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Smart Contracts: Innovation and Risks in the Digital Economy
The emergence of Bitcoin in 2008 marked the beginning of a technological revolution that led to the development of blockchain technology, laying the foundation for smart contracts. These applications, fundamental to the decentralized applications (Dapps) ecosystem, have transformed digital interactions by automating processes and handling substantial financial...
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ATM Security
Banks are currently one of the primary targets of criminals; quick access to cash or personal bank account information is a juicy haul. Automated teller machines (ATMs) are a security weak point and while bank-located machines usually have cameras and other security...
What’s the difference between a router and a PC?
How does a personal computer (PC) differ from a router? Many people believe they have completely different electronic systems, but this is not entirely accurate. While it’s true to say there are quite a few differences, they also have a series of characteristics in...
The path has been cleared to make way for DRAM
Our analysis of the evolution of memory begins in the dynamic memory era, that is, with dynamic random access memory (DRAM). Without going into technology specifics such as the structure of a memory cell, the distinguishing characteristics of DRAM versus SRAM (static...
Brand internationalization
In a highly dynamic technological sector led by powerful multinationals that put considerable emphasis on branding, international presence and acceptance of any kind for small and medium-sized businesses is both noteworthy and appreciated. At the same time, staying...
Digital transformation and Digital connectivity
A couple of weeks ago, Madrid was the venue for what has been heralded as Europe’s largest digital transformation trade show. Leading multinationals and the smallest of startup companies took the opportunity to showcase their products and services related to this new...
The divine spark – Wireless LAN is in the air
Wireless LAN has been conquering the market for many years by now and still does. This is no news for us. In the business world, Wi-Fi plays a vital part in processes and also in our everyday life hardly anybody can image to living without wireless LAN.
We are used to having Internet access almost anywhere for our mobile devices such as tablets and smart phones. In Germany, free Wi-Fi will soon be offered even in churches around Berlin and Brandenburg. In the first step, 220 churches
A total change to the automobile industry with 5G
As Advanced LTE becomes more of a day to day reality, industry is quickly moving towards the next mobile generation, 5G technology, which will bring important improvements in terms reduced latency, increased reliability and higher throughput. The automotive industry...
Application visualization and control needs
Why has visualization of applications over network become such a critical point? Firstly, the move of IT infrastructure to the cloud means our current understanding of level 3 network traffic (IP) is insufficient to characterize applications transmitting over said...
Smart Grids and reliability of communications
Smart Grids can be thought of as computer intelligence and networking abilities applied to a dumb electricity distribution system, with the aim to improve operations, maintenance and planning so that each component of the electric grid can at the same time talk and...
802.11ac Migration
802.11ac is a new wireless LAN standard for meeting the demands of higher bandwidth. This new standard is an update of the .11n standard and downward compatible to wireless LAN clients operating with older standards such as 802.11a/b/g/n. The new standard uses...
What is LTE Advanced?
What we commonly call 4G+ is really LTE Advanced, a standard based on the 3GPP Release 10 norm, passed in March 2011. It is, basically, a number of improvements that enhance the LTE (Long Term Evolution) standard stemming from the 3GPP Release 9 norm. The main goal of...
20 MHz, 40 MHz, 80 MHz and more…
We are surrounded by waves: radar, radio, mobile telephone, Wi-Fi etc., all occupying an established man-made order and based on invisible highways known as frequency bands. Wi-Fi technology, on the whole, uses 2.4 and 5 GHz bands, a small part of the electromagnetic...
