Too many people think of Agile as nothing more than Scrum and a bunch of rituals. But perform a rite and lose sight of its purpose, and you’ll end up far from Agile. 

New beginnings are ripe for predictions, and as another year draws to a close, let’s look to see what experts and analysts foresee for the year ahead. Moving beyond the all-pervasive “artificial intelligence” and the “Internet of Things,” here are…

How does Elon Musk find time to sleep? In 2017, while at the helm of both Tesla and Space X, Musk unveiled a prototype for an electric semi-truck that’s set to revolutionize the transportation industry, he presented a rocket that could take…

Recently, Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, gave a talk to the US National Governors Association. The Governors were less impressed by his companies’ technological prowess than by his alarmist message about artificial intelligence. Over the years…

Next month, Tim Cook and his team at Apple will finally be unveiling the latest incarnation of its smartphone, the iPhone 8. As always, the geekosphere has been rife with speculation about specifications and details; but this year, rumours about the…

With 21 million people, Beijing is the world’s third-largest city. With such a large and ever-growing population, how can traffic flow be maintained? Better yet, how can the trips of some 10,000 taxis be optimized in real time to ensure the best…

There is definitely no more support for Windows Phone 8.1, Windows 10 Mobile has an uncertain future, the Lumia reached the end of the line last May… the days of Microsoft Windows phones are apparently numbered.

Cloud technologies are experiencing exponential growth: back in 2013, the market was already valued at a very respectable US$53 billion, and now predictions for 2020 top US$191 billion!

Autonomous transportation is the latest thing, and large tech companies are jumping on the bandwagon, including Tesla, Apple, Alphabet/Google and Intel. In fact, Intel recently made quite the prediction: by 2050, “the passenger economy” (a term…

This year, at its tenth annual developers conference, Google once again set the stage for several significant announcements signalling the future direction of the Silicon Valley behemoth.

Google unveiled a new tool able to recognize and complete a drawing. This command performance is made possible thanks to neural networks and machine learning.

Here’s yet another one of our predictions for 2017 that seems to be coming to fruition: the rise of personal assistants. Since Apple’s Siri in 2011, the technology powering this product/service has come a long way, and the market is now competitive.

Trade is one of humankind’s oldest activities. The Latin word for trade, or commerce, is commercium, from cum + merx, meaning “with merchandise”, expressing the very notion of an exchange of goods between people. Trade is at the heart of human…

As we know, the advertising world is changing drastically, with a massive shift of ad spending toward digital platforms. There are two main players who stand out in the global crowd. It will come as no surprise: those two are Facebook and Google.

Machine Learning, or automatic learning, is a buzzword that rhymes with science-fiction for an entire generation of us who still remember Hal, of 2001: A Space Odyssey, the computer blessed with a superior intelligence and consciousness that were…

Now that we’re all living under the Cloud, the software industry is looking for the next big thing. According to some, microservices are it.

It’s hard not to worry about your data when you hear of all these security breaches, even within mega companies that should have been bullet-proof! It just goes to show that no-one is safe, regardless of size or field of activity.

For the acronym lovers out there, here’s a new one: GAFAM. It refers to the hegemony of the Big 5 of IT and the Web: Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft.