Welcome to Friday Futures, our weekly guide to the latest visions of The Future from around the web. This week: a history of the future; Moonbase 2040; quantum computers in five years; social credit scoring may Read more…
The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) has released the findings of its new Competitor Intelligence service. While many global companies have had developing-market strategies in place for several years, there has been a steady increase in Read more…
SYDNEY (Reuters) – The US is working on a counter-offer to stop Chinese telecom giant Huawei Technologies from building internet infrastructure in Papua New Guinea, its top diplomat to Australia said on Friday. The bid Read more…
The founders of Instagram are following the founder of WhatsApp in exiting Facebook which, in my opinion, is some of the best news Facebook has had in this torrid year. Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger Read more…
AT&T announced it has created a suite of blockchain solutions for its enterprise customers designed to work with technology from IBM and Microsoft. The telco says enterprises can use the solutions as they automate and Read more…
Good news! Qatar’s Ooredoo has found an application for its recently launched 5G network: staging PR stunts with autonomous flying taxis to showcase what 5G can probably do one day. Ooredoo has “commercially” launched 5G Read more…
Ericsson and Telstra say they have deployed and tested NB-IoT data connections up to 100 km from a base station on Telstra’s commercial network — the longest-range NB-IoT connection of its kind – which will Read more…
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Apple and Salesforce are entering a partnership in which Apple will help build features such as its Siri voice assistant deeper into Salesforce‘s own mobile apps, which are widely used in the sales and marketing Read more…
The Economist Intelligence Unit (The EIU) has released the findings of its new Competitor Intelligence service. While many global companies have had developing-market strategies in place for several years, there has been a steady increase Read more…
ITEM: Former Google chief Eric Schmidt believes that within the next ten years, the internet as we know it will be bifurcated into two sections: one run by China, and the other by the US. Read more…
(Reuters) – A group of cloud computing companies is taking aim at Amazon Web Services by offering free or deeply discounted rates on moving data between their cloud services. The Bandwidth Alliance, as the group Read more…
Where does the time go, you (well, we) ask more and more often as the years click by. And stuff begins to happen earlier every year. Already Christmas cards (variations are available) are in the Read more…
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Facebook, Google and other tech firms have agreed to a code of conduct to do more to tackle the spread of fake news, due to concerns it can influence elections, the European Read more…
Vodafone, China Mobile and Huawei have collaborated to demonstrate advanced ONAP orchestration capabilities for cross-operator multilayer VPN services. Cross-domain, cross-layer VPN (CCVPN) is one of the use cases of the upcoming ONAP Casablanca release in Read more…
NTT DoCoMo announced that it has developed a smartphone app that will enable foreigners in Japan who have special food restrictions to determine the detailed contents of Japanese-labeled food products simply by photographing the products Read more…
LONDON (Reuters) – Autonomous car features are moving closer to mass-market production, with British chip designer ARM introducing the first in a new line of safety-hardened processors for building features such as automated collision avoidance into Read more…
In what appears to be the height of hypocrisy, the Australian government wants to compel the nation’s telecoms companies to install what is, basically, spyware on customers’ phones under broad new national security plans. This Read more…
Rockville, MD (Reuters) – Instagram on Monday said co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger have resigned as chief executive officer and chief technical officer of the photo-sharing app owned by Facebook, giving scant explanation for Read more…
ITEM: For cellcos, delivering the best mobile video experience for consumers doesn’t necessarily require offering the fastest data speeds. In fact, according to a new report from OpenSignal, faster isn’t always better when it comes Read more…
(Reuters) – The Indian edition of dating app Tinder is trialing a new feature which gives women an additional level of scrutiny and security before they allow men to start messaging conversations, with a view Read more…
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