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by Mike Ianiri, Equinox
The hotel industry is one of the top sectors to suffer data breaches. Cyber criminals love the fact that hotels potentially can have lots of information: your name, address, passport details, and credit card details to name but a few. And that’s before you get to the check in desk.
Once checked in, you connect to the WiFi network and are required to enter personal details. Where does this data get collected? Most Guest WiFI access has a software that sits behind the access points and stores all this information. The repercussions, if a cybercriminal gains access to the backend, can be potentially catastrophic.
Here are some tips so you can protect yourself when you need to access hotel and other public WiFi spots.
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Tagged as: Data, Guest Post, Mike Ianiri, Security, WiFi
by Kelvin Summoogum, Founder of miiCare
Launching a scientific product come with many challenges. All products we invent begin as ideas. Any idea is, though, just the beginning of a story. There’s an endless supply of great ideas out there, but not everyone is willing to endure all the hard work required to turn an idea into reality.
Many a dreamer will have an idea and get very excited. However, when the going gets tough, most will give up and move on to something else, unless they have a particularly powerful drive to achieve the goal.
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Tagged as: Guest Post, Kelvin Summoogum, Medicine, Product Launch
by Tomas Zalatoris, Clouder
Now is a very good time to be an online marketplace founder. Marketplaces are disrupting just about every industry and global growth continues to explode. In 2017, Amazon generated $31.88 billion in third-party seller service revenues, up from $22.99 billion in the previous year.
Third-party sellers are those who sell their products via sites like Amazon—rather than from their own website. This allows Amazon to generate additional revenue without stocking additional products. It also offers the seller a platform, with a proven ‘footfall’, upon which to sell their products—without the need to set up their own eCommerce site from scratch.
The giants such Amazon and eBay will continue to dominate, but they may not always be the right choice for specialist sellers who want to reach a bigger audience and continue to give their customers great value and exemplary service. That is why we’ve seen more niche and specialized marketplaces spring-up and succeed in recent years. They offer alternatives to more generalized platforms that may not have as much focus on seller and customer support, or may not be able to attract the niche audience needed.
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Tagged as: eCommerce, Guest Post, Tomas Zalatoris
by Anthony Main, The Distance
Recently, Samsung announced their folding Galaxy X smartphone. This followed the launch of the FlexPai by Royole Corp and there are rumors of similar devices from Motorola, LG, Huawei and Apple launching in 2019. Many app owners are becoming concerned about how these devices will impact their apps and websites.
From the announcements, patent applications and design concepts, the main goal for the manufacturers seems to be to design devices which offer a smaller, more convenient form factor but with the benefit of large screen real estate. The demand for bigger pocket-sized devices has been clear, as all device manufacturers (including Apple – despite Steve Job’s best wishes) now offer oversized pocket-bulging devices.
As this trend seems to be increasing, and with the introduction of devices which unfold to support such demands, usage patterns will change and users and app owners will find new ways to take advantage of the technology advances.
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Tagged as: Foldable Phone, Phone, Samsung, Technology
By André Roque
When they first list their property on Airbnb, most people think of it as an easy way to make more money. But managing your property takes up to a day per week of rental as you: manage your listing, respond to inquiries, wash sheets and towels, check guests in and out and deal with general admin.
In some countries, you have to register your property as a short-term rental business, issue invoices and/or report guests’ identities to comply with local regulations.
Due to all this work, it’s estimated that 40-50% of new hosts leave the market within the first year.
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Tagged as: Airbnb, Business, Entrepreneur, Guest Post
By John Auckland, Tribe First
Equity crowdfunding is a brilliant way of raising new funds both for young business looking to get off the ground and giants such as BrewDog who are seeking to grow rapidly and capitalize on the publicity.
However, it can also be quite a scary concept for those unfamiliar with the process, and understandably so. Essentially, you’re publicly asking the world to endorse your idea with their money, so the fear of failure can be immense!
Crowdfunding platforms do their best to support campaigners, but it would be near-impossible to provide a standard solution to help each and every business that approaches them. Each campaign requires a lot of time, dedication and thorough research to set it up for success.
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Tagged as: Battery, Charge, Environment, Guest Post, John Auckland
By Jérôme Faissat, co-founder, Andersen
Until quite recently the electric vehicle (EV) was viewed as an idea largely promoted by environmentalists. However, there has been a rapid rise in the popularity of EVs.
In 2010, only around 100 EVs were sold in the US, yet by 2017 over 200,000 were sold. In total, there are estimated to be over a million EVs currently on the road in the US alone. Research suggests that by 2030 there will by 500 million EVs worldwide and that, given the exponential growth rate so far, even that figure may be an underestimation.
There is an infrastructure issue currently facing the EV market – availability of charge points. There is a shared pain for all drivers worrying about how far they can drive before they might get stranded.
Given the rapid speed at which the EV market is evolving and the issues for mass-adoption, let’s look as what may happen to increase charge points.
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Tagged as: Battery, Charge, Environment, Guest Post
By Marc Hurr and Daniel Eduardo Suero, co-founders of iBAN Wallet
It’s an inescapable fact that banking is changing. A perfect storm has been created for the big bank following the 2008 global financial crisis which eroded consumer confidence. In addition technology and smartphones are providing new opportunities for FinTech businesses.
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by William Sachiti, Academy of Robotics
Have you ever wondered how an autonomous vehicle sees? How it manages to navigate its way around obstacles and avoid pedestrians – even if one runs out in front of it?
To teach an autonomous vehicle to do all these things, we need to start by gathering huge quantities of data. To do this a data gathering car is used.
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Tagged as: Automotive, Guest Post, Robotics, Technology, William Sachiti
by Rohit Talwar, Steve Wells, Alexandra Whittington and Helena Calle, from Fast Future
Cortana. Siri. Alexa. One of the subtle strategies designers use to make it easier for us to integrate AI into our lives is “anthropomorphism” – the attribution of human-like traits to non-human objects. However, the rise of AI with distinct personalities, voices, and physical forms is not as benign as it might seem. As futurists who are interested in the impacts of technology on society, we wonder what role human-like technologies play in achieving human-centred futures.
For example, do anthropomorphized machines enable a future wherein humanity can thrive? Or, do human-like AIs foreshadow a darker prognosis, particularly in relation to gender roles and work? This article looks at a continuum of human-like personas that give a face to AI technology. We ask: what does it mean for our collective future that technology is increasingly human-like and gendered? And, what does it tell us about our capacity to create a very human future?
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Tagged as: Artificial Intelligece, Gender, Opinion
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