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: Web/Tech

  • Quite often and in many industries, such as financial services, there is call for the reduction of regulation and the liberalization of market. In the case of connected and autonomous vehicles the opposite is true, and it has to be so. The key issue is the lack of regulatory harmonization across borders, making the development…

  • 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,…

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

  • Sustainability covers many areas, including the materials used within a vehicle’s cabin to make the dashboard, the paneling and the electronics used in today’s instrumentation. Drew Winter, principal analyst, cockpit of the future, Wards Intelligence, finds that there is significant consumer demand for automotive manufacturers to use sustainable materials, including for those unseen such as…

  • Essential: Mapping the customer journey Confidence, customer satisfaction, business process efficiency and the speedy resolution of customer queries begin by mapping the customer journey. It requires the analysis of how customers interact, why they interact, and how they go from the start of conversation through to the resolution of their query – which could be…