Apple’s Hardware Subscription Plan a Game Changer
Apple is reportedly working on a subscription model for iPhone and other hardware products. The news made headlines across the tech world. Apple’s…
Internet Service: Xiaomi’s Key Profit Generator
Beijing, Boston, Toronto, London, New Delhi, Hong Kong, Taipei, Seoul – September 1, 2021 Ten years ago, Xiaomi entered the smartphone market with…
Stellantis Bets Big with €30-billion Investment Plan for EV Business
Stellantis, formed in 2021 after the merger of Italian American automaker Fiat Chrysler and France’s PSA, unveiled its electrification plans on July…
Google Looks to Capture Mid-range 5G Device Market With New Pixel 4a and Pixel 5
On September 30, Google launched two Pixel devices — Pixel 4a 5G and Pixel 5. This follows the August 3 launch of the Pixel 4a (a non-5G version),…
Building Better AR Products: ARIA Summit Highlights
ARIA stands for Augmented Reality in Action and is a leadership summit held yearly at the MIT Media Lab. The summit is sponsored by Kopin, a leader…
iPhone :: A Decade of Billions
On June 29th 2007, Apple first begin selling its then iconic smartphone the "iPhone" which with multiple iterations transformed Apple into one of the…
JioPhone: Accelerating India to Cross The 4G Chasm
The most disruptive 4G operator in India Jio, part of Reliance Industries, announced a category of 4G Feature Phone "JioPhone" which is essentially…
WWDC 2017 : Powerful New Hardware, Augmented Reality and Machine Learning
Apple's annual WWDC 2017 kicked off today in San Jose, California. Apple’s annual WWDC 2017 conference was centred on getting its legions of…
How will eSIMs drive the IOT revolution ?
A staggering 50 billion IoT devices are expected to be connected by 2020, making IoT one of the hottest topics at this year’s MWC. Cellular…
China Mobile : 500 Million LTE Subs :: A Unique Milestone
Since the first rollout of LTE networks at the end of last decade, the global LTE subscriptions or connections over the last seven years has swelled…
Why Integrating Bixby is a Good Challenge to have for Samsung!
In smart devices space, the battle has moved from hardware to software to services and now to intelligence. The basic definition of smartphone is…
Surprise! Feature Phones to Drive the Next Wave of LTE Growth
More than half a billion LTE capable phones in a feature phone form-factor will be shipped globally over the course of five years. Local kings…
What does Gigabit LTE mean for the Telecom Industry?
Gigabit LTE promises to bring many improvements to the telecom industry. A plethora of new GB LTE ready hardware will be launching throughout 2017.…
Future for Faraday Future
With CES and its string of shiny automotive announcements behind us, we are reflecting on some of the key announcements with a “reality lens”. As…
Tesla Set to Monetize its Supercharging Stations – What does it mean?
Tesla announced that its network of supercharging stations won’t cater new customers for free anymore. Supercharging stations were one-of-a-kind…
Snaptacles ????
We have consistently talked about evolving business models such as "Hardware as a Distribution" model (see here) in tech space changing the…
HERE WeGo Adds New Dimension To HERE’s Maps Platform To Win In the Urban Mobility Era
Urbanization is one of the world's most significant mega-trends. It sits alongside the trend of increased personal mobility and the related tectonic…
Success of LINE- Story of platform stickiness & beyond
Tapping the untapped: South East Asian (SEA) countries became a growth engine for LINE’s business in the last two years. Monthly Active Users (MAU)…