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Chances are, this won’t be the first post you read today about new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). As the May deadline draws ever closer, fears about the repercussions of poor data management grow, and with fines of up to €20 million (or 4% of annual turnover), this comes as no surprise.
Our aim for Threads Message Hub was always to be able to search any kind of digital message from anyone to anyone - not just emails but their attachments, texts (SMS), Skype calls, Tweets and most ambitiously, telephone conversations. Well, we've done it. We are pleased to report that have our first incarnations of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) in beta test.
According to a Radicati report, key statistics show 2.5 billion active email users were exchanging a staggering 244 billion emails a day in 2015. The number of email users projected for 2019 is 2.9 billion.
So much for the death of email at the hands of social media! What is going on?
John Yardley explains why the majority of business communication is hidden and bizarrely, how sharing it results in a massive reduction in information overload and increase in communication efficiency.
You might find this Linkedin article useful in discovering the benefits of Threads in overcoming the general problems of handling spam.
This document explains a little about the message ingestion mechanisms of Threads - or, more simply, how Threads gets hold of messages.
Artificial Intelligence is an important part of Threads. But what exactly is artificial intelligence? Some things that were considered intelligent 20 years ago and now just number crunching. In his article John Yardley discusses this and how a return to some ideas that had gone out of fashion may see some exciting new developments.
