It sort of feels like the 1980/90s to me, or for my parent’s generation the 1950/60s. With all the marketing jabber on artificial intelligence, robots / drones, home / city automation, self-driving or flying cars, virtual reality, ‘modern’ homes, the difference today is its mashed-up up with prepositions such as cyber, digital, smart, and personal. […]
Home by 9PM on Saturday from the family vacation and back on a plane at 9AM Sunday for the flight to Las Vegas. On the napkin on the United flight to CES (Consumer Electronics Show) it said “Taking high tech to new altitudes” which was in stark contrast to the United plane (or product as […]
Between 1995 and 2010, mobile’s share of the global telecom revenue pie increased from 14% to 63%. In 1995 mobile revenues from emerging markets represented 2% of global telecom revenues, by 2010 it was 28%. In 1995, only 15% of the world’s mobile subscribers were in developing markets. By the end of 2010, 79% of […]
MWC 2011 was packed, they need two walking lanes in each direction, else allow the use of cattle prods to move people along who insist on doing the “smartphone prayer” (standing still, head bowed, staring at a screen) in the middle of doorways and walkways; it’s becoming a social problem. There was no one theme […]
In my journeys around APAC (Asia Pacific region) over the past few months, a common theme is the explosion of mobile broadband (MBB), as reported in previous articles in this weblog such as Mobile Broadband Explosion, The Internet’s Gone Video, and Mobile and DSL Broadband Compared. However, the impact of that explosion on the operator […]