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Operators are not ready for the looming cloud gaming battle (Reader Forum)

$3 million. That staggering figure is how much a teenager recently won at the Fortnite World Cup. Astoundingly, that’s almost as much as this year’s Wimbledon champion won in prize money! Some estimates indicate that there will be more than 270 million global eSports...

Google launches RCS messaging for US users

Google has begun rolling out its own Rich Communications Services messaging service to U.S. users, just weeks after the four national U.S. carriers formed an RCS joint venture. In a blog post, Sanaz Ahari, Google product management director, writes that the new capabilities are already...

Tech, Wi-Fi companies back broader unlicensed use at 6 GHz; public safety and utilities balk

As the Federal Communications Commission considers whether, and how, to utilize spectrum at 6 GHz for unlicensed use, a group of tech and Wi-Fi companies that includes Facebook, Apple, Microsoft and Google has thrown its support behind providing additional room for Wi-Fi to grow. In...

Kagan: Thoughts on the new Google Pixel 4 smartphone

Over the last few weeks I have been testing the new Google Pixel 4 smartphone on the AT&T Mobility network. Parts of this new phone are advanced and even ahead of much of the competition. If you are a current Pixel user, you will...

The Sunday Brief: Four earnings questions

Greetings from Lake Norman, NC (picture of a recent sunrise is shown).  This week, we will discuss four questions that should be asked during earnings calls (which start this Thursday with Comcast, followed by Verizon and Charter on Friday and AT&T and Google the...

#TBT: Sprint bows out of 600 MHz auction; Apple’s iPhone 6s sets sales records; Google buys into RCS … this week in 2015

Editor’s Note: RCR Wireless News goes all in for “Throwback Thursdays,” tapping into our archives to resuscitate the top headlines from the past. Fire up the time machine, put on the sepia-tinted shades, set the date for #TBT and enjoy the memories! Googles makes an...

Google-backed Canvass serves up AI takeaway to ‘biggest’ automation companies

Google-backed analytics provider Canvass Analytics has signed with the two “largest industrial automation companies” to resell its takeaway AI solution for industrial companies.  The Toronto-based firm, founded in 2016, is focused on advanced analytics for optimising assets, processes, and energy usage in industrial firms. Its...

Kagan: After Apple apology for Siri privacy breach, what’s next?

Apple is finally admitting that their Siri AI technology has been quietly breaching your privacy and listening to everything around you. The problem is, it’s not just the technology which has been listening. So have Apple workers. This breach is a shock to iPhone...

Kagan: Qualcomm, Apple, Google, Samsung 5G growth outlook

We have seen this movie before. In fact, the wireless networks and smartphone market has grown and changed many times over the last several decades from 2G to 3G and 4G. Every time there is always a slowdown just before the pick-up in growth...

FCC approves CommScope, Federated and Google ESCs for CBRS

ESC approvals a key step in commercializing CBRS Commercial access to the 3.5 GHz Citizens Broadband Radio Service band by operators and enterprises continues to take shape as the complex regulatory and approval process hit another milestone this week. The U.S. Federal Communications Commission, after...

Ruckus Networks deploying public Wi-Fi in high-traffic parts of São Paulo

Ruckus Networks plans to expand service to millions of Brazilians by the end of 2020 California-based wireless networking equipment and software company Ruckus Networks announced that its devices and technology will be used in Wi-Fi hotspots of Google Station in São Paulo, Brazil. The devices being...

Cisco, Google bring high-speed, public Wi-Fi to India

Cisco and Google's partnership in India is part of the global initiative to scale accessible, reliable Wi-Fi Cisco announced early this week that it has teamed up with Google to provide free, high-speed Wi-Fi to 200 locations across India in the next two months. The...

DoJ opens inquiry into big tech companies; Facebook to pay $5B in FTC case

The Department of Justice's Antitrust Division is opening up an inquiry into the business practices of big tech companies, just as Facebook has agreed to a $5 billion settlement with the Federal Trade Commission and major changes to how it handles and monetizes users'...

Trump agrees to make ‘timely’ decisions on Huawei sales requests

  President Donald Trump has agreed to grant "timely" licensing decisions to U.S. technology firms that want to sell components and services to Chinese vendor Huawei, the White House said in a statement. The decision was adopted following a meeting between Trump and the CEOs of...

#TBT: iPhone 3G takes over; iPhone, iPhone, iPhone; iPhone is everything … this week in 2008

Editor’s Note: RCR Wireless News goes all in for “Throwback Thursdays,” tapping into our archives to resuscitate the top headlines from the past. Fire up the time machine, put on the sepia-tinted shades, set the date for #TBT and enjoy the memories! iPhone 3G sells...

Study: C Band sharing is feasible with smaller protection zones

Co-channel sharing of satellite C Band spectrum is feasible with far smaller geographic protection areas than are currently in place, according to a new study -- and trimming down the exclusion zones around satellite earth stations and enabling spectrum sharing could open up high-speed...

Kagan: Facebook, Amazon, Google face antitrust investigation

The mistakes companies make over time put them in the crosshairs of the U.S. government for antitrust and monopoly action. Suddenly the heat is being turned up for successful tech firms like Facebook, Google, Amazon, Apple, Twitter and others. While being a monopoly is...

Ericsson, Nokia putting plans in place to break up supply chain: Report

Ericsson and Nokia are both putting together contingency plans to move elements of their supply chains out of China if necessary due to national security tensions, according to published reports. The Sunday Telegraph cited anonymous sources who said that both of the network infrastructure companies...

Google suspends some business with Huawei following U.S order: Report

Google has suspended the transfer of hardware, software and technical services to Chinese vendor Huawei following a recent order by the U.S. government to put Huawei in an export blacklist, Reuters reported, citing a source familiar with the matter. The U.S. giant said that it...

Google-led smart city project draws civic backlash in Toronto

Eighteen months ago, Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and leaders of Google-parent Alphabet subsidiary Sidewalk Labs announced the planned $1 billion redevelopment of Toronto's Quayside area. The idea was kit the area with smart city solutions covering everything from energy use to transportation, all...

Google sister-co Sidewalk Labs releases smart-city icon set to tackle data transparency

Sidewalk Labs has released a set of visual icons for smart cities to instruct citizens about the new technologies they are deploying. The point is to define and explain the role and accountability of digital solutions being rolled out public and private authorities in...

Test and Measurement: CommScope, Google pass CBRS environmental sensing tests

CommScope and Google have successfully testing the environmental sensing capabilities, or ESC, that will enable the use of the shared Citizens Broadband Radio Service spectrum. The companies said this week that they received official word from the Institute for Telecommunication Sciences that their jointly developed...

Google intros new AI edge hardware for predictive maintenance, machine vision, robotics

Google has released new hardware for machine learning at the edge in the form of a single-board computer running its edge-based Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) processor. Alongside the new system-on-module (SOM), available under its Coral brand, Google has unveiled a USB-connected accessory that brings...

#TBT: Google professes affection for mobile, sets hearts racing with fiber plans; WiMAX lovers unite … this week in 2010

Editor’s Note: RCR Wireless News goes all in for “Throwback Thursdays,” tapping into our archives to resuscitate the top headlines from the past. Fire up the time machine, put on the sepia-tinted shades, set the date for #TBT and enjoy the memories! WiMAX lovers unite BARCELONA...