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The $2,000 Smartphone
How Far Off Is This Hefty New Price Tag? Early in 2017, we argued that the $1,000 smartphone could become the new normal.
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All Eyes on Berlin for IFA 2018
Europe's Biggest Consumer Electronics Show Starts Tomorrow The annual pilgrimage that officially marks the end of summer for the tech industry has begun.
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Southern Exposure
Another Setback for Huawei and ZTE as They Face Australia 5G Ban Last week, the Australian government banned the use of 5G telecom equipment supplied by "vendors who are likely to be subject to...
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Two and One
Smartphone Makers Add a Sibling or Two to Flagship Line-Ups The nomenclature has become a bit vague. The term flagship has become a descriptive metaphor for a company's lead product, but sometimes it...
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Drones Cleared for Take-Off in India
"Made in India" Initiative Now Includes Drones Last week, in a complete reversal of the Indian government's ban on flying of drones in the country, its civil aviation ministry announced rules for...
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Enemy of the State
California Battles Telecom Regulator over Net Neutrality Last week, the California State Assembly cleared a bill that aims to reverse the repeal of Net neutrality rules by the Federal Communications...
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Will Two and Three Make Five?
China's Second- and Third-Largest Operators Could Merge for 5G The ongoing competition for global supremacy in 5G networks, particularly between the US and China, could be pushing one of the largest...
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Is Facebook's Workplace on the Brink of Something Big?
Tech Giant Off to an Impressive Start in Enterprise Space Last week, the CCS Insight team met with senior product executives from Workplace by Facebook. The session kicked off the official analyst...
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Bottoms up
Samsung's New Smartphone Strategy Is to Work Up from the Middle Last week, in an interview with CNBC, the head of Samsung's mobile division, DJ Koh, said the company would now put more emphasis on...
View ArticleQualcomm Aims to Revitalise Wear OS
Launches Its Snapdragon Wear 3100 Smartwatch Chipset At an event in San Francisco on Monday, Qualcomm unveiled its Snapdragon Wear 3100 platform for smartwatches.
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BMW's New Co-Driver
Manufacturer Previews Its Voice Assistant for Cars The driver's seat is one of the most practical environments to install a truly functional artificial assistant, given the amount of time people spend...
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Redesigning Computing
How Cloud-Based Operating Systems and Devices Can Ease IT Challenges From maximizing workplace productivity, to complying with new legislation, to better protecting against security threats, there are...
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Goodbye to the Classic URL
Google Forces a Rethink on Web Address System It's been a decade since Google launched its Chrome Web browser. And it's been a decade of massive success: Chrome is the most used browser in the world,...
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Autonomous Checkout
Standard Cognition Takes on Amazon Go The cashier-less society is coming. A growing number of companies are developing methods of grab-and-go shopping, enabling customers to simply take the items they...
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Cable or Wireless
Does Fixed Wireless Access Threaten Traditional Telecom Services? Last week, in a major development for adoption of 5G, Verizon claimed the world's first commercial 5G deployment by introducing a home...
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E-SIM: Friend or Foe?
Is Remote Provisioning a Threat to Churn? Apple's unveiling last week of its latest iPhone models wasn't just business as usual.
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Trusting Watson
Will IBM's Artificial Intelligence Moves Repair Bad PR? Named after IBM's first CEO, industrialist Thomas J Watson, IBM's artificial intelligence (AI) platform arrived with much fanfare in 2011 when it...
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Redefining the Network Edge with 5G
The Role of 5G in the Age of Distributed Computing 5G promises a lot: new spectrum, more bandwidth, lower latency, new uses, lower cost per bit, greater efficiency, the list goes on.
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Google Nets Big Android Win in Cars
Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Alliance to Embed Android Last week we wrote about BMW's voice-enabled assistant developed in-house and called the BMW Intelligent Personal Assistant
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Walmart to Deploy Oculus Headsets in US Stores
Will Workplace Training Be Virtual Reality's Saviour? Virtual reality (VR) has been used for training purposes for decades as a cost-effective way to introduce students to simulated versions of...
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