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 …
The UK Government looks set to undermine US drive to persuade allies for a global 5G banning of Huawei from the network, after saying it can mitigate and limit Huawei’s 5G risks from using equipment in the high-speed telecoms systems. The UK National Cyber Security Centre has determined there are ways to limit the risks…
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…
Shares in Snap, maker of the Snapchat messaging app soared 26 per cent at the start of Wall Street trading after the firm said last night it had arrested a fall in users on Apple device and drew a series of favourable reviews from analysts for its progress with a new Android app. The targeting…
US car sales could strink from more than 17m last year to just 11.5m by 2025, about the same level seen in 2008-09 which caused GM and Chrysler to go Bankrupt and Ford to suffer a £11.2bn ($14.6bn) loss. GM after celebrating the world’s largest carmaker for the 76th straight year in 2007 on £19.25bn…
Facebook is shutting down an app that paid $20 a month to people aged between 13 and 35 for allowing it to collect data on their iPhones, which according to Apple breached its privacy policies. The “ Facebook Research” app enabled the social network to monitor a user’s web and phone activity, including how they…
Apple Face Time software has a major flaw acknowledged by Apple, which allowed for brief eavesdropping –even if the recipient did not pick up and in some cases the target iPhone could send video without the receiver’s knowledge. Apple’s status page shows it has disabled the ability for users to make group calls on Face…
“ I am really sad about Facebook, now I am embarrassed and I am ashamed” a memo written by Roger McNamee to Mark Zukerberg and Sheryl Sandberg. Roger McNamee was an early investor and had advised Zukerberg on crucial decisions including turning down a $1bn acquisition offer, and helped him hire Sandberg as his…