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By Sandra Quinn Will you do me a favour? Just a small one and I promise it won’t take up much of your time, but it will be worthwhile. Put down whatever you are doing, settle into a comfortable seat and just immerse yourself in this blog for the next four minutes. You have had […]Continue Reading

By Sandra Quinn “Get away from that computer screen, it will kill your brain cells,” “If you keep looking at that screen, you will get google-eyed or go blind,” “That game console will rot your brain,” – if you heard some of these phrases as you tried to get to the next level of your […]Continue Reading

By Sandra Quinn One of the main words bandied about when it comes to the innovation that is the blockchain, is ‘security’. Even the smallest bit of research into the vast world which the blockchain encompasses, will tell you that the blockchain is a ledger of truth – an open and distributed ledger, recording transactions, […]Continue Reading

By Sandra Quinn Since the blockchain started making its way into everyday conversation with tech innovators and R&D departments, people have been brainstorming about ways to bring the technology into the daily lives of ordinary people. Horizon Globex have achieved that objective with their blockchain-powered telecommunications app Talketh. Have you ever thought about how difficult […]Continue Reading

By Sandra Quinn Harking back to the origins of medicine, things were very primitive, basic and simple with the use of herbs and natural remedies and nothing was kept track of. If you compare this now to a modern hospital filled with machines, high tech equipment and all of the sensitive patient information being held […]Continue Reading

By Sandra Quinn At this year’s European Conference on Information Systems in Portsmouth in the UK, Horizon Globex contributed to the Blockchain Workshop with three papers. We have previously written about the first and second papers we presented, but if you missed them, you can catch up here for the first paper and here to read the […]Continue Reading

By Sandra Quinn For the past two years, the blockchain has come into its own and has been taking over the world of technology, while its uses in the real world have been filtering into the news. For many people, the blockchain is still somewhat of an abstract concept, but with companies like Horizon Globex […]Continue Reading

By Sandra Quinn The European Conference on Information Systems recently took place in Portsmouth in the UK and Horizon Globex presented three papers during the Blockchain Workshops. Details on the first of the papers can be read here in one of our previous Wednesday tech blogs. The second one, written by Farshad Ghassemi Toosi, Jim Buckley, Ashish […]Continue Reading

By Sandra Quinn The world’s first blockchain phone has been unveiled and it will cost you the princely sum of close to $1,000. Developed by Sirin Labs in Israel and called the Finney phone in honour of bitcoin pioneer Hal Finney, the idea behind the phone is to make cryptocurrency available to all at an […]Continue Reading

By Sandra Quinn At the recent 2018 European Conference on Information Systems in Portsmouth in the UK, Horizon Globex had three papers published as part of the Blockchain Horizons workshop. Written by Ashish Rajendra Sai, Jim Buckley and Andrew Le Gear, the first contribution was “Optimal block time for proof of work blockchains”. This paper […]Continue Reading