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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...

1 Oct 2015 Reports
Migration: A Digital Road Ahead
Brave New World of Data?

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....

1 Sep 2015 Reports
RoboShop

RoboShop

Welcome to Pepper. Pepper will be your close companion, enjoying your jokes, sympathizing when you are sad, keeping quiet when...

1 Aug 2015 Reports
Technology and a Shrinking Middle Class?

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;...

1 Jul 2015 Reports
Droning On, and On

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...

1 Jun 2015 Reports
False Alarms

False Alarms

When in the 1990s I was researching the impact of technological change on the Hong Kong Telephone Company (HKTC) over...

1 May 2015 Reports
Everyone Going Bananas in April?

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...

1 Apr 2015 Reports
Sex, Lies and Videotape

Sex, Lies and Videotape

Sex is not just reproductive, is also productive which is why in some countries, such as the UK, its service...

1 Mar 2015 Reports
Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence

It’s a perennial topic, Artificial Intelligence (AI). Concerns about where science and technology are leading society are never ending. The...

1 Feb 2015 Reports
Christmas Cake Anyone?

Christmas Cake Anyone?

By any standards, Bill Gates is the epitome of the superrich. It took 7 years to construct Bill Gates’ mansion...

1 Jan 2015 Reports
Net Neutrality Revisited

Net Neutrality Revisited

Telecom broadband networks that provide fast lane access to the Internet need to be managed, and even more so than...

1 Nov 2014 Reports
Theoretical Pragmatism

Theoretical Pragmatism

And this year the Nobel Prize for economics goes to: Jean Tirole, Professor of Economics at the University of Toulouse...

1 Oct 2014 Reports
Let Me Say That Again

Let Me Say That Again

Apple has finally joined the NFC bandwagon. Let me say that again. Apple is redefining mobile payments. Better? I cannot...

1 Sep 2014 Reports
Partners in Development

Partners in Development

“Telenor cracks down on Myanmar suppliers to weed out child labour” was a headline in the Financial Times 20 August...

1 Aug 2014 Reports
Accounting for Kowtow? You can Bank on it!

Accounting for Kowtow? You can Bank on it!

It was May 1989. I had arrived in January in Hong Kong as a visiting research fellow at the University...

15 Jul 2014 Opinion
Move Uber Please

Move Uber Please

In a benign Internet world, the emergence of a “caring, sharing” economy would be something to look forward to. For...

1 Jun 2014 Opinion
KingCanute.com

KingCanute.com

Like most children I learned from my school days that the Philistines were, well Philistines, which they were not; that...

1 May 2014 Reports
Trust

Trust

Fewer, if not few, people have much trust in the banking and financial system after recent experiences of inter-bank rate...

1 Apr 2014 Opinion
The World Wide Crimea?

The World Wide Crimea?

What do Crimea and the Internet have in common? They have both become the terrain of political struggle. And the...

1 Mar 2014 Reports
WhatsUpp?

WhatsUpp?

WhatsApp is up, by USD19 billion all told. Why? Why did Facebook pay more than the nominal GDP of 84...

1 Feb 2014 Reports
End of the Age of Innocence

End of the Age of Innocence

2013 was a Year of Revelations. Of those that will have recurring repercussions, the revelations of Edward Snowden must take...

1 Jan 2014 Reports