All articles by Joao Lima

Joao Lima

Android Auto and Apple CarPlay to drive smart car apps mainstream

News: As 20 million fully autonomous or self-driving vehicles take to the road over the next decade, software giants tap into apps chase.

How Ireland is pushing itself as a data centre hub with energy, education and policy

Analysis: Ireland’s journey to stable economy continues with data centres at its centre.

Facebook to open €200 million data centre in Ireland

News: Site to use IT infrastructure designed and built as part of the Open Compute Project.

IoTUK Boost Finalists: Who are the SMEs making UK healthcare smart and connected?

List: The race to get £1.9bn into the UK’s connected health market gets underway.

Families warned to ‘be afraid’ as security flaws lurk in IoT smart home devices

News: Google, Samsung, PixStar, Ubi and Sharx all found to have issues when sending and receiving data from the network or an outside server.

How Google’s 70 global PoP could ignite an edge data centre boom

Analysis: As the cloud war intensifies, central data centres could be assisted by local hubs to improve and speed up content delivery.

Which technology will win the standards battle to connect billions of Internet of Things devices?

C-level briefing: As trials begin this year, the battle for a market worth billions has begun.

EU MEPs vote to stop geo-blocking in boost for e-commerce and digital innovation

News: The EU Parliament does not want to miss the next waves of innovation – IoT, M2M, Big Data, Cloud and 3D-printing.

Allianz, Zurich and AXA unite to regulate UK driverless car insurance

News: Admiral, Ageas, Aviva and Covea also enter ABI’s 11-strong members group to look into issues related to liability and how to insure smart cars.

Panasonic bets on EV, backs Tesla Gigafactory to take electric cars mainstream

News: With the Japanese tech giant on board, automaker plans to produce 500k EVs by 2020 and is looking to build more factories.