The Telecom industry is known for reinventing itself. In the early days of telecom, fixed landlines were the key product of Telco's, while with the advent of the mobile phone this moved to mobile subscriptions and the massive cash cow SMS. However, in recent years, for many Telecom organisations the main revenue is no longer call but data, which required another change in their … [Read more...] about 3 Ways How Blockchain Could Disrupt the Telecom Industry
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The Future of IoT and Machine to Machine Payments
Companies like Amazon and Facebook are setting the standard for customer expectations and customer experience. This includes everything from understanding the whole customer journey, defining the context and personalising it, to ensuring the payment experience is seamless and frictionless without compromising security. Personalization and contextuality in the mobile payment … [Read more...] about The Future of IoT and Machine to Machine Payments
How Identity of Things (IDoT) and IoT on the Blockchain Could Impact Autonomous Vehicles
The age of autonomous vehicles is upon us, even sooner than many experts predicted. While there's still a long way to go in terms of full automation, GM has filed a request with the federal government to begin manufacturing cars without steering wheels as soon as 2019. Google's sister company Waymo has driven millions of miles in Phoenix without the help of drivers. As we move … [Read more...] about How Identity of Things (IDoT) and IoT on the Blockchain Could Impact Autonomous Vehicles
Taking the World’s Pulse: IoT and Healthcare
The healthcare industry is battling to cope on two fronts: The spiralling costs of healthcare in the developed world, where medical insurance companies and the patient cannot cover the huge costs of life-threatening diseases, which are on the rise. Delivering medical services to most of the planet's population, who live in remote and underserved areas, and do not have the … [Read more...] about Taking the World’s Pulse: IoT and Healthcare
Is Your Business Ready to Secure the Internet of Things? Probably Not – Here’s what You’ll Need
The Internet of Things isn't going away anytime soon. You need to be ready to secure and manage it - because if not, you'll be in trouble. Self-driving cars. Refrigerators that automatically detect when they're out of a type of food and order more online. Home thermostats that can control literally everything in a house, from the lights to the locks. Twenty years ago, this … [Read more...] about Is Your Business Ready to Secure the Internet of Things? Probably Not – Here’s what You’ll Need