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Waypoint Predictor: What's going to happen in search, Content, UX, tech, eCommerce & influencer marketing in 2017?

The Labs gets into The Drum - a lifelong ambition - whereby we jibber jabber about some tech things to look out for in 2017. 

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How the home of the future could keep you healthy

We throw our thoughts into this piece in the Telegraph about smart mirrors in the home as well as smart smoke detectors and fridges.

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Top 10 tech trends for 2017

What will be some of the biggest tech trends in 2017?

Technology is a huge factor in the world at the moment but how will it affect businesses? We gave London Loves Business our thoughts on facial recognition and its potential to invade our privacy.

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‘State of the tech’ - how will the big tech trends fare in 2017?

2017 will be an important, but not earth-changing year for these big trends. 

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Connected Healthcare

The Labs gets a wee bit of verbiage in this Telegraph piece by Claire Coleman. Healthcare and technology are a combination that won’t go away anytime soon - but factor in the increasing ability to get online anywhere in a growing ecosystem of sensors and wearables and we’re entering a Goldilocks era of health monitoring and predictive treatments.

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Market view: Smart homes and utilities

Your friendly Head Labs wrote up a whole bunch of words on the impending influence the connected home could have on the utilities market.  Check out  this article in Utility Week for yourself to see what we’re on about.

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Getting Real - PharmaTimes Magazine November 2016

Pharma is starting to use real-world evidence to get a more accurate picture of how drugs fare outside a clinical setting – but it needs to stop being a new concept and start being an integral part of operations.

Head Labs offers a few observations and opinions on data collection out there in the real-world in this article by George Underwood. 

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Democralypse Now? US election first battle in new age of cyberwarfare

Head Labs in the news again. Those legends at The Register whacked some of our words into a post on hacking the US election. All good fun.

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Reality Check

The Labs gets some delightful comments about VR and brands published in Collective Hub magazine. Collective Hub is a global magazine based in 37 countries that focuses on business, design, technology, social change, fashion, travel, food, film and art.

You’ll have to have an account to read the article but I can tell you bigly that it’s worth it. Alternatively, why not pick up a copy at on your finer news agent purveyors?

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A bite of the Apple?

The nice folks at Utility Week let us mangle some words together on speculations on the encroaching relevance of players like Apple and Google on the utilities scene. Subscribers can read the piece online here, or try your luck at a low res image below.

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The weird and wonderful future of AI chatbots

Head Labs gets some words published on IDG Connect about the chatbot bustle and fuss. Not many words but quality words. I guess they left out the sweary bits.

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AI in Cyber Security: Creating the best defence against modern cyber attacks

Your pals at the Labs somehow get their comments injected into this article on CBR.

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How Pokémon Go will actually change the customer experience

We took off our shoes and stepped into Internet Retailing’s vestibule to guest-contribute some thoughts on everyone’s favourite trending topic. Read the words here if you’re so inclined.

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How can location-based marketing reinvent the in-store experience?

Head Labs weighs in with some words in this article on location-based marketing on Mycustomer.com. Beacons are out there somewhere, and when they get used they seem to do well. The problem is the low volume of people engaging with them.

We need to focus on the value exchange between what a retailer gets from customers joining an in-store Wi-Fi network or installing a beacon compatible app vs what the customer gets in return - be it a service, efficiency or a cost saving.

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AI will be the number one transformative technology of the next decade - so get prepared

Here’s a piece wot I wrote for Information Age on the results of our in-house tech knock-out tournament that Maximo ran so brilliantly.

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INDUSTRY VIEWS: MARY MEEKER’S INTERNET TRENDS REPORT AND THE FUTURE OF CHAT APPS

I say some words on the future of AI and Chat Apps in this post on MEF. I’m the dope in the pink shirt btw.

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Opportunities of Offering Free Wi-Fi to Customers

A few weeks back Head Labs investigated the state of WiFi on the high street by running a series of tests at 50 retail shops in and around London. The results of that study were picked up by Forbes and verbalised in an article here. Hooray!

Most of the UK’s top 50 retailers are missing the significant opportunities that can be gained from offering free Wi-Fi to customers – including improving the in-store experience, boosting their bottom line and gathering valuable customer data.