The Immigration Department announced that its planned exercise to replace the identity cards of all Hong Kong residents with more advanced smart cards will kick off in late December. At a press confer ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-19
如要增強人工智能（AI）必須收集大量數據，若裝置內設高性能晶片再配合「邊緣運算」（Edge Computing ...全文
今日信報財經新聞StartupBeat 創科鬥室2018年10月19日
Hong Kong has embarked on the journey of turning itself into a Smart City. As it maps out its plans, the city can draw a lot of lessons from successful examples overseas. Recently I had a chance to ta ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-18
Balancing privacy concerns and convenience gets increasingly important as we become more app-centric. Global numbers show that mobile application downloads have surpassed 175 billion, with Asia being ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-16
With the value of Bitcoin having fallen by around 70 percent since its peak late last year, the mother of all bubbles has now gone bust. More generally, cryptocurrencies have entered a not-so-cryptic ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-16
In her policy address last week, Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor showed her administration's commitment to innovation and technology (I&T) development by pledging HK$4 billion for the r ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-15
Vice President Wang Qishan will travel to Israel to attend the fourth China-Israel Innovation Committee conference next week. He is the highest-ranking Chinese to visit the country since then Presiden ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-15
In the digital era of the 21st Century, accelerated development of smart industry will give rise to new industry clusters one after another and change the value chains in different sectors. Smart indu ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-15
Apple Inc. is taking control over the power-management technology at the heart of its iPhones in a US$600 million deal with Dialog Semiconductor, Reuters reports. The agreement to license technology a ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-12
Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor said her administration will allocate HK$28 billion to further promote innovation and technology (I&T) in Hong Kong, the Hong Kong Economic Journal repor ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-11
I attended a competition among university students from Hong Kong, mainland China, India and South Korea over the weekend. Participants were required to design a data dashboard showing life in Hong Ko ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-11
No one disagrees that Hong Kong's most urgent issue is the abysmal state of its housing. Even the opposition admits this although it insists the housing crisis doesn't give the government an excuse to ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-11
No one disagrees that Hong Kong's most urgent issue is ...全文
今日信報時事評論STRAIGHT-SHOOTING褚簡寧 Michael Chugani2018年10月11日
Facebook has launched a smart speaker that facilitates video calls at home, but it seems it has chosen the wrong time to bring such a product to the market. Following the Cambridge Analytica scandal e ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-10
Google on Tuesday unveiled two new Pixel smartphones, a Google Home smart speaker with a display, and its first-ever tablet computer, signaling the firm's growing ambitions to compete with tech rivals ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-10
Chinese internet giant Tencent (00700.HK) has acquired a minority stake in Nu Pagamentos SA, a Brazilian financial technology firm that offers virtual credit cards, in a deal worth US$180 million. The ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-09
Hong Kong has been seeking to transform itself from a traditional economy into a digital city, with the government introducing various initiatives, such as huge investment in digital infrastructure an ...More
EJ Insight2018-10-09
