Simon Davies, Author at TechSling Weblog

Small Business

3 Ways To Improve Your Business Online Flexibility

Around 67% of businesses now offering a flexible working arrangement, allowing their staff to work remotely, set their own working hours, and compress their...

Simon DaviesMay 4, 2019

Small Business

Technology Upgrades and Optimising Space: The Surefire Ways to Cut Office Costs

Starting a business has long been known to be a costly endeavour. Depending on the type of enterprise you’re looking to open, you could...

Simon DaviesSeptember 8, 2018

Featured

How Modern Technology is Creating the Stores of the Future

Last month, British consumer watchdog Which? published their list of the best and worst shops on the high street. Joint top of the pile...

Simon DaviesJune 9, 2018

Business

How to Make your Office Move Stress-Free

There are a number of risks involved in an office move. Here, we’ve highlighted a few of the biggest, and the best ways to...

Simon DaviesMay 9, 2018

Featured

Smart Homes are becoming the Norm. But are they Safe?

Smart homes could be excellent, but is the fact that they’re becoming normal so quickly starting to be dangerous?

Simon DaviesApril 26, 2018

Finance

From Bitcoin to Caribbean Investment: Smart Money Decisions for 2018

With British inflation at its highest point in five years, and the American economy still wildly variable a year after the election of Donald...

Simon DaviesJanuary 24, 2018

Tech

Does the Sharing Economy Herald the End of Patents?

With the tech sector’s history of strict patent law, could sharing intellectual property render patents a thing of the past?

Simon DaviesOctober 27, 2017

Gaming

Tap Your Bets: the Growth of Mobile Gambling

The traditional image of a gambler—middle-aged man, down-on-his-luck, drinking, sitting on a stool at a flashy, tacky casino—no longer reflects reality. Now, most gamblers...

Simon DaviesSeptember 20, 2017

Education

Is VR the Future for Accessible Further Education

When virtual reality (VR) was first used it was almost exclusively for video games. The idea was to transport the player into wild new...

Simon DaviesSeptember 14, 2017

Featured

How Does Earpiece Translation Technology Learn?

The technology behind audio translation is not new — Skype launched its ‘real-time’ translator back in 2014, however it featured a slight delay as...

Simon DaviesSeptember 1, 2017

Careers/Jobs

Should We Be Happy That AI Could Take Our Jobs?

The president of the tech giant SAP, Bill McDermott, is optimistic about AI taking some of our jobs because it may “create a better...

Simon DaviesAugust 20, 2017

Gaming

Why Virtual Reality Games Won’t Encourage Violence

The UK games market is bigger than ever, with around 32.4 million people gaming this year alone. In 2016, the UK games market was...

Simon DaviesAugust 20, 2017

Home Improvement

Are millennials so concerned with cyber security they’re putting themselves at physical risk?

As we endeavour to improve our security online, are the younger generation putting their physical security increasingly at risk?

Simon DaviesAugust 16, 2017

Tech

What Does Mixed Reality Need to do to Catch On?

It may have been called “the most important tech of 2017,” but mixed reality—or, as Google has recently begun terming it, “immersive computing”—is getting...

Simon DaviesJuly 27, 2017

Health

Can We Trust Translation Apps In Medicine?

Doctors have been treating patients that don’t speak their own language for hundreds of years; both as individuals, and on a larger scale as...

Simon DaviesJuly 14, 2017