Welcome to Friday Futures, our weekly guide to the latest visions of The Future from around the web. This week: A selfie from Insight Mars lander; Navy AR; food from wind; when fish took the first Read more…
Earlier this month, I had the privilege of chairing a 5G seminar on the sidelines of the AVIA Video Summit in Hong Kong. (Gentle reminder: AVIA is the pay-TV/satellite industry organization formerly known as CASBAA.) Read more…
Collaborative DevOps brings lots of benefits, but it also raises legal issues of IP ownership and management. A joint development plan will help you sort that out in advance, writes Openet’s Laura Flood. There’s been Read more…
5G action this day: DoCoMo controls a Toyota robot 10 km away using 5G; Cellcos must transform to capitalize on $66b network slicing opportunity; Smart Communications makes a 5G video call; Fujitsu makes single-panel antenna Read more…
Qualcomm has announced the launch of the Qualcomm Ventures AI Fund to invest up to an aggregate of $100 million in start-ups working in artificial intelligence. The fund will focus on startups that share the Read more…
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Moscow’s latest tourist attraction, a cable car over the Moskva River, has been shut the day after it opened because of what the operator said was a cyber attack. The gondola takes Read more…
SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Indonesian ride-hailing firm Go-Jek kicked off a trial launch in parts of Singapore on Thursday and plans to roll out an array of services through its app in early 2019, challenging dominant Read more…
Huawei Cloud revealed that it has officially launched its Blockchain Service (BCS) for global use, following its commercial debut in China last month. Now available on the international Huawei Cloud website, the service – which Read more…
New Zealand’s intelligence services minister has reportedly denied that the GCSB’s decision that Huawei’s 5G equipment poses a national security risk constitutes a full-on ban of the Chinese telecoms equipment vendor. However, as far as Read more…
The latest data confirms what RFM’s Digital Life Pie has been indicating for some time: mobile is increasingly the internet access medium of choice in developed markets. And that’s good news for 5G – at Read more…
WELLINGTON (Reuters) – Huawei Technologies said it was seeking clarification from New Zealand after the country’s intelligence agency rejected the telecommunication industry’s first request to use the Chinese firm’s equipment in its planned 5G mobile Read more…
Digital banks use identity verification to enable a frictionless customer experience in exactly the same way that traditional banks don’t. Recently I received my invitation to sign up with N26, the Berlin-based digital bank, which Read more…
CARACAS (Reuters) – Two US senators on Wednesday asked the Trump administration to investigate whether Chinese telecommunications company ZTE violated US sanctions by helping Venezuela set up a database that monitors the behavior of its Read more…
Google Cloud has added Hong Kong as the latest geographical region to its cloud platform offering – its 18th cloud region globally and sixth in Asia-Pacific – which it says will dramatically reduce latency for Read more…
(Reuters) – Amazon.com on Wednesday launched a microchip aimed at so-called machine learning, entering a market that both Intel and Nvidia are counting on to boost their earnings in the coming years. Amazon is one Read more…
3 Hong Kong says it has completed outdoor 5G trials in both the 3.5-GHz and 28-GHz spectrum bands. The operator says it conducted indoor and outdoor trials in the third quarter of 2018 involving 5G Read more…
Thai fixed broadband operator AIS Fibre is teaming up with Nokia to provide residential customers with a meshed Wi-Fi network that delivers Wi-Fi coverage to every corner of the home. AIS is the first service Read more…
LAS VEGAS (Reuters) – Amazon.com said on Tuesday it was starting a new antenna service for uploading and downloading data from satellites, in a bid to lure space industry and other customers to the cloud. Read more…
A global trade war, Brexit and cybersecurity are among the main risks facing companies globally in 2019 – and telecoms is one of six major industries whose growth could be derailed next year as a Read more…
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Consumer agencies in the Netherlands, Poland and five other European Union countries asked privacy regulators on Tuesday to take action against Google for allegedly tracking the movements of millions of users in Read more…
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