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Arm – Back to basics.

A return to the public market is now more likely. Arm’s restructuring is either signalling a rapid return to the stock market or no return at all. I suspect the...

PCH over IP – No fudge please.

Project Connected Home over IP needs to avoid the fudge of compromise. Making all connected devices compatible is an excellent idea but this is going to be very difficult to...

Tesla – Model breakdown

Tesla has further to fall. Tesla looks to be in real difficulty as a chronic inability to make money combined with a business transition that is going to take many...

Connected vehicles – Damaging lethargy

Sirius XM capitalises on OEM lethargy. Sirius XM is launching a series of services for its customers which are exactly the sorts of services the OEMs should have launched years...

Medical Wearables – Inching closer.

Apple is a bit closer to a killer use case.   The latest data from Apple’s study with Stanford University is encouraging and I think represents a step closer towards...

Wearables – Fossil fuel.

Wearables to remain fossilised. Google has purchased the right to use and disseminate core IP from Fossil for $40m (stoking rumours of a Pixel Watch) but I can’t see anything...

CES 2019 – Dark horses of Vegas.

Interesting offerings that slipped through the cracks. Real wireless power Thanks to Apple, wireless charging using the Qi standard is now everywhere, but far more interesting is the possibility to...

Commercial vehicles – Stoking rebellion

The increasingly vexing software problem. John Deere has been locked in a battle with its customers (farmers) for several years over farmer’s rights to repair and modify their vehicles which...

Sharing economy – bikes, e-bikes & scooters

Reply to this post           Make money not headlines. Not to be outdone by the bike sharing craze in China, Silicon Valley is jumping on the...

Essential Products Inc. – An essential sale

Reply to this post           The wheels appear to have fallen off. Andy Rubin’s Essential Products Inc. is up for sale almost certainly because of a...