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The tech industry loves big tech events and for the host cities, these huge events represent a massive boost to the local economy. Thousands upon thousands of customers, sales people, and industry ...

The other day, the government announced yet another consultation on the future of the UK's digital networking infrastructure, this time exploring the possibility of liberalising the planning laws ...

Earlier in August, Huawei announced it was launching its own open-source operating system, named HarmonyOS, which may replace Google’s Android on its devices, writes Promon head of development, Jan ...

This is a guest blog post by Tom Dailey, chief international legal, policy and regulatory officer at Verizon The regulatory and policy landscape is a really important topic for all businesses given ...

In an astonishing and frankly unprecedented turn of events before the Science and Technology Select Committee this week, Huawei chief security officer John Suffolk was branded a "moral vacuum" by ...

All the world loves robots, and when they are robots holding something a human might hold, doing an activity a human might do, and preferably doing it while looking a bit like a human (two legs, ...

This year, my flight from London's Stansted Airport to Barcelona for Mobile World Congress, plus two days of hour-and-a-half commutes through horrendous traffic between my hotel and the conference ...

Malaysia has become the latest country to look into the security concerns surrounding Huawei, which has been accused by mostly western powers of conducting corporate espionage and potentially ...

The government recently announced plans that – despite facing delays and setbacks – a new Emergency Services Network (ESN) will be phased in from the beginning of 2019. It will replace the legacy ...

This is a guest blog post by Brendan O’Rourke, head of design at BriteBill, an Amdocs company. It’s no secret that today’s customers are more demanding than previous generations. They share their ...

After yet another set of lacklustre earnings and with over 10,000 staff facing the axe, embattled BT CEO Gavin Patterson needed a quick win. Today's launch of new consumer offerings from both BT ...

I was hugely pleased today to see that despite the possibility of another legal roadblock in the Court of Appeal, telecoms regulator Ofcom is going to move ahead and lay the groundwork for the ...

In this guest blog, Anthony Sutton from Cobham Wireless discusses how venue owners can maximise visitor satisfaction by improving mobile network availability. It’s match day! You’ve managed to get ...

The recent announcement that UK regulator Ofcom plans to make additional spectrum available for Wi-Fi is great news for consumers, writes DeviceScape's Dave Fraser. Because Wi-Fi operates in ...

We look at the latest technology gadgets and consumer tech toys and what they can offer to business IT.

The science, technology, engineering and maths (Stem) careers volunteer organisation has launched an application helping girls through their Stem journey. The Stemettes application, entitled ...

As part of the NRF Big Show 2016 in New York, e-commerce platform provider Demandware took me on a tour of some of the retailers in the Big Apple using its technology. The level of technology usage ...

Founder of development community platform Gitter explains why developer forums could help out other industries in the future. Open source software communities such as GitHub are designed to allow ...

In early November 2015, insurance giant Aviva held its internal hackathon designed to allow the firm's employees to test out ideas for solutions that could potentially benefit Aviva's customers. ...

A common sited problem in teaching kids about technology is the difficulty in helping them make the connection between the tech they use and the code they're learning - something story character ...

Manufacturers of touch-screen technology explain why the luxury market is buying into interactive in-store equipment. Elo Touch solutions is a touch-screen manufacturer that often finds itself ...

How the digital team at Sainsbury's uses creative thinking and agile methodologies to build software that solves consumer problems. In September 2015 the Sainsbury's digital lab ran a hackathon, ...

Retailers are struggling with the online and physical divide, but retailer The Dandy Lab has implemented a store to combine retail and technology in the physical space. Spitalfields used to be a ...

There are healthcare monitors designed to track everything about your body and habits - but what about those who aren't digitally savvy? Look at all of the health trackers on the market at the ...

At this year's Expo Milano, a six month universal exhibition of world-changing concepts, Accenture and Coop partnered to show exhibit-goers the future of supermarket technology. Every few years a ...

This is a guest post by Sean McGrath senior reporter at Microscope. Striking a balance between mobility and security is something of a Holy Grail in the enterprise world. How do you enable ...

