Ericsson, Juniper and ECI telecom partnerships will allow it to compete with rivals such as Nokia and Huawei. Over the past two year Ericsson has sharpened its workforce to save over $1billion in costs. Cisco has teamed with Samsung while Verizon teams up with Apple and Google on 5G streaming. Although Ericsson formed a…
Borje Ekholm, Ericsson CEO said “ Huawei tensions had caused paralysis among European operators as right now we are at risk of focusing on only one question. All our customers are trying to work out what this means and that is causing uncertainty.” Last week, the GSMA, the mobile industry trade body had issued a…
Facebook is developing its own artificial intelligence chips and create their own digital assistant able to carry on “common sense” conversations and the tools to monitor social media content in real tine and to compete with Alexa of Amazon and Hey Google. “Facebook’s digital assistant imbued with enough common sense to converse with a person …
Amazon, the biggest company in the US with the richest man as its head, stunned New York by announcing it would no longer relocate its second headquarters to the city, which promised 25, 000 jobs and its $3bn tax incentives and $27bn in tax revenues over the next two decades. Possible culprits include State Governor…
Microsoft in a statement said “ We can confirm that Bing was inaccessible in China, but service is now restored”. The outage caused concern that the service might have been blocked by the Chinese authorities, in the same way the firewall that blocks Facebook and Twitter. Chinese authorities have also cracked down on Virtual Private…
In Bristol 170 engineers are designing the world’s most complex next generation AI computer chips the size of the postage stamp, Colossus, which boasts 1216 processors designed for artificial intelligence applications from voice recognition to self-driving cars. Colossus named after computer used by cryptographers at Bletchley Park during the second world war, was top…
WhatsApp owned by Facebook which has more than 201m users in India, making the country its largest market by far has been under growing pressure from India and Australia to find ways to clamp down fake news, inflammatory and incendiary rumours circulating through its systems, especially after a series of lynch mobbings by crowds of…
Amazon, the online giant was worth $797bn (£634bn) when the US stock market closed on Monday after rising 3.4 per cent and moved past Microsoft valued at $789bn. Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, is the world’s wealthiest man, with riches of $135 bn according the latest Bloomberg’s billionaire index. Amazon started in 1994, in…
Huawei, despite “malicious incidents” from US the UK, Australia, New Zealand and Japan who raised security concerns about supplier, has posted 21 per cent increase in revenues to $109bn for 2018. Guo Ping, Huawei’s current rotating Chairman said the Chinese telecoms equipment maker had secured 26 5G contracts this year said ” We must not…
Huawei, the world’s largest supplier of Telecoms equipment whose SG Technology is international standards, hit back at western worries that its telecoms equipment poses a security threat, attacking the US and its allies for spreading fear and rumours because of “ideological or geopolitical concerns”. Ken Hu, CEO of Huawei said countries that banned the Chinese…