By now, pretty much anyone reading this, regardless of your location, has been under some form of lockdown. Partial. Total. Local. The Covid19 pandemic doesn’t discriminate but has put the global economy into a deep freeze. Prospects for the lockdown easing are vague and the outlook for the rest of…

This is the second in a series on meetings with emerging tech companies in Finland. This piece captures my observations about Varjo. Varjo is a provider of cutting-edge virtual reality head-mounted displays (HMDs) as well as several vital enabling technologies for VR. Last Friday afternoon, I wound my way through…

Recently, I had the opportunity to be in Finland to attend Nokia’s Global Analyst Forum. For those interested, my reflections on that event can be viewed here. As it turns out, the analyst event was being held in Helsinki the same week as the Slush conference. For those not yet…

Recently, I had the opportunity to visit Finland to spend three days with Nokia at their Global Analyst Forum. It was an eventful few days, full of detailed presentations, grand vision statements, cool demos, a visit to Nokia’s Conscious Factory and labs in Oulu and great discussions with Nokia’s leadership…

Fixed wireless access (FWA) is definitely hot again!!! FWA has already had a couple of adoption cycles in the past but it is now being touted as one of the primary use cases for 5G and the one that will be one of the earliest to deploy. Much of the…

Recently, I attended the Cloudera Global Analyst Event in New York. The event, held near Hudson Yards, was well attended with analysts across several research firms in attendance. The event was collocated with Cloudera’s Customer Advisory Council meeting and this meant that Cloudera was able to draw on an impressive…

During the last week of June 2019, we attended a couple of events in Shanghai, China. First up was a Nokia Analyst Day summit for mostly Asia based analysts. Next up was Mobile World Congress Shanghai, the sister event of GSMA’s MWC in Barcelona. …

Another year, another roundup from the crazy whirlwind that is Mobile World Congress. The show continues to impress, with nearly 110,000 delegates jostling elbow to elbow down the myriad halls and alleys of the Fira Gran Via in Barcelona. The who’s who of the industry’s leading service providers, equipment, software…

One of the perks of being an industry analyst covering the tech and telecommunications industries is that we get to visit multiple countries around the world and get exposed to cutting edge technologies and innovations. Recently, I found myself in Beijing to attend a “pre-MWC (Mobile World Congress) briefing” session…