New Hyderabad Development Center Confirms Apple's Move Into India
There have been strong recent hints from Tim Cook that Apple is finally preparingconsiderable resources for theIndian market and this was confirmed yesterdaywhen it announced it was opening a...
View ArticleFast Inflight WiFi on European Airlines A Huge Challenge To The US
The days of relatively quiet airline travel in Europe are over and over the next five years are going to be a nightmare for those who like to fly without the distractions of the internet and social...
View ArticleEstonia Embraces Uber and Taxify As First European Country To Legalize And...
It would be fair to say that traditional London and Parisian taxi drivers are not particular fans of the sharing economy. There have been violent protests in both cities to protect their vocations...
View ArticleUK And Asia Get Smart About Connected Cities
Anybody who has ever been to London or anybody who has never been to London should go to London or go back to London. Post-Olympics it is the best city in the world. For those who have lived in London,...
View ArticleMiddle-East Tech Conferences Drive The Region Forward With Confidence, Not War
Last week in Beirut a large group of disparate people gathered to find out what the future held in store. This, however, was not an assembly of Syrian refugees in Lebanon, but more than 1,000...
View ArticleCitymaps' Offline Maps App Points Travel Towards The Future
Some like to travel hopefully, some like to get lost and others like to know exactly where they’re going when they arrive, so the new update to Citymaps’ mapping app will be of great interest to smart,...
View ArticleUnicef Malawi Tests First Drone Flights For HIV Early Infant Diagnosis
Two years ago, a very interesting Kenyandrone project had to be mothballed after security and border concerns regarding terrorism in neighbouring Somalia. It was a great pity that it had to be...
View ArticleSky Is No Limit For GoGo In-Flight Wi-Fi Speeds
This year's SXSW festival in Austin, Texas was the 30th anniversary of its inception and as every attendee knows, it takes almost three decades to understand how it works. There are thousands of...
View ArticleGlispa Has An Honesty Policy That Other Tech Companies Should Emulate
When global performance marketing company glispa decides to do something, it doesn't muck about. At this month's SXSW conference in Austin, the Berlin-based company brought along all of its 150 or so...
View ArticleIn Pursuit Of Silence Makes Noise About Emulating The Inconvenient Truth
When the musician John Cage was researching the essence of silence in the 1940s, he wanted to find the quietest place on earth to experience a place without noise. This place was an anechoic chamber,...
View ArticleToo Much Technology Is Making Travel Boring, Exhibitionist And Inauthentic
Everybody in Europe is familiar with the term 'gap year' when freshly qualified young people take off around the world for 12 months, some for noble causes and work experience, but mostly for fun, sex,...
View ArticleConnectID May Finally Be The Business Social Network That LinkedIn Should...
Networks, networks, networks. They have become the 21st Century's obsession. Facebook, Twitter, SnapChat, LinkedIn, the names roll past like the business cards used to do on a Rolodex. Once one network...
View ArticleTechnology And Online Access Finally Open The Doors For Arabic Culture
In the Western World, the Arab world gets a bad press. The whole region seems to be in permanent turmoil and probably because of its biggest asset; oil. The world has fought over it in the Middle East...
View ArticleAugmented Reality and Women Crowdsource For Safe London Streets
We were once told there was an app for everything and new technology would revolutionise our lives for the better. We were going to be faster, fitter, stronger and smarter, all of which are gradually...
View ArticleEdtech Product HelpKidzLearn Wins 2016 Queen's Award For Enterprise
The town of Oldham in NW England is not the type of place usually associated with cutting-edge technology. Crammed into the outskirts of Manchester, it is a long way from Silicon Valley, both in...
View ArticleFree App Sweatcoin Pays People To Get Fit And Stay Active
After raising nearly $1 million ($890K), 150 million steps tracked and tens of partners signed up, new UK health app Sweatcoin launched in the Apple app store this week and has been an instant hit. In...
View ArticleDyn $50 Million Investment Confirms Brighton As Alternative Tech Hub To London
Brighton, 50 miles south of London and on the UK's South Coast, has always been a city that has attracted foreign students, not only to its impressive Falmer campus, but also as a relaxing place for...
View ArticleIn Dublin's Fair City... Where The Startups Are So Pretty
On arrival at Dublin airport, passengers are now greeted with a huge advertising display promoting a global bank and how people can get a mortgage with 2% cashback. Eight years ago, such an offering...
View ArticleGett $300 Million Investment From Volkswagen Underlines Global Threat To Uber
It appears that Uber, the Uber of disruption, is becoming the disrupted. Since the start of 2016 its rivals are becoming increasingly deft and nimble when it comes to partners and investors. Last week...
View ArticleSirin Labs' $17,000 Solarin Phone Finally Launches, But Is It Worth it?
How much is too much for a cellphone that claims it is the most secure in the world? According to Sirin Labs, the maker of the Solarin handset, that price is $17,000 and a queue of celebrities are in...
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