In a very short period of time, blockchain technology has gone from an obscure background technology that somehow enables that Bitcoin thing to a game-changing distributed-ledger technology with the power to disrupt online transactions in Read more…
ITEM: China is winning the race to 5G. The US is not. US mobile industry group CTIA is very, very upset about that, and is now demanding that the US government Do Something about it Read more…
ITEM: If you thought India’s telecoms sector was in bad shape financially – well, you’re right, and it’s reportedly going to get worse, with local analysts expecting the latest quarterly revenues to drop as much Read more…
FinTech services are all the rage at the moment, and one reason for that is the prevalence of cloud computing platforms that enable such services. Which is ironic, given that traditional banks and financial institutions Read more…
South Korea’s Ministry of Science and ICT has announced infrastructure-sharing measures to enable the country’s three cellcos to launch commercial 5G services early next year, but operators are already arguing over pricing details. One of Read more…
Low-power WAN (LPWAN) deployments have been popping up swiftly across the Asia-Pacific in recent months, driven by all the buzz over the Internet of Things and the revenue possibilities therein. LPWAN technologies such as Sigfox, Read more…
FTTx deployments have been ongoing for quite a long time now, but there are still plenty of gaps where fiber ideally ought to be, particularly at the edge. Operators have found plenty of workarounds, but Read more…
Yet another regional Asia-Pacific submarine cable system is on the way – the 9,500-kilometer Japan-Guam-Australia (JGA) cable system, which is funded partly by Google, officially commenced construction on Wednesday. Ownership-wise, the JGA is technically two Read more…
ITEM: If you think fake news on social media is a problem now, just wait until AI starts writing it. And you won’t have to wait long. At last week’s EmTech Digital event in San Read more…
The safety record for self-driving cars is actually better than the Uber accident makes it look, but it’s risky for rival firms to state it could never happen to them. ITEM: We don’t yet know what Read more…
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