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Microsoft – S for school pt. II.

Reply to this post           Price still likely to be the biggest decider. Microsoft, in conjunction with Lenovo and JP, has launched some hardware that is...

Tencent – Age of empires.

Reply to this post           The WeChat empire spreads its wings. Not content with its dominance of the 3rd party app stores in China, Tencent has...

Huawei – Really Convincing Story, Not.

Reply to this post           RCS unlikely to lift Huawei from its commodity margins. One has to give credit to Huawei for realising that it has...

Didi – In the saddle.

Reply to this post           Didi can crush the bike sharing upstarts. In China where the bicycle is an integral part of daily transport, Didi has...

8K – Panel pains.

Reply to this post           Nightmare on pixel street. With 4K panels now being in the mainstream, the technology discussion in the panel industry has now...

Google – One armed bandit pt. III.

Reply to this post           Google has very little chance in China. Google has made its first return to the Chinese market since 2010 but I...

Facebook – No altruism

Reply to this post           Facebook’s move is about securing the long-term. Facebook’s move to put its users ahead of its shareholder’s is not born from...

CES Day 2 – Similar stories.

Reply to this post           Google shows the most progress at CES. Apart from automobiles, the prevailing theme at CES is one of boredom. Those looking...

CES Day 1 – From hard to soft.

Reply to this post           Samsung and GoPro suffer from software shortages.  Samsung The best news for Samsung at CES was the failure by Huawei to...

CES Day 0 – Car show

Reply to this post           No Planes, no trains, only automobiles. By far the strongest theme at CES 2018 is the digitisation of the automobile with...