ech industry leaders including Alphabet Inc’s Google, Facebook Inc, Microsoft Corp , AT&T and more than two dozen other Internet and technology companies filed legal briefs on Thursday asking a judge to support Apple Inc in its encryption battle with the U.S. government. The rare display of unity and support from Apple’s sometime-rivals showed the breadth of Silicon Valley’s opposition ... Read More »
The government has allocated a total of 127 MHzspectrum to eight entities for testing TV whitespace technology which can ensure hassle-free reception ofmobile signals inside buildings and basements. “Government has issued eight licences for carrying out experiments at several places, using TV whitespace technology, in the frequency band 470-582 MHz,” according to written reply by minister for communications and IT ... Read More »
Technological advances are becoming a major threat to lower-skill industries across the world, especially in developing countries. Computerisation and the impact of new technology in general have dramatically altered the labor market in the past and it will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. A report published earlier this year byCitigroup C +6.23% shows that an average of 77 percent of jobs ... Read More »
In 1978, when Clapperton Mavhunga turned six, he had to walk several miles each way to and from his school in rural Zimbabwe. It was not his biggest problem. Zimbabwe’s war for independence was rumbling on, as it had intermittently since the 1960s. Mavhunga’s father, Peter, who was involved with the Zimbabwe African National Liberation Army as a local chairperson ... Read More »
This is part 4 of a 6-part series where I discuss a set of start/build/exit best practices for digital entrepreneurs. The first part addressed the processes and people that surround the start/build/exitprocess. The second part was about the players, the entrepreneurs, investors, investment bankers and lawyers. The third part was about pitching, valuing and funding. This part is about what ... Read More »
Apple just suffered an important legal defeat to Samsung in its battle over patents. This is good because Apple’s claims were frivolous; its patents were questionable; and its use of litigation to hold back a competitor set another wrong precedent for the industry. Because of these patent wars and patent trolls, technology companies are divesting huge resources to defend themselves ... Read More »
The technology sector, the source of many of the world’s richest individuals, is no longer creating wealth at the rate that it once was, with WealthInsight’s global research of the 10 largest markets for tech high net worth individuals (HNWIs) showing that all but two – Germany and Sweden – have slowed since peaking in 2012-13. In the latest white ... Read More »
While waiting for the much-discussed future of driverless cars to arrive, European automakers are focusing on tried-and-tested sales winners at this year’s Geneva International Auto Show — rolling out the small SUVs that are increasingly replacing hatchbacks and sedans in people’s driveways. Long after it has ceased to be an innovation, the small SUV category is drawing carmakers like catnip ... Read More »
Blockchain technology has the potential to revolutionize financial transactions but companies will have to overcome several challenges in order to experience any benefits, according to industry experts. Blockchain was developed alongside the digital cryptocurrency bitcoin. It works like a huge, decentralized ledger which records every transaction and stores this information on a global network to prevent tampering. Bitcoin, itself, is ... Read More »
One million jobs to vanish in 10 years,” shout the Monday morning headlinesjust to get the week off to a good start. But it’s not another scary intervention in the referendum debate by a pro-European or a Brexiter. It’s more serious than that. The culprit on this occasion is the British Retail Consortium (BRC), the people who speak for shops ... Read More »
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