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Platformisation: the last chance for telcos in the 5G world
Platformisation is a new term that provides a focus for digital transformation, while showing the way towards monetisation for telcos. Read more…
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A habitable planet just four light-years away – let’s visit
The habitable planet Proxima orbits our stellar neighbour Proxima Centauri. And, let’s face it, four light-years is basically next door. Read more…
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Entertainment and gaming are overlapping – roadmap to the Metaverse?
Entertainment and gaming are becoming one and the same and point to a future that is a strange but exciting mixture of both. Read more…
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The little guy can still be a player in a world of state sponsored hackers
The little guy fights back. In a world where the focus is state sponsored hackers, there are stories out there that salute the little guy. Read more…
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The EV market was simple and good – now it looks complicated and dirty
The EV market is suffering a series of setbacks. And this is before you even mention the word ‘autonomous’ which is becoming a banned word. Read more…
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Apple finally presses the button in assault on payments market
Apple finally announced it is serious about payments. For a long time, the industry speculated about when and if Apple would get serious. Read more…
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Warp drive now exists but we are a long way from boldly going anywhere
Warp drive is now a ‘thing.’ As with many of the best inventions, it appeared while scientists were looking the other way. Read more…
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The next steps for tech: computerize humans or humanize computers?
The next steps are extraordinarily important and the choices are whether we computerize humans or humanize computers. Or both. Or neither. Read more…
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The hype around AI is beginning to look as bad as 5G
AI has been around for years. Machine Learning is new, and cooler. You can tell because we now call it ML and nod, and pretend we know what it means. Read more…
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As ransomware booms across APAC, there are early signs of a fight back
As ransomware attacks become an everyday occurrence, it would be easy to throw your hands in the air and surrender. But wait! There’s hope! Read more…
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The boom in NFTs is creating its own sort of fraud and other weirdness
The boom in NFTs is exciting to many, troubling to others and just downright weird to the rest. In fact the wrong people are making the money. Read more…
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A thousand Unicorns out there – herald of Heroes or Horrors?
A thousand Unicorns are now alive and well, trumpeted CB Insights last week, asking us to make a note of where we were on the day. Read more…
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Leaving our world two ways is cool, but people are getting hurt
Leaving our world seems to be a focus for humanity. We are either burying ourselves in immersive environments or heading for outer space. Read more…
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Cybercrime Unicorns with great customer service, what next?
Cybercrime is already huge – and still growing at a phenomenal rate. It is also changing shape in scary ways. Read more…
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Marketing is changing universally and telecoms must keep up
Marketing is changing as the priorities of consumers are adjusting to a new reality, and there are some new directions. Read more…
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Sotheby’s going to MWC: not something you would expect
Sotheby’s, the world’s oldest auction house, is sending its CEO to Barcelona as a keynote speaker and the world feels a little bit weirder. Read more…
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Facebook’s Diem cryptocurrency dream ends – a sign or isolated event?
Facebook’s Deum has been wound up, ending the cryptocurrency dream of Mark Zuckerberg. Is it a sign or an isolated event? Read more…
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Our brains are amazing – what is their connection with The Universe?
Our brains are awesome and powerful in ways we can’t fathom. Given Elon Musk’s interest, we probably should know more about them. Read more…
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The metaverse will top the agenda at MWC – and you have to ask why
The Metaverse will be the most popular topic of discussion at MWC this year. Ironically, the first viable physical event for two years. Read more…
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The 6G vision is quickly forming – but it seems oddly familiar
The 6G vision is already taking shape even as 5G roll out, but so far seems very ‘more of the same’ with some extra buzzwords thrown in. Read more…