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Why smart cities need better telecommunications with IoT

Guest Contributor4 years ago

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Take a look at your city’s skyline, and count the cranes. As cities around the world continue to grow in...

Mobile

After 130 years are we about to witness the death of phone numbers?

Piers Dillon Scott8 years ago

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What happens when mobile operators stop offering voice and SMS tariffs? Will we see the death of the phone number?

Global connected devices 2016 Source:Cisco

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Cisco:Despite 4x growth only 45% of the world will be online by 2016

Piers Dillon Scott8 years ago

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Use of the internet will grow fourfold by 2016, according to Cisco, but less than half of the world's population will be online.

Tell us if your broadband is up to speed or if it’s under performing

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The Sociable’s Irish broadband speed test. Tell us how fast your internet connection is

Piers Dillon Scott9 years ago

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Believe it or not Ireland ranks as 13th in the world for broadband quality speed, ahead of our European friends such as the UK and Germany. But is number correct? More often than the not broadband speeds promised in the telecom’s ads or websites don’t reflect what the average home or business receives. Tell us how fast your internet connection is.

Brains Byte Back

(Previously The Sociable Podcast) The weekly podcast looking at how our brains, psychology, and society are impacted by the ever-evolving technology that surrounds us. Every Monday we bring you the best stories and guests from around the world relating to technology, psychology, and society.

According to 99 firms, 293.6 billion emails are sent every day. That figure probably doesn’t surprise you given the number of emails sitting in your inbox, hundreds if not thousands… Right? But among these emails are numerous malicious emails, designed to trick, scam and hack.

These emails are known as phishing emails, which in its simplest form can be described as a fraudulent attempt to obtain sensitive information such as usernames, passwords, and credit card details by disguising oneself as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication.

But there is good news, as we now have a guardian angel ready to look out for us. My guest today is the president and founder of Pixm, a company that provides real-time anti-phishing on log-in pages and shuts down an attack at the point of click, Arun Buduri.

And for our Neuron to Something piece, where we discuss a story relating to psychology and technology, we will look at a recent Pew Research Center survey, analyzing Americans’ feelings and perceptions relating to data collection.

Video from Buduri: Amazing mind reader reveals his ‘gift’