Scandinavian Ad-Block Wars
Norwegians Enable Ad-Blocking, While Swedes Organise a Fightback There appears to be an ad-blocking cold war going on in the Nordics. As Swedish media companies prepare to battle the blocking…
Chinese Giants Still Eyeing the West
Alibaba, Baidu and Tencent Forge ahead with Growth Plans In 2014, CCS Insight predicted that large Chinese Internet players like Alibaba, Baidu and Tencent would turn their eyes to the…
Start-Up Wire Launches Encrypted Video Messaging
Private End-to-End Communication Service Raises More Questions Wire, a secure messaging service, last week extended its coverage with encrypted video communications. Wire offers free messaging, group chats, and audio and…
An MIT Boost for the Web
Polaris Tool Loads Pages 34 Percent Faster Researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and Harvard University have developed a piece of software, dubbed Polaris, which they say…
End of Sluggish Wi-Fi in the Sky
Gogo Debuts New Hardware for Faster In-Flight Wi-Fi Last week, in-flight Internet service provider Gogo announced plans to upgrade access speeds on its service offered on airlines. Gogo is one…
The Live-Streaming Showdown
Meerkat Shifts Away from Its Original Purpose During February 2015, Meerkat launched its live-streaming service to great fanfare. The darling of last year’s South by Southwest Festival (SXSW) introduced a…
Three Argues Bigger Is Better
UK Operator Argues Its Case for Buying O2 This week, CK Hutchison is meeting with the European Commission to put forward its case that its Three network should be permitted…
VR Movie Revolution Goes Dutch
Pioneering Virtual Reality Cinema Opens in Amsterdam What is probably the world’s first virtual reality (VR) movie theatre opened last week in Amsterdam. The VR Cinema is a venue created…
Bike Wars Rev Up in India
Uber and Ola Launch Indian Motorbike Taxi Services Yesterday, both Uber and Ola unveiled motorcycle taxi services in the city of Bangalore, officially called Bengaluru, in India. Uber launched a…
US Carrier Highlights, 4Q15
We Pick Out Notable Elements from Recent Earnings Reports In the excitement of Mobile World Congress, the everyday business of financial reporting can get overlooked. In the US, the last…