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No Power, No Info? Portuguese City Brings Public Transport Info to Areas Without Power Grid

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 No Power, No Info? Portuguese City Brings Public Transport Info to Areas Without Power Grid

Coimbra is one of the first cities in Portugal to install public transport digital displays in locations without power from the grid.

Known as "the city of students," Coimbra’s culture revolves around students, explains Luis Antunes, CEO of POWERQUBIT, local fleet management powerhouse.

The Coimbra Municipality Urban Transport Services or the SMTUC connects the fourth-largest urban centre in Portugal via an extensive bus (and trolleybus) network. Its 120 public Read more...

Microsoft Doubles Down: Two-Faces of Surface Duo

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 Microsoft Doubles Down: Two-Faces of Surface Duo

Starting at $1399, the Microsoft Surface Duo opens into the thinnest mobile device on the market and connects two PixelSense™ Fusion Displays to create one expansive 8.1-inch screen.

With Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 and dimensions of 145.2 mm (H) x 93.3 mm (W) x 9.9 mm (T at hinge), there’s room for an eSIM5 and one Nano SIM. It runs on Android 10.

But don’t call it a smartphone. Microsoft really, really wants to create a new category of mobile device-- that is, a popular new category.

“We designed Surface Duo for people who want to get more done with the device in their pocket. Our internal research shows that 3 out of 4 people report struggling to complete complex tasks while away from their computer. That’s because smartphones with a single screen aren’t designed for you to easily do multiple things at once,” says Panos Panay, Chief Product Officer for Windows + Devices.

“Think about it. You continually have to switch between apps to get even the most essential things done – breaking focus, breaking flow. Just like using two monitors at your desk, having two distinct screens lets you open up two apps side by side…”

He goes on “..as we look ahead to the next wave of mobile productivity and creativity, we see an opportunity to create something new with Surface Duo-- not to reinvent the phone, but to inspire people to rethink how they want to use the device in their pocket.” Read more...

Where Are the Blockchain Revenues?

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Where Are the Blockchain Revenues?

Where are the blockchain revenues?  In the transformation projects...says Global Data.

GlobalData contradicts the many third-party market forecasts for blockchain technology who predict astonishing levels of revenue and growth.

"While we do see strong growth in spending on blockchain technology over the next seven years, GD forecasts that spend on blockchain technology itself will not reach $1 billion by 2025," says Charlotte Dunlap, Senior Analyst for Application Platforms.  

"Growth in services revenues directly attributable to the implementation of blockchain will see even higher rates of growth, albeit from a lower starting point. The revenues aren’t in blockchain; they’re in the surrounding transformation projects." 

According to GlobalData, while the buzz around blockchain intensifies, platform vendors are playing out mindshare grabs through an upswing in strategy and ecosystem updates. "Cloud platform providers are being pressed to define the early stages and use cases of this emerging market, which promises to modernize decades-old financial and supply chain systems into digital ledgers."

About blockchain, these days you hear less charges of ‘hype’ and more practical discussions about how technology providers and systems integrators might build points of interoperability between disparate blockchain implementations and cloud platforms. 

GlobalData confirms the industry is moving beyond the education and proof-of-concept (PoC) stage and into a phase which aims to demonstrate how blockchain performs in production. This requires concrete steps towards interoperability among partners and various blockchain implementations. Read more...

Psst, Got Any Personal Data to Sell? The World's First Virtual Stock Exchange for Personal Data

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Psst, Got Any Personal Data to Sell? The World's First Virtual Stock Exchange for Personal Data

Sure, security is the number one concern of most internet users. But maybe we are going about it wrong? The world’s largest tech companies, those websites and apps we use every day, including Facebook, Google, and Amazon, glean huge quantities of our personal data. They know more about each of us than most family members...

Most tech companies profit from our data by serving up ads while others also lease or sell our info (even to data brokers). It's a consumer business worth millions of dollars--so lucrative those data brokers are called "data privateers." Like pirates of old except there has been no mutiny on this bounty.

While it's our data they're selling, we don't earn a cent. In an era of digital disruption, where media constantly bombards us to take our businesses digital, we've been blind to our own increasingly valuable digital profile.

Now two companies want to change that...

Insilico Medicine and The Bitfury Group plan to create the world’s first personal data marketplace run on blockchain and powered by artificial intelligence. The marketplace will let you take control of your personal data--and profit from it.

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The Tech Companies of the FT 1000

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The Tech Companies of the FT 1000

The FT 1000 lists the 1000 companies in Europe with the highest percentage growth in revenues between 2012 and 2015.

78 companies on the list are in London, making the British capital a hub for innovation and commerce in the EU even as the UK prepares to leave the bloc.

Let's call it "Techxit..."

Paris is second with 45 companies, followed by Milan with 34 and 32 in Berlin.

Chances are this list isn't perfect. We imagine it's easier to accumulate info on companies in Western Europe than elsewhere in Europe. But it's a great compilation.

The "Technology" companies account for nearly 33% of the list. But it is getting harder and harder to distinguish "technology companies" from "companies" in the Age of Disruption.

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