Recent technological bursts of progress illustrate the exponential possibilities of transforming business in all kinds of unexpected and fascinating ways, writes Fast Future’s Rohit Talwar. We are seeing the physical world colliding with the digital Read more…
LONDON (Reuters) – T-Mobile US named Nokia to supply it with $3.5 billion in next-generation 5G network gear, marking the world’s largest 5G deal so far and solid evidence of a new wireless upgrade cycle Read more…
In a world increasingly driven by data, careful regulation will be key to take advantage of the benefits and mitigate the risks, says Godfrey Mutabazi, executive director of Uganda Communications Commission, in an interview at Read more…
Professional women use mobiles to balance work and life – but mostly just life, according to a new Telenor Group survey. The “Tech Trends: Women” survey – which sampled 1,300 professional women aged 25-40 in Read more…
3 Hong Kong announced agreements with Tech Mahindra, Matrixx Software, Salesforce and Vlocity to enable digital transformation of its telecoms operations, all along with continued product and service innovation and business growth – all in Read more…
Seventeen tons of almonds have successfully been shipped and tracked from Sunraysia in Victoria, Australia, to Hamburg in Germany in a blockchain-based collaboration between Commonwealth Bank and five Australian and international supply chain players. Commonwealth Read more…
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Foreign exchange settlement provider CLS, IBM and nine financial institutions, including Barclays and Citigroup, are testing a platform to access blockchain-based applications, the companies said on Monday. The platform, LedgerConnect, will Read more…
ITEM: Hong Kong’s independent Communications Authority has released its plan to make more spectrum available for 5G use, with a twist: operators can use mmWave 5G spectrum for free. To a point. Last Thursday, the Read more…
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – All critical personal data on people in India should be processed within the country, a government panel said on Friday. The recommendation comes at a time when data breaches are becoming Read more…
It is becoming increasingly clear that there was no real plan for 5G success. It was, it seems, all about technology after all. Certainly based on what we believe CSPs can deliver (see any library Read more…
PayPay – a joint venture established last month by SoftBank and Yahoo Japan – announced that it will team up with Indian digital payment company Paytm to launch QR-code payment services in Japan in the Read more…
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (Reuters) – YouTube is creating scripted series and other original programming for international markets including France, Germany, Japan, Mexico and India to try to draw new customers to its paid subscription service, Read more…
Businesses are very concerned about losing customer trust in the event of an Internet of Things (IoT) related cyber attack, however most remain unprepared to deal with such an attack, according to a new survey Read more…
Huawei has presented a special award to Turkish professor Dr Erdal Arikan, the inventor of polar codes for 5G, in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the development of communications technology. Huawei says the paper Read more…
Welcome to Friday Futures, our weekly guide to the latest visions of The Future from around the web. This week: aerosols deliver nanobots; a lake under Mars; Nuclear 2.0; super volcanos; dumb chatbots and plastic munching Read more…
(Reuters) – Facebook Inc’s shares lost as much as a quarter of their value on Wednesday after executives said that profit margins would plummet for several years due to the costs of improving privacy safeguards Read more…
Open banking will require banks to ‘Amazonize’ themselves, where products are created as API services and distributed throughout the consumption of API services. Here’s how they could go about doing that. In his new book Read more…
HONG KONG (Reuters) – China’s Huawei Technologies said on Thursday it will increase its annual spending on research and development (R&D) to between $15 billion and $20 billion, as it races to be a global Read more…
Only a small number of organizations have been able to successfully scale their digital transformation initiatives beyond the experimentation and piloting stages as many organizations find out the hard way that digital business is not Read more…
ZHONGSHAN, China (Reuters) – Amid Beijing’s push to turn the country into an artificial intelligence (AI) powerhouse and embed the technology in all facets of life, some Chinese entrepreneurs are taking the expertise to a Read more…
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