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MWC 2024 Day 1 – Back in business

Geopolitics is everywhere. After a very slow 2021, 2022 and some recovery in 2023, Mobile World Congress in 2024 is finally back in business. The halls are as busy as...

Open AI vs. Google – No lunch

OpenAI and Microsoft will be unable to eat Google’s lunch Having failed to move the search market with ChatGPT, OpenAI is developing a product specifically designed to replace search, but...

Artificial Intelligence – Expected unreality

Mr Altman’s agenda continues to defy gravity and reality. Sam Altman and Open AI appear to be intending to take over both the entire technology industry and everyone’s personal devices...

Google Gemini – More of same.

It will soon be much cheaper. Google has launched a new version of its generative AI and followed everyone else down the $20 per user per month business model, but...

AI Ecosystem – The race begins

Foundation model is to AI what OS is to smartphone. While everyone is going to be focused on inference in 2024, the real action is going to be in the...

Results deluge– Meta, Apple & Amazon.

Meta pushes the open-source button. Excellent results, more fat trimming, a dividend, and a share buyback hid higher losses from the Metaverse and more capex allowing a fire to be...

Alphabet Q4 2023 – Corporate waffle

Google fails to blow its own trumpet. Alphabet reported good results but one tiny miss combined with vague and non-specific answers to easy questions on the conference call gave the...

Digital Automotive – Radio wars

A very American dispute. The issue of AM radio in vehicles sold in the USA has been debated for many years, but electrical vehicles (EVs)bring this issue to a head...

Apple AI – Back of the pack

There is a little activity behind the curtain. It would be foolish to think that Apple is not trying to do something about AI but I suspect that it has...

Samsung Unpacked – Where’s Bixby?

Lots of Google. Little of Samsung, Samsung‘s new s24 line-up looks exactly like the s23 but the hope is that the new AI features (almost all of which come from...