Google – Deep speech.

Reply to this post           DeepMind shows signs of paying its way. Google’s first use of DeepMind technology in one of its commercial products is likely to be the first of many that could allow it to extend its leading position when it comes to intelligent Digital Life services. DeepMind is the UK based AI company...

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Google – Turn of the screw.

Reply to this post           Google trying everything except what it really needs. Google is doing everything it can to put at an end its horrible Android problems, but I still think that at the end of the day it will find that only by taking Android fully proprietary will it be able to fix its...

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Uber – Dominoes.

Reply to this post           Another international market falls. This time the market Uber has ceded to local rivals has double the population of USA meaning that, more than ever, it must eradicate the threat of Lyft at home to succeed. Uber will sell its operations in South East Asia to local rival Grab, for which...

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Temporary Closure – Boxing Day.

Reply to this post           RFM will return on Monday 26th March 2018. Radio Free Mobile is moving offices. Its new office location will be: Suite 63, Mangrove One Complex Khalifa Park, Abu Dhabi, UAE. RFM’s legal address at Creative Zone, Fujairah, UAE remains unchanged. Normal service will resume on Monday 26th  

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Facebook – Inconvenient truth.

Reply to this post           People haven’t realised they are the product. A large part of the outrage stemming from Facebook’s (and everyone else’s) apparent lack of care when it comes to users’ privacy is derived from a fundamental misunderstanding of how internet economics work. I think that the majority of users of Facebook, Google, Twitter,...

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Broadcast TV – Sword of Damocles pt. V.

Reply to this post           5G could be an extinction level event for cable TV. The latest surveys are suggesting that fast internet is one of the few things that is keeping growth in cord cutting in USA from becoming a deluge. To me, this means that 5G could be the technology that kills a dying...

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Autonomous Autos – Far, far away.

Reply to this post           Fatality most likely a result of weak AI. Despite that it looks very much like Uber’s vehicle was not at fault in the fatal accident in Arizona, the fact that it happened at all highlights just how far the technology still needs to go to meet its objectives. An Uber vehicle...

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Augmented Reality – Enterprise or bust.

Reply to this post           Consumer segment remains as elusive as ever. The travails of Avegant suggest that solving the field of view issue in AR will not be enough to kick-start demand in the consumer market, raising big question marks about Magic Leap’s first product which is due to ship this year. To date, AR...

Fitbit – Last gasp.

Reply to this post           Healthcare is its one and long shot. Fitbit now wants to be known as a health care company but in order to do that, it will have to offer devices that have highly accurate sensors as well a thriving ecosystem of third parties involved in health care. Fitbit has followed up...

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Siri – Mortal sins

Reply to this post           Siri must fly to the cloud. Siri was the first digital assistant to hit the mainstream but Apple’s focus on privacy and the unusual way in which it has implemented Siri, has led it to fall from being the trailblazer to the also ran. This issue has really come to a...

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