The Wi-Fi Sharing Economy
Orion WiFi allows public venues to sell Wi-Fi capacity to operators This week, Area 120, Google’s in-house incubator, announced a platform called Orion WiFi. Orion WiFi enables owners of Wi-Fi…
Ultra-Wideband Gets a Breakthrough
Samsung’s Galaxy Note20 Ultra is the first Android smartphone with the technology In August 2020, Samsung unveiled its Galaxy Note20 Ultra, an impressive 5G-ready Android smartphone cleverly stuffed with many…
BeiDou Global Satellite System Lights Up
China’s answer to GPS, Galileo and GLONASS enters operation At the end of July, China announced the completion and commissioning of the third stage of its BeiDou Navigation Satellite System….
Cut the Card
Samsung’s Galaxy S20 range will store German national ID Smartphones have become an indispensable part of our lives, having replaced so many other objects and devices, from keys to cameras….
Jio and Google Pair Up for Smartphone Push
Big investment shows India is a growing part of Google’s strategy On 15 July, Google announced the launch of its Google for India Digitization Fund, and said that it will…
Playing for Keeps
US carriers gear up for a potential subscriber shift In the US, the market for mobile connectivity is made up primarily of post-paid services, with high average revenue per user…
US Tightens Restrictions on Chinese Telecom Giants
FCC’s product ban further escalates a technological Cold War Just a few years back, Chinese telecom giants Huawei and ZTE were ambitiously working to break into the US telecom market,…
India Bans TikTok… Again
Other Chinese apps including WeChat also blocked This is a development that could indicate larger geopolitical developments to come. On Monday, the Indian government banned as many as 59 Chinese…
JioMart Launches on WhatsApp
Facebook invests $5.7 billion in Jio Platforms A couple of weeks ago, Reliance Industries and Facebook inked an agreement that will connect small businesses in the JioMart e-commerce platform with…
Verizon Dons BlueJeans
Carrier buys video conferencing company Last week, US wireless carrier Verizon Business announced that it agreed to acquire BlueJeans, a video conferencing company aimed at the enterprise market. The financial…