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
Friday, April 09, 2010 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
New Business Models,
Business,
Media
| Tags: media,
technology,
government,
business models,
Mark Henshaw,
Finance Bill,
Digital Economy Bill,
Landline tax,
Spotify
“The digital sector plays a vital role in the UK economy and the Government is attempting to acknowledge this via the
Friday, March 26, 2010 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
Environment,
Technology
| Tags: technology,
Bill Gates,
innovators,
eco,
economist,
nuclear,
Nathan Myhrvold,
travelling-wave reactor,
TerraPower
The Economist online runs a profile of formidable innovators involved in a phenomenal project.
Monday, January 11, 2010 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
Technology
| Tags: innovation,
media,
technology,
global,
eco,
economist,
Wallpaper,
3-D,
augmented reality,
Sensitive Object,
multiplatform,
Innovation Island Conference
Aretha Franklin wanted us all to “reach out” and we thought it was a bit personal, but today, reaching out, touching, creates a new connection likely to integrate your finger tip with a remote control system based uniquely on acoustics.
Monday, September 14, 2009 | Posted by: Brian Maguire
Categories:
Media,
Technology
| Tags: technology,
FT,
Twitter,
fashion,
The Times,
IFA,
Berlin,
Ralph Lauren,
3-D home cinema,
Scott Schuman,
Netbook,
Dell,
The Sartorialist,
pay-per-click,
Samsung,
Sascha Pallenberg,
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.
Thursday, August 13, 2009 | Posted by: Brian Maguire
Categories:
Environment,
Technology
| Tags: innovation,
technology,
renewable energy,
energy,
engineering,
science,
car,
car industry,
eco,
fuel,
airport,
General Motors,
hydrogen,
heathrow
“Wanted: silent taxi driver - no jip, no ranting, no dodgy fare charges; must run on hydrogen.” Coming to a terminal near you, this sci-fi reality of urban transport is no false dawn.
For a generation, General Motors and Volkswagen have been focused on manufacturing autonomous vehicles for everyday public use. An initiative which began as a defence sector project to provide self-guided battle craft, has become a marketable public transport solution. If the auto-cabs we see on our streets within five years have a voice, they will smoothly declare: “This isn’t just innovation, this is marvellously spectacular innovation.”
Monday, July 27, 2009 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
Technology
| Tags: innovation,
research,
technology,
global,
university,
engineering,
europe,
science,
intellectual property,
defence,
robots
http://www.wordle.net/
Monday, July 20, 2009 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
Environment
| Tags: innovation,
technology,
government,
renewable energy,
energy,
science,
car,
eco,
desalination,
gas,
bio fuel
When Big Oil claims its going green, seasoned market watchers sigh deeply and trade a few million barrels before lunch. More generous observers will consider Big Oil’s alternative energy ventures part R&D, part PR. But, what if the numbers really do stack up and the technology really can get beyond drilling holes in the ground?
Tuesday, July 14, 2009 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
Business
| Tags: innovation,
technology,
emerging markets,
asia
Robert Atkinson, founder of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, and Iqbal Quadir, founder of MIT’s Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship, debate where innovation is moving in the 21st century in this week’s Mckinsey ‘Debate zone’.
Tuesday, June 23, 2009 | Posted by: Brian Maguire
Categories:
Business,
Technology
| Tags: innovation,
research,
technology,
financial,
government,
energy,
university,
innovators,
science,
car
One per cent of the energy we burn driving a car is used to move the driver. In one hundred years of automotive innovation, mankind has fought financial and military battles over oil reserves; only to announce that 99% of our effort was to shift a hunk of metal. Maybe we should have kept the horses.
Monday, June 08, 2009 | Posted by: Brian Maguire
Categories:
Environment,
Technology
| Tags: innovation,
technology,
energy,
india,
innovators,
science,
economist
Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, Chairman of food giant Nestlé, told the Economist’s ‘The World in 2009’: “under present conditions… we will run out of water long before we run out of fuel”.
Thursday, May 21, 2009 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
Business,
Media,
Technology
| Tags: innovation,
media,
technology,
digital
Alex Johns, MD of iblink left his job with Siemens 3 years to start up iblink which filled the niche created by technologists who knew a lot about technology and less about marketing and marketeers who knew a lot about marketing but little about technology. Today iblink is an award winning digital marketing business with a number of blue chips clients such as Titan, Superdrug, Bluewater, P&G and Unilever.
Thursday, May 21, 2009 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
Business,
Technology
| Tags: innovation,
media,
technology,
google,
microtrend,
virul marketing,
twitter
Google admits it has something to learn from Twitter….
Friday, May 15, 2009 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
Business,
Technology
| Tags: innovation,
media,
technology,
science,
amazon
“Jeff Bezos is outpacing our expectations,” wrote an analyst of Amazon’s CEO…
His much-viewed appearance on ‘The Daily Show with John Stewart’ was classic Bezos, nerdy, smiley, hyperactive. Struggling, just a little, to convince Stewart we’ll all read from slim digital screens in the future, he rocked back and forwards with laughter, like Spock on a rollercoaster.
Friday, May 01, 2009 | Posted by: Brian Maguire
Categories:
Business,
Education,
Technology
| Tags: innovation,
research,
technology,
financial,
university,
europe,
intellectual property,
economist,
patent,
entrepreneurial,
capitalism
Friday, April 24, 2009 | Posted by: Brian Maguire
Categories:
Business,
Technology
| Tags: technology,
innovators,
broadband,
financial innovation,
starbucks,
telecoms,
voip,
3-d imaging,
mobile financial services,
global banking
Data is about to drive some of the biggest mergers and acquisitions the global markets have ever seen. Some banks are preparing for a breathtaking integration of telecom delivery channels which will leave their competitors gasping for growth.
