‘Digital transformation involves more than technology’
Mitel’s Jamshid Rezaei discusses developing trends in the telecoms sector and the importance of employee buy-in when it comes to digital transformation. Jamshid Rezaei is the chief information officer of Mitel, a Canadian telecoms company that focuses primarily on voice over IP (VoIP) products.
Robust digital identity is the key to the payment revolution
The payments industry is revolutionising at an exponential rate. And the truth is, there has never been a greater need for it. Supercharged by the pandemic, consumer spending fuelled with a surge in e-commerce reaching an estimated $794.50 billion in 2020.
How big companies create opportunities for area startups | Brandon Bruce
The phrase “startup ecosystem” is popular enough to have more than 2.6 million results in Google search. But what exactly is it? According to Wikipedia, a startup ecosystem is formed by people, startups in various stages of development, and organizations — all interacting as a system to create and scale startup companies.
Startups eye hiring in key tech and leadership roles
After a spell of robust hiring focused on sales, marketing and operations to try and protect their revenue in 2020, startups are now looking to launch new products, ramp up tech capabilities and expand leadership as they grow
How Start-Ups Can Profit From The Current Opportunities
It is often said that the current circumstances will produce many new businesses as rapid digitization leaves some existing enterprises behind and creates opportunities for others. But it is increasingly clear that those seeking to set up and lead these fresh entities will have to display different skills and strengths from those running technology start-ups in the past.
Crypto Climate Accord will shift cryptocurrency industry to 100% renewable energy by 2030
Cryptocurrency is so hot it might melt the polar ice caps. But a new group dubbed the Crypto Climate Accord is debuting today as a way to address how the industry deals with token mining’s negative effects on the environment.
What is blockchain and what can it do?
Every time you make an electronic payment, whether from your mobile, online, or with a card, that transaction passes through multiple systems. Each of them plays a role in processing that payment and forms part of the sequence of checks and balances that exist between payer and payee.
Blockchain firm LBRY tries to rally sector against SEC; critics allege a ‘cryptocurrency suppression program’
The Securities and Exchange Commission last week sued blockchain company LBRY Inc. for alleged selling unregistered securities in a case that could threaten Americans’ ability to buy and sell popular cryptocurrencies, including bitcoin and ether, experts say.
A standards opportunity for Blockchain
While the popularity of Bitcoin continues to fluctuate wildly a decade after it came into existence, its underlying distributed ledger technology (DLT) has attained reasonable stability. And as unlikely as it seems, it has turned the spotlight on the humble ledger that has been around for centuries as a record of accounting debits and credits.
Here’s how blockchain could transform higher education
Blockchain, a buzzword with revolutionary potential, is a public ledger that automatically records and verifies transactions. Also known as distributed ledger technology (DLT), it is the fundamental building block that powers Bitcoin, Ethereum, and other virtual currencies.
Understanding what drives teen hackers is key to securing your business, says cyber expert Shelton Newsham
Company directors underestimate the risk of cyber attacks, largely because they don’t believe themselves to be a target. That’s according to Shelton Newsham, who spent 20 years in the West Yorkshire Police, including four as leader of the Cyber Prevent and Cyber Protect functions and the Organised Crime Unit of Yorkshire and Humber Police, before leaving at the end of last year to set up a consultancy Newsham Business Solutions Ltd.
How malware will keep banks’ cybersecurity teams busy in 2021
The internet is an essential tool for organisations and individuals within almost every industry. This year has seen a huge acceleration in digital transformation, with many of us having to utilise technology more than ever before. Although this has been a positive in many ways, it means that many of us are now more vulnerable to data security breaches.
How malware will keep banks’ cybersecurity teams busy in 2021
When it comes to cybercrime, perhaps no industry is as lucrative as the financial sector, where low-risk, high-reward malware attacks can fundamentally compromise personal data, funds and the customer trust banks work so hard to maintain. To thwart malicious actors from gaining access to their systems, banks’ cybersecurity teams need first to understand what they are up against.
Gnarlywood chooses inVia Robotics to optimize fulfillment operations
The software will bring immediate picking and replenishment productivity gains that will later be increased with the addition of inVia Picker autonomous mobile robots.
Robotic lizards may play role in future of disaster surveillance
Researchers have created a robotic lizard that can scale vertical walls just like the actual animal. While Boston Dynamics and other robotics firms have risen to prominence with agile, dog-like animatronics for disaster zones, scientists at the University of the Sunshine Coast in Australia focused their attention on a species of reptiles that can snake into places others can’t go.