A Third Mobile Ecosystem
If only it were that simple for Huawei Given its recent trajectory, Huawei was on a path to surpassing Samsung and becoming the number-one global maker of smartphones. It’s been…
London Underground Uses Crowd-Sourcing for Crowd Control
Transport for London harnesses Wi-Fi to measure movement Given the near-100% penetration rate of smartphones in the UK, as in so many other markets, there is great potential value at…
US Postal Service Tests Autonomous Delivery
Autonomous trucking company TuSimple will supply fleet The US Postal Service (USPS) has begun testing its first long-haul, self-driving delivery truck in a two-week pilot that will use autonomous trucks…
Wing Takeoff
Drone delivery gets stamp of approval This week, the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced that Alphabet’s Wing Aviation has received certification to operate as an airline, in a first…
Microsoft and BMW Want to Standardize Smart Factories
New initiative aims to accelerate industrial IoT solutions Car-makers have been spending significant sums to produce what have become some of the most technology-packed products on the market. But the…
Verizon Claims 5G Gold Medal
As Chicago gets 5G services, so does Seoul In the always confusing and sometimes debatable world of 5G firsts, here are more announcements to add to the list, as Verizon…
Salesforce Embeds Quip in CRM Applications
Integration brings native collaboration and productivity tools Salesforce recently announced the availability of Quip for Salesforce as part of its Spring ’19 release. This sees the Quip Business Productivity Platform,…
The Year of Reckoning for On-Demand Companies
A reality check nears as Uber, Postmates and others go public Over the past decade, innovations in mobile app-based technology have powered the on-demand economy and revolutionized consumer behaviour. In…
A Good Year before a Difficult Year
Huawei report shows smartphone strength, but the network business is challenged On 29 March, Huawei published its annual report for 2018. Huawei is a private company and isn’t obliged to…
Data: India’s Answer to Oil
Mobile data prices don’t get much lower than this If you’re a mobile operator, you should hope that a competitor like Reliance Jio isn’t headed to your market. India has…