It didn’t take long to validate our thesis that Comcast is after pretty big game in the mobile area, as an interesting triangle has emerged of Comcast, Charter and Sprint. In April, when Comcast announced the launch of Xfini...
FirstNet, the long hoped-for solution to one of the U.S.’s most glaring communications deficiencies – highly inadequate networks for First Responders to disasters – is finally emerging. FirstNet is an abbreviatio...
Robotics company, Vecna Technologies is enjoying a significant breakout, as signs indicate a major growth period for the robot industry. We had the opportunity to speak with Vecna CTO Daniel Theobald. Vecna’s Deliberate Appr...
Despite the NHTSA (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration) and others describing a seemingly smooth glide path to autonomous vehicles (Level 1 to Level 4 and, voila, you are there) in reality there are going to be many pat...
BlaBlaCar – valued recently at $1.6 billion – raises a lot of questions about the future of the automotive business and ride sharing in particular. BlaBla is the most successful iteration to date of a fundamental concept for ride ...
The consensus view of Comcast’s 4/6/17 announcement of its Xfinity Mobile service has been that it is primarily a move by the cable media giant to reduce its bottom line damaging churn rate and improve customer loyalty. While ther...
The success of virtually every hot and hyped ICT (Information and Communications Technology) – the IoT, AR, AI, 5G, etc. – will depend heavily on the future of the “Edge;” and specifically the movement of computing res...
RideCell is dealing with a number of the cross-currents leading to development of autonomous vehicles. It has gained considerable attention because it provides the software platform for BMW’s ReachNow service, one of the growing p...
A webinar recently tossed out this question: “5G: The new fuel for the connected car?” A critical issue, for connected (and autonomous) vehicles, and the entire IoT, is the wireless networks that these developments will depend upo...
One area that is being profoundly influenced by mobile and cloud convergence is retailing – and the rise of Omni-Channel marketing. While the death of brick-and-mortar retail has been projected by some, the growing entry of the ki...
