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Week 4 @ Cognicity
That Was the Week That Was The 4th week at Cognicity KnowNow saw us receive a number of visitors to our Level 24 office. This amongst the many highlights led to a more developed cultural use case for the Docklands Museum. Plus we participated in a great product...
Week 3 @ Cognicity
Cognicity and KnowNow in The News KnowNow was pleased to be in its local rag the 'Portsmouth News' this week which was great coverage for KnowNow and extends awareness of Cognicity down to the South Coast. Our 3rd week at Cognicity started with a highlight - a...
One Year Old: KnowNow’s Lessons for Entrepreneurs
Last week was very special. KnowNow has been trading for one year now. Phew, David & I survived our first year in business. Not only that we are cash positive and we have a growing pipeline of new opportunities. Yippee. Plus, I can see the marketplace...
Portsmouth News Article
Portsmouth News article about KnowNow at Canary Wharf Today, Tuesday February 10th, the Portsmouth News features an article about our involvement in the Cognicity Canary Wharf Project. Portsmouth News coverage We are hoping to take the learning from Canary...
KnowNow @ Cognicity Week 2
Getting into a Cognicity Groove The second week of Cognicity at Canary Wharf has followed two main themes. The first has been a settling into a groove aspect. Especially from the perspective of gaining a better handle on exactly what we are going to show off in 11...
Cognicity – KnowNow’s first week
kn-i@Cognicity I spent most of last week at Level 24, 1 Canada Square, Canary Wharf. I was there because KnowNow has been invited to be one of the 12 start ups in the Cognicity accelerator hosted by the crew at Level 39. Level 24 is a new high growth start up space...
Apprentice Connor Moore joins!
New Apprentice joins KnowNow Information. Today is a very momentous day for us here at the Innovation Space. We welcome our apprentice Connor Moore to the company. Connor has joined as our Assistant Engineer and will be responsible for the build and deployment of our...
Open Data Floodgates. Why the sad face?
So the open data world pats itself on the back by learning that the UK Cabinet Secretary Francis Maude is releasing more open data. This is brilliant news for both the Open Data community and for us as citizens. Even better news from a KnowNow perspective for our...
Bluemix: Poacher turned Gamekeeper
This month has seen a momentous occasion in the early history of KnowNow Information. We have received our first invoice from our former employers at IBM. We use IBM's Bluemix to create our customer's applications. It enables us to quickly deploy our code in...
Project Pods – Birth of the kn-i platform
Project Pods is a very exciting new concept being led by KnowNow information. The project is all about connectivity, relevance, content and local growth. It will also be the birth of the KnowNow Information 'kn-i platform'. In terms of connectivity, we...
Smart Cities. Grown up or stroppy youngster?
KnowNow Information has spent much time on developing Smart Cities and it is high time we had something to say - several interweaving strands that lead to a conclusion The power of your own information in a smart city. How by fusing information together useful...
Sensor Project on Raspberry Pi
From late August and throughout September, KnowNow Information trialled the first five prototype sensor packs, built in conjunction with our partner and using Raspberry Pi. They are designed to deliver precise real-time and historical readings of various data to our...
Whether You Do Or Weather You Don’t
Whether You Do Or Weather You Don't. Or WUDOWUD. Eh? The British Isles has a tempestuous relationship with the weather. Enough different types of weather hit these shores and more extreme weather seems to be the new normal. So what? Well, what if you could take...
Starting Up Part One
Chris and I re-met in the canteen of IBM some 15 years or so after we left school and spent the next ten years or so working ever closer together as we both ended up working in the Public Sector team. Chris was the technical lead for Smart Cities and I was client...
New Pull-up Banner Arrives
We've received our new pull-up banner from the guys at www.a3mdesigns.co.uk and it looks great! It is supposed to show examples of devices that can be connected to the internet and to each other by using our kn-i platform. It also features the first public airing of...