The holiday season is upon us, and as much as we love disruption here at Disruptive.Asia, who are we to disrupt your Christmas time? Which is why we’ll be shutting down for the holidays as Read more…
ITEM: Thanks to the IoT, we have now reached a point where parents shopping for Christmas gifts for their kids have to think about whether the toys are connectable, and how good their internet security Read more…
It’s that time of year again. No matter how much I complain that silly lists of what will be big in the New Year are trivial and superficial and not really representative of a more Read more…
Christmas has come early for Thailand’s police officers: True has announced free broadband, Wi-Fi, phones and calls for police as well as discounts in affiliated convenience stores. True CEO Supachai Chearavanont and Royal Thai Police Read more…
It looks like Qihoo is having another go at the smartphone market with the purchase of Blephone earlier this month, but behind this I see the next stage of competition between the Chinese ecosystems. Baidu, Read more…
LONDON (Reuters) – The total value of all bitcoins in circulation hit a record high above $14 billion on Thursday, as the web-based digital currency jumped 5% on the day to its highest levels in Read more…
LG Electronics says it is going to deliver “an unparalleled level of performance and convenience into the home” with home appliances such as refrigerators, air conditioners, washing machines and robot cleaners armed with deep learning Read more…
SAN FRANCISCO/TOKYO (Reuters) – Honda Motor Co said it is in talks to supply vehicles for Alphabet Inc’s Waymo to test self-driving technology, in the latest instance of a carmaker teaming up with a tech Read more…
HELSINKI/BELGRADE (Reuters) – Nokia has filed patents suits against Apple in the US, Asia and Europe, causing its shares to drop nearly 5% on Thursday in Helsinki as analysts warned a legal battle with Apple could delay Read more…
Network operators and their suppliers are going to be seeing a lot of eSIMs, a little bit of 5G, a shift in focus to digital experience, actual money from NB-IoT services, and a reassessment of Read more…
From artificial intelligence to the Internet of Things (IoT), far-reaching innovations are unfolding in virtually every technology sector around the globe, continuing to change the way consumers, businesses and machines interact while also spurring the Read more…
Bharti Airtel has announced the launch of its V-Fiber service in Mumbai to offer superfast fixed broadband to its customers. V-Fiber – which is not actually a fiber access service but uses vectoring fixed broadband Read more…
TOKYO (Reuters) – Super Mario Run, Nintendo’s first Mario smartphone title, has set a download record but gamers balked at the one-time cost of unlocking content, prompting investors to push the Japanese game makers’ stock Read more…
Smartwatches as a whole are not dead, but the current trend of launching a “one size fits all” smartwatch just may be. At the end of 2014, the market was eagerly anticipating the launch of Read more…
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Leading ride-hailing firms have praised an Indian policy blueprint on regulating the taxi industry, saying it would offer their app-based services a chance to flourish despite their concerns about price caps. Read more…
Recent predictions by Juniper Research included one that said 2017 will be the year that autonomous car legislation commences. It seems that here at the end of 2016, this is already underway. Apple recently wrote a Read more…
BEIJING (Reuters) – China will revisit in 2018 the standards for vehicle-to-vehicle communication that are vital for driverless cars and lay out a common national standard after that, the chief of the Society of Automotive Read more…
The third quarter of 2016 was another blockbuster quarter for global technology M&A value, thanks in large part to companies being disrupted by innovative digital technologies, particularly in Asia-Pacific and Japan (APJ), which set a Read more…
Globe Telecom says it has hit its target of deploying 500 LTE sites using the 700-MHz band, and is generally on schedule with its base station rollout plan, but it would be further ahead of Read more…
Customer service in Australia’s telecoms sector has been improving in certain aspects since the revised Telecommunications Consumer Protection Code (a.k.a. the TCP Code) took effect in 2012, but the sector still has a ways to go, Read more…
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