Don’t worry – not the Cyberdyne Systems series T-800 Model 101 (or its’ derivatives)! We mean intelligent chatbots that can hold near human-like conversations via computers or phones. Banking is usually an industry that leads where technology can replace the expensive and pesky humans that need holidays, pensions and lunch-breaks. Think of ATM’s – Automatic…
Oh No! We try to make sure all our clients transition to Cloud processing with minimal disruption. A question often asked is “What if Google/Amazon/Microsoft goes down? Our business will be stuck” .. to which we reply “That is very unlikely to happen however if it does, we have designed your systems to be resilient…
Take on the Big Boys at their own game When you run your own business, it seems the playing field is not entirely level. Big tax breaks (and deals!), access to policy makers, use of latest technology – all areas where big business have it better than SME’s. Despite that SMEs create more jobs (15.7…
Microsoft has announced a great new scheme to help innovation and reduce the cooling effect of patent trolls. This is how patents should work – recognition and reward for the inventor, with enrichment and knowledge for society. Patent trolls buy patents and try to harass and extort money from the very people that generate ideas…
Cloud Computing. Gosh, all around everyone is talking about Cloud Computing What do you do? Where can you find more information? More importantly, who can you trust to be impartial and have your best interests at heart? Who are the main cloud computing players? nedwos have been researching and testing the three major cloud computing…
This post on Facebook by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign UK shows how our (UK/UN) stupidity in 1947 that created this problem by not defining borders to Israel has impacted on Palestine. See the original blog post at https://www.palestinecampaign.org/psc-directors-blog-israel-isolates-world/
It is with great sadness that another great artiste has passed away in a year that appears to be the worst one for entertainers in recent history. The BBC reported the loss today adding his manager, Michael Lippman indicated he suffered heart failure. Read the full article here https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-38432862
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled that “general and indiscriminate” data retention is against EU law. Despite the wish to leave the EU, it has shown how useful it is to have a powerful, independent judiciary that can hold the executive to account when it over-reaches its’ authority. Read more at https://www.digitalbydefaultnews.co.uk/2016/12/21/eu-rules-against-uk-data-retention-law/ Read the…
AWS have released a new service called Glue. As the launch site says: https://aws.amazon.com/glue/ “AWS Glue is a fully managed ETL service that makes it easy to move data between your data stores. AWS Glue simplifies and automates the difficult and time-consuming data discovery, conversion, mapping, and job scheduling tasks.” This is such a…
On 28 June, the UK Science and Technology Committee had a discussion about AI & robotics. The link to the video can be seen by clicking (or entering into a new browser window) https://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/science-and-technology-committee/news-parliament-2015/robotics-and-artificial-intelligence-ev2-16-17/
