Archive For

December 2018

Apple vs. Qualcomm – Pressure cooker pt. III.

A Christmas present from Germany. Qualcomm has struck another blow against Apple with a permanent injunction being granted against Apple which can only serve to...

Google – Toothless in Europe pt. V.

Better products, not ineffective regulation needed. The regulations being imposed upon Google by a seemingly hapless EU appear to be having the opposite effect to...

Apple – Silly season.

Not everyone at Tesla does cars. Apple is recruiting people from Tesla again which I think has nothing to do with cars and everything to...

Augmented Reality – Crunch time.

The shake-out begins. Osterhout Design Group (ODG) looks to be in the process of being wound up in what I suspect is going to be...

Apple vs. Qualcomm – Pressure cooker pt. II

The injunction has teeth. In a surprising admission of weakness, Apple has admitted that if the injunction remains in force, it will be forced to...

5G – Barrel scraping

Ericsson is scraping the bottom of the barrel for a use case. Ericsson has had to use cloud-based virtual reality to demonstrate the benefits of...

Verizon – Vitriolic Oath

A packet-pushing future awaits Verizon confirms my long-held belief that the one good thing that Marissa Meyer did for long-suffering Yahoo shareholders was to sell...

Qualcomm vs. Apple – Pressure cooker

Chinese injunction will increase pressure on Apple. Qualcomm has won a good victory in China with an injunction on the sale of a good number...

Alibaba – Domain game

AliMe is no Google Assistant beater. Alibaba is making strides to develop its AI, and its voice assistant in particular, but despite a very impressive...

Lyft – Gift horse

Lyft should accept the gift Uber is offering. Lyft has filed confidential documents with the SEC signaling its intent to go public in 2019 but...