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Category: Innovation

  • Skype’s impact eight years on

    Skype celebrated its eighth anniversary a couple of days ago, quietly and with little fanfare. The internet phone service has come a very long way in this relatively short time. What started in 2003 as a program you installed on…

  • See what you can do with 3D printing

    I’ve been hearing a lot about 3D printing lately. It’s not been wholly clear to me, though, exactly what it is (especially after I read the Wikipedia entry). From a layman’s perspective, you tend to think about ink, paper and…

  • Connecting you with an internet of things

    You’ve probably heard about the refrigerator that tweets introduced by Samsung at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show in the US. I bet you’ve also heard about plans by car maker Ford to offer the capability for you to listen to…

  • What you can learn from conference tweets and Foursquare check-ins

    I went to a conference in London in May organized by Adobe, the software firm. The biggest thing that struck me about it was how well organized it was from the social media and network connectivity points of view. Adobe…

  • Tesco connects busy shoppers with QR codes

    One of the critiques of QR codes I often hear is about the lack of imaginative uses being made of them.  Surely you can do better than simply get a company’s regular website – too often not optimized for mobile…