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Intel – Touch In The Enterprise

Are touchscreen interfaces just a gimmick or are they a big step forward? Intel's Stuart Dommett explains why we will all be pinching and swiping... but we may find this is only the first step to more radical changes.

by TechWeekEurope Staff min
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LeWeb 2013: Paytrail – The Problems With Modern Day Payments

Payment systems on the Internet are too complicated, says CEO of start-up Paytrail, Lennu Keinanen. The Finnish firm thinks its model, based on a PIN system, is simpler and better. How will it take on the likes of PayPal though? And what of the threat of e-currencies like Bitcoin? Keinanen tells us all about how Paytrail plans to thrive in a competitive marketplace

by TechWeekEurope Staff min
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LeWeb 2013: GoodBarber: Start-Up Trouble In France?

France, under President Francois Hollande, might become an increasingly hostile environment for businesses in the coming years. As yet unfulfilled promises of higher corporate tax rates are worrying many, whilst the UK is telling start-ups to come to Britain, which is becoming an increasingly attractive place to set up a business. GoodBarber is an app shop based out of Corsica, which has some autonomy but is still governed by French law. The company tells us it will move if the environment becomes too difficult for it to achieve the growth it wants.

by TechWeekEurope Staff min
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LeWeb 2013: EasyBring – Crowdsourcing Mail

EasyBring is like an Airbnb for mail. If you're heading somewhere, advertise that fact on EasyBring and if you're picked to take a package somewhere, you can earn some money. That relies on a lot of user trust, so can EasyBring really be successful.

by TechWeekEurope Staff min
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LeWeb 2013: Robert Scoble: How Rackspace Plans To Exploit Wearable...

You'd be forgiven for thinking Robert Scoble led two separate professional lives - one as a globe-trotting blogger, one as a Rackspace "racker", spreading the good word on the cloudy company. But the two are linked. Take his Google Glass obsession. Scoble is a big fan of Glass (apart from the voice recognition and the not-so-hot telephony), whilst Rackspace is actually very interested in the wearable computing space, because it wants to provide the back end for all the apps running off of the devices. We talk with Scoble about what's happening in wearables, the Internet of Things and the race to dominate the cloud.

by TechWeekEurope Staff min
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LeWeb 2013: MyPermissions – Giving Devs And Users Privacy

As market forces start to make privacy better for end users, as seen in Microsoft's major marketing push designed to show it is a company people can trust with their data, start-ups are forming to exploit the trend. MyPermissions is one of those. As its name implies, it focuses on application permissions. It wants users to know what apps are using their data, providing updates to let them know what is going on behind the scenes. In a world where people are increasingly critical of Facebook and Google over privacy, MyPermissions could be on to a winner.

by TechWeekEurope Staff min
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What is Weightless?

Weightless is the world’s first and only M2M standard designed to work in white space spectrum. Want to know more? Watch the video!

by TechWeekEurope Staff min
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