Google Maps have announced a new product functionality for its Maps API products – Predictive Travel Time. Known at Google Maps as “PTT”, it will enable users to plan ahead of time to choose the best route and times based on Google’s historical analysis of road-traffic data. What is PTT? PTT is an enhancement to Google Maps API for Work …
Samsung Gear VR vs VR Box and the Ricoh THETA s
By now my hopes and dreams of consumer ready devices able to create, share and consume VR and augmented reality are dwindling quickly. I open the Samsung Gear VR and like the other headset it is simply packed and pretty self explanatory.
Force Windows 10 Upgrade
So Windows 10 is here and you still don’t have the update. If yo do not yet have the “Notify you when ready”, then this simple guide should get you going in the right direction. Please remember that with any major Windows update you should backup ALL your important information before updating. Force Windows 10 Update Open windows explorer and …
Jurrasic World combining Offline and Digital
It seems today is all about Dragons, Loch Ness Monster and Dinosaurs. If you happen to be passing through London Waterloo station you will see that The Jurassic World Marketing team have literately taken over the concourse. Just in case the massive 40m long x 3m high full motion digital screens don’t manage to capture your attention, they have added some …
Travel by Dragon or Loch Ness Monster
I have just been talking to the guys in the office about travel times and found myself in a surreal situation where I was being very serious, talking about travelling by dragon and the Loch Ness Monster. I never thought that I would ever be discussing these options as means of travel to be displayed on a website, Thanks to …
The importance of being able to adapt and change quickly in Digital
National Blood week is between the 8th and 14th June 2015 and they have a campaign #MISSINGTYPE to encourage more people to give blood. In short, the idea behind the campaign is to create awareness by removing the letters A O and B from companies names and prominent signs. As we all know, its almost impossible to keep up with the …
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Heartbleed
Heartbleed Following the Heartbleed security bug in the OpenSSL Cryptography library, a fixed version of OpenSSL was released on the 7 April 2014. What is OpenSSL? Open SSL is an open version of the SSL and TLS protocol that was founded in 1998 to provide a free set of encryption tools code on the internet. It is believed to be …
Tech Crunch Interview with Matt Corddry
Tech Crunch Interview with Matt Corddry I don’t often share this kind of motivational stuff but there are times when people just make sense and have the same kind of views as you do. Matt Corddry who is the director of Facebook hardware engineering, sums up my thoughts in a short Tech Crunch “Inside Jobs” interview. Here are a few of his quotes if you don’t have time …