Caitlin Laing

Caitlin Laing

Innovative Technologies Consultant
Caitlin Laing provides IT professionals with expert analysis of emerging technologies. Through a combination of cutting-edge research and visionary thinking, her publications reveal the transformative potential of cloud-based AI solutions. Caitlin’s mission is to make the complex simple. Her writing spans diverse topics, and her insights explore the possibilities in the ever-evolving world of digital innovation.
4 Lessons We Can Learn from Windows Mobile’s Failure
Editorial 4 Lessons We Can Learn from Windows Mobile’s Failure

In a tweet that was a surprise to pretty much no-one, Microsoft Corporate VP of Windows Joe Belfiore confirmed that Windows 10 Mobile, the company’s smartphone operating system, is essentially dead. While the company would continue to support the platform for an undisclosed period of time, it would

What are over-the-top OTT mobile systems?
Editorial What are over-the-top OTT mobile systems?

Over-the-top companies are part of our everyday lives. Netflix, YouTube, Hulu and Apple TV stream videos. Skype and Facetime provide voice and video calls. WhatsApp enables mobile device messaging (and now video calling). Xbox360 facilitates WoW gaming, while the almighty the Google reportedly

Are you tempted by the new Surface?
Editorial Are you tempted by the new Surface?

Microsoft new Surface Studio has to represent a strong temptation. Why is that? The pull needs to be strong in order for its target audience to invest almost $3000 into the device. Let’s see what does it offer and what are the innovations. New Surface Studio – the looks This piece of technology

What do you think of the new Facebook Marketplace?
Editorial What do you think of the new Facebook Marketplace?

Many of Facebook’s users are in groups that intermediate buying and selling. More precisely, over 450 million people visit such groups each month. They range “ from families in a local neighborhood to collectors around the world ”, according to Mary Ku, Facebook Marketplace Product Management

What are the dilemmas in copper moving out to let fiber in?
Editorial What are the dilemmas in copper moving out to let fiber in?

Telecommunications copper cables mainly belong to the group of outside plat cables (aerial cables, duct/buried cables, last link wire cables) and to the group of central office cables, which serve for signal transmission within buildings. Another producer describes their copper cables per usage, as

Ad-blockers revisited: has the industry regrouped yet?
Editorial Ad-blockers revisited: has the industry regrouped yet?

It has been a while now since ad-blocking software and applications progressively gained traction from those who want to browse the Internet ad-free. What happened to ad-blockers for the last months? Seems like the advertising industry did not come up yet with any revolutionary, innovative replies.

What does reasoning like humans mean for AI?
Editorial What does reasoning like humans mean for AI?

Reasoning (as a human ability) is innate and involves the capacity of assessing ordinary situations, probabilities and possible outcomes in order to make decisions or to determine further steps for derived actions. While humans inherit and develop the reasoning mechanism, the programmers involved

Navigate your way through seven of the best navigation apps
Editorial Navigate your way through seven of the best navigation apps

It seems that GPS navigation – such an important, universally identical service – should have equally simple yet efficient mobile applications. Live maps and a comfortable interface, adapted to the mobile OS – what more can a user request? Yet, when ranking the best navigation apps, it seems very

When dangers lay dormant in your wireless peripherals
Editorial When dangers lay dormant in your wireless peripherals

It is an element of progress to have our mouse of keyboard wirelessly communicating with the computer, but have you ever wondered what dangers lie dormant in this efficient technology? A pair of Bastille researchers decided to verify just how vulnerable remote peripherals are to malicious attacks –

LG G5: one smartphone and its brilliant advertising
Editorial LG G5: one smartphone and its brilliant advertising

April 1 2016 marked the launch of the LG G5 smartphone in the US. As usual we will see a lot of reviews, tests, impressions and comparisons for this new smartphone that raised quite an interest from potential customers all around the world, as well as from tech enthusiasts and critics. One of the

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