Reply to this post The road to hell is paved with good intentions. Google has updated its OS for Internet of Things (IoT) with the release of a developer preview, but I fear that if the OS is released to open source, the same chaos and insecurity that hampers Android will prevent this from becoming...
Reply to this post Greater verticalisation looks like it is coming to China. It looks like Qihoo is having another go at the smartphone market with the purchase of Blephone but behind this I see the next stage of competition between the Chinese Ecosystems. Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent, (BATmen) Qihoo are all very good at what...
Reply to this post Samsung is left with very little on Android devices. Following the disaster of the Galaxy Note 7, Samsung really needs the Galaxy s8 to be resounding success to repair its damaged reputation but I see it being limited in what it can do by its deal with Google on the ecosystem....
Reply to this post Massive setback means more money likely to be needed It appears that Magic Leap has hit a major problem with the commercialisation of its technology and the question really is: are its investors patient enough to hang on while a new solution is found? Magic Leap is an augmented reality company...
Reply to this post Last time it was software. This time its emulators Qualcomm and Microsoft have announced that Windows is once again coming to the ARM processor but this time the approach is completely different to the disaster that was Windows RT. In Windows RT, Microsoft modified Windows 8 such that it would work...
Reply to this post Sailfish finds a life line with the Russian government. The hardy sailors at Jolla have had a pretty stormy couple of years but their ship may have found safe-ish anchorage in Moscow. At the end of 2015, Jolla joined the stagger of zombies (see here) when it ran out of money...
Reply to this post VR hits a bump but AR in the enterprise fares better. It looks very much as if 2016 for augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) has panned out much as I feared it would (see here) in contrast to the optimism and hype at CES 2016. The supply chain has...
Reply to this post Motorola is the only one with a chance of succeeding with modularity. Lenovo’s Motorola is increasing its commitment to its modular mobile phones with the promise of more mods and remains the only one with a chance of making this strategy work. Modular mobile devices are nothing new and the mobile...
Reply to this post Amazon is stepping up its efforts in the coming battle of the brains. Amazon is following its competitors by announcing a series of services based on its AI research but the performance of Echo makes me think that there is still an awful lot of work to do. The headline of...
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Yahoo – Calculated gumption
Reply to this post Even if Verizon walks, there is value in Yahoo. Yahoo has revealed yet another hack casting further doubt over its deal with Verizon, but thanks to Alibaba, there still remains a good opportunity for those with a calculator and a bit of gumption. Yahoo’s latest revelation involves yet another hack, this...