Tag archive: johnure
Ringing in the New Year
Here’s the thing about payphones: if by error you have left your mobile phone at home, making a call will...
Cyber Santa
Families who celebrate Christmas have long got use to Santa Claus arriving with his sack full of toys for the...
Is Cybersecurity an Oxymoron?
Many years ago I lived in one of the less secure, less affluent parts of London. It was a neighbourhood...
Migration: A Digital Road Ahead
“One Facebook group called ‘Stations of the forced wanderers’, which has more than 100,000 members, is essentially a vast knowledge...
Economic Regulation, Cost Methodologies and Tariff Regulation in the Asia Pacific Region
TRPC Director Professor John Ure’s presentation at the ITU Regional Economic and Financial Forum of Telecommunications/ICTs for Asia and Pacific,...
Brave New World of Data?
“Octopus sold personal data of customers for HK$44”’ was the headline in the South China Morning Post, 27th July 2010....
Digital Thailand
TRPC Director Professor John Ure’s presentation at the ITU Forum on Digital Economy Thailand, held 22 August 2015 at the...
RoboShop
Welcome to Pepper. Pepper will be your close companion, enjoying your jokes, sympathizing when you are sad, keeping quiet when...
Technology and a Shrinking Middle Class?
No-one doubts that the rise of the middle class globally has fuelled the demand for consumer goods of all kinds;...
Kicking-off the Going Digital Workshops in Vietnam
On June 9th at the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI) offices in Hanoi, TRPC kick-started the first of...
Droning On, and On
From the postal stage coach to the telegraph, to the telephone, to the Internet it’s been a long haul, and...
TRPC Director on FT, 11 May 2015: “Agriculture secretary’s real concern is about American food exports”
May 11, 2015 12:10 am Sir, You report (“US criticises Brussels on global food security”, May 8) that the EU’s...
False Alarms
When in the 1990s I was researching the impact of technological change on the Hong Kong Telephone Company (HKTC) over...
A return to Marxist economics?
Dear Sirs Martin Wolf (‘An economic future that may never brighten’ FT 15th April) rarely fails to hit a nail...
Everyone Going Bananas in April?
This is not the usual, slightly sceptical blog that sees the hype but not the reality. This time, for a...
Improving the Thai Television Sector in the face of ASEAN Economic Community
TRPC Director Professor John Ure’s presentation at a special seminar and focus group on “Improving Thai Television Sector in the...
TRPC Director in InterMedia, March 2015: “Impact of the Sharing Economy”
John Ure, Associate Professor and Director of TRPC, has written a ‘Briefing’ on the Impact of the Sharing Economy in the March...
Preparing for tomorrow: Regulation in a data-driven connected world
TRPC director Dr. John Ure’s presented on “Preparing for tomorrow: Regulation in a data-drive connected world” at Session 2: “The...
Sex, Lies and Videotape
Sex is not just reproductive, is also productive which is why in some countries, such as the UK, its service...
Artificial Intelligence
It’s a perennial topic, Artificial Intelligence (AI). Concerns about where science and technology are leading society are never ending. The...
Christmas Cake Anyone?
By any standards, Bill Gates is the epitome of the superrich. It took 7 years to construct Bill Gates’ mansion...