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Ray Ozzie’s Latest Invention Has Everybody Talking
Credit: James Duncan Davidson/O’Reilly Media, Inc. via Wikimedia. Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license. It’s the kind of thing I expect from Ray Ozzie—to point out something I have...
View ArticleApple’s Surge in iPhone Sales Matched by Mac
“No company gets attention like Apple. No company,” says Techonomy’s David Kirkpatrick—whether it be from the development of new products like the Apple Watch and Apple Pay, or from news of the...
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What Is MVNO Anyway? Google It …
(Image via Shutterstock) As anticipation grows around the impending launch of Google’s MVNO service (Mobile Virtual Network Operator, for those of us not in the traditional telecom industry), I think...
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Apple Holds China Smartphone Crown
An Apple store in Shanghai. (Image via Shutterstock) Media are fixated on a new report showing China’s smartphone sales fell for the first time in this year’s first quarter, in a development that...
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My Independence Day: No Wallet, No Cash, No Credit, No Lunch
(Image via Shutterstock) It was one of those days. … Monday morning after a long weekend and I was rushing to get out the door to make a 9 am meeting. I got in my car, drove to the train station, and...
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A Key Question of the Digital Era: How Much Information is Too Much?
image courtesy Shutterstock Mobile technology is rapidly changing the way we live. This is most dramatic in emerging countries that have simply skipped the static world of desktop computers and...
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Why Ford’s Work with Amazon will Echo Widely
Soon you’ll be able to talk to your Ford car with questions and commands similar to what you’d ask a person, thanks to a new alliance with Amazon and its Echo voice interface system. (Photo courtesy...
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The Next Industries to Be Transformed by Tech: Shipping and Mining
One jarring possibility for the connected age of the near future: people-free drone ships like this concept developed by Rolls-Royce. (This article originally appeared in the Techonomy print and online...
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The New honor 8 Is A Dream Phone Whether or Not You’re a Millennial
The beautiful Bay Bridge of San Francisco at night. Shot on honor 8. Chinese telecoms giant Huawei has had its ups and downs in the U.S. market. But alongside its prowess in telecommunications...
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What to Expect at the World’s Behemoth Mobile Tech Show
The crowd streams in to last year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona–the premier wireless show globally. (Image courtesy Shutterstock) (“Community Insights” are articles by members of the Techonomy...
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Mobile World Congress: Just 5G? Or 5G for Good?
Mobile tech these days changes all industries, including “mobility,” formerly called “autos.” This futuristic jalopy appeared on the show floor at Barcelona’s Mobile World Congress 2018. (Photo: Jeff...
View ArticleIndia’s Mobile Strategy Sets Pace for Connecting Everyone
India has often been referred to as an “emerging” market. But given that the country is the fastest-growing internet market in the world, I prefer to say that India is “arriving.” And, in some...
View Article5G and AI Promise to Make Our Smartphones Smart
We call our phones “smart,” but how intelligent are they? Anyone who has tried to use Apple’s Siri to play music on Spotify, or composed a message using voice recognition knows the answer is, “not...
View ArticleIn the Media’s New Battles, Consumers Will Win. Here’s Why.
These days, Big Tech is in the cross hairs of Congress, and everyday people. The federal government is considering investigating the competitive frameworks around Google, Facebook, Amazon and Apple....
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Cloud + 5G = Vast New Infrastructure, Says Panel
The cloud is moving closer, largely because of the rise of 5G wireless. That was a central lesson of a recent Techonomy roundtable on “The Infrastructure of the Near Future.” The session was presented...
View ArticleWhy Americans Hate Contact Tracing
We’ve never had more ways to connect and communicate. We’ve never had better tech capabilities. Our smartphones are smarter than the smartest mainframes of yesteryear. So why can’t we use technology...
View ArticleBig Tech Drives South. The Road Goes Through India.
India is artfully positioning itself to be a beneficiary of the tech conflict now accelerating between the U.S. and China. India offers a huge online consumer market (500+ million and growing) as well...
View ArticleThe Cell Phone’s Father Speaks Out
Quick pop-quiz in memory of Alex Trebek: What weighed 2.5 pounds, cost $3,900, and did nothing but talk? Answer: *What is* the first mobile phone—in 1973. Martin Cooper is universally celebrated as...
View ArticleOne Fintech Superapp to Rule Them All
This piece originally appeared in FIN, James Ledbetter’s fintech newsletter. Recently it has become clear that several of the largest US fintech companies are striving to build the same Next New...
View ArticleWhere Will COVID Passports Take Flight?
Preparing for a recent trip from the United States to my home base in Singapore, I had to document and organize records of my COVID vaccination status and required test results. I spent hours...
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