Technology

Birmingham prepares to welcome the inaugural Birmingham Tech Week, taking place on 7th - 13th October 2019. Birmingham Tech Week has been formed to highlight the burgeoning tech scene and will form the umbrella to more than 50 events happening...

South and City College Birmingham has been working closely with Microsoft to launch a brand new Showcase Classroom, based at the college’s Digbeth Campus. Opened on February 3rd by the Lord Mayor of Birmingham Councillor Ray Hassall, the classroom is...

Three computing students have developed the advanced R2U Road to University app, after huge inspiration from their course lecturers, which they are eager to make a commercial success. Inventors Kieran Dee, Josh Oakley and Mukesh Jassal have designed the app...

Yahoo, like AOL before it, joins the Verizon team for $5bn (£3.8bn) after endless bidding. The sale does not include Yahoo's prize stake in Chinese firm Alibaba. Microsoft offered $44bn for Yahoo in 2008. Chief executive of Yahoo, Marissa Mayer, said,...

New technologies have been introduced at the Gherkin as part of London Tech Week which could potentially alter the way in which we purchase goods. Selfie Pay is one of the apps that exercises everyone’s much-loved loved hobby and turns...

Asian businesses in Birmingham are set to benefit from faster broadband and become digital-ready, thanks to OHANA 8, one of Britain’s fastest-growing telecommunications provider. The proactive move is part of OHANA 8’s mission to...

The New England Journal of Medicine’s latest edition details the condition that causes “transient blindness”, this occurs when using your smartphone in the dark. What specifically causes the vision loss is using only one eye, the solution is to...

New research cautions drivers that driving whilst talking on a hands-free phone can be just as distracting as speaking on a hand-held mobile. The study conveys that the area of the road that hands-free motorists concentrate on is up to...

Police and security experts are warning that smart-phones could potentially become the number one target for cyber criminals, within the next 5 years. Hackers are in the process of creating new viruses to by-pass smart-phone security, including current biometric systems. The...

Snapchat used to be a simple app where you took a picture, sent it to a friend and then it disappeared. However, currently it serves as a messaging app, a video sharing app and a news app. It is also...