Posts made in September, 2015

on Sep 24, 2015

By John McCarthy Award-winning architect Dame Zaha Hadid cut short an interview with Radio 4 after being questioned on mortalities during the construction of the Qatar World Cup stadium she designed. A Radio 4 interview discussing Zaha receiving a 2016 Riba Royal Gold Medal was drawn to an abrupt close after Today programme presenter Sarah Montague enquired about worker conditions in Qatar, quoting an ITUC figure that an estimated 1,200 workers have died constructing the World Cup infrastructure. Hadid, the designer of the Al-Wakrah stadium for the 2022 World Cup abruptly, said: “There haven’t been any problems; I have to put you right, there.” Montague enquired: Read full story › Source: The Drum...

on Sep 24, 2015

By Tony Connelly Microsoft has announced a new partnership with Chinese internet service company, Baidu in a deal which will see the platform serve as Windows’ default search engine in China. Baidu is China’s most used search engine with over 600 million active users and will now become the default homepage and search for the Microsoft Edge browser in Windows 10 in the region. Windows said the deal would “make it easy for Baidu customers to upgrade to Windows 10 and we will deliver a custom experience for customers in China, providing local browsing and search experiences2. Following the agreement Microsoft will expect to see an Read full story › Source: The Drum...

on Sep 24, 2015

By Naomi Taylor UK-based Intermarketing Agency has opened three new offices in London, Amsterdam and Sydney in the last three months. 2015 has been a year of accelerated expansion with the acquisition of Teabag Digital in January, a significant increase in work outside of the UK and now physical expansion into new territories. The company has opened new offices in London and Amsterdam, which will support existing client growth in the UK and across Europe and open up new opportunities. Furthermore, the business is recruiting new talent in these locations to open up an even wider creative pool to support its clients, regardless of where Read full story › Source: The Drum...

on Sep 24, 2015

By Rebecca Stewart David Atkinson, head of design for commercial products at The Foundry, explains the importance of variation in the quest for mass personalisation. In the past few years you couldn’t turn your head with hearing about big data. Experts said it would reshape the world of, well, everything. And they were right. Sort of. As we enter the waning months of 2015, as an industry, design must think about ‘big data plus’. In its Technology Vision 2015 Report, Accenture says: “Business intelligence. Data analytics. Big data. Companies are no longer suffering from a lack of data – they’re suffering from a lack Read full story › Source: The Drum...

on Sep 24, 2015

By John McCarthy Samsung Electronics has said its mobile payment service has processed over $30m worth of transactions since its launch in home market South Korea. Since launching the mobile payment scheme one month ago, it has processed a more than 1.5 million total transactions via the NFC-based tech. The company claimed that approximately 60 percent of transactions took place on the Galaxy Note5 device. Furthermore, the company claimed in a statement that 10 per cent of mobile owners made use of the app daily. Injong Rhee, executive vice president of Samsung Electronics and global head of Samsung Pay, said: “Although the details on Samsung Pay Read full story › Source: The Drum...