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  • Friday TechMunch: Who Are The 11%?

    June 1, 2015

    The UK Office for National Statistics recently released a report that found 11% of UK adults today have never used the internet in any capacity. That means that a staggering 5.9 million adults in Britain have never accessed online content. Considering 35m people have a smartphone in the UK (over 30% of these users look at their smartphone within 5 minutes of waking) and fixed broadband Internet connections are now in use by 91% of...

  • Friday TechMunch: Five Years on What’s The Scorecard for Tech City?

    May 15, 2015

    In 2010 David Cameron said “our ambition is to bring together the creativity and energy of Shoreditch and the incredible possibilities of the Olympic Park to help make east London one of the world’s great technology centres.” Almost five years on, how successful has the government been and what does this tell us about the efficacy of policy in stimulating entrepreneurship? In a recent report by the Financial Times, Max Nathan, a senior research fellow...

  • Friday TechMunch: What Are You Wearing?

    April 17, 2015

    Top of the early adopter shopping list, the wearables have well and truly arrived. Unfortunately, I won’t be strapping one on any time soon. This isn’t because I don’t like watches, glasses or data-generating devices – on the contrary, my smartphone rarely leaves my immediate vicinity. No, the reason I won’t be investing in the latest Apple Watch, Galaxy Gear, Ring or Google Glass is because they simply aren’t useful enough yet. Don’t get me...

  • Friday TechMunch: Art or Science? Big Data in Football

    April 2, 2015

    Last year, IDC predicted that 44 zettabytes of data will be created by 2020 – to put that figure into context, it’s roughly the equivalent of 40 billion years of video. No wonder people talk about ‘Big Data’. Thankfully, organisations around the globe are putting it all to good use and doing plenty of smart things with the stuff, even in spaces that you might not traditionally associate with technological innovation. A case in point...

  • Friday TechMunch: Ready or Not, Here They Come

    January 23, 2015

    2014 was a year of highs and lows for drone manufacturers. A report published by the Guardian said that sales of consumer drones were up 24% but there were precious few weeks without at least one article or government expressing their done-related concerns. Today, “the ultimate toy that spans the generations” is at once an exciting, new opportunity for consumers and commerce, and a threat to national security...

  • Friday TechMunch: Every Cloud Has A Silver Lining?

    September 29, 2014

    Celebrities are getting hacked off with iCloud. Last month, more than 100 high profile celebrities had their phones hacked and intimate pictures posted online. With a selection of these celebrities claiming the photos had already been deleted and therefore, couldn’t have been stolen, how did these hackers gain access, and what threat does this pose to our data? At the moment, nobody is quite sure how these photos were obtained, however, it has been widely reported...

  • Friday TechMunch: Is Cloud Computing Leaving you Feeling a Bit Foggy?

    May 23, 2014

    Over the past few years, the tech world has been bubbling over with excitement around all things ‘cloud’. Private clouds, public clouds and hybrid clouds have been hot topics for consumers and businesses alike. In the future, cloud evangelists expect 100% of computer storage to be cloud-based. Cloud computing offers a flexible, often cheaper alternative to in-house data storage, with secure back-up. In addition, the cloud has been a fantastic enabler in connecting devices through...

  • Friday TechMunch: Droning on About 3D printing

    May 9, 2014

    Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No…actually, it’s another drone Drones… they seem to be everywhere lately. Over the last year we’ve seen an insurgence of drone announcements, including the Amazon delivery drones (swiftly followed by the ingenious O.W.L.S campaign issued by Waterstones), and this week two new drone announcements, coincidently both related to repairs. The first announcement comes via EasyJet, which has announced plans to introduce unmanned drones to inspect its fleet...

  • Friday TechMunch: Prime Time for Amazon

    March 21, 2014

    Amazon has been busy recently. Since December there has been the drone delivery plan; the Double Helix acquisition; the leak of a potential new gaming console/set-top box (or maybe it’s a Chromecast-like dongle for video and game streaming?); rumours of an on-demand music-streaming service for Prime customers; more rumours of an Amazon smartphone; a stated revamp of the US delivery network; rebrand of LoveFilm; and finally, a hotly contested Amazon Prime price hike...

  • Friday TechMunch: The Whys and Wherefores of the WhatsApp Acquisition

    February 24, 2014

    When it was announced last week that Facebook had decided to push the boat out and snap up WhatsApp for $19 billion, many users (myself included) read the news with a kind of fuzzy dismay. Not only would Facebook now own a hefty majority of the IM market around the world (79% to be precise) with the many privacy concerns that might entail, but surely it would only be a matter of time before the...

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