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Stage X becomes fourth mobile operator in South Korea
Stage X will launch its 5G network using spectrum in the 28 GHz band
A local consortium dubbed Stage X has been selected as the new company to operate the spectrum in the 28 GHz band, effectively becoming the country’s fourth mobile carrier, local news...
Indian carrier Jio mulls IPO in 2025: Report
The report noted that Jio could launch the IPO due to the potential exit of some of its current investors
Indian carrier Reliance Jio Infocomm is likely to make its initial public offering (IPO) in 2025, when global private equity firms may look to exit...
AST SpaceMobile set for commercial rollout with new investments from AT&T, Google, Vodafone
New investors join Vodafone on backing 'cellular in space' network
Satellite direct-to-cellular company AST SpaceMobile has garnered two major new financial backers, adding AT&T and Google as strategic investors along with additional funding from existing partner Vodafone to support commercial roll-out of its technology.
The...
#TBT: FCC chairman resigns; Stimulus package funds broadband; iPhone sales slump … this week in 2009
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FCC chairman resigns
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Qualcomm launches new XR platform ahead of CES
The XR2+ Gen 2 comes with more GPU and AI capabilities; Qualcomm named Google and Samsung as among OEM partners
Ahead of the Consumer Electronics Show starting today in Las Vegas, Qualcomm announced the latest-and-greatest in Extended Reality (XR) silicon platforms. The XR2+ Gen 2,...
Google to invest up to $2 billion in AI startup Anthropic
Anthropic is considered a rival to ChatGPT creator OpenAI
Google has confirmed a recent $2 billion investment into Anthropic, a San Francisco-based generative AI startup, that is considered a serious rival to ChatGPT creator OpenAI. Details remain scarce; however, it has been reported that Google’s...
In Review… Google Cloud Next 2023
This report provides a firsthand reflection on the tech giant’s efforts to meet this goal by detailing some of the major updates and messages out of Google Cloud Next ’23, with a focus on the company’s efforts to develop telco-specific products and services. For...
#TBT: Mobile data use surges; Mobile advertising ramps up; Sprint, Clearwire tensions … this week in 2010
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Mobile data use...
Ericsson and Google partner on cloud RAN
A cloud-native architecture allows operators to build and run scalable applications in public, private and hybrid clouds environments
Ericsson and Google Cloud are jointly developing a cloud RAN solution on Google Distributed Cloud (GDC) to help communications service providers (CSPs) optimize RAN infrastructure and get...
‘This is not convergence’ – divergence, Darwinism and the death of IoT Inc
The big message from the big massacre in ‘massive’ IoT – which has seen high-takes vendors written-down and high-stakes gamblers written-off – is that it is not a massacre at all. It is a general abandonment; a yellow-bellied resignation by the self-appointed commanders in...
MIOTY makes its way to Mexico – with Google, Honeywell, Continental, Safran
The MIOTY Alliance, the industrial IoT group, formed in early 2020 by the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits (IIS) to shepherd its burgeoning MIOTY technology into the crowded low-power wide-area (LPWA) IoT space, has struck a deal with FábricaDigital in Mexico, described as a...
#TBT: Google activating half a million devices a day; iPad dominates US tablet use; LightSquared’s future up in the air … this week in 2011
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Google hits half...
#TBT: Waiting for the ‘killer app’; Who needs 3G?; Tearing down the garden wall … this week in 2001
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Waiting for the...
Argentina allocates the 6 GHz band to boost Wi-Fi 6 adoption
The government of Argentina said the decision to allocate the 6 Ghz for Wi-Fi 6 will enable this technology to be available for universities, large industrial factories and also for residential users
The Argentine government confirmed it will allocate the entire 6 GHz band to...
Google to build two more data centers in Ohio
The data centers will support the development of artificial intelligence technology and other tools, said Google
Google revealed plans this week to build two more data centers in Ohio. The additions, which Google said will support the development of artificial intelligence technology and other tools,...
Betacom joins with Google, Ingram, Intel, Qualcomm to streamline private 5G
US network design and services firm Betacom has pulled a bunch of ecosystem partners together into a go-to-market club around its private 4G and 5G offer. The group – which numbers 15, and includes Google Cloud, Intel, Ingram Micro, and Qualcomm, among others –...
Kagan: AI makes us smarter and dumbs us down at the same time
We get so excited about all the advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) from companies and developments like Chatbot and generative AI. This is a new and exciting opportunity for investors, workers, governments and individuals. That being said, there are two sides to every coin....
Kagan: AI chatbot technology spreads from Microsoft to Google
Artificial Intelligence (AI) suddenly seems to be on everyone’s radar, growing in leaps and bounds. Microsoft was first to embrace this new chatbot technology with their Bing and Edge internet browsers for search. They just introduced Copilot, which brings AI to Microsoft 365. This...
New Samsung UWB chipset for auto and IoT; plus new short-range portfolio brand
Samsung Electronics has announced its first ultra-wideband (UWB) chipset, the Exynos Connect U100, for use in mobile, automotive, and IoT devices. The new hardware solution offers precise distance measurements, down to “single-digit centimetres”, reckons the South Korean firm. It has introduced the U100 as...
Application layer DDoS attacks: What is an HTTP(S) flood?
HTTP flood is the most common type of application layer DDoS attacks
Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks refer to a malicious actor or actors temporarily or indefinitely disrupting services of a host connected to a network to render an entire network or website unavailable. There are...
Deutsche Telekom launches its own 5G phones in Germany
Deutsche Telekom said the new devices were developed based upon the expertise and economies of scale created by T-Mobile US’s own brand “REVVL” line of smartphones
German carrier Deutsche Telekom has launched its own 5G smartphones in its home market with the aim of increasing...
It’s game over for Google Stadia
First launched in November 2019, the cloud gaming platform failed to capture enough excitement from consumers
Google has officially closed the doors on its cloud gaming platform. First launched in November 2019, the platform failed to capture enough excitement from consumers. Now, Google is focusing...
Tech workforce hit again: Google cuts 12,000 jobs
Layoffs began immediately in the U.S.; other countries will follow, says Google CEO
Google is the latest technology giant to announce mass layoffs amid ongoing economic challenges hitting the sector. CEO Sundar Pichai sent an email to the company’s staff Friday indicating that jobs cuts...
KORE signs deal with Google Cloud to pair IoT and AI functions, drive sales
Google Cloud and KORE have signed a multi-year go-to-market alliance to pair the former’s data analytics capabilities with the latter’s IoT connectivity services. KORE suggested it is the “first time” that Google Cloud will offer an IoT platform and IoT solutions for healthcare, fleet,...