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By Sandra Quinn ‘You’re stuck in the dark ages’, ‘You’re living in the past’, ‘You’ll never step into the future if you’re always looking behind you’ – these are just some of the phrases thrown at business people who fail to see the benefits of moving with the times and embracing what the future holds. […]Continue Reading

By Sandra Quinn With smartphones ever evolving, in order to keep up with current trends, the best thing to arm yourself with is an impressive list of the best apps. We know it can be an exhausting and thankless job to go trawling through the seemingly endless app stores to find the best apps, so […]Continue Reading

By Sandra Quinn Today’s world is getting increasingly more digital and things like sending letters, physically queueing up to get a form stamped and paying for major services in person with cash have all largely become things of the past, as businesses and Government agencies seek to streamline their operations and move towards further automation. […]Continue Reading

By Sandra Quinn We live in an increasingly online world where the internet is part of everyday life for most children – their reading materials are online, they watch their favourite shows online, listen to the radio online and speak to their family members abroad using the internet. As such, it is one of the […]Continue Reading

By Sandra Quinn Earlier this week, through an in-depth interview with Belinda Parmar, the founder of the tech blog Lady Geek, The Guardian revealed that someone who fought for technology was now locking away her family’s devices in a safe. In the interview, Parmar said that she wanted to address the damage that technology can […]Continue Reading

By Sandra Quinn On Thursday last, as the world recognised the contribution of women to various sectors and industries in celebration of International Women’s Day, it got us here in Horizon Globex thinking about whether or not there should be more women in technology. Like most sectors rooted in science, mathematics and engineering, technology is […]Continue Reading

By Sandra Quinn At the moment, the blockchain is one of the most frequently covered items in the media when it comes to tech trends and that is not going to change any time soon. In our weekly Sunday blog, we recently looked at some of the terms used when talking about blockchain and broke […]Continue Reading

By Sandra Quinn Being away from home is a hard thing for anyone, but for those who have family thousands of miles away it is even harder and without the advancements in online communication, many of these people would not want to pursue a life so far away from all that is familiar. Ciaran Carolan, […]Continue Reading

By Dr. Andrew Le Gear In the previous blog [here] we described an attempt at creating a notarisation solution using Ethereum, which concluded that storage on the Ethereum blockchain was simply too expensive to make the business viable. However, there was still hope!  We continued to alter the original smart contract and eventually arrived at […]Continue Reading

By Sandra Quinn Blockchain, Ethereum, Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency – these are the current buzz words for anyone involved in technology, investment or current business trends, but what do these words mean to the rest of us and are they relevant? The short answer is yes, they certainly are relevant and like anything, if you want […]Continue Reading