The big news over the weekend was that hackers launched a DDoS attack on domain name system (DNS) host Dyn which impacted traffic for high-profile Dyn customers like PayPal, Spotify and Twitter. What’s even more Read more…
Samsung’s exploding handsets aside, Ericsson’s crisis shows the need for all players to accelerate their shift towards software and services. It’s been a month of exploding smartphones and the growing fall-out from the problems with Read more…
This week has seen a blitz of news stories regarding driverless cars, particularly in terms of their use as Uber-like taxi services. Disruptive car manufacturer Tesla – which will make nothing but driverless-ready cars from Read more…
As an industry observer, I’m never quite sure how much hype to believe. When it comes to big data there has certainly been plenty of hype, but not a lot of facts from independent sources Read more…
No one wants to buy Twitter – not right now, anyway. Plenty of official reasons have been given, but an unofficial reason may be trolls. Of the internet kind, that is. Various companies, from Google Read more…
A report from Citi Group on the state of the fintech arena makes interesting, disturbing and/or exciting reading. This depends on where you are sitting. If you are a bank, you will be disturbed; if you Read more…
One problem with advertising is that we are simply running out of space. The other, perhaps bigger, problem is that within the definition of advertising we have to include the beast that is direct marketing, as Read more…
India’s largest ever spectrum auction closes with 40% of the airwaves on the shelf, and making less than one-eighth of target government revenues Critics of the high reserve prices imposed for India’s largest ever spectrum auction Read more…
The people at Citi group have produced a report that runs to almost 150 pages and says they are a bit depressed about telecoms stocks. Long thought of as “dividend rich, defensive stocks”, they see these Read more…
Much has been written about artificial intelligence (AI). Much more is waiting to be written. Some of it is pretty scary. Consultants are having a field day guessing (surely, ‘intelligently predicting’) how many jobs will Read more…
ITEM: Rod Sims, chairman of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, told a telecoms industry conference earlier this week that the ACCC has seen high levels of complaints, confusion and frustration about broadband performance. And while Read more…
ITEM: Nokia Bell Labs has announced a new small cell product that is so easy to install a drone could do it – and made the point by actually having a drone install one at Read more…
The contract between ICANN and the US Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) to perform IANA functions officially expired as of October 1. Put simply, the US government no longer controls any Read more…
Everything that can be connected can be hacked. Some things more than others. People who make kettles, for instance, make kettles. They don’t think about kettle security issues, even when their product team says the Read more…
ITEM: Google Glass is back – only it’s not from Google, it looks a lot cooler, it’s far easier to use, and it’s ten times cheaper. Also, it just might be able to sidestep the Read more…
5G Asia (formerly known as LTE Asia – see what they did there?) has wrapped up in Singapore, and here’s ten (10) things we learned: 5G is an awesome technology that will do awesome things. Read more…
As fintech companies struggle towards the top of the payments pile, unlikely winners emerge that prove at least one thing – the world of technology is extremely fragile and fickle. It also proves that technology Read more…
If you ask someone – a customer say – whether they like your product or service, the most likely answer is: “Sure, it’s fine”. If you ask the same customer to score your product or Read more…
One of the blind spots that the tech industry has resembles a binary one. It is obsessed with zeros. The industry sees a zero, as in the year 2000, 2010 or 2020 and it focuses Read more…
When you see the word ‘Hadoop’ in the opening paragraphs of a white paper, you know you are talking about seriously BIG data. What is refreshing about this paper from real-time specialist Openet, is that Read more…
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