Media-Insert Communications

Media-Insert Communications

The blog of Media-Insert Communications – featuring freelance P.R. and journalism links to the work of Graham A. Jarvis.

Editing, Journalism, Copywriting, and Public Relations

Category: Consumer technology

  • Jack Palmer, senior consultant with European Mobility & Transportation Team, Frost & Sullivan, joined the conversation and says there has been much talked about the software-defined car for the past three to four years. Gaming has been particularly trendy, certainly at the annual gathering at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. He elaborates: “This…

  • Statista says the UK is one of the most advanced e-commerce markets in Europe. Before the crisis, the UK’s Office of National Statistics (ONS) reported the country’s e-commerce revenue equated to £693bn (USD With Stay-At-Home and Work-from-Home orders, due to the various lockdowns, e-commerce accelerated in March 2020, as online shopping behaviours changed. Statista researcher,…

  • Bango (AIM: BGO, OTCQX: BGOPF) – a company that is listed on the London Stock Exchange, and a provider of unique purchase behaviour technology – says the market is growing at a rate of at least 15% per year, and so the overall macro trend is that people are spending more money online. From a…

  • During the course of the Covid-19 pandemic, ecommerce has accelerated right across the globe – to the extent that Econsultancy.com believes it’s a trend that’s hard to ignore. This is particularly since consumers shopped with increased frequency online out of necessity, writes Graham Jarvis. Read the complete article. 

  • The Covid-19 pandemic created a seismic shift in shopping habits in favour of e-commerce and m-commerce – buying retail goods and services online to the tune of more than $4.9 trillion USD worldwide. Daniela Coppola writes in her ‘E-commerce worldwide – statistics & facts’ report for Statista of 23rd February 2022 that e-commerce has therefore…

  • The University of Stirling Sports Team’s lockdown fitness programme has gone global. The university reveals: “Nearly 4000 participants have logged on to take part in virtual classes over the last 8 weeks – either live or pre-recorded. The people getting involved are from over 50 countries, including long-haul destinations such as New Zealand, the United…

  • Mike Fisher, associate director of Futuresource, comments that the current evolution of connected vehicles towards becoming in-car companions has led to a rapid rise in safety features. He also finds that the biggest area of interest at the moment is in artificial intelligence (AI) vehicle solutions – coupled with edge-based processing, and the ongoing development…

  • you could say that the technology itself is the biggest limiting factor – more so that the removal of the tax credit by the Trump administration. Even so, The Guardian newspaper reported in June 2017 that “China, the US and Europe accounted for more than 90% of electric vehicle sales last year, with China the…

  • “Speech recognition programmes are running on machine learning and deep learning algorithms that require a learning period,” says Sahand Malek, a consultant at Ptolemus. So, for every new language, new dialect or accent the algorithm needs to go through a learning process, which users could find slow and frustrating. “So, by having these algorithms running…

  • Challenges for insurers devising policy plans for ADAS and autonomous explored by Graham Jarvis. By reputation the insurance industry is often seen as a slow-moving beast but research suggests that their pace is changing. It seems that insurers are keenly embracing new technologies, such as advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), and they are taking steps…