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MWC 2023 Day 2 – Always frowning

Floor report – No smiles here. The buzz on the floor is back but the halls of power seem to be filled with doom and gloom as one presentation after...

MWC 2023 Day 1 – Back in business

Floor report – China returns Mobile World Congress 2023 is finally pretty much back where we left it in 2019 and, although footfall and exhibitors are still clearly lower than...

MWC 2023 Day 0 – Party pooper

Ericsson – Blowing sentiment Mobile World Congress 2023 is about to start, but Ericsson has gotten things off to a bad start with a further 8,500 layoffs indicating that life...

Lucid Q4 22 & Alibaba FQ3 23 – Rough ride

Lucid Q4 2022 – Cash conservation. Lucid has moved into cash conservation mode as it is clearly concerned about demand and cash burn but ironically, all is likely to remain...

Artificial Intelligence – Here comes Skynet pt. II.

The machines are not coming. The idea that the world might not be far from “potentially scary” AI is as absurd now as it was when it was first uttered...

Digital Ecosystems – Privacy as a product

Subscription is unlikely to do very much for anyone. In response to slower growth and Apple’s depredations upon data collection, the digital ecosystems are experimenting with subscriptions, but RFM research...

Artificial Intelligence – Arms race of stupid pt. II

Sydney behaves like a sociopath and will make a horrible business. Underneath the hype is a growing thread of incidents that point to a singular weakness in AI that no...

Tech in 2023 – Tale of 3 cities.

Three segments. Three stories. Shopify and Cisco reported wildly differing results which combined with economic stimulus sets up 3 divergent themes for the technology sector in 2023. Shopify reported Q4...

BharOS – The Bollysystem 3.0

A schizophrenic OS that no one will want to use The new Indian OS for smartphones doesn’t really know what it wants to be, but I think it will appeal...

Microsoft Metaverse – End of life

Microsoft goes back to square one. Microsoft has shut down its enterprise Metaverse strategy in a move that can only mean that what it had was going nowhere and that...