Category: Opinion
Who Will be the Winner in the Next Computing Revolution?
A computer’s operating system, the layer of software between you and the hardware, has changed remarkably over the past few decades. At the beginning ...
The Search For Enlightenment In Dark Data
Big data is big news these days. But most organisations just end up hoarding vast reams of data, leaving them with a massive repository of unstructure ...
Internet of Things or Internet of Threats?
As businesses unwind for the holidays, many may take stock of the multiple data breaches, which exposed both corporate and customer data this year. Th ...
Products Connected To The Internet Can Kill Us
The time where we distinguished between cyberspace, the digital world of machines, and our everyday physical reality, is over. Computers and the Inter ...
How Blockchain, Energy Monitors Will Create Decentralized, Renewable Energy Grid
There’s a lot of talk about using renewable and green energy sources, but the sheer amount of energy required to overcome the volatility and managemen ...
Disruptive Technology for Hackers: IoT
Despite its many benefits, the Internet of Things (IoT) is posing a real threat to the cybersecurity of public and private sector systems. This disrup ...
Social media and use of bots to drive customer engagement and coupon delivery
A new study from Juniper Research has found that the number of coupons issued via mobile and online channels will grow by more ...
Most of the M2M and IoT Activities Are Taking Place Unnoticed
There certainly is a lot of interest in the M2M (machine-to-machine) and internet of things (IoT) market in 2016; but we are only seeing wha ...
Is Someone Really Trying To Find Out If They Can Destroy The Internet?
A prolonged Internet outage affecting major sites like Twitter, Netflix, Spotify and The New York Times on Friday has commentators concerned that this ...
Will AI spell the end of humanity? The tech industry wants you to think so
Star physicist Stephen Hawking has reiterated his concerns that the rise of powerful artificial intelligence (AI) systems could spell the end for huma ...