Retailer Argos has partnered with the Waste & Resources Action Programme (WRAP) to offer an "instant redemption" service for old unwanted gadgets. The trade-in service will be available in its ...

Back in October 2014 I was running through the pouring rain towards Imperial College London to meet one of the entrepreneurs of a startup called Surreal Vision. Moments later I was sitting in the ...

Many retailers are still unaware that polymer bank notes are on their way to the UK, so how will they identify a real one during the purchasing process?

These days it seems like every new phone that hits the market has to have a gimmick. For example the new curved Samsung Galaxy S6 or the Lenovo Yoga Tablet 2 with its fancy 'AnyPen' technology. ...

With all the hype surrounding the Apple Watch, it is easy to forget that health and fitness watches are not a new thing. Runners, cyclists and triathletes have been using smart wearables for years, ...

There has been debate over the number of pre-orders made for the soon to be available Apple Watch, with an estimate coming in at over two million - more than the number of Android wearables sold in ...

Do Samsung's cutting-edge edges give it the edge?After a disappointing run of results for its mobile division driven in part by indifferent response to recent product launches, Samsung needed to ...

At this year's Retail Business Technology Expo I was introduced to a company called DisplayData, which put me on to a nifty little device called an electronic shelf label, or ESL. Electronic ...

An introduction to home 3D printing options, the Velleman 3D Priner and the makersCAFE 3D printing was a big mover at International CES in Las Vegas this year. Not only were smaller firms all ...

In this guest post David McClelland shares his thoughts on the announcement of the Raspberry Pi 2.    Performance boost plus Windows 10 support for new Pi PC.   The new Raspberry Pi 2 was announced ...

Logitech this week launched its new conference camera, the ConferenceCam Connect, aimed at small conference rooms catering up to around five people. According to Logitech representatives, 21 ...

SMART technologies, the company which brought interactive whiteboards into our classrooms, has developed a new dry-erase whiteboard capable of sending images to your smartphone. The digital capture ...

Everyone has their Achilles heel of technology, and although I've been very familiar with the Windows operating system until now, Windows 8 machines are far too stressful for me to get my head ...

As a first-time attendee of CES I distinctly remember thinking on my flight over to Vegas: "What have I let myself in for?" It turns out the answer was a week of no sleep, motivational videos ...

The Samsung Galaxy Note Edge's curved touchscreen is in my opinion one of the strangest design choices for a smartphone to date. The device has been available for some time now, but seeing it in ...

Lenovo launched its new affordable smartphone at CES this year, the A6000 smartphone available in the Indian market through exclusive online partner Flipkart. What I found more interesting was the ...

This week Microsoft's mobile arm Nokia announced its new smartphone aimed at emerging markets, the Nokia 215. Designed to be its cheapest internet-ready smartphone, the 215 is available at a ...

The new HP Sprout is a Windows 8.1 based PC with built in 2D and 3D scanner, and it is amazing! The sprout features an overhead scanner, a multi-touch flat pad on the bottom and an HD 23 inch ...

Just a few months after Apple released its ultra-thin iPad Air 2, Dell announced its new Dell Venue 8 7000, the thinnest tablet on the market at 6mm thick. Not only is it thin, it's also incredibly ...

Panasonic has a lot going on this year, with a focus on its "green mobility strategy", fridges and washing machines to enhance the kitchen and let's not forget televisions. But probably the most ...

Speaking to CES 2015 in Vegas, Frank Lee, head of LG mobile communications announced LG's new smartphone the G Flex 2. The unique selling point? It's curved. Why is it curved? Well according to ...

In the lead up to this year's Consumer Electronics Show, a number of companies including both startups and established brands exhibited their innovative ideas to press and industry analysts, ...

Earlier this year I wandered around Holborn until I discovered a life sized Google map pin pointing towards a concealed door to a warehouse. Inside was an intricate maze of concealed doors, rooms ...

We're slowly moving into the wearable generation, and the number of people bringing wearables into the workplace is steadily increasing. The battle of wearable technology is in full swing, ...

