There are also risks in the use of technology licensing. For example, once firms regularly license new technologies, they may become overly reliant on knowledge generated externally, which can weaken their ability to innovate internally. So it should be used more parsimoniously by firms trying to build internal R&D capacity in strategic technological fields.
Is Technology Taking Over House Buying
Home buying apps combine real estate knowledge, massive databases, and technology in a convenient format that is straightforward and simple to use. Each home buying app has different features and tools that cater to diversified users.
The endless ranks of estate agents' signs peppering towns and cities across the country could be a thing of the past thanks to scientists at Plymouth University. googletag.cmd.push(function() googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1449240174198-2'); ); Academics from the School of Computing and Mathematics have developed a tiny NFC (near field communication) tag which can be placed discreetly at the entrance of a property to signal it is on the market.Prospective buyers simply touch the tag with their smartphones or tablets, and are then given immediate access to the full particulars of the property.Professor Martin Tomlinson, Chair in Communications at the University, said: "This app solves the age old problem of how do you put your house on the market without broadcasting the fact to all of your neighbours. Now, prospective buyers register with the estate agent and are given the free App, which enables them to visit the property and immediately see all the particulars including the price. It is easy to use, with the added bonus of reducing the clutter in our towns and countryside."Linking encrypted NFC tag technology and smartphones is brand new with applications ranging from secure information systems, shopping, ticketing systems and access to technology in general.The NFC Homes app can easily be installed on a smartphone or Android tablet, and running the app enables any standard NFC tag to be easily written with the encrypted data.A simple touch of the tag results in the app being automatically launched, reading the data on the tag and displaying the information on the screen, seemingly instantaneously.The data stored on the NFC tag is encrypted, which means only those buyers registered with an estate agent can access its information.Professor Tomlinson, who developed the technology alongside Professor Mohammed Zaki Ahmed and Dr Marcel Ambroze, said: "The housing market is the perfect application for this type of technology. People can face a huge number of headaches when buying a house, but this makes at least part of the process much easier. NFC tags also cost less than 50p each and provide much more information than conventional boards. Being able to read a tag with an everyday smartphone just by touching it means the advantages of computer technology will be available to everyone." Provided byUniversity of Plymouth
The role of insurance agents has changed dramatically by 2030. The number of agents is reduced substantially as active agents retire and remaining agents rely heavily on technology to increase productivity. The role of agents transitions to process facilitators and product educators. The agent of the future can sell nearly all types of coverage and adds value by helping clients manage their portfolios of coverage across experiences, health, life, mobility, personal property, and residential. Agents use smart personal assistants to optimize their tasks as well as AI-enabled bots to find potential deals for clients. These tools help agents to support a substantially larger client base while making customer interactions (a mix of in-person, virtual, and digital) shorter and more meaningful, given that each interaction will be tailored to the exact current and future needs of each individual client.
Automated customer service apps handle most policyholder interactions through voice and text, directly following self-learning scripts that interface with the claims, fraud, medical service, policy, and repair systems. The turnaround time for resolution of many claims is measured in minutes rather than days or weeks. Human claims management focuses on a few areas: complex and unusual claims, contested claims where human interaction and negotiation are empowered by analytics and data-driven insights, claims linked to systemic issues and risks created by new technology (for example, hackers infiltrate critical IoT systems), and random manual reviews of claims to ensure sufficient oversight of algorithmic decision making.
A smart home operating system (OS) connects virtually all of the technology in your home. With Control4 Smart Home OS 3, you and your family can control nearly every device and system in the house in ways that are easy and fun to use.
Given how easy it was to market 4K as "better looking than 1080p," TV makers are claiming the same thing with 8K. But resolution is just one aspect of overall picture quality, and not one of the most important ones. Improving other aspects, such as contrast ratios, overall brightness for HDR, more lifelike colors and so on, offer better image improvements but they are significantly harder to implement. This is especially true for LCD, which is a technology Samsung is still strongly flogging -- e.g. all of its QLED TVs are simply LCD TVs with quantum dots. 2ff7e9595c
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