Our Blog
Can immersive technology help us create a less biased reality?
Technologies such as virtual, augmented and mixed reality – collectively referred to as XR – have long been touted as an “Empathy Machine,” and for very good reason. They enable us to easily change our perspective and experience what it’s like to “walk a mile in...
Podcast episode 29: Reinventing the telecom customer experience with PWC’s Florian Groene and Nokia’s Hans Geerdes
COVID-19 has put mobile and broadband providers under tremendous pressure. Telcos have seen their annual bandwidth demand forecasts reached within the first month of lockdown. But to Florian Groene, a partner at PWC in New York, and business strategist Hans...
Distributed cloud’s role in the future of work
COVID-19 has been a propellant for a global economic crisis, but it has also accelerated an expanding digital economy. Online collaboration tools like Microsoft Teams, Zoom, and Cisco Webex have experienced massive upticks in usage— and for good reason. The...
Podcast episode 28: Accelerating Industry 4.0 with Nokia CEO Rajeev Suri
As COVID-19 turned a local epidemic into a pandemic, the spotlight was trained on an industry known as a “dumb pipe”. But the global telecommunications industry proved quite smart thanks to its evolution towards 5G. Nokia President & CEO Rajeev Suri says...
Empowering video surveillance and video analytics with a distributed cloud
Distributed cloud (and specifically edge cloud), has a measurable advantage over a monolithic centralized cloud — especially when it comes to use-cases involving high-volume traffic, tight latency requirements, heavy processing requirements, and location-specific...
Adoption of immersive technologies is speeding up, thanks to COVID-19
“This pandemic may prove to be the inflection point for humanity to reimagine the way we interact with each other,” Professor Shafi Ahmed tells me. These days, I suppose, we all look for silver linings wherever we can get them, and the widespread adoption of XR...
Five of the biggest challenges facing 5G
It’s expected that 5G, the much-discussed upcoming broadband cellular mobile communications standard, will have a big impact once the network rollout is here. The speed and bandwidth of 5G would be such that it could effectively replace home internet connections...
What pig farmers can teach us about stopping coronavirus with tech
Years before COVID-19 caused a global pandemic and hundreds of thousands of deaths worldwide, there was another coronavirus that was even more virulent and killed over 1 million in the population it infected – pigs. Swine farmers in the U.S. were devastated by a...
Podcast episode 26: Razer’s head is in the cloud
Gaming giant Razer has its head in the cloud. While best known for its computer mice, keyboards, and headsets, the company’s relationship with Tencent reveals the future of gaming in the era of 5G: always available, and never laggy. Razer President and...