At the recent Motorola Enterprise Appforum 2014, now owned by Zebra technologies, the usual sea of middle-aged men in suits was interspersed with many younger faces. It's no secret that when ...

I've spent a few weeks using the BlackBerry Passport, which was launched at the start of October. BlackBerry positions the Passport as a business device. It is instantly recognisable by its Qwerty ...

Apple has announced the new iPad Air 2. We won't lie, we were expecting a more innovative name...Somehow as soon as an Apple event rolls around, everyone already knows what's going to happen. As ...

If you wanted to buy a high-end tablet, for example and iPad Air or a swanky new Surface Pro 3 you're probably looking at a price tag of around £400 at the least. But sometimes, you just don't have ...

Mobile operator EE has launched its EE TV initiative, aiming to use a set-top box to provide TV streaming of freeview channels to any device in a home. It's not the first firm to branch out into ...

Apparently something we've all been suspecting is true - a majority of the meetings we're attending are not worth our time or effort. According to a recent survey by Ovum and LogMeIn, 92% of ...

This is a guest post by Fiona O'CleirighOne of the Pi's key attributes is its price of around £30. It is the nearest thing we have to a disposable computer and several can be used cost-effectively ...

For many, information and education are unobtainable. However, the internet has provided 'knowledge' to those who need it since its birth. It does not matter who you are - of you have an internet ...

Consumers and businesses alike have been waiting with bated breath for the announcement of the iPhone 6 and the constantly-discussed Apple Watch. We wrote our predictions about what we thought the ...

Rumour has it images of the iPhone 6 were leaked last week, with pictures alluding to a potential release date of September 9th for the much coveted next generation device. A number of other ...

With Apple's big announcement approaching, there has been much speculation about whether the technology giant will be releasing its own smartwatch. In the meantime, other innovators are speeding ...

Samsung is well known for its consumer offerings, providing everything from TVs to connected fridges. So the technology firm surprised us all today when it announced its first ever ...

This is a guest post by Fiona O'CleirighThe Raspberry Pi is small - 'a credit-card sized computer' says its blurb - and flexible, good for both general desktop use and electronics projects. And ...

It's almost impossible to complete a daily commute in London without spotting someone using a sad looking phone with a badly bashed up screen. Smashed iPads are spotted less frequently, but it has ...

We're being launched into the days of smart technology, where our phones are better than computers, we're wearing devices that can monitor our every move and even our fridges are connected to the ...

I wrote a story a little while ago about Beecham Research's survey on wearable tech. The study found consumers will not partake in wearable technology if it does not match their fashion needs as ...

I find it's becoming increasingly difficult to review mobile devices unless your audience really is interested in the detailed minutiae of the technology. Even though I'm a technology journalist, ...

In this guest post David McClelland gives his impressions of the Nokia Lumia 930,the first high-end handset to launch with Windows Phone 8.1.HardwareThe Nokia Lumia 930 is a substantial handset in ...

At Huawei's most recent innovation day in Milan, there was a lot of talk about innovation in Europe, research and development centres, and the highly anticipated 5G. Quite clearly very passionate ...

This week the first smartphone designed by online retail giant Amazon was revealed, and its Dynamic Perspective feature allows the screen to present images in 3D to the user based upon the position ...

Many a business has suffered the wrath of IT downtime, and in 2013, networking firm Enterasys claimed that businesses grew when investment had been made in important business backbones, as ...

At this week's WWDC 2014 - the conference that tells developers everything they need to know about what Apple has planned for the future - Apple introduced its next mobile operating system iOS ...

All this week we've been hearing reports on how the health crisis in the UK is growing ever more serious and although there have been positive initiatives launched to help the sector, such as the ...

Microsoft announced the new Windows Surface Pro 3 tablet at an event in New York today. The device, which is 12 inches, is designed to fit perfectly into user's lives, with Surface product manager ...

With the pending changes to the IT curriculum steadily approaching, teachers are learning how best to teach children how to code.In September of this year, schools in the UK will be required to ...

