Technology, Media & Telecom News by GLG Council Members

Verizon’s aggressive launch of the RIM Storm model and the perceived flaws in the “clickable” touchscreen and mobile OS could change the landscape for carrier exclusives and return policies.

Speech recognition is central in the “talking to the web” innovation, and required for the "digital shopping assistant" and "memory" visions--three of the “Five Innovations That Will Change Our Lives.” IBM has impressive speech recognition technology that it uses in some telephone applications and has licensed on a one-case-at-a-time basis to some other vendors.

India's approaches to attributing spectrum to mobile operators, the amounts of which for 2G are a function both of the number of customers an operator has and the supposed spectral efficiency of the technology it uses, as well as its apparent intent to let as many as ten network operators compete in an area, are unique, and make little sense in terms of engineering economics and the...

Apple and Dell are the polar opposites of ideas about how products should be designed, manufactured and organized. While the merger is likely pure fantasy, it is worth using it to reflect on the radically different R&D, product and manufacturing philosophies of the two firms. Both approaches have been successful at various times in computer market history, but it is unlikely that any company could...

The difference between a Mac and a Dell is strictly the OS.  Why would Apple want to sell the same hardware for lower margins?

With the spector of Google Android remaking the smartphone space in 2009 and Intel's Q2 release of Mobilion (new Intel owned mobile Linux OS) this could position Sprint to dominate the next generation of wireless data. Clearwire is the only current viable contendor in the N. American WiMax space. If Google and Intel incorporate it into their new mobile offerings, AT&T, Verizon and a host of other...

Finally, the shareholders of Clearwire have approved to merge with Sprint’s wireless broadband network.

Google’s recent actions are a sign that it is becoming more customer focused.  Yes I know it is a strange thing to say but when you think about it you really don’t have a deep understanding as to how your search results got ranked.

I have often described Tata as the GE of India.  It is involved in everything in India and around the world.  However, not even global giants are immune to over expansion and the recession.

Hjörtur Smárason is a social media consultant in Reykjavik. He describes the real-world implications of the Icelandic economic collapse for ordinary Icelanders, in this podcast interview with Steve Lubetkin of Professional Podcasts LLC, a GLG Councils member.