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Steve Rogerson reports from the Smart Home for Connected & Assisted Living show at Birmingham’s NEC.

Just as technology changes society, it changes the businesses and buildings we need. You don’t need to look much further than the internet’s impact on the retail sector to see this transformation in progress. By Pradyumna Pandit, VP of Digital Energy UK and Ireland at Schneider Electric

The world has gone app-happy; in terms of mobile apps alone, in Q1 2019 there were over 4.0 million of them on the market. When you add in business-only apps, the numbers skyrocket further. They live in the cloud (the average number of cloud services being used for work is between 30 and 40), and they promise to increase our productivity and agility and are accessible from anywhere, on any device, anytime! By Mirza Salihagic, Seni...

The impact of analytics on our daily lives can sometimes feel abstract and indirect. Even important decisions made using analytics - like an employer deciding whether to give you an interview - often take place behind a screen, in a location far away from us. By Seb Charrot, Senior Software Development Manager at SAS UK & Ireland

StarlingX is a relatively new open source project - it was announced in May of 2018 and things have changed, grown and evolved very quickly. It is a very different project now than when we started for sure. Let's review the journey we've taken to get to the recent StarlingX 2.0 release. Guest blog written by Ian Jolliffe, Wind River.

The latest connected technology trends are forcing old, closed, and purpose-built embedded systems to be modified or replaced. Older systems are giving way to new fluid, software-defined architectures. The critical component to this transition is virtualisation, which has been used in enterprise IT for years but is just making its way into the embedded systems world. It’s providing a way to improve support and modernisation for legacy syste...

The healthcare sector is facing a great change. And he comes at the right time. At $ 7.7 trillion in 2017, global healthcare costs are staggering. And an end is not yet in sight. In many developed countries, hospitals and other health care facilities are at full capacity. Outdated and inefficient processes in disease diagnosis, patient monitoring, treatment and follow-up, and the ineffective communication of patient data ...

Security on the edge is crucial. Learn more about how the StarlingX 2.0 release helps addressing this challenge. As we drive compute to the edge of the network many things change and become more interesting and new problems need to be solved. Guest blog written by Ian Joliffe, Wind River.

It’s hard to imagine how a strong brand like global travel group Thomas Cook, in business since 1841, could go south so quickly.  Its value proposition was proven and real, one-stop-shopping, all-inclusive vacations, great customer support. What happened? A few things actually. First, thanks to the internet and social network, people no longer need assistance from a travel agency to get ideas and deals for their vacations.  Guest...

Steve Rogerson looks at some of the news that may have missed the front page. My travels in the past month took me to the delightful city of Brussels for the AutoSens event. Visitors could not fail to notice that ON Semiconductor was the main sponsor, with the company’s logo all over the place.