Friday, June 04, 2010 | Posted by: Brian Maguire
Categories:
Media,
Technology
| Tags: technology,
financial,
Twitter,
iPhone,
Credit Card Reader,
Jack Dorsey,
Android,
Square
Twitter founder Jack Dorsey has launched a mobile payment solution that allows anyone with an iPhone to take plastic
Tuesday, October 27, 2009 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Business,
Environment,
Media,
Technology
| Tags: links,
Twitter,
climate change,
TED,
robots,
photography
This month, the Grant Thornton team has been reading about robots with smiling faces, documenting climate change using time-lapse photography and ‘tweeting’ for a taxi home…
Monday, September 14, 2009 | Posted by: Brian Maguire
Categories:
Media,
Technology
| Tags: technology,
FT,
Twitter,
fashion,
IFA,
Berlin,
Netbook,
Scott Schuman,
Ralph Lauren,
3-D home cinema,
Dell,
The Sartorialist,
pay-per-click,
The Times,
Sascha Pallenberg,
Samsung,
consumer technology,
Gap, Blogging
Berlin’s brand ‘n’ blog gateway opened to a flood of technology innovation last week. The annual IFA, one of the world’s largest tech exhibitions, served as the launch pad for streams of new consumer devices, not least of which is the 3-D home cinema experience. At the hotdog stands, the buzz was all about Samsung’s giant exhibition space, the heart of which was a thirty metre tall entertainment dome. It was all very sci-fi, and I’m still not sure if there was a point to it, other than to elicit hundreds of thousands of “Wow” sounds from visitors, and to create a buzz, around the hotdog stands.
Tuesday, August 25, 2009 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Technology
| Tags: innovation,
chart,
Twitter,
investors,
StreamGraph,
real-time,
Neoformix,
conversation,
invention,
inventors,
graph
Innovators, investors and inventors – and, no doubt, lots of other types beginning with ‘I’ – need to keep their ear to the ground. How can you do that in a fun way? With this new Twitter infographic, you can tune into real-time conversation just by typing in a keyword.
We commissioned The Economist Intelligence Unit to survey UK executives on how assumptions on business models have changed, and how companies are planning to adapt over the next 18 months.