TECH TALK: Facial recognition technology has its doubters, but it can be a force for good, says BILL MAGEE Let’s face it, the cyber jury remains out on surveillance systems based on digital image recognition, with its lack of regulation, business and personal security issues as well as fears over mass invasion of privacy. Bottom line: […]
Give your business a digital booster shot
TECH TALK: BILL MAGEE A disaster recovery plan sounds like something out of a Holywood action movie. DRP is proving vital for business continuity, especially now we’re all hoping to power back commercially on all cyber-cylinders. Yes, we might be getting ever-closer to the COVID recovery ward exit sign, well out of pandemic intensive care […]
Answering the digital call will boost revenue
TECH TALK: Too many SMEs are still failing to adapt to transformative technology, says BILL MAGEE It represents a commercial conundrum of our digital times. Just why your typical small to medium-sized business still has its head in the clouds rather than in the cybercloud. Four-out-of-five UK companies admit they are not embracing easily-accessible technology […]
Tech meet-ups on trial as Vegas goes virtual
TECH TALK: BILL MAGEE asks if big tech events have a future One really has to feel for any bright tech start-up gambling on its entire future by cashing in hard-earned chips, probably some borrowed, to undergo a near 10,000-mile once in a commercial lifetime round trip to Las Vegas. Months of planning to finally […]
All-out tech drive will shape world economy
TECH TALK: BILL MAGEE says the technological expansion will eat into more of our time at work and at play A Scottish Government plan giving workers a “right to disconnect” should give businesses across all private sectors pause for digital thought in these uncertain economic times. Commercial upheaval due to pandemic variants driven by Omicron […]