BA Hack Should Concern On Many Levels – I was midway through my British Airways holiday, finishing lunch in a rather nice hotel off the coast of Miami when I received a BBC News notification on my smartphone, announcing that thousands of British Airways customers’ details had been stolen in a malicious...
Retail In The Day After Tomorrow – Only last week, I read that Argos is launching a “voice shopping” service that allows customers to reserve products in their local stores using Google Home technology. This initiative makes Argos the first UK retailer to offer a shopping service via the Google...
Identity Crisis – The media has gone to great lengths to carve society into specific social groups. This is nothing new of course but for the first time, the technology evolving around us is having an effect on how we fit into the social fabric of the world around us. Baby Boomer or Millennial?...
App Doctor – Doctor, I’ve got an app on my smartphone! The government is launching a new NHS mobile app to put patients in England in direct touch with their GP surgeries. Booking appointments, requesting repeat prescriptions to see your medical files, as well as signing up as an organ donor...
AI – The Bridge Between Reality & Hype – Depending on who you speak to – and there are clear camps of opinion motivated by their own agendas and commercial interests at work here – AI is either the true “second coming” or the basis of everything we will build our future society on or an […]
FlirtAR – Dating By AR – Internet dating has been an established part of the dating scene for many years now and the increasing use of AI in this sector has seen match-making become more accurate and customised. The evolution of this technology has given birth to apps such as Tinder and grabbed...
eSports Rising – It’s the sport “gym” but not as we know it…the ever-increasing rise of eSports is starting to have a real economic impact. This week, Epic Games, maker of the immensely popular cross-platform multiplayer game Fortnite, announced that it will provide $100 million in prize...
The Technical Art of Cinema – Last weekend I headed off to my local multiplex to experience the latest Avengers movie, Infinity War and whilst I came out of the cinema ever so slightly underwhelmed by the substance of the film, I couldn’t help marvel (pun very much intended) at the technical...
Guest contributor Ross Musgrove explores the conflict between consumers, their banks and retailers. I was at the Emerging Payments Association’s Retail PayTech Forum event last month. A good chunk of time and focus went on PSD2 and what it means for retailers. As part of that, the potential negative...
GDPR – The controversy about the improper use of the data of 87 million Facebook users by political consultancy Cambridge Analytica brought some worrying facts home to roost. But this May, robust new privacy laws are due to be implemented across Europe, offering EU consumers far greater control...
