Industrial strategy: A bold vision scuppered by incompetence
OPINION While the British government wrestles with Brexit, it has announced more details of its plans to raise R&D investment to 2.4 percent of GDP, in line with its revamped industrial...
DNA Encoding & Data Storage: To Infinity and Beyond
So said Buzz Lightyear in the kids’ cartoon classic Toy Story. While all the other toys laughed at Buzz, there’s something eerily similar in the way storage technology is shaping up...
Qualcomm and their Snapdragon 845 is the future of VR
Qualcomm has been inventing technology for the world since 1985. Before smartphones or autonomous cars, Qualcomm was laying down a foundation for the future with their groundbreaking technology. Qualcomm has continued...
How to Avoid a Gulag Lockdown in Your Cloud Vendor Choices
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn shocked the western world about the conditions in Siberian prison camps in his three volume expose titled The Gulag Archipelago in the mid 20th century. The books ripped through...
New York Company Wants to Add Iris Fingerprint Scans to Airport Security
Flight passengers will soon be able to go through airport security checks a lot faster. If New York-based company Clear has its way, in the near future airlines will be able...
Stealing from the Premier League
Human nature is contrarian at heart. Everyone is born with an innate sense of rebellion, an instinct that makes every child want to say “No.” Parents are very familiar with this...
British Airways Struggles with IT, Again.
IT - you can’t live with it, and you can’t live without it. There’s a constant feeling with technology and modern conveniences, that maybe the simple life before all the gadgets...
Failing to Plan? Or Planning to Fail? Disaster Recovery as a Critical Component of...
The old adage, “Those who fail to plan, plan to fail” has never been more true than in the growing data-rich corporate market space of the 21st century. With business moving...
Net Neutrality: Not Available for Comment
Not available for comment. We’ve grown accustomed to hearing that from politicians, but not from the internet. The internet is the place we go to let politicians know exactly how we...
5G and the IoT: The communications service provider challenge
‘Digital transformation’ has become a conference cliché in recent years, joining ‘innovation’ as a term that people often repeat without explaining what they mean. But what’s certainly happening in some organisations...