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By Sandra Quinn Today (September 10) marks World Suicide Prevention Day and there is a global movement, particularly online, towards raising awareness about suicide, self-harm and depression and providing information about the help that is available. In the time it would take you to read the last sentence just four times, one person somewhere in […]Continue Reading

By Sandra Quinn This week, amidst tears, tantrums, panics to get out of the house in time and last minute trips to the shop to pick up stationary supplies, thousands of children got ready to go back to school. For as long as we can all remember, a first day at school or going back […]Continue Reading

By Dr. Andrew Le Gear, September 3, 2018 We have several complex and robust web solutions deployed here at Horizon. We use Azure App Services and find it is very professional and truly is a wonderful solution for production products, but this doesn’t come cheap. It costs about £700 per annum for a service plan that […]Continue Reading

By Sandra Quinn Homes, offices and educational facilities are filled with voices, but sometimes not the human ones we expect – these voices are more than likely coming from the Google assistant on Android, Apple’s Alexa, Amazon’s Echo and other virtual technological assistants, but do we sometimes confuse these voices with human ones or give […]Continue Reading

By Sandra Quinn Will you do me a favour? Just a small one and I promise it won’t take up much of your time, but it will be worthwhile. Put down whatever you are doing, settle into a comfortable seat and just immerse yourself in this blog for the next four minutes. You have had […]Continue Reading

By Sandra Quinn “Get away from that computer screen, it will kill your brain cells,” “If you keep looking at that screen, you will get google-eyed or go blind,” “That game console will rot your brain,” – if you heard some of these phrases as you tried to get to the next level of your […]Continue Reading

By Sandra Quinn One of the main words bandied about when it comes to the innovation that is the blockchain, is ‘security’. Even the smallest bit of research into the vast world which the blockchain encompasses, will tell you that the blockchain is a ledger of truth – an open and distributed ledger, recording transactions, […]Continue Reading

By Sandra Quinn Since the blockchain started making its way into everyday conversation with tech innovators and R&D departments, people have been brainstorming about ways to bring the technology into the daily lives of ordinary people. Horizon Globex have achieved that objective with their blockchain-powered telecommunications app Talketh. Have you ever thought about how difficult […]Continue Reading

By Sandra Quinn Harking back to the origins of medicine, things were very primitive, basic and simple with the use of herbs and natural remedies and nothing was kept track of. If you compare this now to a modern hospital filled with machines, high tech equipment and all of the sensitive patient information being held […]Continue Reading

By Sandra Quinn At this year’s European Conference on Information Systems in Portsmouth in the UK, Horizon Globex contributed to the Blockchain Workshop with three papers. We have previously written about the first and second papers we presented, but if you missed them, you can catch up here for the first paper and here to read the […]Continue Reading