It was the Three-Course Dinner Gum that served as Violet Beauregarde’s downfall at Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory and also introduced multiple generations…
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What’s a Store For?
The first e-commerce transaction—a music CD, pizza, or weed, depending on who you ask—took place around thirty years ago. That means that…
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Tech Goes Emo
There’s a soul-crushing moment in The Iron Giant when [spoiler alert] the alien robot chooses to save humans from an atomic bomb.…
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The Untapped Market for Wearables and Aging
Aging societies worldwide pose serious challenges to both healthcare delivery and how it is financed. The financial challenges are not only for…
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Mobile Security: putting the consumerisation genie back in the bottle
Since the arrival of the first consumer-bought smartphones, enterprise security has been under threat. That all-important chain of defense against security risks…
Read MoreVirtual Reality: Just for fun? It won’t stay that way!
While the 1992 film Toys, starring the late, great Robin Williams, did not meet with universal acclaim (it registered a paltry 26% at…
Read MoreThe Shape of Shopping in 2016: Holiday Shopping Trends Inform the Coming Year
We’ve made it through that time of year again, when consumers struggle to manage busy schedules, tightening budgets and the pressure to…
Read MoreThinking differently about digital signage
Screens, it seems, are everywhere these days. Printers and watches, tablets and smartphones all have high-resolution digital displays; front rooms and shared…
Read MoreWhy the future of payments may lie deep in the past
It’s that time of year when we take stock, review where we are and try to work out where we are going.…
Read MoreStriking a balance between security and productivity — an impossible dream?
Security and personal productivity do not make comfortable bedfellows. To understand why goes to the roots of what business is all about. Business…
Read MoreThe internet of what?
At the launch of Orange Silicon Valley’s new IoT lab last week, Peter Marx, the CTO of Los Angeles, spoke about some…
Read MoreIoT and the Principle of Resource Constraints
Technology may be fast-moving but some concepts have remained stable for decades. Not least the principle of resource constraints. Simply put, we…
Read MoreAs BYOD becomes standard will we see BYOMessaging?
There are approximately 2 billion smartphone users in the world today. On those devices, there are 3.8 billion active monthly users of…
Read MoreMobile payments go mainstream – is it time to say goodbye to the plastic?
2015 will go down in history as the year in which mobile payments became mainstream. From first forays by the main mobile…
Read MoreMobile normal hits the workforce
This is the first post in our sponsored series with Samsung Business. In this series, we will be looking at some of…
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