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China vs. USA – Trade not tech.

Trade war may end but tech rivalry is just beginning. Despite an easing of tensions on the trade front, it is clear that while the two are happy to trade,...

SoftBank & OYO – The gathering storm

OYO is another blackeye in waiting. SoftBank’s flagging reputation may be about to take another hit as another of its flagship investments has hit difficulties and is struggling to overcome...

CES 2020 – Last word

Reality was the real theme at CES 2020 Back to reality The week started with its usual bunch of glitzy press conferences from the big players but their lack of...

CES Day 4 – Floor stories pt. II.

VR, AR & XR There is a big reduction in the number of offerings present at the show this year. Many commentators are of the opinion that HTC is not...

CES Day 3 – Floor stories

Alexa goes endgame, Chinese disguise & HERE. Google vs Alexa – White suit brigade At a high level, it looks like Google has almost given up on the smart home,...

CES Day 2 – The little guys.

The action at CES is all with the small companies. Big guys are short of ideas. The big press conferences where the all the queues were to be found were...

CES Day 1 – Hot, cool & mad.

Byton – Still needs to address the elephant. Byton didn’t have new cars but it had plenty of new partners, a production-ready vehicle and some progress on its digital offering....

CES Day 0 – Where the buzz isn’t.

CES 2020 gets in tune with reality. CES 2020 is unlikely to go down as a vintage year of excitement meaning that half the story is going to about where...

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...

Baidu & Samsung – Made in Korea 2020.

China has a lot of ground to make up. Semiconductors and AI are at the heart of China’s desire to become self sufficient in technology, but this is going to...