Technology
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Smartphones, tablets at Direct Vision
Direct Vision of Żejtun specialises in bringing the latest smartphones and tablets to Malta soon after their international release. There is no need to order the new Samsung Galaxy S4, HTC One or Xperia Z from overseas. Direct Vision ensures popular...
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Publishers report boost from e-books
Erotic trilogy Fifty Shades of Grey helped drive print and e-book sales in Britain to record levels in 2012 with publishers hailing figures as proof that digital books are not killing the traditional market quite yet. Print and e-book sales rose...
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Barnes & Noble adds Google Play app store
Barnes & Noble Inc aims to make its Nook tablets more appealing to consumers by offering buyers access to Google Inc’s apps store, hoping to generate interest in a device that has made little headway against Amazon.com Inc’s Kindle and Apple Inc’s...
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A year of successful mobile banking
In just one year, BOV Mobile, the mobile banking service for smartphones introduced by Bank of Valletta, has attracted more than 11,500 customers who have collectively used their phones more than half a million times to make payments, transfer funds...
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How ‘Bring Your Own Device’ works
The acronym BYOD means ‘bring your own device’. It is an innovative concept of allowing employees to bring their own devices to log in to business networks. Be it laptops, iPhones, iPads or Android devices, employees have the flexibility to access...
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Samsung Galaxy S4 – the dream smartphone
If you were to be given the privilege of designing your dream smartphone with the technology available today, and load it with whatever software you want, most probably you would end up with something resembling the new Samsung Galaxy S4. This...
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Why ‘big data’ is getting bigger every day
Hundreds of terabytes. That’s the amount of so-called ‘big data’ being generated by multinational corporations every day. While terrifying for some, others see it as an opportunity to fundamentally transform how their organisations operate and make...
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Caution on next-generation LTE mobile technology
There is consensus among Maltese mobile operators that the time is not yet ripe to launch long-term evolution (LTE), the next-generation mobile communication technology also referred-to as 4G. Yet, two of them are positioning themselves to provide...
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Microsoft Malta launches Office 365 for higher education
Microsoft is launching Office 365 University, a highly convenient solution that introduces students to the benefits of the latest Office, including Sky rive’s cloud storage, a more touch-friendly design that works with tablets and touch-screen...
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Pre-paid solutions for peace of mind in online shopping
The world of online shopping and online entertainment is on the rise – there is no doubt about that – the business is booming. This is also reflected in the rapidly growing number of people who are curious about the wide-ranging options the...
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Life on remote control
Tired of checking the washing machine to see if a cycle has completed or worrying that the lights were left on at home? Apps are increasingly helping people monitor and control objects remotely on their mobile devices. From internet-connected...
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First Open Data portal for Malta in the pipeline
Open data has been a hot topic for the last few years around the EU and around the world. Many national governments of developed and not so developed countries have already launched their open data portals and now provide fast and easy public data...
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Towards the human ethome
The brain is the most complex organ of the human body. To understand it, a prime question that one needs to ask is: why do we and other animals have brains? Neuroscientist Daniel Wolpert says: “We have a brain for one reason and one reason only;...
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Internet at home and on mobile continues to grow
Higher internet speeds at home, more voice calls and internet use on mobile and a slowdown in digital pay TV growth are the highlights of the latest Communications Market Review published by the Malta Communications Authority for July to December...
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Agreement for technology to support Malta’s heritage
Heritage Malta (HM) has signed a memorandum of understanding with St Martin’s Institute of IT which will see the two entities collaborating closely on a number of projects in creative information communication technology digitisation and information...
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IT giant builds tool for data use after death
Google has launched a tool that lets users decide what happens with their e-mail, Google Plus and other accounts after they die – or become inactive online for any other reason. Called ‘inactive account manager’, the feature lets users of Google’s...
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Local demand for mobile internet continues to grow
Vodafone Malta is addressing the growing demand for internet on mobile devices with the launch of new post-paid plans called Vodafone Red. “We are seeing a marked increase in the use of mobile internet and I am confident that people are willing to...
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Action recognition using artificial intelligence
Computer vision has been attracting interest throughout the years and is an active research topic. One of the major interests in computer vision is to attempt to detect and recognise actions or activities of the objects from a video sequence.
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iMovo introduces Click Dimensions
iMovo, a customer relationship management and business intelligence company, has partnered Click Dimensions, a market leader in the marketing automation arena. Click Dimensions empowers organisations to discover who is interested in their products,...
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Five myths of cloud computing
Over the last four decades, new technologies were considered disruptive initially, with hype moving faster than reality. But when technology is understood, the benefits begin to outweigh the negatives. Cloud concepts can mean different things to...
