Posted on 22 April 2014 by Thales DIS
You can’t not step outside and see how mobile usage is affecting mainstream and consumer behavior – from toddlers playing with iPads to people walking into lampposts as they fail to look up from their device when out and about. Given the tremendous increase in mobile usage in recent years, it’s hardly surprising that expectations […]
Posted on 04 February 2014 by Jennifer Dean
As Facebook turned ten years old today, it occurred to me that one out of every six people on the planet now has a Facebook profile. Facebook is now reported to have more than 1.2 billion users out of the world’s 7.2 billion people. This achievement is stunning, particularly when one considers that this ‘social […]
Posted on 30 December 2013 by Jennifer Dean
The future is smart, and smarter often means smaller (although this might not be the case with smart phones at the moment). And, as you will undoubtedly see from the sliding image of the office past and present, the components of the office of the future take up considerably less space than that of the […]
Posted on 23 December 2013 by Axel Hansmann
As shown by our sliding graphic below, which highlights the differences between desks of the 1980s and today, office technology has become increasingly streamlined in recent years. Today’s ultrabooks are certainly a far cry from the computers of the early 20th century. The Colossus, the first programmable computer built in 1943, was the size of […]
Posted on 20 December 2013 by Thales DIS
As we swiftly approach the end of 2013, we thought it was timely to look back at the some of the best blogs in the Machine to Machine (M2M) space over the past year. Technology has advanced rapidly this year with some great innovations, recognitions and promise for the future. We recently just received two […]
Posted on 18 December 2013 by Thales DIS
We often talk about ‘business applications’ or ‘business software’ as if they belonged to a separate universe of applications. This makes sense – some applications (like HR software) only make sense in a business context. But there’s a lot of overlap in the people using the software. In fact, the people using your business applications […]