Glimpse Of Next Big Thing-Automatic Speech Recognition

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) has been in development for decades. However significant progress and widespread adoption has only recently been achieved. This has been driven by the prevalence of devices such as smartphones and…

Trump wins the US presidential election — what does it mean?

At the culmination of one of the most bitterly and divisive election campaigns ever seen in the United States, Donald J Trump has confounded sceptics, political pundits and pollsters by winning nomination to the White House…

MediaTek Enters Samsung’s Supply Chain

Samsung the largest mobile manufacturer in the world launched its J2 Prime mobile phone recently. Like any other J series mobile phone available in the market it comes in the mid-range price segment with decent specifications. It is nothing unusual for Samsung…

Xiaomi Shifting to Offline Channel and Releasing Two New Products

Counterpoint attended Xiaomi’s fall new product release conference in Beijing on Sep 27th. The conference introduced two products, Xiaomi TV 3s and Xiaomi 5s/5s plus.

Opening up more retail…

Make In India: Intex Expanding Mobile Phone Manufacturing

Intex started its journey as an IT accessory supplier and has grown in to a full-fledged consumer electronics and durables giant with portfolio spanning across sixteen product categories comprising over 300 models. The key…

Tectonic Shift in Automobile Ecosystem

We are at the early stages of transformational change in the transport and automotive industries. A number of factors are driving this tectonic shift.

Rising Urbanization & Shifts in Personal Transport

Waymo — Google’s way forward

Google has been one of the pioneers in autonomous driving technologies. The company’s self-driving ambitions have given birth to Waymo, a self-driving technology company. Waymo has Google’s vast data reserve to leverage. The search giant started with a self-driving car program…

Freedom 251- A smartphone for the price of a datapack that can exhaust soon

Normally I don’t receive any calls early in the morning. So when I received one yesterday from my cousin in Jammu, I knew something interesting was up. He immediately asked me if I knew anything about…