Private social network for families launches beta version and secures investment
Kindaba, a Scottish-based family-focused private social network have just launched a limited beta form of their product. In addition, they have secured an investment which will help the company expand…
Blockchain “rapidly changing” as industry summit set for October
Search and recruitment consultancy MBN brings the second annual ScotChain summit, with UK and international participants and attendees examining the rapidly changing area of blockchain technology, to RBS Gogarburn on…
With new operating system, Apple revamps its money-making App Store
Apple’s newest operating system for iPhones and iPads, iOS 11, introduces changes to its marketplace for third-party software designed to appeal more to app developers and to add augmented reality…
Made in Dundee, the virtual reality device beloved by Queen Victoria
The Brewster stereoscope, a “virtual reality” headset handmade by a Victorian instrument-maker in Dundee is to be offered for sale at auction later this week. The device gave the illusion…
‘Say hello to the future’ … Apple unveils iPhone X, ‘the biggest leap forward’
Apple has unveiled its much-anticipated iPhone X, a redesigned product of glass and stainless steel with an edge-to-edge display that Apple chief executive Tim Cook called “the biggest leap forward…
Denting the universe; for Apple, ‘everything comes back to its products’
On the eve of Apple’s annual autumn event – the first in the Steve Jobs Theatre at the company’s new ‘spaceship’ campus – at which new phones will be unveiled,…
New technology allows smartphone to recognise surfaces
An innovative technology, created by researchers at the University of St Andrews, can allow your smartphone to carry out a range of tasks just by recognising the surface it is…
Top 10 tech quotes
The advancement of technology generally evokes a range of emotions. Many people believe technology is slowly destroying the fabric of our society, reducing human interaction, taking away jobs and becoming…
Want to find a good place to live? How map-based data could help
There’s a myriad of property data out there, from house price information to property title details. Wouldn’t it be useful if all that information was available in one place? That’s…
ALICE: re-imagining the digital future of public libraries
At State Library of Queensland we set out to research what a public library could be in the virtual realm. We asked ourselves what could a digital public library be…