Local Use of AI Is an Opportunity for Chipmakers
The introduction of OpenAI’s DALL-E text-to-image generation technology in July 2022 sparked an ersatz type of creativity — anyone, regardless of artistic training or ability, could create an image by…
Another Tough Year for Bruised Mobile Phone Market
The global mobile phone market is forecast to endure another tough year in 2023. Shipments are set to be at their lowest annual level for well over a decade at…
Huawei Chooses Not to Choose at Green Summit
Sustainability and the environment were important themes at MWC 2023. On the eve of the show, we attended Huawei’s Green ICT Development Summit in Barcelona, at which senior executives from…
Can a Smartwatch Replace a Phone? Part Two
On 1 January, the start of the new year, I set myself a challenge to replace my phone with a smartwatch, limiting use of my phone to one hour each…
Basic Smartwatches Rescue Wearables Market in 2023
Smartwatches with advanced capabilities experienced a difficult market in 2022, and sales will grow very slowly in 2023. But in India basic smartwatches have taken off and will help the…
Podcast: Java’s Future in the Cloud
Since the 1990s, Java has become one of the most popular programming languages and an established technology for enterprise development. However, despite this history and the role it played in…
Trading Toys for Tech
Around the world, the age at which children are getting their first phone has been consistently falling. Whether it’s their parents’ old phone or the latest model, it’s becoming increasingly…
Quest for Improvement
Meta’s latest results saw revenue from Reality Labs — the division that hosts its virtual reality (VR) and metaverse efforts — shrink over the year, attributed to poor sales of…
MWC 2023, Tuesday 28 February
Welcome back to CCS Insight’s third day of coverage for MWC 2023. Today we examine the impact of war on mobile network operations, discuss the continuing “fair share” dispute between…
MWC 2023, Monday 27 February
Today, MWC officially opened its doors and we saw manufacturers such as Xiaomi and Lenovo launch new devices, operators commit to Open RAN, partnerships emerge for extended reality, and sustainability…