Government-backed 5G facility will be built in Oxfordshire
Harwell Campus is to be the site for a new national 5G and satellite technology testing facility. The engineering hub, backed by more than £3m of Government investment, is due for completion next year. Providing a base for UK researchers and businesses, it will provide a testing facility that can show the benefits of hybrid […]
BOOK REVIEW: Tim Hwang’s Subprime Attention Crisis: Advertising and the Time Bomb at the Heart of the Internet
When was the last time you clicked on an online ad? Probably, it was an accident, a so-called ‘fat finger’ click, and you exited immediately without noticing what was being sold to you. This prompts the question: is online advertising actually effective? Tim Hwang’s recent book Subprime Attention Crisis: Advertising and the Time Bomb at […]
AI company Mind Foundry raises another £10m as it promises to ‘transform’ the insurance sector
Artificial Intelligence company Mind Foundry has raised an additional £10.3m in Series A funding. Led by Aioi Nissay Dowa Insurance (ANDI) of the MS&AD insurance group, it includes funding from existing investors Parkwalk Advisors, Oxford Sciences Innovation (OSI), Oxford University and the Oxford Technology and Innovations EIS Fund. This new funding takes the total raised […]
Green recovery flourishing in Oxfordshire but businesses call for government to step up support.
Technology start-ups and spin-outs in Oxfordshire are ready to play their part in the country’s post-COVID green recovery but want more long-term strategy and funding from central government. Nine out of ten companies surveyed for new research published this week, see the Prime Minister’s recent ten-point Green Industrial Strategy as an opportunity. The new report, […]
AI powers tech startup to win clients including Costa, John Lewis and WH Smith
A tech startup is working with leading retail and hospitality brands including Costa, John Lewis and WH Smith. Oxford-based Quorbit builds tailored operating models to help companies plan their resource allocation and investment more accurately. Workforce management expert and co-founder Matt Brown says: “To date companies have used top-down budget allocations and HR decision-making to […]
Working from home: the tech behind it and how it should be done
It probably won’t shock you to discover that one of the most common inquiries we receive nowadays in this time of COVID-19 is: would you be able to assist me with remote working? Our response is always “yes”, obviously. Yet, there are a couple of fundamental issues you should consider. For those of us sufficiently […]
The Benefits of Using Cloud Phone Services
What is a Cloud based phone system (PBX)? A cloud-based phone system is one that is delivered through the internet, opposed to the standard phone line in which many people are used to. Sometimes cloud phone services are referred to as VoIP phones but the principal is the same; a phone system provided to a […]