Red Hat raises its cloud game
Open-source software vendor Red Hat has launched a bunch of arcane products and initiatives so baffling they must be doing something clever.
Open-source software vendor Red Hat has launched a bunch of arcane products and initiatives so baffling they must be doing something clever.
Chinese tech giant Huawei has continued its recent trend of relative transparency by revealing a steep decline in Q1 revenues due to the US-imposed struggles of its consumer business.
Iain and Scott retreat from springtime London to bring you another dose of telecoms chit-chat. They start with the latest on the hot topic of OpenRAN, including Dish going all-in with AWS. Quarterlies season is in full flow, so they move on to look at Ericsson’s before concluding with a review of the latest thinking around the regulation of artificial intelligence.
The European Commission is proposing new rules that will allow it to ban any form or implementation of AI it deems too risky.
While many things slowed down for businesses during the pandemic, digital transformation was not one of them. A McKinsey Global Survey of executives finds, for example, that companies accelerated the digitization of their customer and supply-chain interactions by three to four years and the share of digital or digitally enabled products by an astonishing seven years.
The internet has been driven mad by footage of Digidog, one of the first real-life implementations of a Boston Dynamics robot.
Microsoft is reported to be in advanced talks to buy speech recognition company Nuance Communications for $16 billion, which would be Microsoft’s second largest acquisition ever.
Nokia is really pushing telecoms operators to embrace automation, promising them huge financial rewards through cost-savings and the generation of additional revenues.
Don’t count Nokia out of the Chinese RAN market just yet because it seems to be getting pretty cozy with China Mobile.
Observers and practitioners take it on the chin to predict what the telecoms industry may look like in the coming year.
Bloomberg reported that Microsoft has started designing its own processors to be used in cloud systems and Surface computers, reducing its reliance on Intel.
The EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) has issued a report warning of confusion about the impact AI and automation can have of people’s rights.
Innovation is usually focused with a consumer audience in mind, however 5G and AI will likely see an initial focus and opportunity for more industrial and business focused applications.
Chinese vendor Huawei is doing everything it can to make it impossible for Sweden to sustain its ban.
Scott and Iain worry about being replaced by machines and algorithms as they kick off this week’s pod by discussing automation. They move on to review some of the telecoms industry numbers being published as we get towards the end of the year, before concluding with a look at why Western governments are suddenly so keen on OpenRAN.
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