Google

What have we become? © Flickr/cc-licence/Nicolas Nova

Device Software & Apps

The rise and rise of the Web App: this time?

Source: BT

Cloud

Who will win the network piece between the on-premises data centre and the cloud?

© Flickr/CC-licence/Uncalno Tekno

OTT

OK, you don’t like the way we bundle our free Android services? Fine! We’ll charge

Source: IDC Worldwide Black Book, 3rd Platform Edition, October 2018

IDC

Here are the starting positions for the upcoming China-US technology trade war

Submarine Network

Orange collaborates with Google on a new submarine cable across the Atlantic Ocean

Devices

Google debuts its 'Slate' - a hybrid Chromebook/Detachable/Tablet/Android thingie (with a pen)

Transformation

Infosys partners with Google Cloud to develop data native intelligent enterprise

via Flickr © winecountrymedia (CC BY 2.0)

Network Services

Samsung and Google pledge fealty to GSMA’s Rich Communications Services

Nokia 8110

Devices

Back to the Feature? Get ready for the ‘Digital Detox’ phone

via Flickr © Robert Scoble (CC BY 2.0)

NFV

Kubernetes: the more ‘open’ you make it, the more useful it gets

via Flickr © Gage Skidmore (CC BY-SA 2.0)

Google

Trump gets up with the birds to tweet threats at Google

5G

Verizon’s 5G residential broadband service will partner with YouTube TV in Houston, Los Angeles, Sacramento and Indianapolis

via Flickr © ccPixs.com (CC BY 2.0)

Business Models

In the Land of the Giants start-ups get rolled over

IoT Devices

Ten things you can do on your Lenovo™ Smart Display with the Google Assistant™ (that you can’t do on a smart speaker)

via Flickr © StockMonkeys.com (CC BY 2.0)

Cloud

Google’s Cloud Services Platform gets a gushing send-off

Commissioner Margrethe Vestager © EU/Jennifer Jacquemart

Policy & Regulation

Europe vs Google: what’s all the fuss about?

Devices

Antitrust: Commission fines Google €4.34 billion for illegal practices regarding Android mobile devices to strengthen dominance of Google's search engine

Open Source

A movement builds as a diverse group of 14 additional leaders seek greater predictability in open source licensing

via Flickr © Beth Cortez-Neavel ( CC0 1.0 Universal )

Policy & Regulation

If you can’t beat ‘em, beat ‘em up. The Euro regulators go after Google/Facebook/Amazon

Business Models

Orange Digital Ventures partners with Google in start-up financing

Cloud

AT&T and Google Cloud team up to connect customers to the cloud

via Flickr © krunkwerke (CC BY-SA 2.0)

AI & ML

Google falls into the old ‘my robot’s too smart for its own good’ trap

Tracker

Qualcomm supports fast commercial availability of the next version of Android

via Flickr © jdlasica (CC BY 2.0)

Google

Sergey Brin: still trying hard not to be Evil