When Facebook announced earlier this year its plans to buy Oculus VR, developers of gaming headset the Oculus Rift, many gaming companies announced that they would not develop games for use with ...

Since the discovery of the OpenSSL Heartbleed bug, organisations and individuals alike have shown great concern over their data and how best to protect it. With the growing use of smartphones and ...

Ever since last year, the 3D printing sensation has been steadily growing, with Gartner predicting that 3D printer sales will double by 2015. This year 3D printing is still a prominent trend, ...

The wearable technology trend that is sweeping the world has so far mainly been about health monitors and fitness bands to track your activities. But the SunnyCam is more towards the Google Glass ...

With Windows XP reaching the end of its days, a lot of people are considering moving onwards and upwards. We've reviewed devices running Windows 8.1 before, such as the Dell Venue 8 Pro tablet, and ...

Portable mass storage is becoming the norm these days, whether for transporting data or just for a backup you can hide somewhere safe. The G-Drive from G Technology is designed to provide a highly ...

Payment methods have been slowly evolving for over the last ten years, from cash, to cheques to cards. Now you can even pay in cheques using a smartphone and use contactless card payment in ...

With the tablet market booming, it's no longer just traditional office employees that have laptops and tablets in the workplace. We've written before about ruggedised tablets being adopted in ...

The tablet market is stronger than ever, with a 68% increase in tablet and hybrid device sales over the 2013 period. Although Apple still remains in the top spot, there are plenty of alternatives ...

I picked this nifty gadget up during Showstoppers at the MWC conference in Barcelona. This phone case/band uses a substance called D30 to reduce impact to your phone when you drop it. The band of ...

Over the last year the news has been filled with stories of Lenovo's success and it seems that they are slowly climbing their way to the top of the technology ladder. The company even saw its ...

With Sony recently bowing out of the PC market in favour of pushing its smartphone arm, we expected big things from any new devices announced at MWC. It seemed that the new Xperia Z2 is really an ...

This week's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona has seen a slew of new devices hit the show floor, ranging from the high end market dominators like the new Samsung Galaxy S5 through to the entry ...

After all of the fuss that was made about Microsoft acquiring Nokia's mobile phone arm, the Finnish giants have gone and released a phone running Android as opposed to Windows 8 Phone. Among the ...

Samsung has been very busy this year, having already launched a new range of products in January at CES in Vegas. They definitely saved the best until last though, as the new Samsung Galaxy S5, ...

Windows 8 has been slowly seeping into our lives over the last few years, and yet I still feel overwhelmingly confused when I come across laptops running the no-longer-new OS. This Fujitsu ...

Valentine's Day is upon us, and as we text, email, PM, snapchat, IM and tweet our loved ones a special message, we realise the importance of communication in this technology-centric age. Many a ...

Earlier this month I took a look at the HDX 4500, a piece of conferencing equipment that doubles up as a desk monitor, so you can take part in several conference calls every day without ever having ...

The Lumia phones have always appealed to me because they were one of the first smartphones to come in a range of bright and cheerful colours (and I was slightly disappointed that the review copy we ...

It has been a busy year for Huddle, with its launch of the Huddle Note app for collaborative file sharing and its partnership with Tibbr for file sharing in the cloud. Now, Huddle has announced ...

Having the right conferencing system can significantly increase communication quality throughout and organisation, especially when your enterprise is split across continents or you have customers ...

I've been using a Nike+ Sportwatch for six weeks and 153km of running, since switching from a Garmin Forerunner 310 XT, which I've had for over two years.In this blog I am writing down how I have ...

The British Gas heating engineer arrived at 10:30 on Wednesday. Two hours later my central heating was fully connected to the internet. Amazing.It costs £199, which includes fitting. You get a box ...

The International Consumer Electronics Show has been showered with releases, suggestions and glances into the future of technology. From smartphones to smart homes the internet of things is big ...

Panasonic's range of rugged devices has always been at the forefront of portable technology for rougher working environments, and it looks like the new Toughpad will be no different. Toughpads have ...