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Industry experts weigh in on all things cloud. CBR headed to this year's Cloud Expo at the Excel centre in London to ask those in the know their opinion regarding key topics in the world of cloud. "Disruption of most enterprises is no respecter of legacy and people that have been in the business for thirty years, a hundred years.

Internet of Things, broadband, renewable energy - the government is embracing technology and realising its economic potential. Between the jokes tailored to evoke the maximum jeering from backbenchers, Chancellor George Osborne delivered the 2015 Budget.

As a largely unexplored renewable source, marine and hydrokinetic energy - or ocean power - is gaining traction as the next best thing in the power industry.

Innovations in beacon technology are making the UK retail sector more intelligent. Beacons are low-energy Bluetooth devices that push location messages to smartphones. While the technology is still quite new today, it's set to become one of the key enablers to connect the Internet of Things (IoT).

If you need to sell things cheaply, the Internet has tools to help.

A recent lesson with my Year Six class reminded me of the fear teachers face when confronted by the unknown. I thought the lesson would go quite smoothly, I have taught it before but this time things went in an unexpected and frightening direction.

Did you fall for CBR's April Fool's story today? A few hours ago, we published a piece on smart kitchen appliances rejecting junk food. Toasters refusing to toast anything other than wholegrain bread, freezers shutting down when ice cream is detected. A truly Smart horror. April Fools!

List: The huge disruption that will hit every vertical.

List: AI, converged industries and exponential thinking all needed to grab the $14.4 trillion IoT opportunity.

News: Company planning to launch the new tech next year.

List: Motion gestures, voice commands and Bluetooth calls. The wearables market has had a more rocky start than companies were hoping for. Alongside the usual issues involved with launching a new product category, such as ironing out the user experience and finding effective branding, one of the big hurdles is inventing a series of use-cases that makes people need a smartwatch.

News: Google again reinforces its position in the IoT space. Google is promising a busy year in the IoT space, with the Californian tech giant set to bring driverless cars to the streets of London, launching a new virtual reality (VR) headset and pitting its artificial intelligence (AI) software against a world champion in a head to head Go match.

News: Wearable could mark the entrance of HTC in the IoT race for connected devices.

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