It is no secret that Zoopla have been actively pursuing the position of the “One Stop Property Shop” and the news this week firmly places them right at the front of this race. Now all they need to do is integrate it all. If you have had enough of reading about how the rush to beat stamp duty changes has …
Should Real Estate Agents care about the Apple FBI Controversy
If you missed the conversation on should Real Estate Agents care about the Apple FBI Controversy on Friday evening, here is a quick summary and the recording. This is a delicate topic on how far is too far but what I take from it is that we should all be doing as much as possible to protect our clients data. …
Google launch Predictive Travel Time
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.
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 …
My Week with Bing
During a recent trip to the United States I realised how many people use Bing as their primary search engine. This got me thinking, our team always set the default engine on all devices we give out and deliver to use Google. This is just the status quo, we have been doing this for years and never questioned it.
3D printing at CES 2014
3D printing has now got its entire own section at CES 2014 and from a quick walk through you can see why. There were numerous manufacturers but the two that stood out most were “The Sugar Lab” who are 3D printing food from sugar and MakerBot who seem to be completely owning the market at the moment.
Intel and Dreamworks CES 2014
One of the most impressive talks came from Kate Swanborg of Dreamworks Animation. Kate has been with Dreamworks through releases like Shrek, Madagascar, The Croods, A Sharks Tale and the last release Turbo. During her speech we got an insight into the processing power and time needed to produce these movies and how they come to life. She also spoke …
Edible printed 3D candy CES 2014
3D printing is all the rage at CES 2014. If you are at the event and do not go look at the 3D section you are missing out, literately missing out. They have “The Sugar Lab” there who are printing candy with 3D printers. The little shapes in the bowl you see below are bits of sugar that has been …