Reply to this post Homeless robots find permanent shelter. Alphabet has reached a deal to sell both Boston Dynamics and Schaft to SoftBank leaving it more focused on its core business of collection and monetisation of Internet data. Boston Dynamics is a robotics company that specialises in robots that are autonomous as far as navigating...
Reply to this post Home is where the heart is While I am not a fan of Essential Products’ phone (see here), I think that the strategy around the smart home is bang on I think it has created the right product. I don’t like the phone simply because it does not do anything particularly...
Reply to this post Project ice has nothing to do with phones. After racking up nearly $1bn in losses from its last foray into handsets, one would think that Amazon would have had enough but it appears that it is at it again but for a totally different reason: India. Project ice appears to be...
Reply to this post Mostly catch up but studded with a few gems. While Apple spent most its time catching up with innovations made by other ecosystems, there were a few areas where its announcements put it ahead of the pack. Machine Learning Apple is weaving machine learning into all of its services. This combined...
Reply to this post The Digital Life pie is essential for stickiness. Following 2½ years as an iPhone user, I decided to try and make the switch to Android and was amazed by how easy it was. I have switched from iPhone to a Samsung Galaxy s8 I believe that the ease of transition came...
Reply to this post Bixby is not fit for purpose. Samsung has once again delayed the roll out of the voice component of its digital assistant Bixby further reinforcing my opinion that Samsung can really only compete in hardware. This, combined with the poor performance already offered by Bixby services on the Galaxy s8, leaves...
Reply to this post Implementation and performance will be everything. The second lap of trying to get Windows to work on ARM processors is in full swing but the key to success will be the performance of the devices. At the Computex trade show in Taipei, ASUS, Lenovo and HP have all announced that they...
Reply to this post Andy Rubin still works for Google. Essential Products Inc has launched a series of products aimed at creating an ecosystem but none of them do anything or enable anything that is desperately new. Consequently, the real beneficiary from another nice looking, easy to use phone will be Google whose ecosystem will...
Reply to this post AlphaGo’s retirement shows that humans are still needed. AlphaGo is hanging up its pebbles after emphatically demonstrating that from here on, machines will be better Go players than humans. This move also indicates that despite being one of the most advanced AI’s developed, it will still consume a huge amount of...
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ARM vs. Intel – Pause for thought.
Reply to this post Intel shoots at Asia rather than at home. With another attempt to replace Intel chips in PCs on the cards, Intel has moved to protect its position with a not so subtle reminder that its instruction set is covered by a large number of patents. The 40th anniversary of the x86...