Digital Society 2017: Social Smart Cities – Envisioning a new operating system for digital cities
While it is exciting to see Scotland embracing Smart Cities, it’s important not to become purely technology-driven but instead first define the social outcomes we want these investments to achieve. An…
The global digital divide could become a ‘digital chasm’, says United Nations
More than half the world’s population – 3.9 billion people – do not have access to the Internet, according to a report on the digital divide to be discussed by…
On ScotRail ‘download the Beatles back catalogue in under two minutes’
ScotRail is to trial the fastest in-train Wi-Fi service in the world – Project SWIFT will allow users to experience Internet speeds on-the-go of up to 300 Mbps. Currently, passengers…
Vodafone hints at full-fibre connections direct to homes and businesses
Vodafone is looking at investing in laying ultra-fast full-fibre broadband connections to homes and businesses in the UK if it can find partners to share the costs, according to its…
Edinburgh’s pureLiFi partners with global firm to target Asia market
Edinburgh-based pureLiFi, a global leader in using visible light for wireless communication, is to supply its technology to Indian firm Wipro Lighting to develop applications for the communications and lighting…
Helping to deliver the next generation of mobile
Ordnance Survey is working with partners to build a ‘digital twin’ of the real worldThe next generation 5G network will provide the extra bandwidth needed to connect thousands of sensors…
A superfast country
Programme is part of Government’s plan to make Scotland a world-class digital nation by 2020Vivienne Seeley set up VivID, a graphic design consultancy, 15 years ago working from her home…
Virgin Media’s network footprint is about to get bigger. And faster.
The cabling giant is expanding its high-speed infrastructure across Scotland as part of ‘Project Lightning’Virgin Media is the largest private network cable operator in the UK – offering broadband, TV,…
It could be the next generation of wireless connectivity. Why, you might even call it a ‘lightbulb moment’
Professor Harald Haas on how Li-Fi could become the carrier for all digital communicationsAlexander Graham Bell – the inventor of the telephone – believed his “greatest achievement” was not in…
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