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: Information Communications Technology

  • Caroline Bergmann, spokesperson for Deutsche Telekom, comments: “Until there is seamless connectivity, a number of challenges still need to be overcome. This refers to legal, organizational and also technical aspects. For cross-border connectivity, all EU telecoms companies need to work together.” With connected and autonomous vehicles set to change the insurance liability paradigm away from…

  • With safety being paramount, and with the threat that hackers could take over a connected and autonomous vehicle, there is increasingly a need to ensure that smart car data leakages. Cassandra Moons, data protection officer at TomTom explains why CAVs are a ticking data privacy timebomb by first of all suggesting that connectivity in cars…

  • While there are many significant trends at the moment, one of the key connected vehicle commerce trends to stand out is the monetization of vehicle data by automakers. Sherry Calkins, vice-president of connected car and platform solutions at Geotab also sees a shift from vehicle ownership to share mobility and electrification. Citing McKinsey’s report Unlocking…

  • By understanding people’s emotions it’s possible to deliver the experience they want by making them feel relaxed, engaged, in control, safe and productive. Chris Rockwell, CEO and Founder of Lextant adds: “We often think of intelligence as being just AI but there are a number of factors involved in smart mobility. Smart systems deliver on…

  • When tech encourages more data, you have to increase your performance. Software-defined WANs are a great technology and Robert Sturt, Managing Director of Netify, argues that they’re “the most fundamental change in networking since MPLS took over from frame relay and asynchronous transfer mode.” He believes SD-WANs are the beginning of the technology stack journey…

  • According to Econsultancy.com’s ‘Stats roundup: the impact of Covid-19 on ecommerce’, “App Annie’s State of Mobile 2021 report has revealed that the total time spent by Android users in shopping apps globally came to more than 100 billion hours in 2021. This is up from just under 85 billion in 2020. This means that the…

  • 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. 

  • While robotics advances at pace in many industrial settings these days, the robotic or autonomous vehicle remains a nebulous prospect for many.