America has few options to take on Huawei in a 5G fight The US doesn't have many options in its fight with Huawei over 5G Washington has long maintained that Huawei is a national security threat. It says the company is a risk because China could use its equipment to spy on citizens. Huawei has repeatedly denied those accusations. Under Donald Trump’s presidency, the US has sought to convince countries to ban Huawei outright from next-generation mobile networks known as [...]
Big tech’s calls for more regulation offers them a chance to increase their power Big tech firms want more regulation in order to increase their power At the World Economic Forum in Davos last week, “tech for good” was one of the key themes on the agenda. The big tech companies like Microsoft and Google used their airtime to call for more regulation, particularly in the area of artificial intelligence (AI). It’s a broad term that applies to a set of [...]
It’s time for business leaders to get serious about the threat to jobs from artificial intelligence "I love driving for Uber, but they want to replace me with driverless cars. I don’t know what will happen to me and everyone else, but there could be a revolution.” A conversation with my Uber driver last week unearthed a new fear that few of the world’s business leaders seem to have grasped – [...]
Samsung will bounce back from its Galaxy Note 7 PR disaster October 17, 2016 Samsung's Galaxy Note 7 fiasco has been top of the headlines for the past six weeks, with the world’s largest smartphone maker finally deciding to stop making the highly combustible phablet. The result was an expected $5bn-plus hit to the company’s profit from the third quarter of this year to the first quarter of 2017. [...]
Samsung’s Galaxy Note 7 could be its best chance to pip Apple to the post August 8, 2016 Samsung versus Apple is one of the fiercest mobile tech rivalries ever and, with the right timing and its latest “phablet” device, the South Korean giant may have found the right formula to steal customers from the iPhone maker. Last week, Samsung released the Galaxy Note 7, a 5.7 inch “phablet” that comes with an [...]