pjames, Author on Think Big - The Innovation Blog

Why current data brokering is simply not sustainable

Business

By pjames, 3 November 2014 at 14:16

By Jose Luis Agundez Dominguez (@ciberjos), Big Data Innovation, Telefonica 3 November 2014: Changes must be made to the way businesses and individuals understand and more critically, manage personal data. This was the idea behind a talk I delivered (as part of the...Continue reading »

Say hello to real-time communication in Firefox Beta

Business

By pjames, 16 October 2014 at 17:00

Ian Small – CEO, Communications Services at Telefónica and Chairman of TokBox 15 October 2014: Today, I’m incredibly pleased to announce a partnership between Telefónica and Mozilla which introduces “Firefox Hello” – a seamless real-time video communication...Continue reading »

Axonix CEO on the ‘exceptional opportunity’ of mobile advertising

Business

By pjames, 20 June 2014 at 14:43

This week as part of London Technology Week,Simon Birkenhead, the CEO of Axonix led a workshop on Programmatic Advertising. In the three videos below, Simon provides an introduction to mobile advertising, mobile programmatic advertising and the questions that companies should ask...Continue reading »

Global Accessibility Awareness Day: making digital services accessible to people with disabilities

Digital Life

By pjames, 15 May 2014 at 11:32

By Jennison Asuncion, Co-founder of Global Accessibility Awareness Day 15 May 2014: The original goal behind Joe Devon and I co-founding Global Accessibility Awareness Day back in 2012 was a shared desire to dedicate a day to get front-end web developers, especially, to...Continue reading »

FI-WARE providing the building blocks for smart homes

Business

By pjames, 20 April 2014 at 20:07

By Antonio Sánchez, FI-WARE finalist 20 April 2014: Last October I was fortunate enough to attend the FI-WARE Smart City event held at the Palacio de la Magdalena in Santander. Companies, developers and Smart Cities enthusiasts came together to share their latest ideas and thoughts on...Continue reading »

Social networking holds the key to preventing dangerous Sybil attacks

Digital Life

By pjames, 6 April 2014 at 17:20

A common attack on Online Social Networks involves the creation of multiple accounts that do not correspond to real users. 06 April 2014: This malicious behavior is commonly referred to as the Sybil attack. Recent Sybil defenses...Continue reading »

Recommender Systems – the future of search

Digital Life

By pjames, 4 April 2014 at 17:31

4 April 2014: Recommender systems can be seen as a practical alternative to traditional search. They can satisfy the users’ needs for relevant information without the overhead of having the users explicitly state a query. The query is therefore derived from...Continue reading »

Extending Amazon’s Dynamo key-value store architecture

Technical Innovation

By pjames, 4 April 2014 at 17:26

Amazon’s Dynamo Key-Value store has emerged as a popular architecture for building Internet scale datastores. 4 April 2014: One of the key characteristics of Dynamo is the use of consistent hashing for horizontal scaling and reliability. Consistent...Continue reading »

Making cities smart through anonymised mobile data

Future Trends

By pjames, 4 April 2014 at 17:25

4 April 2014: Traditionally, urban analysis and the study environment by understanding the city of urban environments have used data obtained from surveys to characterise specific geographical areas or the behavior of groups of individuals. However, new data sources (including...Continue reading »

Solving information overload in a digital age

Digital Life

By pjames, 4 April 2014 at 16:50

Since the earliest of times, humans have been interested in recording their life experiences for future reference and for storytelling purposes. The task of recording experiences – particularly through image and video capture — has never...Continue reading »