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Category: Europe Travel
Recent Publication from yStats.com Provides Projected Updates to Online Payment Methods in Europe
‘Europe Online Payment Methods: Full Year 2016,’ a new report from yStats.com, a secondary market research firm from Hamburg, Germany, includes important information regarding European online and mobile payments. According to this report, debit and credit cards as well as PayPal are the most utilized online payment methods in Europe, but differences in preferences of shoppers in various countries persist.
Recent Publication from yStats.com Provides Projected Updates to Online Payment Methods in Europe
‘Europe Online Payment Methods: Full Year 2016,’ a new report from yStats.com, a secondary market research firm from Hamburg, Germany, includes important information regarding European online and mobile payments. According to this report, debit and credit cards as well as PayPal are the most utilized online payment methods in Europe, but differences in preferences of shoppers in various countries persist.
Lonza Names New Leader in Research and Technology
Jordan Petkov, Ph.D., has joined Lonza Consumer Care as global head of research and technology for its personal care and hygiene businesses. Based in Blackley , Dr. Petkov provides technical support for Lonza’s portfolio of hygiene, preservation, hair and skin care products.
Fraport and Heinemann launch home delivery for pre-ordered duty free
Travellers flying from Frankfurt Airport can now order duty free/travel retail items online and have them delivered directly to an address within Germany. Frankfurt Airport Retail, the joint venture established by Fraport and Gebr.
‘Black Passports’: Leak exposes spies’ secret how-to guide
WikiLeaks has released over 8,000 CIA documents that expose the intelligence agency of developing new technology to hack and extract information from your tech devices. TRAVEL secrets of undercover CIA hackers have been uncovered in the latest WikiLeaks data dump including claims the US Consulate in Frankfurt is a covert base for hackers.
ALSO further expands its service business with existing customers
ALSO and Media Markt are expanding their cooperation in Switzerland. Beyond support for the online store, ALSO will take over Media Markt’s main warehouse in the middle of 2017 to service its retail stores across the country.
Dell Intros Industrial IoT Gateways
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Visitors can fully immerse in Scotland through their mobile devices
Edinburgh, Feb 28 People across the world can now instantly walk through the prehistoric village of Skara Brae in Orkney, soar over Edinburgh Castle like a bird, journey into the depths of The Hollow Mountain of Ben Cruachan and experience the Northern Lights – all from the comfort of their own home, with the release of a new virtual reality app from VisitScotland. ScotlandVR is a virtual travel experience, and the tourist boards first step with interactive virtual map technology, that allows people wherever they are in the world, to be fully immersed in this soulful destination.
You could virtually be in Dark Sky Park with new app
The launch of a new virtual reality app from VisitScotland means that people across the globe can now experience the dark skies at Galloway Forest Park. The launch of a new virtual reality app from VisitScotland means that people across the globe can now experience the dark skies at Galloway Forest Park.
CORRECTING and REPLACING ThreatMetrix Selects Verne Global to Expand Data Center Footprint
Verne Global to provide disaster recovery and operational scale for world’s largest Digital Identity Network A using 100% sustainable energy Verne Global to provide disaster recovery and operational scale for world’s largest Digital Identity Network A using 100% sustainable energy Verne Global , a global developer at the forefront of data center infrastructure design, today announced that ThreatMetrix A , The Digital Identity CompanyA , will broaden its service delivery network utilizing Verne Global. Verne will provide ThreatMetrix with vital growth capabilities required to manage its rapidly growing global customer base.
The coolest stuff coming from Mobile World Congress
The coolest stuff coming from Mobile World Congress We’re in Barcelona with 100,000 mobile industry pros. Here’s the plan.
Tim Cook Meets Fashion Designer and VizEat Co-Founders on France Tour This Week
Apple CEO Tim Cook is touring France this week and has shared some of his experiences along the trip on Twitter . After making an unexpected visit at the new Apple Store in the port city of Marseille on Sunday, Cook met with Shot on iPhone photographer Jean Claude Luong.
Serralves Museum presents “Philippe Parreno: A Time Coloured Space”
Philippe Parreno, Quasi Objects: Marquee . Disklavier. Piano. My Room is a Fish Bowl, 2014.
With this photo-based VR, you are (almost) there
Jim Schoonmaker had rented the place with his family last June, and by taking a few 360-degree digital photos inside, then linking them together, he had created a tour that included the roof deck, the bathroom, and the expansive living room with three big windows overlooking the Grand Canal not far from Piazza San Marco. It was a sunny day in the Italian city, and I wanted to walk out the front door and head for the closest gelateria.
Insider guide to San Francisco’s Exploratorium
The Exploratorium on Pier 15 in San Francisco is a wonderland of experiment and investigation – and quite a bit of play – exploring science, art and human perception. Attempting to offer a guide to the Exploratorium is like herding kinetic molecules in a swirling vortex of mechanics, magnetics, chaotic pendulums and gravity wells, which is probably one of the museum’s exhibits.
Jane Bradley: Handwriting has all but disappeared
On this day 141 years ago, an article published in the Portobello Advertiser revealed the writer’s consternation at a new-fangled invention which had recently made its way into the consciousness of citizens of the United Kingdom. “If the use of the machine becomes general, handwriting will be as completely superseded as handsewing and the value of our present elementary teaching will be much modified,” the columnist warned.
8 ways the US job market has evolved over Obama’s 8 years
In this June 6, 2015, file photo, a customer, bottom, pays for goods while shopping at the Atlanta Farmers Market in Atlanta. President Barack Obama came in amid horrendous recession, since then has had 75 months straight months of job growth.
Here come ‘smart stores’ with robots, interactive shelves
This Thursday, Dec. 22, 2016, file photo, shows Pepper the robot at Westfield Mall in San Francisco. The SoftBank Robotics humanoid robot can greet shoppers and has the potential to send messages geared to people’s age and gender through facial recognition.
Humanoid robot Pepper is amusing, but is it practical?
Laila, left, and her sister Nour, last names not given, play with Pepper the robot at Westfield Mall in San Francisco. SAN FRANCISCO – While merrily chirping, dancing and posing for selfies, a robot named Pepper looks like another expensive toy at a San Francisco mall.
Humanoid robot Pepper is amusing, but is it practical?
While merrily chirping, dancing and posing for selfies, a robot named Pepper looks like another expensive toy at a San Francisco mall. But don’t dismiss it as mere child’s play.