Category: Technology

  • Explore the Internet of Things at LeWeb via live video

    The winter 2012 edition of Europe’s most influential and popular tech/startup/venture-capitalist event known as Le Web begins in Paris tomorrow December 4. According to Loic Le Meur, LeWeb founder, more than 3,000 people from around the world are expected to…

  • The significance of an innovative fast follower

    What does the word “innovation” mean to you? An idea? A way of working? Inventing something? Maybe all of those things, or perhaps something else? It’s a word I’ve been thinking a lot about since taking part in a presentation/discussion…

  • What if Brancott had got it right with their QR code?

    QR codes attract a great deal of commentary in marketing and communication circles, and pretty critical more often than not. I have a strong interest in QR codes, not so much about the technology of them: it’s far more about…

  • Could NFC make the business card really useful?

    I have a thing about business cards. These little rectangular pieces of stiff paper or card seem to me to have outlived their analogue usefulness in today’s digital world. What are you supposed to do with one when someone gives…

  • How social media supports Israel’s military and political goals

    The current conflict between Israel and the Hamas government in Gaza includes a contemporary element that shouldn’t really surprise anyone – the use of social media in support of Israel’s military and political objectives. 21st-century tools for propaganda purposes, some…