The pace of technological innovation and adoption seems to be accelerating faster and faster, and every year there are a lot of new apps and acronyms to familiarise ourselves with. This makes for exciting times for developers, consumers and end-users, but the quickening pace of obsolescence can be unnecessarily unforgiving.
Missed payments are not only frustrating, but can be fundamentally damaging to a company’s cash flow and future growth. We meet two companies which have implemented systems to avoid such trouble.
Some 50 years ago today Star Trek aired for the first time and has remained on both the big and small screen ever since. The sci-fi show featured technology that was way ahead of its time, but has since become commonplace including portable storage devices.
Launched out of Sweden, iZettle quickly made the UK its second home soon after starting up, and that trend continues today as the mobile payments business has acquired Scottish company intelligentpos for access to its cloud-based point-of-sale platform.
It is an undeniable fact that in today's digital world, we are all pretty much reliant on information technology and the Internet to run our businesses. It is also a fact that it is not "if" but "when" will our IT Infrastructure and business applications be under attack.
London mayor Sadiq Khan is picking up where Boris Johnson left off. He will jet to the US armed with 23 tech startups which will showcase entrepreneurial talent and promote business in the UK’s capital city following the divisive Brexit vote.
Ultra-luxury cruise line Crystal Cruises claims its Crystal Mozart is the “world’s most technologically advanced river ship” so, with travel costing upwards of $3,000, the firm has introduced live camera views to provide would-be customers transparency.
The fans packed into the Olympic Stadium in Mexico City in 1968 saw something they had never seen before. An athlete competing in the men’s high jump went over with his back to the bar. The 21 year old American man, Dick Fosbury, won the gold medal with a leap of 2.24 metres – and set a new Olympic record.
Following on from the launch of its Prime Now and Fresh services, global ecommerce and business services company Amazon has brought a service allowing customers to order new products at the touch of a button to Britain.
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