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Fairly recent 2019 legislation has bound the UK to achieving Net Zero Carbon Emissions by 2050 - as applied specifically on this occasion to the nature of domestic housing and buildings.

This makes for increased reliance on green energy sources - and in particular the use of solar panels and evolving carbon capture technologies. Projected costs for adapting the typical building for Carbon Neutral Emissions, range from circa £2,500 to an eye-watering £50,000 per home.

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Affino’s Innovation Briefings have been a regular annual occurrences over the last several years - where we take customers and prospects through the Affino Platform development and service highlights for the past year. Covid alas kind of disrupted the schedule for 2020, and so we we find ourselves doing our annual review at the end of March this year instead - a sort of Spring refresher.

For the last few years we’ve taken over a wing of the One Alfred Place building just ...

Everyone involved in event productions knows just how much organisation is needed for Live Events. Every such event has various phases which require a suite of events solutions and a means to target and inform the audience.

In this instance the essential coordinating resource at the centre of activities is the Affino Unified Business Platform which delivers the Events Hub and Webinar Sessions Framework.

You need charismatic Presenters, Moderators and Hosts - with relatively ...

We feel that it’s important for site owners to be fully prepared for the imminent end of Third Party Cookies - which are due to be phased out before the start of 2022 - or by the end of this year! This means turning over to First Party Data methods - that is to say fully Native Data Gathering and Analysis in place of all those soon to be expiring Third Party Plugins.

GDPR is Having a Massive Impact

We have noted how site owners are already feeling the impact of the more ...

At the start of the Covid period, we determined that we would need something of a lighter touch to contrast that societal darkness. And so we set out to wholly revamp the Affino.com website - to make it clearer, more streamlined, fresher, and more friendly - while rolling out various new technologies and functionalities. We greatly expanded the colour palette and introduced a number of more vibrant tones to meet that purpose.

I and Designer Mark Foster, with help from Lead Front-End ...

2020 was both a tumultuous and momentous year for TTG as they finely honed and shored up their Travel Industry Leadership credentials with a number of major projects and initiatives. They were the first in that industry to rally the sector together via dedicated Coronavirus Hub Page and facilities. They also led the #savetravel initiative which triggered and influenced government debate. Moreover TTG introduced their new Digital Print Archive as part of their newly launched Subscription ...

The UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has warned that multiple media companies are in breach of the law as regards the use and abuse of Personal Data.

We reported in October of last year how Covid had impacted the ICO and limited their enforcement of GDPR - to such a degree that non-compliance and Data exploitations were running rampant in the absence of any sort of punitive measures.

Several issues were identified in Real-Time Bidding systems and Programmatic ...

We witnessed a number of paradigm shifts in 2020 on the road to the ending of 3rd Party Cookie support.

Apple in particular was highly active on the user security front - introducing default 3rd Party Cookie Blocking right across its software portfolio. iOS 14, iPadOS 14 and macOS Big Sur all ushered in a new age of user-centric protections - to help prevent third party exploits which happen all too frequently on the internet.

And while Apple’s Safari and Firefox’s...

2020 was obviously a highly disruptive year - both for the making of cinema, and showcasing the final product. Leading to Disney’s Mulan for instance being launched on the Disney+ platform versus an official cinema release.

It follows that a number of 2020 film premieres got delayed and postponed into 2021 - while I feel this year will largely be equally disruptive and more than a few productions will be needed to be saved by Netflix or Amazon - and will end up getting their ...